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Re:The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS by mehlmao on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:06PM (#35462748)
I've used the sheet music for 'Still Alive' from Portal whenever I need a test PDF. The original blog post linking to it is gone, but Valve has kept it up on their CDN: https://steamstore-a.akamaihd.net/public/images/whatsnew/Sti...
Re:The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS by culi on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:51AM (#35464259)
This is fun. I needed a test with many different sized PDFs. Originally I tried project gutenberg but it didn't have the variety I wanted. I ended up going to the Anarchist Library which checked all the boxes w.r.t. file size variety and ease of download (as well as minimizing fear of downloading copyrighted material on a work computer)
Re:The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS by thaumasiotes on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:20AM (#35465305)
> the sheet music for 'Still Alive'

Dang. That's just an arrangement for voice and one guitar (or ukulele?). The song pretty clearly includes accompaniment from a cymbal and some kind of metallic pitched percussion too.