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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by prophesi on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:30PM (#27885165)
Did you read beyond the "How did it come to this?" section? TA goes on and on about web standards and the need for PDF/A.

Edit: If the article _was_ all about surveillance capitalism, then it wouldn't be worth upvoting as actionable solutions are much more valuable than preaching to the choir.

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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by camgunz on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:04PM (#27885537)
If you don't think it's clear that the author's advocacy of PDF is a means to an end, subservient to their desire to dismantle surveillance capitalism and the duopoly that Google/Apple have on the web, I don't know where to go from here.
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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by anigbrowl on Monday July 19, 2021 @05:27PM (#27887448)
why don't we have both?
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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by prophesi on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:12PM (#27885610)
I think you're the one who got nerd-sniped here. 1.5 of the 13 pages in this PDF are about surveillance capitalism. The rest's about web standards.
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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by Aeolun on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:26PM (#27888004)
What in the nine hells is nerd sniping?
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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by camgunz on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:09PM (#27914892)
It's when you trick a technically-minded person into jumping down a rabbit hole of a technical problem/controversy. Here it's PDF vs. HTML, but other classic nerd snipes are UTF-8 vs. anything else, "fixing" election tech, etc.
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