Reminds me of Arnold’s guide to tar:
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tomiant@piefed.social 7 months agoIt stands for Print Da File.
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
rmuk@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Potable Document Format. Retains formatting and safe to consume.
tempest@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
“safe”
jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
For those not in the know… PDF is a particular set of conventions for delivering peograms written in a programming language called “Postscript”, and like all programs they can be hijacked to trigger unexpected results, including the delivery of software viruses. And yes, while those programs run in “sandboxes” that are supposed to prevent propagation of harm, such environments can fall in that purpose due to creative triggering of imperfections in the sandbox code by the “contained” Postscript code.
Hence, quotes are used to convey lack of trust in the claim of safety.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Why is my PDF file booting the Linux kernel?
tempest@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
What? You didn’t want your portable document format to be Turing complete?
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Next time someone asks me what PDF stands for, this is what I will tell them
(I’m reflecting on how many times I’ve been asked what PDF stands for, because my comment would suggest it is a thing that happens often.
Doofensmirtz_meme.jpeg: “if I had a nickel for every time someone asked me what PDF stood for, I’d have two nickels. — which isn’t much, but it’s weird that it happened twice”
I think I’m just most people’s token techy friend. Or more specifically, I’m the techy friend who also knows loads of random shit and really enjoys answering random questions)
someguy3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Enhance. Enhance. Enhance…
Denjin@feddit.uk 7 months ago
wioum@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Print Deeznuts Fuckyou