(note that link points to page 17 of a 4mb PDF file)
Michael Garcia was hit by a #3strikes law. His third offense was stealing meat.
Some #vegans would likely argue that stealing meat is actually an ethical act since the meat industry is harming both animals and the planet.
Link goes to a pdf download.
(Edit to remove overly hostile remark)
Having opened it, I can confirm it’s a scanned magazine and contains no active content.
fair enough; glad I mentioned it. But out of curiosity, is it that you don’t trust cjcj.org? Or the filesize?
I can see why someone would distrust PDFs out in the wild in general (as PDFs are a large attack surface), but at the same time I would not expect someone that diligent about security to be on lemm.ee, which is a Cloudflare site, whereby Cloudflare can see everything you do while blocking you from using privacy-respecting tools. Hence my curiosity.
For sure I don’t download PDFs willy-nilly, but also they’re really inconvenient. Another thing to scan, open in a separate program. Pass.
As for lemm.ee, I like it because they’re generally federated, as far as I can tell and I’m always behind a VPN so I’m not too upset if cloudflare are watching me post. I treat these accounts as disposable, and will create another one in a few months.
As far as convenience goes, I had the same position in the early days of the web. HTML loads faster and was more convenient to interact with. But today’s web is so totally enshitified with blocks, CAPTCHAs, cookie popups, paywalls, broken javascript, dark patterns, etc, that there’s now an inversion whereby PDFs are actually less likely to create a shitty experience. The wait is worth it, vs. the time spent picking through cookie dialogs and whatever popups and garbage that’s rampant now.
I’m surprised lemm.ee doesn’t harass you about using a VPN. Perhaps Cloudflare is unaware of whatever VPN you’re using.
Fuck, you’re not wrong about PDFs cutting through a lot of the online bullshit. I don’t run a linux system as my daily, perhaps I’d be less reticent about PDFs if I wasn’t so concerned about malware.
Sidenote, sorry for kicking off this conversation in such a hostile way. Thanks for not escalating.
Sidenote, sorry for kicking off this conversation in such a hostile way. Thanks for not escalating.
No worries. I didn’t downvote it either. It’s borderline threadcrap but I went along with it because I don’t think it really deters chatter about Michael Garcia.
skill issue
The guy simply instantly confessed whenever questioned. I wouldn’t say skills are the core of his problem. It’s an overall lack of self defense. He made no effort to even try to defend himself. He was self deprecating.
