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  • It’s not that far-fetched, PDFs in my opinion are closer to vector graphics than to document formats like odt and docx. They have no understanding of format if not using advanced features, like a table in a PDF is just spaced text with lines between them, and text is just independently placed letters. In fact the space symbol doesn’t exist in most PDFs, it’s just that two letters were spaced further apart. So they basically are multiple canvases that are being painted on with letters, lines, fill areas and even bitmap graphics.

    Modern PDF actually does further in the direction of a document format by providing the content in a structured way, mostly for accessibility, but also for making the format suitable for automatic processing the contained data.







  • There is a hidden “fine” for him though as he’s removed from service (rightfully so) and as such he goes from comfy pension with 70% of his last pay to retroactive normal employment for which he never put any money aside because he was calculating with that state pension. And since for soldiers the gross is quite small compared to what others make with the same net his social security will cover for very little later. The prison time isn’t his actual biggest problem.

    That said he fully deserves it, I served in a very similar position (also Captain in the very same procurement agency in Koblenz) and you 100% know that this is an absolute no go. Absolutely inexcusable, and the only thing that saved him was that the information he passed on weren’t state level secrets. Traitor scum but the damage has been done and all you can do now is make sure these things don’t happen in the future




  • If you actually try to understand what’s happening, I think it’s one of the best ways to learn how a system is composed, at least if you install manually. What’s a partition, file system, what does mounting do, chroots, you name it.

    I don’t use Arch anymore but still think it’s a great distro to learn the basics while still having the luxury of new binary packages. Manual Arch install abstracts basically nothing away from you, for better or for worse.

    Currently on NixOS, I’d say while its engineering is better overall, the things you learn there are much more distribution-specific or maybe concept-specific and often not applicable to other distributions.

    I guess there are also probably ways to install e.g. Debian manually, I’ve never seen instructions for it though as there was always the focus on the installer, and frankly I’m not a big fan of apt and all. It always seemed to be much more convoluted than pacman plus it does a lot of stuff for you, whether you want it or not was my impression.