Phishing falando que é do Registro BR falando preu pagar mais de mil reais pra renovar um domínio .com … e o anexo é …suspeito.

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@bender@twtxt.net Cool, the PDF doesn’t have the navigation links between each section, that’s indeed a tad nicer. Thanks!

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh dear, nobody needs bot attacks. :-( Luckily, the web server responding a hell lot quicker today than the last two days.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org wouldn’t the PDF version be better? https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.pdf

@prologic@twtxt.net Here’s one: https://github.com/vmykh/printer_labs/blob/master/escp2ref.pdf

Tip on how to convert a big #PDF into a smaller one:
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=smaller.pdf big.pdf

Ainda pensei que o problema fosse na amostra (só sectores tecnológicos ou qualquer coisa assim) mas parece que não… aparentemente a febre da IA é um fenómeno mais impactante do que pensava.

https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/pt/pdf/pt-confianca-inteligencia-artificial-portugal.pdf

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz On the one hand, all these programs have a very long history and the technology behind manpages is actually very powerful – you can use it to write books:

https://www.troff.org/pubs.html

I have two books from that list, for example “The UNIX programming environment”:

https://movq.de/v/c3dab75c97/upe.jpg

It’s a bit older, of course, but it looks and feels like a normal book, and it uses the same tech as manpages – which I think is really cool. 😎

It’s comparable to LaTeX (just harder/different to use) but much faster than LaTeX. You can also do stuff like render manpages as a PDF (man -Tpdf cp >cp.pdf) or as an HTML file (man -Thtml cp >cp.html). I think I once made slides for a talk this way.

On the other hand, traditional manpages (i.e., ones that are not written in mandoc) do not use semantic markup. They literally say, “this text is bold, that text over here is italics”, and so on.

So when you run man foo, it has no other choice but to show it in black, white, bold, underline – showing it in color would be wrong, because that’s not what the source code of that manpage says.

Colorizing them is a hack, to be honest. You’re not meant to do this. (The devs actually broke this by accident recently. They themselves aren’t really aware that people use colors.)

If mandoc and semantic markup was more commonly used, I think it would be easier to convince the devs to add proper customizable colors.

Windows: Microsoft entfernt aufdringliches Verhalten von Edge für EU
Künftig sollen Standard-Browser auch wirklich zum Standard für weit mehr Dateitypen werden. Zudem können sie Edge für PDFs leicht wechseln. ( Windows 11, Microsoft)

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MarkItDown MCP：一鍵轉換 pdf-word-ppt-html 等文檔爲 MarkDown 格式
簡單介紹---- markitdown-mcp 包提供了一個輕量級的 STDIO 和 SSE MCP 服務器，用於調用 MarkItDown。 它公開了一個工具： converttomarkdown(uri) ，其中 uri 可以是任何 http: 、 https: 、 file: 或 data: URI 。Installation 安裝—————如遇到安裝失敗的問題， ⌘ Read more

Ollama-OCR：基於 Ollama 多模態大模型的端到端文檔解析和處理
基本介紹Ollama-OCR 是一個 Python 的 OCR 解析庫，結合了 Ollama 的模型能力，可以直接處理 PDF 文件無需額外轉換，輕鬆從掃描版或原生 PDF 文檔中提取文本和數據。根據使用的視覺模型和自定義提示詞，Ollama-OCR 可支持多種語言，並且能把文檔轉換爲特定的格式進行輸出。支持多種視覺模型———–可以從 Ollama 上選擇最新的視覺模型： ● gem ⌘ Read more

Ultimately, Go sits in the sweet spot on the complexity vs performance chart:

• Minimal syntax & concepts → low learning curve
  
• Compiled speed → high throughput
  
• Built-in CSP concurrency → scalable by default
  

See Rob Pyke’s presentation on Expressiveness of Go

New (February 2025) paper, https://cms.mgt.tum.de/fileadmin/mgt.tum.de/faculty_and_research/mppe/39_Nora_von_Ingersleben-Seip_How_the_European_Union_Fell_Out_Of_Love_With_Open-Source_Software.pdf , describes “How the European Union Fell Out of Love with Open-Source Software”:

“A coalition of determined open-source software (OSS) advocates and a handful of technology experts working in the European Commission set out in 2004 to end Microsoft’s monopoly. They almost succeeded. This article reveals how they managed to change the EU’s software policies, made Microsoft lobbyists work overtime - and in the end, and despite their best efforts, could not withstand the power of proprietary companies’ lobbying campaigns.

Drawing on the Multiple Streams Framework, the article explains the European Commission’s decision to promote OSS and open standards in 2004, and its puzzling decision to reverse course just a few years later, in 2010, despite its unchanged rhetoric about the benefits of openness. The analysis reveals three key factors that drove the changes in the EU’s policies.

In 2004, OSS advocates managed to frame the EU’s dependency on proprietary software as a problem – and the promotion of OSS and open standards as the solution.

In 2010, #Microsoft and other proprietary companies used their existing connections in Brussels to sow doubt about the maturity and cost of #OSS among #EU policymakers.”

25 years later we’re where we started.

#OpenSource #EIF

That’s an interesting research article about Wallbleed, a memory disclosure vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China. They reverse-engineered the buggy DNS query processing code that injects a response if the hostname should be censored: https://gfw.report/publications/ndss25/data/paper/wallbleed.pdf

@bender@twtxt.net I was a bit confused at first what that is: Apparently, it’s the source code of Altair BASIC: https://gizmonaut.net/soapflakes/EXE-199711.html

(Of course they have a user agent filter. 😂 Can’t download that PDF with wget.)

I got some assembly for you: https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea11482e/Original-Microsoft-Source-Code.pdf

Firefox 137.0 released
Version\
137.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include the
rollout of tab\
groups, a number of search-bar changes, and the ability to add signatures
to PDF files. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, most of the graphical applications are actually KDE programs:

• KMail – e-mail client
  
• Okular – PDF viewer
  
• Gwenview – image viewer
  
• Dolphin – file browser
  
• KWallet – password manager (I want to check out pass one day. The most annoying thing is that when I copy a password, it says that the password has been modified and asks me whether I want to save the changes. I never do, because the password is still the same. I don’t get it.)
  
• KPatience – card game
  
• Kdenlive – video editor
  
• Kleopatra – certificate manager
  

Qt:

• VLC – video player
  
• Psi – Jabber client (I happily used Kopete in the past, but that is not supported anymore or so. I don’t remember.)
  
• sqlitebrowser – SQLite browser
  

Gtk:

• Firefox – web browser
  
• Quod Libet – music player (I should look for a better alternative. Can’t remember why I had to move away from Amarok, was it dead? There was a fork Clementine or so, but I had to drop that for some unknown reason, too.)
  
• Audacity – audio editor
  
• GIMP – image editor
  

These are the things that are open right now or that I could think of. Most other stuff I actually do in the terminal.

In the past™, I used the Python KDE4 bindings. That was really nice. I could pass most stuff directly in the constructor and didn’t have to call gazillions of setters improving the experience significantly. If I ever wanted to do GUI programming again, I’d definitely go that route. There are also great Qt bindings for Python if one wanted to avoid the KDE stuff on top. The vast majority I do for myself, though, is either CLI or maybe TUI. A few web shit things, but no GUIs anymore. :-)

How to Upload Documents to ChatGPT
ChatGPT allows you to upload documents, which you can then describe, analyze, summarize, explain, or even get assistance with that particular document. ChatGPT works with just about any document type that you might be working with or come across in the world of tech and computers, including .pdf, .doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf, .xls, .xlsx, .csv, … Read More ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I am a big fan of “obvious” math facts that turn out to be wrong. If you want to understand how reusing space actually works, you are mostly stuck reading complexity theory papers right now. Ian wrote a good survey: https://iuuk.mff.cuni.cz/~iwmertz/papers/m23.reusing_space.pdf . It’s written for complexity theorists, but some of will make sense to programmers comfortable with math. Alternatively, I wrote an essay a few years ago explaining one technique, with (math-loving) programmers as the intended audience: https://www.falsifian.org/blog/2021/06/04/catalytic/ .

iPhone Driver’s License Support Coming to Illinois
iPhone users from Illinois will soon be able to add their driver’s licenses and IDs to the Apple Wallet app on ‌iPhone‌ and Apple Watch, the Illinois Secretary of State announced today [ PDF].

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You can select some text from a web page and right/command click and select print… and select To PDF to quickly save snippets for save-keeping or further reading.

Its time to brush up on your competitive programming skills!

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf

How to Fix “Recents” Folder Empty on Mac
The Mac “Recents” folder in Finder is a useful catchall Smart Folder that, as the name implies, contains all recently opened, modified, or added files that are found within the file system. This means the “Recents” folder should contain everything from text files, documents, PDFs, images, video, basically anything in the file system that has … Read More ⌘ Read more

使用 Go 語言生成樣式美觀的 PDF 文件
在當今數字化時代，PDF 已成爲一種不可或缺的文檔格式，它能夠在各種平臺上保持一致的顯示效果。然而，使用傳統的編程語言生成 PDF 文件往往是一項繁瑣而複雜的任務。Maroto 的出現爲 Go 語言開發者帶來了福音，它提供了一種簡潔優雅的方式來創建結構清晰、樣式美觀的 PDF 文檔。Maroto 簡介———Maroto 是一個基於 Go 語言的 PDF 生成庫，其靈感來源於 Boots ⌘ Read more

Apple Shares Full List of Over 250 New Features and Changes Coming With iOS 18 Next Week
Following its iPhone 16 event on Monday, Apple shared a PDF on its website with a list of all new features and changes coming with iOS 18.

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The list includes many features that were already announced, including Apple Intelligence, new … ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is Thanks for the link. I found a pdf on one of the authors’ home pages: https://ahmadhassandebugs.github.io/assets/pdf/quic_www24.pdf . I wonder how the protocol was evaluated closer to the time it became a standard, and whether anything has changed. I wonder if network speeds have grown faster than CPU speeds since then. The paper says the performance is around the same below around 600 Mbps.

To be fair, I don’t think QUIC was ever expected to be faster for transferring a single stream of data. I think QUIC is supposed to reduce the impact of a dropped packet by making sure it only affects the stream it’s part of. I imagine QUIC still has that advantage, and this paper is showing the other side of a tradeoff.

Apple Loses Major Tax Dispute in Europe, Must Pay Ireland €13 Billion
The European Union’s Court of Justice today said it has confirmed the European Commission’s 2016 decision that Ireland had given illegal tax benefits worth €13 billion to Apple from 1991 to 2014. This is a final ruling, so Ireland is now required to recove … ⌘ Read more

EU Consumer Group Summarizes How Apple Fails to Comply With DMA
There are a number of ways that Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta, ByteDance, and Microsoft are failing to comply with the Digital Markets Act, according to an analysis published by the European Consumer Organization (BEUC). The BEUC advocates for consumer rights and provides guidance to European lawmakers.

![](https://i … ⌘ Read more

How to Summarize & Analyze PDF Documents with ChatGPT on Mac
One of the most useful features of the ChatGPT app for Mac is the ability to upload files to ChatGPT to have them summarized and analyzed. For example, you can upload a PDF file, and ask ChatGPT to give an analysis of the document, or to summarize it, and ask questions specifically related to the … Read More ⌘ Read more

Japan Passes Law to Allow Third-Party App Stores on the iPhone
New legislation in Japan requires Apple to allow third-party app stores and payment providers on the iPhone.

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The Japanese parliament has passed the Act on Promotion of Competition for Specified Smartphone Software, a law that compels Apple … ⌘ Read more

Golang：使用 bcrypt 實現密碼加密和和校驗
bcrypt 可以用於數據庫中的用戶密碼保存，相比 md5 而言更加的安全可靠文檔https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt 文檔上給出了標準文檔，這個庫是下面這個文件描述的算法 golang 實現:https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix99/provos/provos.pdf 安裝go ge ⌘ Read more

Go 語言將 PDF 轉爲 Word ，代碼怎麼實現？
將 PDF 轉換爲 Word 這是一個很常見的功能了，用 Go 語言實現，可以通過以下步驟完成：1 安裝 PDF 轉換工具庫：首先需要使用 Go 語言中的 PDF 轉換庫，比如 pdftoword 或 pdfcpu。你可以使用 Go 的包管理工具（如 go get）來安裝這些庫。2 導入依賴庫：在 Go 項目中導入你選擇的 PDF 轉換庫，並確保正確地導入了所有需要的依賴項。3 加載 PDF 文件 ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, normally I just use s browser to open PDF, but we had actually create one and it needed some special Acrobat features. Afterwards I immediately uninstalled it again.

I wrote up a lab report on my daily to-do tracking “system”, mostly so I could stop thinking about it. The report is at http://a.9srv.net/reports/daily.pdf and the referenced code is at http://txtpunk.com/daily/index.html.

iOS 17.2 Update for iPhone Released with Journal app, PDF Autofill, Messages Catch-up, etc
iOS 17.2 update for iPhone, and iPadOS 17.2 for iPad, have been released by Apple. iOS 17.2 includes the Journal app for iPhone, while both iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2 include PDF autofill capabilities, some improvements to Messages app like the ability to add stickers from contextual menus in messages and a catch-up arrow, new … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/11/ios-17-2-update-released-download-i … ⌘ Read more

macOS Sonoma 14.2 Update Released with PDF Autofill, New Weather Widgets, etc
Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.2 as a software update for Mac users running the Sonoma operating system. macOS Sonoma 14.2 includes a few minor new features like the ability to use autofill with PDF files, new Weather widget options, some minor additions to Messages like the ability to add stickers from the reactions contextual … Read More ⌘ Read more

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:78bfb3bb53fb6d159ff91a6f72b05b564da1ef36&dn=Sexual-Misconduct-in-Academia.pdf&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.meiodomato.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=https%3A%2F%2Ftracker.meiodomato.com%2Fannounce - Caso alguém queira, irei deixar o torrent para o livro em questão aqui.

ahhhhh pdfs with columns aaahhhh

Annotate PDFs on Linux
This post is about a GUI tool called pdfrankestein that
fills a gap on mostly Linux machines where a powerful and easy to use
PDF annotator does not exist.

Adobe Acrobat® on Windows and Mac allow you to add text, drawings and
signatures to PDF documents. This is useful when filling forms or
marking notes to send back to someone. Such a tool with similar
capabilities and easy of use does not exist on Linux. The reason that’s
often cited is that PDF is a c … ⌘ Read more

non-linked & linked back footnotes in pdfs are annoying

GoCN 每日新闻（2021-12-17）

1. Golang 与散列算法https://www.ssgeek.com/post/golang-yu-san-lie-suan-fa
   
2. Golang 跟 Python3 的区别对比有哪些？https://juejin.cn/post/7042211939795075103
   
3. Golang、Gin 和 React、esbuild 开发的 Bloghttps://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/445749990
   
4. 如何使用 Go 从 HTML 生成 PDF 报告[https:// … ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Hallucinating Facts: Psychedelic Science and the Epistemic Power of Data, by Emma Stamm ⌘ Read more

Chatcontrol, searching messages for illegal content
On July 6 the EU parliament voted yes to a proposal from the EU\
commission (PDF) on a temporary law to allow services to automatically
search messages for suspicious content with a focus on child
exploitation.

We have quite strict confidentiality laws within EU even when it comes
to electronic communication. Its current basis is the … ⌘ Read more

Wanna learn LaTeX?

Basically, it’s how big boys write and format documents.
Every public brief, scientific article, book, cryptocurrency whitepaper or even outline written by people who know what they’re doing is written in LaTeX.

If you want to see examples of documents made with LaTeX, you can see my Master’s thesis here or another paper here that shows some diagrams and other features you can have in LaTe … ⌘ Read more

interesting challenged to remaining decentralized: Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/files/Mastodon.pdf

James Tenney’s Meta Hodos and Meta Meta Hodos are an attempt to derive music theory from first principles: [[https://monoskop.org/images/1/13/Tenney_James_Meta-Hodos_and_Meta_Meta-Hodos.pdf]] #links #composition #musictheory

How to cut PDF pages into tiles ⌘ https://blog.oxplot.com/cut-pdf-to-tiles/

Generate a PDF in Go ⌘ Read more…

Parapsychology in the PRC 1979-1989 https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R002600290003-0.pdf

Recommended: McKeever’s book about the 90s https://mipmckeever.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/1/3/94130725/90sbookfinal.pdf

GitHub - pirate/ArchiveBox: $ The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more… https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

This is math-heavy but the idea that ‘keys are meta-taxonomic dimensions’ reminds me of ZigZag & other elements make me think of parallel prolog-likes like mycroft – should re-read carefully later: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf

Apparently, when I pitched the idea of replacing backtracking with forking (with lazy side effecting of course) a ~year ago, I was reinventing STEPS work from 2008: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008003_john.pdf

Some good info about Croquet: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2003001_croq_collab.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2004002_croq_men.pdf

In case anybody wants to implement their own homebrew NeoGeo games: http://www.hardmvs.fr/manuals/NeoGeoProgrammersGuide.pdf

Interesting idea: create a search-by-meaning for functions using the memoization database http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2017002_memoization.pdf

I kind of want to use SILE (http://sile-typesetter.org/) for something, but I need a PDF generator like I need a hole in my head.

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org: CEC is solving one problem and introduces hundreds. Way to complex and overengineered https://github.com/floe/CEC/blob/master/extras/CEC_Specs.pdf

Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile https://www.informatics.indiana.edu/edenm/EdenMedinaJLASAugust2006.pdf

Index of /pdf/eth/lilith http://bitsavers.org/pdf/eth/lilith/

paradise_explained/book1_complete.pdf at master · jrladd/paradise_explained · GitHub https://github.com/jrladd/paradise_explained/blob/master/book1_complete.pdf

Alan Kay Thesis: The Reactive Engine http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/pdfs/kay.htm

403 Forbidden http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a156769.pdf

Index of /pdf/xerox/alto http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/alto/

Apparently, the Bell Labs ‘squeak’ UI language is unrelated to the Smalltalk dialect of the same name, despite both being message-passing systems with strong GUI support http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/squeak/squeak.pdf

Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games by @ikarth http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DIGRA_2018_paper_166.pdf

Little Languages http://staff.um.edu.mt/afra1/seminar/little-languages.pdf

A Compendium of Tides by Warren Ellis: http://spiritsofplace.com/files/Compendium-of-Tides.pdf

The biology of disinformation: http://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/images/DigIntel/SR-2002_IFTF_Biology_of_disinformation_tk_042618.pdf

The Case Against UI Consistency https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/the-case-against-user-interface-consistency.pdf

The parallelization of logic languages: https://cliplab.org/papers/partut-toplas.pdf

In case you wanted to know how to implement classes & objects in Postscript: http://donhopkins.com/home/monterey86.pdf

AWS Lambda PDF Generator ⌘ Read more…

Alan Kay Thesis: The Reactive Engine http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/pdfs/kay.htm

A description of how Aquarius Prolog gets performance comparable to imperative languages: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1990/CSD-90-600.pdf

Converting a PDF to JPG (using ImageMagick) ⌘ Read more…

misc/holzercomic.pdf at master · enkiv2/misc · GitHub https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2017/holzercomic.pdf

https://ccc.de/system/uploads/230/original/PC-Wahl_Bericht_CCC.pdf

Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf

Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf