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Robert Wolff
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„Die Wahl zu haben, ob man sich mit Missständen beschäftigen will oder nicht, das ist das Privileg der Nichtbetroffenen.“
“Having the choice to engage in grievances or not, that is the privilege of the unaffected.”
— Sarah Bosetti, 28.12.2022,
https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=XWXPcsSewGo&t=497
Titelbild: #showyourstripes 1850–2023, Genua, Italien © [@ed_hawkins](https://fediscience.org/@ed_hawkins ), https://showyourstripes.info CC-BY-4.0

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Robert Wolff · 3w
“Zoom in, zoom out, redact your points!” #Censor v0.7.0 ships improved zooming with pinch-to-zoom gesture on touchpads and touchscreens and various security bug fixes. Find it at nostr:npub1wfe0c...
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Good news for the #ArchLinux users among you: #Censor is now available in the #Arch User Repository (#AUR): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/censor Your feedback is welcome!

Already since version 0.3.0, Censor has been packed for #NixOS: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&show=censor Thanks to [@pi_crew](https://social.project-insanity.org/@pi_crew ) for maintaining!

#pdf #redaction #linux #packaging #PKGBUILD #maintenance
Robert Wolff · 5w
“Secure #redaction by design and through extensive #testing” #Censor 0.6.0 comes with many more #security improvements, motivated by extensive testing on more then 1,000 #PDF document samples. Yo...
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“Zoom in, zoom out, redact your points!”

#Censor v0.7.0 ships improved zooming with pinch-to-zoom gesture on touchpads and touchscreens and various security bug fixes. Find it at @Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor and @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor

You may now redact safely also #PDF documents with cropped, scaled, or rotated pages. The upstream #PyMuPDF library has some issues treating these documents. Thus, I implemented manual transformation and drawing of the redaction rectangles, and verified the proper redaction with a specially created sample document, submitted to the collection by #pypdf: https://github.com/py-pdf/sample-files/pull/36

Additionally, point- or line-like elements are now properly redacted. Sanitization during post-processing keeps now entries in form fields (note: this changes previous behavior).

Thanks to the translators, Censor is now available in 13 languages including Croatian and Russian.

#censorship #redaction #Codeberg #Flatpak #Flathub #GNOME #linux #python #MuPDF
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Robert Wolff · 2w
Good news for the #ArchLinux users among you: #Censor is now available in the #Arch User Repository (#AUR): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/censor Your feedback is welcome! Already since version 0.3.0, Censor has been packed for #NixOS: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&show=cen...
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“Secure #redaction by design and through extensive #testing

#Censor 0.6.0 comes with many more #security improvements, motivated by extensive testing on more then 1,000 #PDF document samples. You may now redact securely also links, form fields and widgets. In rare cases, when partial image redaction fails, the more secure full image removal is used instead.

But even more important, Censor now warns you, when unsuccessful redaction is detected during postprocessing. This reduces the impact of known issues of unsecure redaction.

Polish is the 11th language you may speak with Censor. Thanks to its translators (among them, @npub1ukace...)!

Thanks a lot also to #pypdf, #qpdf, #pikepdf, #Ghostscript, #MuPDF, #PyMuPDF, and #poppler contributors for the great resource of PDF document samples!

Find it at @Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor and @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor

#Censorship #Codeberg #Flathub #GNOME #Linux #Python
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Robert Wolff · 3w
“Zoom in, zoom out, redact your points!” #Censor v0.7.0 ships improved zooming with pinch-to-zoom gesture on touchpads and touchscreens and various security bug fixes. Find it at nostr:npub1wfe0cauy5hspachh5f73wd3d0t28949ryjh09lqkup60zxp86ppslvw0av: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor...
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Censor, a new document redaction tool, is there!

It allows to draw black rectangles on PDF documents and to permanently remove the text and images below. Find it on @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor, get it from @Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor, or translate it on Codeberg Translate: https://translate.codeberg.org/engage/censor!

It is a free and open-source graphical user interface (GUI) for #Linux and the #GNOME desktop, and uses the #MuPDF library with its #python bindings from the #PyMuPDF module.

#censorship #redaction #PDF #Codeberg #Flatpak #Flathub
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But, I wouldn't expect that federation improves the situation with LLM scrapers. Rather the opposite! #ActivityPub is a very open protocol and it will make it rather easier than harder for scraping instances to collect all the code and context.
I think, we need ethical, FOSS LLMs that value the author rights, e.g. crediting each bit where essential (non-trivial) information was taken from and, of course, obeying to licences! Thus, e.g., GPL code must be relicensed by GPL and not to be mixed with non-free (GPL-incompatible) code.