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You can easily make your own plain text version [0]:

  $ wget https://www.bsdfrog.org/pub/events/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf
  $ pdftotext \
    my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf  \
    my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.txt
Or, if you prefer HTML [1]:

  $ pdftohtml -i -nomerge -s \
    my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf  \
    my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.html
ETA: Surprisingly, the PDF is quite lightweight. File sizes, in bytes:

   PDF: 118,971
   TXT:  90,912
  HTML: 384,256
[0]: http://evilrouters.net/foo/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-Asia...

[1]: http://evilrouters.net/foo/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-Asia...




I have my issues with HN, but this type of comment is one of parts I relish. Thanks!


Indeed, learning new little tricks like this is one of the great things about HN! Many times, I get more "value" from the comments than I do the submissions.


To be more in the spirit of the paper, you could perhaps give your instructions in terms of FreeBSD's own fetch command or OpenBSD's own ftp command, rather than wget from ports. (-:




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