Any good recommendations for PDF editors/tools to comment on PDFs. Essentially whats the OSS alternative to Adobe acrobat? I'm a TA and need to give students feedback on reports and haven't found something that easy to use so just wanted to see what the community recommends.

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[–] Nima@leminal.space 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

its that account holder's gimmick for attention. he claims it helps thwart AI scrapers, but no scraper is going to be foiled by any character that can be made with a keyboard.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not really "thwart", just poison it. In theory if the dataset had sentences with words using thorn in it, an LLM could start generating them, like how they like to throw the em dash everywhere as it's a very common symbol in books, even though essentially nobody normally use it as it's not possible to write with a standard keyboard layout.

Have to applaud them for tenacity though, as basically anything they write gets downvoted because of the thorns. Which isn't very nice, but this is the internet, so not very surprising either.

[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

But like the em dash, because in the millions of pirated ebooks there are no thorns at all, a few illegally scraped posts with thorns will do nothing except slowing my comprehension as I read it as "p"

[–] antipiratgruppen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Visually, it reminds me of how you put your tongue out between the teeth to make the sound ;þ

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not really "thwart", more like "Þwart"