they're hacking PDFs now

[rogerbw@discordian.social]

@dysfun It's great, people think of a PDF as this binary block that you can't do anything with. Hoo boy.

[riley@toot.cat]

@RogerBW Adobe liked to cultivate that misconception from early on. @dysfun

[0x76@fedi.xirion.net]

@dysfun I mean it is the Payload Delivery Format

[wordshaper@weatherishappening.network]

@dysfun There are only something like five different language interpreters built into Acrobad and the PDF standard, I'm sure it's secure.

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

btw if you didn't know, PDF stands for Portable Dumpster Fire

[rachel@transitory.social]

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems now I want to see if any of those interpreters can run a fedi instance......

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@rachel @wordshaper your difficulty is going to be making system calls for http traffic.

[rachel@transitory.social]

@deech@mastodon.social @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems we had a presenter I e time export a slide deck from keynote but had used apple fonts so they had to present slides with no text in them

And this org is awful about wordy slides

[rachel@transitory.social]

@dysfun@social.treehouse.systems @wordshaper@weatherishappening.network you won't regret running adobe acrobat as admin

[wordshaper@weatherishappening.network]

@rachel @dysfun It's been a while since I looked but I recall their being at least Flash, a custom language for barcode and QR code generation, and I think three separate versions of JavaScript (ignoring the whole "PFD is sort of stripped-down postscript" thing) so I'm sure you can find at least one of those that makes network calls.

[wordshaper@weatherishappening.network]

@rachel @dysfun Of course not! By the time you get to running Adobe Acrobad as admin you're so far beyond regret you can't see it with a telescope.

[rogerbw@discordian.social]

@dysfun It is a mere shadow of the beautiful PostScript.

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@RogerBW oh no, it's so much more. postscript doesn't have this much power.