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Office workers are spending way too much on AI too (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Gotta burn ’em all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9miTfCnyrpw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260625-office-workers-are-spending-way-too-much-on-ai-too - podcast

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So, anybody know the regular linux commands to turn a pdf into markdown? I assume there is a simple command that does that for you, if there isn't already a pdf2markdown.

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There cannot be such a thing since pdf does not structure its data. There is an extension to the standard that would let a program do it for you but nobody uses it (PDF/UA-1). (also pandoc is vibe coded now)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

yeah, my answer to this also used to be pandoc until they took the prompt unto their soul

it's deeply fucking frustrating

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 6 hours ago

That sucks so much. But thanks anyway everybody, my post was half shitpost, half serious. (And I know some things can't be easily converted, (but my regexp to match xhtml script is almost complete).

I'm a bit surprised (but not totally) there actually was a proper tool for it a bit, even if it is vibe corrupted now.