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   Annalee Newitz 🍜 (annaleen@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 08:49:21 JST Annalee Newitz 🍜

   I downloaded a scientific paper of great interest to me. It is of typical length, about 15 pages in the PDF. I opened it in Acrobat, and got this message highlighted at the top of the page next to an AI sparkle icon: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary." I cannot put into words how much this enrages me. First, this is not a long document. Have you met documents? Second, and more important, telling someone to not read a thing they want to read??! Fuck you, Adobe.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Apr-2025 11:01:43 JST Rich Felker

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     @annaleen Get rid of Acrobat for reading PDFs. Firefox can do it with the built-in viewer, and there are tons of free and open source PDF readers that don't have all the Adobe malware in them.