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I mean if he’s searching for a good PDF reader I doubt he’ll be opening it in Adobe Reader
True but also, what actually is the best alternative that's also free? Non-rhetorical question, because I am averse to paying for what feels like a universal/commons piece of tech.
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Sumatra has also a portable version. Doesn't that work for you?
If IT finds an exe file they go bonkers. If they find a PDF, who will even care?
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True but also, what actually is the best alternative that's also free? Non-rhetorical question, because I am averse to paying for what feels like a universal/commons piece of tech.
Someone must put in the effort to make something. Should they not be compensated for their time?
Who the hell keeps making those? First I saw Tetris, now a whole OS. Awesome!
The Reverend Pastor Manul Laphroaig at Alchemist Owl is responsible for a lot of this madness: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ I confess to having become a fan long, long ago ..
1. Linux Running in a PDF (doompdf.dev) 114 points by theden 4 hours ago | flag | hide | 37 comments 2. Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything (sergey.fyi) 978 points by serjester 17 hours ago | flag | hide | 323 comments As people start bolting various kinds of PDF parsers and evaluators to LLMs, there's got to be some interesting hack potential.
PDFs have always been a highly attractive attack vector, because most people associate them purely with text and have no clue that you can easily embed executable code. Combine that with how atrociously many vulnerabilities there are in popular readers like acrobat, and you have a perfect gateway for getting your company hacked.
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Of course one should. One should always explore and satisfy curiosity. What one shouldn't do is to use any of that for "serious" purpose, but that kind of stuff is apart of what makes computing great - boundaries are in the imagination.
Running operating systems inside of document formats is what makes computing great? I thought it was the ease and leisure as well as the aid in pursuit of real knowledge they were supposed to introduce into our lives. Can we spend our time more wisely instead?
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I mean if he’s searching for a good PDF reader I doubt he’ll be opening it in Adobe Reader
True but also, what actually is the best alternative that's also free? Non-rhetorical question, because I am averse to paying for what feels like a universal/commons piece of tech.
Doesn't work, the document is unresponsive. I used a HP DeskJet 2820e Printer btw.