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Comment by torben-friis

18 hours ago

>"Read this PDF" installs a pdf reader executable.

How does this work regarding Macos notarization btw?

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dvt  18 hours ago

I was actually curious, on my Mac, it uses `gs -q -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o output.txt input.pdf` (not sure why I have Ghostscript installed, maybe Adobe?) to read a PDF, and on my PC it just rawdogs `pdftotext`.

fragmede  18 hours ago

What does notarization have to do with that? You or ChatGPT or whatever download a signed and already notarized binary.

  • torben-friis  18 hours ago

    That was kind of my question, whether it was restricted to downloading notarized apps (which is at least something) or whether they were circumventing that somehow.

    • fragmede  17 hours ago

      Locally compiled code doesn't need to be notarized, if that's what you're asking. Or a dose of xattr -d.