#privacy

A recording is two halves and usually only one is broken. Cleaning up the audio repeatedly, without watermarks or caps, needed a filter already compiled into ffmpeg — and eight further decisions that had nothing to do with noise, including the one whose proof is a matching hash.

Photos into one PDF, a PDF under two megabytes, a layout inspected page by page — usually done by uploading to a stranger's website. Three small tools do it locally with Pillow and Ghostscript; the only real decisions were which defaults to bake in.