Hot take: ISO standards do not meaningfully matter to me, because an extremely impoverished, unbanked person cannot freely access their contents from a smartphone or library computer.

Therefore, I go out of my way to avoid referring to them or relying on them in anyway.

@soatok ISO standards are behind a fuckin paywall?

jesus christ

@matildalove @soatok
ISO: "We created global standards for everyone to follow"
Everyone: "Can we see them?"
ISO: "No"
@aires @soatok they didn't clarify that by "everyone" they meant "wealthy techbros" because to them it's just obvious that those are the people who matter
@matildalove @aires @soatok
Which means I'm the official custodian for the one ISO standard I have at our office at work.
Completely crazy.

@ftg i hope you perform that job according to the rules. it sure would be terrible if such a standard were to end up on torrents or something.

(yeah, i know, why take that risk when nearly [or exactly] no one would even seed it. it's all so depressing.)

@matildalove
Sadly they are rather strongly watermarked these days.
@ftg @matildalove Protip: Libreoffice writer allows you to import PDFs. Documents with alternating landscape/portrait pages need a bit of extra work, but for the rest, it works very well !