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> "Keep your sensitive data to yourself. Wether you are modifying banking statements, prescription or other critical documents, we have no access to it." > Source not available, no acknowledgement or explanation as to why > Hacker News upvotes it to the front page
Browsers need a "block all outgoing request from this page from now" button.
[0] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/network/reference...
https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger and https://gitlab.com/scarpetta/pdfmixtool for such tasks.
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> going to Russia? or China? always ironic when ppl say this on websites hosted in the us, a country with the most documented cases of governmental organisation backdooring/spying :/
Buddy I've got news for you if you think that Russia and China are more virtuous on the internet than the U.S.
(once again, it's a combination of current technical capability, concentration of current and early important technologies being developed in your jurisdiction, concentration of current and popular technologies being developed in your jurisdiction, etc)
The lack of a good PDF editor in Linux has always seemed strange to me, considering the relative frequency of "fiddle with a PDF" tasks like splicing pages and so on. Sure you can do it with Pdftk (or stapler these days), and a mish-mash of pdfinfo, Imagemagick and so on but the GUI programs mostly seem pretty bad offerings considering they're a fairly thin shell around library operations.
There's a lack of good PDF editing in general. Adobes OCR can't handle a simple black-white tax document. To say nothing of OCRing scans. God help you if one text field wasn't recognized, because you sure as hell can't add the missing field. And handy functions like "combine two PDF pages into one" (for example, combining front and back scan of something) are always easier to do by Googling than by using any software…
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Browsers need a "block all outgoing request from this page from now" button.
We need this button!! Someone from Firefox team please make this happen.
(menubar File => Work offline)
It applies to the whole browser, not the current tab. But good enough.
The lack of a good PDF editor in Linux has always seemed strange to me, considering the relative frequency of "fiddle with a PDF" tasks like splicing pages and so on. Sure you can do it with Pdftk (or stapler these days), and a mish-mash of pdfinfo, Imagemagick and so on but the GUI programs mostly seem pretty bad offerings considering they're a fairly thin shell around library operations.
Have a look at https://simplePDF.eu – online like PDFTool.org and with local processing as well. It’s free and does not require an account (I don’t like websites that force you to sign up to do anything) Disclosure: I’m the solo developer behind it
"uses WebAssembly" - forgive me but what? How do I know my PDF isn't going to Russia? or China? I mean, I could wireshark it but I'd like to know more about what's in the webassembly. PDF's are sensitive to some organizations. As already stated, some orgs even block online pdf tools for obvious reasons. I'm interested in this but I would be even more so if there was source so I can audit. Since it's running locally i…
> going to Russia? or China? always ironic when ppl say this on websites hosted in the us, a country with the most documented cases of governmental organisation backdooring/spying :/
Big fan of the idea of offline in-browser tools: works on any device, and "installing" the program is as simple as visiting a webpage or opening the saved HTML file. This one uses WebAssembly, but even that isn't necessary: I wrote a couple of PDF tools for my own use that simply use pdf-lib: https://shreevatsa.net/pdf-pages/ https://shreevatsa.net/pdf-unspread/