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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 d

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?