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It has also been the talk that I've seen the most discussion about in both faithful and non-faithful circles.

Also it's the only time I've seen nonaffiliated news articles about a statement the church has made about a topic other than lgbtq rights or abortion - notably much more politicized topics in general. That may be due to my own inattentiveness however.

All that to say that calling it "the main topic" is incorrect in technicality, but not in impact imo.


> Given the way that the church has explicitly encouraged state legislators to shoot down recent laws it's not surprising to think they'd be pushing for this.

And the way they've influenced voters in Idaho and Arizona recently.


> Everyone knows the state of Utah is largely run by the church.

Surprisingly few people know this ime. It's worth pointing out as one of the few areas [0] where the church has as much pull as its members think it does.

While I wouldn't look to the church as a bastion of morality for So Many Reasons, it's worth looking at a hard example of how it is able to manipulate politics in Utah, and by extension nationwide.

[0] Other areas worth being aware of are Idaho and parts of Arizona of course.


FWIW, neither I nor most of the people I interact with are on Twitter or Bluesky. Pretty much all of us dislike AI generated art and go out of our way to avoid it.

"making funny family pictures and memes together" isn't worth the assorted negative externalities of AI to most if not all of us.


It also wore out really quickly. I no longer make memes with AI for my friends and family because it’s just not funny anymore. It really was only fun the first one or two times.

I also used to photoshop funny images of friends and family when i was younger, it also was only fun the first one or two times IMO.

The difficulty was part of what made things fun. Humans need to be challenged.

For more precision:

Waze is fairly easy to run without play services. GMaps I haven't yet found a way to run, but also haven't looked in quite some time.


Google Maps used to work without it but recently gained a hard dependency on Play services. We could add more shims to make more apps work without it installed but that hasn't been a focus yet.


Makes sense. Any idea if there's any interest in a shim to get notifications working sans Play services?

I haven't looked at anything shim related in quite a while and am not super familiar with the notification stack for Android, so if that's a stupid question I apologize.


Check out Krita, it's a much easier lift for someone used to photoshop ime.

At least, if you're doing digital art. Not as full featured for editing of photo's.


Digital artists use Photoshop for painting/drawing? I thought Photoshop was made for photo composites.


Photoshop is widely used for painting/drawing, yes. Hooking up a Wacom or similar tablet is very common.

Granted, a lot of this has moved to iPad + apple pencil since that combo was released, but Photoshop is still heavily used. Of course, you can run Photoshop on iPad, too.


PDF also has script support unfortunately.


That's apparently how 4chan got hacked a while back. They were letting users upload PDFs and were using ghostscript to generate thumbnails. From what I understand, the hackers uploaded a PDF which contained PostScript which exploited a ghostscript bug.


Yes but the primary issue was that 4chan was using over a decade old version of the library that contained a vulnerability first disclosed in 2012: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4405


Does that mean that opening arbitrary pdfs on your laptop is unsafe?


Let me put it this way...

In one of my penetration testing training classes, in one of the lessons, we generated a malicious PDF file that would give us a shell when the victim opened it in Adobe.

Granted, it relied on a specific bug in the JavaScript engine of Adobe Reader, so unless they're using a version that's 15 years old, it wouldn't work today, but you can't be too cautious. 0-days can always exist.


Yes, opening random pdfs especially in random and old pdf viewers is not a good idea.

If you must open a possibly infected pdf, then do it in browser, pdf.js is considered mostly safe, and updated.


Use the PDF to JPG online services, convenient and you still get your result without having to deal with any sandbox


Except of course that you're sharing the contents of that PDF with a random online service.


True, I just considered that once you handle a PDF with so much care like if it was poisoned, it's perhaps better to send this poison to someone else to handle.


> Apollo Global Management

Oh hey, the company that orchestrated my first layoff!

Highly recommend Plunder (ISBN: 978-1541702103) for those who want to learn more about the enshittification these companies bring.


I believe their point is that people switching to Chrome _is_ turning off their adblocker.


Why would it? uBlock Origin Lite blocks ads on YouTube just fine on Chrome.


Do I hear boiling water?


Good looking typesetting from markdown is surprisingly hard. Played with it a while myself, and it's really not fun.

.... is what I was going to say until I went and hit the print button and 10% of the text was missing and everything was right aligned in the top right corner.

Yikes. You may find it worthwhile to clone the repo, iterate over it with pandoc to make A Big HTML File and then use your browsers print feature or pandocs converter. That's about as good as you'll get without a lot of pain ime.


If you hide the left sidebar, and then print, then it is aligned correctly. Each H1 is on a separate page, which is certainly a choice, but on cursory inspection, it would seem as if all the content is there.


Ah, good catch. At work so didn't play with it too much.

Tbh, would probably still recommend rendering it with pandoc because the h1's being split that way does annoy me, but at least it gets the content right.


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