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I swear the top comment on every popular post is always about semantics or nitpicking and is very rarely about anything in the article itself.
just wow.
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I suppose the best process would be this, and then after rescanning putting a black bar over each redacted text with image editing.
Perhaps an imagemagick pipeline dumping each page out as a png then blanking areas associated with a list of words (a pixel level concordance of the coordinates of all the words having been compiled from a text dump? Hand-waving here). I'm probably overthinking this one but the various lengths of the redaction bars would provide some information perhaps? So three conspirators with names like Stonk, Hephalump and Prag…
You're definitely not overthinking this. Fitting words by length is the attack vector if the blanking itself has been done correctly.
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I'm convinced slavery will be reintroduced before 2028
Slavery has never been illegal in the US. The 13th amendment leaves slavery legal as punishment for a crime. The US has the highest rate of crime punishment in the world (higher than places like North Korea), an industry that profits by selling slave labour of those punished criminals, and known ties between those who profit from selling slave labour and those who decide how many things should be crimes.
Same with cops.
They also oppose removing things like three strikes laws that haven't done a damn thing to make our country "safer" or better.
This would be comical if it weren’t so serious.
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Are you trying to suggest that indicated it was fraudulent? That has very much been debunked -- it's just an artifact of OCR and compression, something that many scanners do automatically [1]. You can still open it with Illustrator if you want to see: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/rss... [1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/birth-certificate/
Yeah, the idea that proves it's fraudulent has been debunked, but the alternative hasn't been proven, either. Nobody has named the specific OCR software that does this destructive replacement. It's a case of "well, there's an alterastive theory, and that's good enough" debunking.
So I just looked into this, and it's specifically Mixed Raster Content pipeline (ISO/IEC 16485) used in lots of different scanners. There's no need to find which specific software generated it because it's used by lots of them.
It's a technique used to attempt to isolate font characters of the same size and style as separate layers before OCR-ing to make OCR more accurate.
ABBYY FineReader, for example, is mentioned as producing the exact same type of results. But there's no guarantee that was the actual software because lots of scanning software does it -- it's a general technique. Plus it won't even be deterministically reproducible if it was e.g. scanned and OCR'd at higher resolution and then saved at a lower resolution, as is generally considered best practice for maximizing accuracy while keeping file sizes lower.
https://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2013/01/heres-the-birth-cert...
So this is very much a nothingburger. It's not an "alternative theory", it's a complete and total explanation.
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To us, it's a life skill. To a non-technical person, it's black magic. Some folks had to be taught on how folder structures work because they grew up with the appliance we called a "phone" as opposed to a real computer that also happened to be known as a "phone".
I can assure you that plenty of people who were using computers before smartphones, and who have used them every day at work for decades, also do not grasp what we could consider the very basics of file management.
I swear the top comment on every popular post is always about semantics or nitpicking and is very rarely about anything in the article itself.
Doesn't sound like much interesting was found otherwise that'd be what's making all the headlines... Everything in that article is pretty much what I'd expect.
I did not expect the one case in other documents where a 13 year old pregnant child was raped by Trump and her baby was killed by a relative. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA000250...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct...