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I have some questions about the Github Star history, it's very unusual to see a ~1 year old repo with 20k+ stars. It went from 6k to 15k+ stars in a few days around 2023 Christmas when HN/Github/Reddit traffic is usually lowest, and I didn't see a corresponding social media post or announcement around that time with that kind of traffic. If I'm wrong and there is some big social media post / promo that I missed, I ap…
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I'm running this in a container on my nas. There isn't anything to maintain with tools like this. If setup, properly - they keep running unless stopped. They can even be auto-updated when their is a new image. I have several types of utility apps I'm self-hosting. I rarely have to do anything other than keep the OS updated.
What nas system do you use that runs containers? I tried the whole container thing and have to reboot my system every week
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Little snitch[1] can help you out when self-hosting. When not self-hosting, all bets are off and my default stance is "expect the worst". [1] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html Edit: LS is MacOS oriented. I'm sure there are others, but I'm not into it. I feel it should be an OS-level feature, but who am I.
> LS is MacOS oriented There's opensnitch on Linux. There's also something similar on Windows but I don't remember what it's called.
The tool failed to help me with such a seemingly menial task, the improvement was very small. I even tried to repeat the step multiple times, but after like 2nd use there were no visual differences anymore (but the file's size kept actually changing).
One thing I think is really lacking from the PDF ecosystem is good open-source tools around signing. PDF signatures are something that is legally important in a lot of the world with regulations like eIDAS. Unfortunately it's extremely difficult to cryptographically sign PDF documents with tools other than Adobe's and some other (often more sketchy) proprietary tools. Even if you figure out how to use stuff like Libr…
does Preview in macOS not fit the bill?
I once used it on a pdf file with a scanned text form trying to make it more contrast, as the scan was hardly seen. What I needed was basically just making dark stuff darker (up to the point of making it black) and maybe a bit thicker to make it more visible. The tool failed to help me with such a seemingly menial task, the improvement was very small. I even tried to repeat the step multiple times, but after like 2nd…
I have some questions about the Github Star history, it's very unusual to see a ~1 year old repo with 20k+ stars. It went from 6k to 15k+ stars in a few days around 2023 Christmas when HN/Github/Reddit traffic is usually lowest, and I didn't see a corresponding social media post or announcement around that time with that kind of traffic. If I'm wrong and there is some big social media post / promo that I missed, I ap…
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Because it is two birds with one stone? Because it is one less system to maintain? Because it is superior to a web based UI with mutliple tools under different headers? because it is simple for even the least technical? Suggestion is to use a free Pdf xchange editor by tracker software. And print the document to pdf when done.
I'm running this in a container on my nas. There isn't anything to maintain with tools like this. If setup, properly - they keep running unless stopped. They can even be auto-updated when their is a new image. I have several types of utility apps I'm self-hosting. I rarely have to do anything other than keep the OS updated.
One thing I think is really lacking from the PDF ecosystem is good open-source tools around signing. PDF signatures are something that is legally important in a lot of the world with regulations like eIDAS. Unfortunately it's extremely difficult to cryptographically sign PDF documents with tools other than Adobe's and some other (often more sketchy) proprietary tools. Even if you figure out how to use stuff like Libr…
Two references which I promise will be interesting (re: qcerts and QES tooling):
- excellent open source library for working with PDFs and digital signatures (incl. PDF ones): https://github.com/MatthiasValvekens/pyHanko
- European Commission's DSS Tool (you can submit one PDF only, don't need both original and signed one): https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/DSS/webapp-demo...
[1]: https://www.zealid.com/en/ - you can onboard remotely for free, download your qualified certs at https://my.zealid.com/en - upload, QES sign, download PDFs (all of these free) - or use our APIs to integrate into us (get in touch with us if you'd like the latter).
[2]: opinions are my own.
I have some questions about the Github Star history, it's very unusual to see a ~1 year old repo with 20k+ stars. It went from 6k to 15k+ stars in a few days around 2023 Christmas when HN/Github/Reddit traffic is usually lowest, and I didn't see a corresponding social media post or announcement around that time with that kind of traffic. If I'm wrong and there is some big social media post / promo that I missed, I ap…