gynvael

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   by gynvael 10mo ago

   What you're saying makes sense and it's a good idea. It's not fully directly applicable to Paged Out! though due to certain assumptions we've made with our base operating model. I.e. our intention is to charge readers ne
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   by gynvael 10mo ago

   Thanks! I pre-approved it today, so you probably already received a reply from our Editor-in-Chief :)
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   by gynvael 10mo ago

   Yeah, we need to onboard more Print-on-Demand providers - perhaps some with easier purchase flow (this said, I have to give it to lulu that they have solid customer support, at least in my experience). But - per your edit - the PoD option i
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   by gynvael 10mo ago

   I mean... you actually can do that... https://pagedout.institute/?page=commercial-prints.php "If you would like to sell printed copies of Paged Out!, please contact us about a commercial license [...]. We're happy
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   by gynvael 10mo ago

   Hi, project lead here :) I fully agree with you. We are slooowly working towards having also the printed version available in a subscription model (note: PDFs will remain free and we will also continue to give out free - as in "sponsor
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   by gynvael 10mo ago

   If you're looking for recommendations for other zines, here are two (though both TXT format): - https://phrack.org/ - well, this one you probably have heard about ;) (it has a printed form as well, but I think you have
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   by gynvael 10mo ago

   Whoops, thanks! We'll fix it in a moment.
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   by gynvael 10mo ago

   Thank you! :)
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   by gynvael 10mo ago

   +1 to this! Paged Out! was inspired by some of the 1980s / early 1990s magazines (though Polish ones, like "Bajtek"). They could get stuff done on 1 page, which commonly was shared by multiple articles too :)
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    by gynvael 10mo ago

    Hi, project lead here :) Hah, that's a good point! I realize of course issues with PDFs (I have a dozen or so CVEs in PDF readers like Adobe Reader, Chrome, etc). This said, at the end of the day, there isn't much of a choice to b
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    by gynvael 10mo ago

    Hi, project lead here :) We do contact potential authors via email, but it's fully manual. I.e. we do not collect emails in an automated way, nor do we send them out in an automated way - everything is done manually by our Editor-in-Ch
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    by gynvael 10mo ago

    Hi, project lead here. If your question is about "was the cover / zine made by AI", the answer is no, but there might be articles about AI or articles polished by AI. The cover is never made by AI - always by human artists. Y
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    by gynvael 1y ago

    Paged Out!'s project lead here. This is really weird... could you tell me which group did you get the email from? If you email me (gynvael@pagedout.institute) your email I can both remove it and try to figure out how your email got the
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    by gynvael 1y ago

    Spot on. So here's the problem: initially we wanted to just put the print-ready files on the website. But then — once we got more experience with physical printing — we've learned that it's not so simple, because there are se
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    by gynvael 1y ago

    Mailed printed subscriptions for a decent price are somewhere on our TODO list. First we want to make it available for free on more events (like conferences, demoparties, etc).
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    by gynvael 1y ago

    > This is a pretty clear statement on normativity. I disagree – it's a technical remark on redundancy of fields (this is related to my hypothesis in the article that redundancy in formats is the primary cause of parser discrepancy).
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    by gynvael 1y ago

    Author here :) Are you saying that parser discrepancy is a well known problem OR that this exact technical issue described (CD offset vs CD size used to derive CD location) is a well known problem? If the prior, you are of course right — pa
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    by gynvael 1y ago

    Author here :) > a belief by the author of this post that Info-ZIP is the canonical implementation ↑ Where did you get this from? I don't think nowadays there's such a thing as a canonical implementation — ZIP implementation wo
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    by gynvael 1y ago

    I've looked through the method this paper uses to anonymize user IDs and message IDs, I don't think it works. It's a long topic so I've written down my thoughts here: https://hackarcana.com/article/a
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    by gynvael 1y ago

    Received, thanks!
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    by gynvael 1y ago

    Hi Philip. Would you be able to share with me just a few anonymized user IDs (random ones are fine)? I wanted to double-check their format, since I'm pretty sure their method is broken. My email address is there → https://gy
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    by gynvael 2y ago

    The format of Paged Out! – the 1 page limit, the custom layout, are done on purpose. They have their downsides of course – exactly as you have pointed out. It has to be recognized, that so do the no-page limit / strict layout publicati
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    by gynvael 2y ago

    > It would be good to figure out how many people actually care about printability. The final goal is to do mass prints of Paged Out! to give out at events. We've already done that once, and we're chatting with sponsors and even
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    by gynvael 2y ago

    Yeah. I don't think it's a solvable problem, but ideas are always welcome :)
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    by gynvael 2y ago

    Sadly that's not doable for us. LaTeX, for all its benefits, has terrible user experience and would drive away a lot of authors. One of the benefits of using PDFs is that anyone can use almost any tool they feel comfortable with to mak
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    by gynvael 2y ago

    You hit the nail on the had with your question – this is the most problematic part of it. Most illustrations are a bit simpler to handle than code and the way is pretty much paved by HTML img alt texts (the well written ones, that actually
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    by gynvael 2y ago

    (PO! lead here) You are right, that's one of the unfortunate limitations of the format – having to constantly scroll the PDF. And this is on me, since ultimately I've made some decisions when establishing it which basically boxed
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    by gynvael 2y ago

    Agreed! I've used them for printing a few larger PDFs as well, and the only part which I cringe at usually is the shipping cost (which it's bad, it's just that the print is so cheap there shipping looks pretty significant nex
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    by gynvael 2y ago

    Thanks! I'll pass this to the author. Out of curiosity I've started looking in Django docs (I'm more of a flask person myself), and they seems to confirm what you're saying. More to the point, the `strings` are the main
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    by gynvael 2y ago

    Thanks! Kudos to the rest of the team and the authors :)