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Barry had his neighbour bring over the terrifyingly huge piece he found for a great photo op for all the journalists. That particular piece was 9 feet long, weighed 80 pounds, and was shaped like a freaking spear. It is shocking to think about that falling at terminal velocity.

I am grinning like an idiot because I was REALLY excited.

Lynn Conway, computer hardware pioneer (and genius) has passed away. None of her obits do justice to her accomplishments, so here's wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

She pioneered asyncronous execution, VLSI circuit design, and practically the whole modern field of chip design.

She was also a trans woman who -- having been unfairly terminated by IBM -- never stopped fighting for the rights of trans people.

Rest in power, Lynn.

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