We Just Unredacted the Epstein Files

Re:We Just Unredacted the Epstein Files by brailsafe on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @08:13PM (#46371378)

Heh, have at it, here's the full spec: https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/assets/5b...

Should take... a weekend tops? ;) PDF is crazy and scary

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Re:We Just Unredacted the Epstein Files by embedding-shape on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @08:54PM (#46371630)

7.5.6 "Incremental updates" from the specification is an interesting section too, speaking about accessing data people didn't think to remove from PDF files properly.

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Re:We Just Unredacted the Epstein Files by CamperBob2 on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @08:56PM (#46371646)

We will be able to say that AGI has arrived when we can hand that spec off to a model and tell it to build an Acrobat clone.

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Re:We Just Unredacted the Epstein Files by exasperaited on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @04:57AM (#46374153)

We will be able to say that AGI has arrived when the AI hands it back and says "no".

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Re:We Just Unredacted the Epstein Files by CamperBob2 on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @12:27PM (#46377427)

Or goes on strike.

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Re:We Just Unredacted the Epstein Files by marcosdumay on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @10:15PM (#46372037)

> PDF includes eight basic types of objects: Boolean values, Integer and Real numbers, Strings, Names, Arrays, Dictionaries, Streams, and the null object

Wait, this is more complete than SOAP. It may be a good idea to redo the IPC protocol with a different serialization format!

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Re:We Just Unredacted the Epstein Files by jaggederest on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @01:04AM (#46372921)

Well, it's a descendant of Postscript (much like JSON is a descendant of Javascript, loosely)

Society would probably never recover if we started implementing RPC-in-Postscript though.

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