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Jake in the desertCtrl-ZINE is an independent smol web project, and its Issue 17 Vol. 2 happens to contain pieces by two of my favorite people on the fediverse. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@rootcompute" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rootcompute</a> has a great piece here about his time on and thoughts about the fediverse, and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@ttntm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ttntm</a> wrote a love letter to one of my own favorite games here, Diablo II. Free PDF to read/download: <a href="https://ctrl-c.club/~singletona082/zine/2024/Ctrl-ZINE.Issue.17.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ctrl-c.club/~singletona082/zine/2024/Ctrl-ZINE.Issue.17.pdf</a><a href="https://c.im/tags/SmolWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmolWeb</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DiabloII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiabloII</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Diablo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Diablo</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/zine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zine</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/zines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zines</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FreeZine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeZine</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FreeZines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeZines</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TechZines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechZines</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CtrlZINE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CtrlZINE</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDF</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PDFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDFs</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decentralization</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decentralized</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fedi</a>

LucCogZestImagine if you could bookmark and link academic PDFs, even any PDF. Hookmark allows you to do that. Link PDFs to your drafts, outline, tasks, other <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PDFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDFs</a>, web pages etc. <a href="https://hookproductivity.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hookproductivity.com</a>

IT NewsWhy extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts - For years, businesses, governments, and researchers have struggled with a ... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/why-extracting-data-from-pdfs-is-still-a-nightmare-for-data-experts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/why-extracting-data-from-pdfs-is-still-a-nightmare-for-data-experts/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/opticalcharacterrecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opticalcharacterrecognition</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/computationaljournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computationaljournalism</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/largelanguagemodels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#largelanguagemodels</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#machinelearning</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/simonwillison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#simonwillison</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/derekwillis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#derekwillis</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/raykurzweil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#raykurzweil</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/mistralocr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mistralocr</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chatgpt</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chatgtp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chatgtp</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/mistral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mistral</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/biz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biz</a>⁢ <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pdfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pdfs</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ocr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ocr</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a>

Angelo Massaro :ufficiozero:📢 <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AskFedi</a>: What’s the best FOSS app on Android for scanning photos and documents into <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/PDFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDFs</a> while keeping that real scanner look? I am looking, in particular, for a privacy-respecting (trustworthy for personal docs), and available on F-Droid.Any recommendations? <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Android</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Scanner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scanner</a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/FDroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FDroid</a>

Degrowth or Extinctionlast Friday that he was one of the 90 people who had been notified by <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatsApp</a> that his mobile phone had been targeted, and likely compromised by <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/paragonSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paragonSolutions</a>Like <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/Pegasus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pegasus</a>, the <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/spyware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spyware</a> made by Israel’s NSO Group can infect a phone without a user’s knowledge and without a user clicking on a malicious link or email. WhatsApp said the 90 people who were likely compromised had been added to WhatsApp group chats and been sent malicious <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/PDFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDFs</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/06/owner-of-spyware-used-in-alleged-whatsapp-breach-ends-contract-with-italy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/06/owner-of-spyware-used-in-alleged-whatsapp-breach-ends-contract-with-italy</a>

Noelle :verified:I just found the 922 page Project 2025 PDF document and now I'm looking through it...not sure why I'm doing this to myself. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PDFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDFs</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

Matt GaugerZotero may be the answer here — somehow I’d completely missed that it had a <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> app. I had already tried it on at least one other device, but not done the exercise of putting everything into it to make all my docs, papers, and books searchable.<a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/zotero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#zotero</a> <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/pdfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pdfs</a>

Dave Mackeycurious how folks are digitally managing <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/paper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paper</a> these days? I've been using <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Adobe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Adobe</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Scan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scan</a> but it turns things into <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PDFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDFs</a> which isn't my favorite.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/question" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#question</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/paperwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paperwork</a>

James Dreben :mw:<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Typst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Typst</a>, the new <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> tool dubbed "an alternative to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaTeX</a>", was <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a>'d a couple of days ago.<a href="https://scholar.social/@tarleb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tarleb</a> / <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@pandoc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pandoc</a> wrote a great article on it I recommend anyone interested read. Shoutout to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@maegul" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@maegul</a> for collab & <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Pandoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pandoc</a><a href="https://tarleb.com/posts/typst-musings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tarleb.com/posts/typst-musings</a><a href="https://typst.app/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://typst.app/</a>"The greatest value I see [in Typst] is in the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/responsive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#responsive</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/interactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interactive</a>, and even <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/collaborative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collaborative</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/styling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#styling</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PDFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDFs</a>." I love LaTeX but to lower the barrier and enable people to write <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#math</a>/ <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a>/ <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> is 👍

ϺΛDИVTTΛHI just learned about <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Dangerzone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dangerzone</a>: Take potentially <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/dangerous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dangerous</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PDFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDFs</a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/office" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#office</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/documents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#documents</a>, or images and convert them to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/safe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#safe</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDF</a> documentsHomepage: <a href="https://dangerzone.rocks/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dangerzone.rocks/</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@dangerzone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dangerzone</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GitHub</a>: <a href="https://github.com/firstlookmedia/dangerzone" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/firstlookmedia/dangerzone</a>

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