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Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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I wonder if any of this is a conscious act of resistance vs. just incompetence. And yes, I've heard of Hanlon's Razor haha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Black square vs redaction tool difference is well known if someone's job involves redacting PDF or just working with PDF. It's most likely that additional staffs were pulled in and weren't given enough training.

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Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

#52
post #22

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Thanks for this. Really quells the urge I get every so often to just code my own PDF editor, because they all suck and certainly it couldn't be THAT hard. Such hubris!

Heh, have at it, here's the full spec: https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/assets/5b... Should take... a weekend tops? ;) PDF is crazy and scary

7.5.6 "Incremental updates" from the specification is an interesting section too, speaking about accessing data people didn't think to remove from PDF files properly.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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post #22

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Thanks for this. Really quells the urge I get every so often to just code my own PDF editor, because they all suck and certainly it couldn't be THAT hard. Such hubris!

Heh, have at it, here's the full spec: https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/assets/5b... Should take... a weekend tops? ;) PDF is crazy and scary

We will be able to say that AGI has arrived when we can hand that spec off to a model and tell it to build an Acrobat clone.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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They also obscured the male perpetrators faces and bodies in many images, illegaly.

I assume that de facto federal "law" now makes it illegal to be raped, and those men are the victims. That would be a logical conclusion of edgelord vice signalling, right?

I know what all of these words mean, but not when they're in this order.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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post #34

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Black square vs redaction tool difference is well known if someone's job involves redacting PDF or just working with PDF. It's most likely that additional staffs were pulled in and weren't given enough training.

Let people believe it's deliberate sabotage. Unfortunately, in real life, minions of a dictator serve the dictator; they don't risk their live or safety for a noble cause. Any screw-ups are a result of gross incompetence that is typical for every dictatorship.

Do you truly believe the US is currently a dictatorship?

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

#58
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Black square vs redaction tool difference is well known if someone's job involves redacting PDF or just working with PDF. It's most likely that additional staffs were pulled in and weren't given enough training.

Let people believe it's deliberate sabotage. Unfortunately, in real life, minions of a dictator serve the dictator; they don't risk their live or safety for a noble cause. Any screw-ups are a result of gross incompetence that is typical for every dictatorship.

Maybe because facism favor loyalty over competence.

Re: Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

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Let people believe it's deliberate sabotage. Unfortunately, in real life, minions of a dictator serve the dictator; they don't risk their live or safety for a noble cause. Any screw-ups are a result of gross incompetence that is typical for every dictatorship.

Do you truly believe the US is currently a dictatorship?

It's not so simple a binary. We're definitely much less democratic than a year ago, and the bar was low then.
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