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Волошина про Трампа.

Деякі прийоми Трампа нагадують Фому Фомича з "Села Степанчикова і його мешканців".

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Investigating a forged PDF

Sep. 24th, 2025 12:24 pm
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I had to rent a house for a couple of months recently, which is long enough in California that it pushes you into proper tenant protection law. As landlords tend to do, they failed to return my security deposit within the 21 days required by law, having already failed to provide the required notification that I was entitled to an inspection before moving out. Cue some tedious argumentation with the letting agency, and eventually me threatening to take them to small claims court.

This post is not about that.

Now, under Californian law, the onus is on the landlord to hold and return the security deposit - the agency has no role in this. The only reason I was talking to them is that my lease didn't mention the name or address of the landlord (another legal violation, but the outcome is just that you get to serve the landlord via the agency). So it was a bit surprising when I received an email from the owner of the agency informing me that they did not hold the deposit and so were not liable - I already knew this.

The odd bit about this, though, is that they sent me another copy of the contract, asserting that it made it clear that the landlord held the deposit. I read it, and instead found a clause reading SECURITY: The security deposit will secure the performance of Tenant’s obligations. IER may, but will not be obligated to, apply all portions of said deposit on account of Tenant’s obligations. Any balance remaining upon termination will be returned to Tenant. Tenant will not have the right to apply the security deposit in payment of the last month’s rent. Security deposit held at IER Trust Account., where IER is International Executive Rentals, the agency in question. Why send me a contract that says you hold the money while you're telling me you don't? And then I read further down and found this:
Text reading ENTIRE AGREEMENT: The foregoing constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and may bemodified only in writing signed by all parties. This agreement and any modifications, including anyphotocopy or facsimile, may be signed in one or more counterparts, each of which will be deemed anoriginal and all of which taken together will constitute one and the same instrument. The followingexhibits, if checked, have been made a part of this Agreement before the parties’ execution:۞Exhibit 1:Lead-Based Paint Disclosure (Required by Law for Rental Property Built Prior to 1978)۞Addendum 1 The security deposit will be held by (name removed) and applied, refunded, or forfeited in accordance with the terms of this lease agreement.
Ok, fair enough, there's an addendum that says the landlord has it (I've removed the landlord's name, it's present in the original).

Except. I had no recollection of that addendum. I went back to the copy of the contract I had and discovered:
The same text as the previous picture, but addendum 1 is empty
Huh! But obviously I could just have edited that to remove it (there's no obvious reason for me to, but whatever), and then it'd be my word against theirs. However, I'd been sent the document via RightSignature, an online document signing platform, and they'd added a certification page that looked like this:
A Signature Certificate, containing a bunch of data about the document including a checksum or the original
Interestingly, the certificate page was identical in both documents, including the checksums, despite the content being different. So, how do I show which one is legitimate? You'd think given this certificate page this would be trivial, but RightSignature provides no documented mechanism whatsoever for anyone to verify any of the fields in the certificate, which is annoying but let's see what we can do anyway.

First up, let's look at the PDF metadata. pdftk has a dump_data command that dumps the metadata in the document, including the creation date and the modification date. My file had both set to identical timestamps in June, both listed in UTC, corresponding to the time I'd signed the document. The file containing the addendum? The same creation time, but a modification time of this Monday, shortly before it was sent to me. This time, the modification timestamp was in Pacific Daylight Time, the timezone currently observed in California. In addition, the data included two ID fields, ID0 and ID1. In my document both were identical, in the one with the addendum ID0 matched mine but ID1 was different.

These ID tags are intended to be some form of representation (such as a hash) of the document. ID0 is set when the document is created and should not be modified afterwards - ID1 initially identical to ID0, but changes when the document is modified. This is intended to allow tooling to identify whether two documents are modified versions of the same document. The identical ID0 indicated that the document with the addendum was originally identical to mine, and the different ID1 that it had been modified.

Well, ok, that seems like a pretty strong demonstration. I had the "I have a very particular set of skills" conversation with the agency and pointed these facts out, that they were an extremely strong indication that my copy was authentic and their one wasn't, and they responded that the document was "re-sealed" every time it was downloaded from RightSignature and that would explain the modifications. This doesn't seem plausible, but it's an argument. Let's go further.

My next move was pdfalyzer, which allows you to pull a PDF apart into its component pieces. This revealed that the documents were identical, other than page 3, the one with the addendum. This page included tags entitled "touchUp_TextEdit", evidence that the page had been modified using Acrobat. But in itself, that doesn't prove anything - obviously it had been edited at some point to insert the landlord's name, it doesn't prove whether it happened before or after the signing.

But in the process of editing, Acrobat appeared to have renamed all the font references on that page into a different format. Every other page had a consistent naming scheme for the fonts, and they matched the scheme in the page 3 I had. Again, that doesn't tell us whether the renaming happened before or after the signing. Or does it?

You see, when I completed my signing, RightSignature inserted my name into the document, and did so using a font that wasn't otherwise present in the document (Courier, in this case). That font was named identically throughout the document, except on page 3, where it was named in the same manner as every other font that Acrobat had renamed. Given the font wasn't present in the document until after I'd signed it, this is proof that the page was edited after signing.

But eh this is all very convoluted. Surely there's an easier way? Thankfully yes, although I hate it. RightSignature had sent me a link to view my signed copy of the document. When I went there it presented it to me as the original PDF with my signature overlaid on top. Hitting F12 gave me the network tab, and I could see a reference to a base.pdf. Downloading that gave me the original PDF, pre-signature. Running sha256sum on it gave me an identical hash to the "Original checksum" field. Needless to say, it did not contain the addendum.

Why do this? The only explanation I can come up with (and I am obviously guessing here, I may be incorrect!) is that International Executive Rentals realised that they'd sent me a contract which could mean that they were liable for the return of my deposit, even though they'd already given it to my landlord, and after realising this added the addendum, sent it to me, and assumed that I just wouldn't notice (or that, if I did, I wouldn't be able to prove anything). In the process they went from an extremely unlikely possibility of having civil liability for a few thousand dollars (even if they were holding the deposit it's still the landlord's legal duty to return it, as far as I can tell) to doing something that looks extremely like forgery.

There's a hilarious followup. After this happened, the agency offered to do a screenshare with me showing them logging into RightSignature and showing the signed file with the addendum, and then proceeded to do so. One minor problem - the "Send for signature" button was still there, just below a field saying "Uploaded: 09/22/25". I asked them to search for my name, and it popped up two hits - one marked draft, one marked completed. The one marked completed? Didn't contain the addendum.
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23 вересня знищено 8 пускових установок Іскандер у Таганрозі.

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Очікуємо офіційного підтвердження...


Клеїти дурня

Sep. 25th, 2025 12:06 am
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Безсмертний про Трампа

От що я не второпав з його інтерв'ю, то це літаки НАТО і літаки національних армій. Це як? Чи він мав на увазі літаки США, коли каже про літаки НАТО?
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всегда упиралась в разницу между глубоким и поверхностным; между гамбургским счетом и социальными эффектами. Я стремился прежде всего упрочить свое положение по наиболее фундаментальным параметрам научного вклада, ожидая, что остальное приложится.

Социальные эффекты сейчас по-любому из рук вон: русская армия наступает на Восточную Европу, в западноевропейских странах и американских университетах больше не нужны евреи, в Израиле без меня слишком много математиков. Это общезначимая часть. К ней добавляются присущие лично мне социальные эффекты.

Но я продолжаю активно работать. Мне кажется, что по гамбургскому счету мои работы неплохи. Если не мне, то математике, может быть, будет от этого польза.

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Sep. 24th, 2025 04:00 pm
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Богота 2025

Два джентельмена перед одной дверью. (С Вейдом Шуманом из группы HAZMAT MODINE).
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Perth

Sep. 24th, 2025 09:42 pm
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We're halfway(ish) home.

Fun fact: I didn't know there was a Perth besides the one in Australia until a few years ago. Possibly when the other two started breaking this journey here.

The trip was uneventful if hard on poor D, who hates driving and is exhausted. I'm glad he got a little nap on the ferry. The weather was beautiful: fluffy clouds, sun glittering in the blue water of the Minch as we crossed it. I didn't doze this time but listened to podcasts about baseball and had lots of feelings (I'm having so many baseball feelings lately!).

We've just been in so many places lately; all I wanted from this one is for there not to be too many weird stairs and there weren't any! Our room is cute and cozy. I also hope the shower isn't too haunted but I'm not awake enough or stinky enough to try that tonight.

Wild to think we'll be home tomorrow night. I am not excited to go back to work but I'm excited to know where everything is and how the shower works.

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всегда упиралась в разницу между глубоким и поверхностным; между гамбургским счетом и социальными эффектами. Я стремился прежде всего упрочить свое положение по наиболее фундаментальным параметрам научного вклада, ожидая, что остальное приложится.

Социальные эффекты сейчас по-любому из рук вон: русская армия наступает на Восточную Европу, в западноевропейских странах и американских университетах больше не нужны евреи, в Израиле без меня слишком много математиков. Это общезначимая часть. К ней добавляются присущие лично мне социальные эффекты.

Но я продолжаю активно работать. Мне кажется, что по гамбургскому счету мои работы неплохи. Если не мне, то математике, может быть, будет от этого польза.
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Госсекретарь США повторил призыв президента Трампа прекратить убийства.
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 Согласно статистике Google, в ряде городов России зафиксирован повышенный уровень интереса к просмотру гей-порно. Показатели в этих населённых пунктах значительно превышают средние значения по стране.









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Собственно, традиционное застолье провели в ресторанчике у родственников со стороны супруги. Собрались все её дядьки с домочадцами. Вышло очень мило, по-семейному, и при этом вкусно до неприличия (всё-таки готовили профессионалы, на профессиональном оборудовании). Моя тёща вся изошлась от ревности, как у повара (её племянника) получается такое мягкое мясо.

А сегодня съездили на море. Решили в этот раз не валяться на пляже, а погулять. Благо место было выбрано замечательное - заповедник "hа-Боним" возле кибуца Нахшолим. Это - развалины римского поселения с остатками жилых домов и храмового комплекса. Самый смак - нижняя часть, переходящая в море. Вода - супер прозрачная, ни тины, ни грязи. И можно пройдтись по блокам тысячелетней давности чтобы присев на край побултыхать ноги в море. Или просто окунуться в прямоугольный бассейн (точнее - то, что от него осталось после воздействия на песчаник солёной воды и палящего солнца).

Уставшие и голодные мы поехали обедать в Осафию - друзскую деревню на кармельском нагорье. Обслуживание, увы, было медленным и по-левантийски безалаберным (не со зла, они просто не умеют). Зато блюда - из свежайших продуктов, щедро сдобренные всякими добавками вроде традиционных кедровых орешков, да и хлеб был явно выпечен тут же, а не разогрет в микроволновке. Я уже не говорю о ценах - вышло раза в два дешевле, чем в обычном "городском" ресторане. Если будете - рекомендую: "Кафе Луна", Осафия.

On disappointing others

Sep. 24th, 2025 06:32 pm
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Scott D. Clary writes in Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/scottdclarypage/posts/pfbid02BpHQN8pKN5Eigx6tJWteyuueePX6rp2NrQ6kMZU1gbKXtkwn5a8rYqGAWvidddJUl :

Something I learned from successful people:

They disappoint others regularly. Cancel plans. Miss parties. Skip events. Say no constantly. Not because they're jerks. Because they're focused. Every yes to someone else's priority is a no to their own. You can be liked or you can be successful. Eventually you have to choose. Most people choose liked and wonder why they're stuck.

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Да, именно так.
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https://kubnews.ru/obshchestvo/2025/09/24/kreditki-pod-udarom-rossiyskie-banki-massovo-snizhayut-limity-po-kartam/


Лимиты "под нож": банки стали менее лояльны к пользователям кредитных карт, массово сокращая кредитные лимиты, даже для финансово грамотных клиентов, исправно погашающих задолженность в беспроцентный период.

Крупные российские банки начали массово снижать лимиты по кредитным картам, о чем сообщают "Известия". Клиенты ВТБ, Почта Банка и Ренессанс Банка столкнулись с внезапным обнулением лимитов без предварительных уведомлений и объяснений со стороны банков. В некоторых случаях карты блокировались сразу после изменения лимита, что затрудняло оплату даже повседневных расходов, несмотря на соблюдение всех банковских условий.

Представители банков объясняют снижение лимитов необходимостью выравнивания финансовых показателей и сокращения резервов. По словам аналитика Freedom Finance Global Владимира Чернова, такие меры направлены на снижение рисков при росте просроченной задолженности.

Однако, эксперты отмечают, что снижение лимитов особенно сильно ударяет по финансово грамотным клиентам, активно использующим кредитные карты и погашающим задолженность в беспроцентный период. Генеральный директор Ассоциации развития финансовой грамотности Эльман Мехтиев указывает на то, что такие заемщики фактически бесплатно пользуются деньгами банка, в то время как банки привлекают средства на рынке под 14% годовых. Таким образом, надежные клиенты становятся экономически невыгодными для банковских организаций.

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дарагие расеяне привыкли жить не по доходам, а в долг. очень долго. начиная с 2000-ых и не одумавшись даже в 2010-ые, когда малина стала потихоньку кончаться. все равно брали для поддржания уровня потребления.

ну вот. на старой площади приняли решение конкретно так уронить уровень жизни.

зачем? уж сколько о том написано!

p.s. это только одна из новостей, которая касается кредитов населению.
вот тоже отличная новость
https://pan-netnet.dreamwidth.org/1810951.html

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