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sometimes i have strong opinions but they're also so inane that halfway through writing a post i'll be like "yeah, this is Absolutely not worth the energy it's taking" and delete everything. but then the opinion is still in my head. and i still want to share it. so within five minutes i go "you know, i bet i can phrase it more succinctly this time" and anyway. you all see where this is going. sometimes i do this four times in a row before i give up on the specific inane opinion and instead write a vague post about the concept of opinions as if that'll satisfy the urge to post the entirety of my inner monologue online. may or may not be relevant to what you're reading right now. and now all our lives have been enriched. you're welcome

kremlin

uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

cheers

andmaybegayer

Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.

funny as fuck every time how people keep being like "zuo le you are stupid and you suck and your only redeeming quality is that you're fast on your feet" and he stumbles his way through the story getting insulted and bamboozled at every turn until eventually they need someone who's fast on their feet and then he does some crazy wuxia shit and it's awesome

#arklance

stickers-on-a-laptop

being princess-carried by a toku hero would fix me

#rinne...

shigure

there is no greater bond than that of a man and that SR unit he's really attached to

tainbocuailnge

Hé! Ik heb net dit burgerinitiatief getekend: 'Dit is wat Big Tech je niet laat zien'. Platforms als Meta en TikTok maken berichten over bij

this is a citizen's initiative for dutch citizens to demand the government to start properly enforcing the EU Digital Services Act and force big platforms to give more transparency on algorithmic suppression of content and options to dispute it.

under the DSA platforms are required to do things like tell users when and why their content is having its visibility suppressed, offer options to dispute suppression or deletion of content and accounts, and provide transparency into how their content algorithm works. the citizen's initiative wants to have these enforced and to have "visibility" explicitly include algorithmic suppression. the more countries enforce these requirements, the more they become international standard.

the petition follows all the requirements for a formal citizen's initiative and is organised by several experienced activist groups, if it gets the votes it Will be addressed.

mariopowertennis

YOU HAVE ENTERED

RADICAL SATURDAY

cynical-werewolf

Today’s Friday, though.

sketchlock

tainbocuailnge

new light novel series “going to my online friend’s wedding in another world” following on one end the main character as they desperately try to get isekai’d so they can be at the wedding of their online friend of 15 years (due to a series of misunderstandings and “eh whatever”s they only found out they’re from different worlds when they realized the address on the wedding invitation doesn’t match any known location on earth) and on the other the happy couple as they prepare their big bombastic fantasy wedding and have to juggle an increasing amount of increasingly dissatisfied parties as they desperately try to delay the wedding long enough for the best man to arrive

douzosuwatte

時の政府所属の鶴丸国永

#touken ranbu

sofasofia

commission for for @/mayspace!

Hé! Ik heb net dit burgerinitiatief getekend: 'Dit is wat Big Tech je niet laat zien'. Platforms als Meta en TikTok maken berichten over bij

this is a citizen's initiative for dutch citizens to demand the government to start properly enforcing the EU Digital Services Act and force big platforms to give more transparency on algorithmic suppression of content and options to dispute it.

under the DSA platforms are required to do things like tell users when and why their content is having its visibility suppressed, offer options to dispute suppression or deletion of content and accounts, and provide transparency into how their content algorithm works. the citizen's initiative wants to have these enforced and to have "visibility" explicitly include algorithmic suppression. the more countries enforce these requirements, the more they become international standard.

the petition follows all the requirements for a formal citizen's initiative and is organised by several experienced activist groups, if it gets the votes it Will be addressed.

#nederland #nederlandse politiek #burgerinitiatief

androdragynous

there is a screen reader / magnification program that is the only one the low vision clinic knows of with these features and it is $650 Canadian Dollars behind specific approved vendors that require you to be geographically close to them and get government approval of a degree that I am only just now reaching after being visually impaired for going on seven years. I feel normal about this

androdragynous

if you can code a program that does any or all of the following:

Magnifies a display beyond standard options with keyboard / mouse movement inputs or voice commands,

Can read text on the screen,

Has different color filter options for text / background distinction,

Can change and magnify the cursor beyond standard amounts,

Works on Windows or more than just Windows,

Has a keyboard echo (says the character you've pressed on the keyboard out loud)

... there is a genuine, GENUINE need for you to code this and put it at a more accessible price point than $650 Canadian Dollars which I also just learned is a SUBSCRIPTION FEE AND NOT EVEN PERPETUAL. if you are reading this and able to code I am begging you. would genuinely change lives