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Did you read beyond the "How did it come to this?" section? TA goes on and on about web standards and the need for PDF/A. Edit: If the article _was_ all about

Did you read beyond the "How did it come to this?" section? TA goes on and on about web standards and the need for PDF/A. Edit: If the article _was_ all about surveillance capitalism, then it wouldn't be worth upvoting as actionable solutions are much more valuable than preaching to the choir.

camgunz 5y ago
If you don't think it's clear that the author's advocacy of PDF is a means to an end, subservient to their desire to dismantle surveillance capitalism and the duopoly that Google/Apple have on the web, I don't know where to go from here.
- prophesi 5y ago
  I think you're the one who got nerd-sniped here. 1.5 of the 13 pages in this PDF are about surveillance capitalism. The rest's about web standards.
  - Aeolun 5y ago
    What in the nine hells is nerd sniping?
    - camgunz 5y ago
      It's when you trick a technically-minded person into jumping down a rabbit hole of a technical problem/controversy. Here it's PDF vs. HTML, but other classic nerd snipes are UTF-8 vs. anything else, "fixing" election tech, etc.
- anigbrowl 5y ago
  why don't we have both?