it needs to print the unique identifier

They’re right! Microdots, AKA Machine Identification Code

If you have a color printer made in the last literal 30 years, it has this. Toner, ink, etc, doesn’t matter.

They encode the printer’s unique identifier, and often a date/time stamp, along with whatever else manufacturers put on there

There’s an overview from way back in 2006 by the Purdue Homeland Security Institute that talks about how manufacturers have also gone past “simple” microdots, and use things like embedding multiple colors (like cyan) in greyscale parts of the image, and using laser modulation on black and white documents on laser printers in a way that is machine-only readable for unique identification.

My printer is a snitch, apparently

wait so this is why in movies and TV the killer makes notes out of cut and pasted letters from magazines?? I thought they just liked crafts

why cant they just write tho

Handwritten notes can be compared with handwriting on other documents and lead to identification.

From wikipedia:

“The public first became aware of Machine Identification Code in October 2004, when it was used by Dutch authorities to track counterfeiters who had used a Canon color laser printer. In 2005, the civil rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) encouraged the public to send in sample printouts and subsequently decoded the pattern. The EFF stated in 2015 that the documents that they previously received through the FOIA suggested that all major manufacturers of color laser printers entered a secret agreement with governments to ensure that the output of those printers is forensically traceable.

In 2018, scientists from TU Dresden developed and published a tool to extract and analyze the steganographic codes of a given color printer and subsequently to anonymize prints from that printer. The anonymization works by printing additional yellow dots on top of the Machine Identification Code. The scientists made the software available to support whistleblowers in their efforts to publicize grievances”

DEDA - tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation toolkit

I strongly suspect that a lot of the reason for bigots fixation on trans women is a combination of this and the idea that anyone would have the audacity to give up the privilege of maleness.

[ID: tweet by rifflexielian "Terfs need to shut up about womanhood, my mom was raised to believe all women were less valuable than men and cried when she learned about trans women because the idea that someone would fight that hard to be a woman was radical for her and meant it was something worth being"]

Can confirm, at least somewhat.

I worked with a man who was complaining with another coworker about a trans woman manager at the place we were working that night. Generic dude complaints.

They backpedaled, of course. It was her*personality* they didn't like, not that she was transgender. Mm hmm.

I was annoyed, kind of called them on it.

But then one of them said, "I just don't understand why anyone would want to be a woman."

Then he saw my face - my cis woman face - and said, "I mean after being a man."

Mm hmm.

God, I remember when I started sixth form (last two years of high school in the UK, seen as a more university style learning environment) and the teachers kept complaining about how quiet we were during lessons.

We wouldn’t talk. They’d tell us to do something and we’d just sit there quietly and do it, until eventually they just said “hey, guys, it’s okay to chat while you work!” and then everybody would start talking.

One teacher described it as creepy.

And I just remember thinking, what the fuck did they expect to happen? We’d all been taught from the age of four or five onwards that talking in class was bad. That if we did it, we’d be told off, or punished, or in some instances maybe the entire class would be punished along with us, just to make sure we really got the idea. It was a whole thing.

But now, because we were sixth-formers and therefore ‘grown ups’, we were suddenly expected to flip a switch and be able to talk as much as we liked? The whole reason we were in sixth-form was because we had worked hard, done well at school, and generally followed the rules— but still the teachers couldn’t understand why we didn’t just talk to each other.

Now I’m at uni, and seminar tutors are having a similar problem. People will talk in seminars, but a lot of them will insist on raising their hands and waiting to be called upon first. “Don’t put your hands up, just shout at me!” the guy keeps saying. But they keep doing it anyway.

Like, I really don’t know how to tell these people that you can’t train somebody to act in one way for over half their lives, and then suddenly expect them to start acting differently just because the expectations have changed.

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought "why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff," so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It's alright if you can't because apparently I fuckin couldn't either

Cutting something out of your life because you think you don't need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let's say public health and the social safety net and vaccines

I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”

every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid

#you are not immune to the recency bias(via@arrows-for-pens)

this new reblog chart feature is FASCINATING and it is also highlighting how much people on this website fail gifmakers and other content creators. you NEED to start reblogging gifsets and art if you want this site to continue functioning and being a place content creators WANT to be on. look at this

there are almost NO reblog chains!! the majority of reblogs are directly from me, and then it just. ends. the like to reblog ratio is almost 1:4.

this is why posts die. this is why artists have left, this is why gifmakers are giving up. this is killing tumblr.

reblogging is the ENTIRE POINT of this website, and you can't just like something and move on and expect gif/editmakers and artists to continue putting in the effort to make content FOR YOU.

REBLOG. POSTS.

this grave keeper edible aint shit

who gors there ,

I keep a pistol in my pussy. Call that my inner piece.

Nah tumblr I think I'll pass on that this time around

Yes, come on in!

Ok

Yes, yes, come in to my cabin, watch your step please.

You Have A Lovely Hombe

Thank you, Horace. Sit, make yourself at hombe. Or would you like to play a game of Billiards in my special room over here?

Oh I Just Love To Play Balls

We’ll get along splendidly, then.

Some wine?

Oh Enough Chit-Chat And Lets Talk Creams.

Go on.

Well I Just Love Creams. Well They Taste Good. And. Oh The Texture An-

…

*Shrnf…*

Smells Of Steel.

*All pretense and friendly affect is dropped, eyes fixing coldly on the boar*

*Advances*

Well I Simply Knew All A Long

*And Horace Delivers A Series Of Funny Kicks And Rageful SMACKS To The Assailant’s Solar Plexus And Hip Bones*

AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! DEFL…AAAA…a.aa….aaating….

Hm Hm Hm That Aought To Teach You Scoundrel

*Horace Turns His Handsome Snout To Face YOU*

Rememboar: Dont Go In A Strangor’s House Or Something I Forget

i know my ass is up too late because i’m losing my fucking mind over accidentally typing george of the gungle

y'all hear one funny word and you just smash that reblog huh

i made it

the original guy i reblogged this from was a shithead so reuploading it

The person next to me in the train station is eating dicks and it smells so damn good

Wait wait fuck goddamn, dicks is a burger brand, there is not a woman giving head right next to me, she is eating fries and I’m hungry for FRIES

not nearly enough people are fuming about the cass review. do you understand the eventual implications? trans people in the uk will be considered children up until the age of 25, and denied HRT/surgery/even basic measures like legal name change and social transition. all owing to a biased and largely unscientific study. you know what “treatment” for gender dysphoria is recommended by the review instead? conversion therapy.

this will kill people and they know it, because they prefer us dead and out of sight. the government, the NHS and even the opposition have made this clear again and again. a twenty-five year old can have sex, get married have children, join the military, earn a living, be halfway up the corporate ladder or highly successful in their chosen career field by that age, but they can’t transition under NHS rules. this is a death sentence for trans teenagers and they are going ahead with it. it’s trans genocide, same as across the pond.

i’m so afraid for my trans siblings and our futures. i’m so scared for myself. what are we to do if not even the party that is supposed to be on the “left” gives a shit about our safety and mental health as long as they get voted in? labour have become tories with a red coat of paint. it all feels hopeless

It's fucking horrible. Scientifically it's absolute nonsense with the most ridiculously biased methodology possible, and it makes me feel fucking insane to see the way it's being talked about and how it's being used

I was 28 years old last year when my GP clinic was basically trying to use GUIDELINES MEANT FOR CIS CHILDREN to deny me HRT I had been on a wailist for for 7 years. I am fucking terrified of the way they will try to use this against all of us.

people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny

okay, yeah this is pretty funny

people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny

okay, yeah this is pretty funny

This ask feels really weird, don't show and spread the horrors of the Palestinian genocide. Don't let other people know what's actually going on because it makes me uncomfortable and it might make other people uncomfortable. The Palestinians can die as long as we don't have to see it because it makes us sad and uncomfortable. Sharing what's going on is the best thing you can do because you inform more people and once Israel does get charged they will try to deny it but everyone will have this evidence on deck. What I would say is more disrespectful for the dead to try and cover and hide what actually going than spreading it to raise awareness and stop the crimes against humanity.

Like seriously no other news outlet except Al Jazeera and Democracy now is actually showing how bad it is in Palestine all the other mainstream News outlets are heavily biased towards Israel to the point of distorting what actually happened or trying to downplay events. Anyways what I am trying to say is bad take anon if this makes you uncomfortable remember Palestinians actually have to live through it and they are depending on other people around the world knowing what is going on, calling for a ceasefire, money donations that goes to food/water/medicine, and protests to stop weapons sales to Israel.

Making Eyes

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