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Dr. Lynn Conway passed away over the weekend. She and I messaged a few times some years back; she helped inspire my daughter (also trans) to be a CS major. Her website also helped me learn about our people. She lived an amazing life and was such a positive force in this world. She will be missed.

For those who don't know who she is, here's her original website. It meant a lot to many trans women of my era, and so did she.

https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/conway.html

I'm so sorry to hear of Lynn Conway's passing. She was an inspiration, and I had hoped to meet her someday.

Thank you so much, Lynn. May you be at peace.

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

Every web site I go to these days:

Comrades

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

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

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.

Happy Portugal day, everyone!

happy pride everyone

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

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

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

https://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"

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.

https://www.404media.co/email/ce4cec4d-51c3-4101-b2b4-2c9a64aee5e8

@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.