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I then remembered umbrellas are not just used for the sun 💀

I can’t play this game for plural people because I don’t meet the… system requirements :blobbee_fingerguns_cool:

You can see for yourself using exiftool.
To remove all of the top-level metadata, you can use exiftool and qpdf:

exiftool -all:all= <path.pdf> -o <output1.pdf>
qpdf --linearize <output1.pdf> <output2.pdf>

To remove *all* metadata, you can use dangerzone or mat2

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More fun publisher surveillance:
Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloaded*, this is a diff between metadata from two of the same paper. Combined with access timestamps, they can uniquely identify the source of any shared PDFs.

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. ARE YOU HYDRATED?

two of the best feelings when programming are:
1. figuring out a really clever way to solve a problem
2. figuring out a really stupid way to solve a problem

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Finally, I have defeated my own website and successfully posted something.

For your amusement, I humbly present: what the hell is PID 0?

blog.dave.tf/post/linux-pid0/

HOPEFULLY FINAL EDITION: I've got login/fill split, and I added an ENHANCE button. originally it was going to say "INV. COLOR" but my algorithm is slightly more complicated, thus... "enhance"

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When AirTags first came out and I warned that they were Apple's gift to stalkers, so many Apple fanboys told me that I was overreacting.

404media.co/email/ce4cec4d-51c

@Unixbigot maybe we could extend this to the whole computer!
the only thing we show on the windows 11 box is a DRM-enabled stream of a different computer running software. Nothing to screencap here, Recall!

Welcome to RightsMail, the webmail solution that displays your email in a DRM labeled video stream to protect it from AI snoopware.

Walking around in an art museum
Me: *thinking in November Kelly voice* I'm quickly developing 1820's woman dysphoria

my fellow germericans… if elected as your bundespräsident, i will make db use ai technology to accurately predict in advance when your train will be delayed, so you can get out of bed an hour later. together, we'll make germany late agai— i mean early

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