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Preserving PDFs for future generations is like preserving radioactive waste for them. It's inevitable they'll end up with lots, and they won't thank us for it,
by brookst 4y ago
Preserving PDFs for future generations is like preserving radioactive waste for them. It's inevitable they'll end up with lots, and they won't thank us for it, but we should at least try to contain the mess.
- cm2187 4y agoI love the idea of the martians having invaded earth, wiped out humanity, but when they opened their first pdf file, got all their files crypto-locked. A modern version of War of the Worlds.
- brookst 4y agoLove it. Some kind of polymorphic AI-enabled malware that can adapt to any system that analyzes it. Alternative scenario: the malware wiped out humanity millennia ago, but is laying dormant in PDFs, just waiting for the aliens to try to interpret these digital relics of a long-dead civilization.