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Re: How and why I made a zine

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Post by DonHopkins » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 9:57 AM UTC

Zines by techies have a long history! Tom Jennings [1], who founded FidoNet [2] and The Little Garden ISP, published one of the first Queercore anarcho-punk zines called Homocore [3]. He's written a retrospective and published an archive of his Homocore memory [4] of San Francisco during 1988-1991.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jennings

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homocore_(zine)

[4] http://worldpowersystems.com/HOMOCORE/

Re: How and why I made a zine

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Post by martin_a » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 10:14 AM UTC

anc84 wrote: post #7

martin_a wrote: post #6

I find this extremly hard to read and I don´t get why you have to push feminism into this topic.

OMG ^_^ Did ya see those handscribbled pages though so cute!!!

Yeah, that´s probably part of my problem with this.

Re: How and why I made a zine

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Post by tashi » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 10:17 AM UTC

martin_a wrote: post #6

I find this extremly hard to read and I don´t get why you have to push feminism into this topic.

She may think that the problems associated with sexism in the workplace aren't solved yet, so feminism is relevant to her working life, whether she likes it or not. Or she may just find the subject interesting and enjoy writing about it.

Is there some reason you find the subject especially irritating? And did any of the other tangential things she mentions--Star Trek, deafness, Canada, etc.--provoke the same reaction?

Re: How and why I made a zine

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Post by lusen » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 10:49 AM UTC

I imagine a lot of technical people are or could be into zines: they mix DIY and maker zeal with principles of distributed information sharing. They're the OG artisanal local blogs ;-p

You can make little zine booklets -- which I find especially satisfying -- from a single sheet of computer paper using the following instructions: http://staycalmcomic.com/how-to-zine

Re: How and why I made a zine

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Post by maaaats » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 11:22 AM UTC

I was once at a tech-presentation where the presenter drew/wrote everything freehand like this on a tablet, almost similar to how one would use a blackboard. I really liked the way she presented compared to a static slide-deck, as she could adjust/add examples based on questions and feedback from the crowd.

Re: How and why I made a zine

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Re: How and why I made a zine

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Post by masklinn » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 11:37 AM UTC

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #10

0xmohit wrote: post #3

# imagemagick is the best thing in the world Unfortunately, the number of vulnerabilities in ImageMagick has earned it another name, ImageTragick. https://imagetragick.com/ https://github.com/ImageTragick/PoCs

TBH, I can't really blame ImageMagick devs too much for this. They're not making an image editing suite for web-facing services with access to sensitive user data. They're making an image editing suite for the Linux command line, which web devs happen to use on user-submitted images with absolutely no sanitization. The latter part of the sentence is the problem. Adding to that, ImageMagick had it's first release in 1…

> TBH, I can't really blame ImageMagick devs too much for this. They're not making an image editing suite for web-facing services with access to sensitive user data. They're making an image editing suite for the Linux command line

On the other hand, CLI image display and edition doesn't mean it'll only face trusted content, it's not rare to download a file and display it or further manipulate it.

Re: How and why I made a zine

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Post by bootload » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 12:21 PM UTC

" Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution Paperback about riot grrl and people making feminist zines and starting punk bands,"

Kathleen Hanna had a big hand in this movement [0] and if you want to see/listen then watch "The Punk Singer" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMbLzaVkn2s

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Hanna

Re: How and why I made a zine

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Post by asimuvPR » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 12:39 PM UTC

holdenk wrote: post #4

Julia Evans' zines are the most entertaining way to learn about linux/unix internals I've encountered yet :)

This was really fun and informative. Like a good comic book.

Re: How and why I made a zine

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Post by endswapper » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 12:40 PM UTC

lusen wrote: post #14

I imagine a lot of technical people are or could be into zines: they mix DIY and maker zeal with principles of distributed information sharing. They're the OG artisanal local blogs ;-p You can make little zine booklets -- which I find especially satisfying -- from a single sheet of computer paper using the following instructions: http://staycalmcomic.com/how-to-zine

I like the way you phrased, "They're the OG artisanal local blogs," and I think of them the same way.

When I was in junior high and high school one of my best friends and I started producing a 'zine in Cleveland around the punk and hardcore music scenes. We interviewed bands, made crazy art work, she wrote some poetry, and it was a very fun, very satisfying collaboration. We used a mac at the time to do all of our layout and then went to Kinkos to assemble it.

Because of the relationships we developed we started producing concerts for the bands we liked. Basically, we were able to corral enough people to pay for a show we wanted to see by bands that weren't otherwise coming to Cleveland.