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 No.1231[Last 50 Posts]

new thread because new deadline.
SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE MAY 15TH.
Feel free to use any format, however please remember we are making a pdf out of text and
>>>> image <<<<
documents (possibly more??). Markdown would be appreciated, but don't let that get in the way of sending in a piece.
As usual, you can submit pieces to junk0@openmailbox.org
tilde@openmailbox.org
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 No.1232

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Time to finally do something productive today

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 No.1233

>deadline in a week
o-ok :(

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 No.1234

ok i will see if i can post some tipps or someting til then

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 No.1235

why is the deadline so soon? we should have a reoccuring release date and deadline close off.

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 No.1236

What is the schedule for release? Monthly? Bi-monthly? 4 times a year seasonal?

I'd rather have a longer release between zines, with people given a longer time to work on content, so that content is good. Rather than have people hammering out dross in an attempt to meet a deadline for a more regular schedule.

Quality over quantity.

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 No.1237

i would also like to extend the deadline because next week is finals week for me. I can't contribute if i don't have the time.

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 No.1238

>>1233
>>1235
>>1236
>>1237
I honestly agree with all of these and it's my fault for not posting the thread sooner. I didn't want to move it back farther because I sent out an email about a week ago about the new deadline to the mailing list, and people had been submitting work before that as well.

There were also many people who almost had pieces ready but didn't submit to the first release, and I figured the time between then and now was enough for them to finish their pieces.

Unfortunately this means newcomers and those I haven't been keeping updated (sorry again) feel like they've been hit with a deadline out of nowhere.

The reason why I set it so soon besides that is that after seeing the volume of submissions we got last month (and the fair number we already have), I figured we'd have enough content to begin with monthly lainzine releases instead of bi-monthly.

I would still like to make monthly releases, because not only is it easier to read a short magazine, our content can be more up-to-date (for instance, there was a huge win against the NSA in court today) and people who submit content and feedback will get tangible results much sooner.

I would also argue that in this case the quality over quantity analogy doesn't work, because there will be a smaller volume in the final product with a shorter release cycle AND people have basically unlimited time to find or create content anyway, because while there is a cutoff date, there really aren't any final deadlines.

All this aside, WE WILL STILL BE ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR LAINZINE ISSUE 2 AFTER THE CURRENT DEADLINE by popular demand and because the reason why you guys feel pressured to create content sooner is because I didn't create the thread sooner.

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 No.1239

>>1238
ill argue that the court win was not that "big".

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 No.1246

>>1239
fair enough

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 No.1273

When's the new deadline?

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 No.1274

>>1273
Since we don't have enough submissions, it will be when we have enough submissions. If you want to see a new release of the lainzine any time soon, better start sending in articles!

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 No.1276

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>>1274
I've been trying, but i'm having little success, ill keep trying though.

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 No.1277

Do you use latex?
If so, you could make the zine open source by posting the code somewhere, just for fun.
I don't think you can GPL it, tho.

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 No.1278

>>1277
I'll have to ask what Ivan uses. I release an archive of all our edited submissions to the mailing list before the final release, however.

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 No.1279

why isnt there a site wide announcement below the stream mailing list about this? kalyx do the thing

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 No.1280

>>1277
I originally wanted to do it all in LaTeX, but it's a bit complicated to set up (at least on the first run). We're using InDesign for now.

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 No.1284

Oh fuarrrk. I didn't know the second one was going to be so soon.

Have I missed out on being able to contribute to the second one or do I still have a few days?

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 No.1285

>>1284
we're still waiting for submissions.

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 No.1286

>>1284
I believe it won't be released until enough submissions are sent in so you have some time.

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 No.1287

>>1285
>>1286
Excellent. I'll start on my submission tonight.

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 No.1295

You guys better be using LaTeX.

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 No.1297

Been away from Lainchan (and most online interaction) to finish up my semester. Having finished, expect my submission next week.

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 No.1299

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>tfw i've been working on my edition
>tfw no progress
>tfw i'm reconsidering technology major because i suck this much

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 No.1300

>>1299
Cheer up friend, you'll work it out. Believe in me who believes in you.

>also, check em

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 No.1309

Hey, why not use some system to CRTE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor

Like Gobby:
https://gobby.github.io/

Could use lobby on RetroShare, too.

Also, why not release in plain text? I don't trust in pdf.

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 No.1310

Where can I find vol 1?

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 No.1311

>>1310
lainchan.org/zine/latest.pdf

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 No.1312

Keen for vol 2, but yeah, orderly deadlines will be a plus in the future. New hard deadline for vol 2 OP?

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 No.1316

>>1312
honestly, we can't put anything out there until we get enough content.

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 No.1318

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>>1316
And how much do you already have? I remember sending you an article on 5 pages about GPG and didn’t even get a reply that you got it.

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 No.1319

>>1318
I got your article right here, deter. Unfortunately that's the only article I received since the last release. We have some content that didn't make it into the first one that we'll also include. There may have been dropped emails so if you don't think your article made it through please send it again and also send it to tilde@openmailbox.org

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 No.1320

>>1231

fuarrrking soykaf, we need to ask people what they are interested in and flush information into their faces, what about asking /tech/ & /cyb/ ?

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 No.1321

From the first issue, on page 2:

>'CLRF' refers to "Carriage Return

Line Feed"

Shouldn't it be 'CRLF' instead?

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 No.1322

I'm getting my 'article' ready to submit for this one.
Right now, it's pretty short and I also think it's pretty poorly written. I'll need to muse over it and all that.

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 No.1323

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>>1321
Is this the only mistake you noticed?

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 No.1324

>>1323
I read pretty slow, dude

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 No.1325

So, about computing related articles, what do you guys would want to see there?
I can help with this topic…

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 No.1326

>>1325
what do you have in mind?

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 No.1327

>>1326
Something about computer security general, or some specific topic. Maybe hardware security… I publish on /tech/ a lot of tips, and I think it could be useful for someone.
I'll try to do something.

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 No.1328

>>1321
Sorry about that one.
Admittedly, I believe many of us were finishing up right before the deadline. I am spending more time on my current piece; hopefully the quality will be improved.

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 No.1334

Some one asked me to write about some soykaf my waifu did…

Is it past the deadline?

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 No.1335

>>1334
no, the deadline is suspended until we get enough content

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 No.1336

is there an irc here?

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 No.1338

>>1336
Lainchan.org/irc/

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 No.1350

>>1338
How many submits do we have?

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 No.1351

>>1350
two!

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 No.1356

>>1351
I keep getting delayed with various life happenings, but got a large amount out of the way with my article, and hope to be done tomorrow.

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 No.1359

What all kinds of articles would lainanons be interested in?

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 No.1361

So, when the second laizine will be published ?

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 No.1362

>>1361
Whenever theres enough input to publish it.

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 No.1365

>>1359
anything that you think would fit in with the content you've seen on lainzine so far - I personally would like to see more creative writing in this one, but everything in the last one was good.

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 No.1366

>>1365
I've never seen lainzine although I submitted an article for nr 2.

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 No.1367


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 No.1384

Article on SDF, as requested by a Lainchan poster, is done. The OP post says "any format", but as I am familiar with markdown, is their anything particular wanted such as heading sizes for title, subheaders, etc?

Since its only the third article so far, I have time to format it however would be easiest for the editors to deal with.

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 No.1392

>>1384
> such as heading sizes for title
I think that if there would be such requirements, there should have been be a full list of them.

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 No.1393

>>1384
Don't worry, we'll handle (almost) anything.

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 No.1409

what do you people aim to ultimately accomplish with this whole lainzine thing?

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 No.1410

>>1409
Get some pussy hopefully.

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 No.1411

>>1409
Be a part of the internet history

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 No.1412

Sorry if this was asked before.
How many articles are still needed and what kind of subjects am I allowed to write around ?

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 No.1413

>>1412
You can write about anything regarding any of the boards. So pretty much anything. Submit it and worst case scenario its not in the zine and you post it as its own thing on a thread and we still get a good read.

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 No.1414

>>1411
pretty much this

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 No.1415

I'd love to write something, but picking a subject is hard. Being a professional Linux sysadmin I have plenty of knowledge that might interest lainons. Are there any requests, specific subjects you guys want to read about?

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 No.1416

>>1415
security/forensics

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 No.1417

>>1415
Something like "a day in the life of a sysadmin" would be cool, too, IMO. Just don't leak any sensitive info.

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 No.1418

>>1417
i second that

>>1416
and that

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 No.1419

>>1418
yes these are both good.

I personally want to have some
>
stories of interesting days

also a "so you want to be a sysadmin" write up or video.

You must have tons of material for really interesting reads

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 No.1420

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 No.1421

>>1415
‘How to stop seeing irrational approaches in the means of your work, cope with arrogance of your chief and satisfy everyone, abandoning thoughts about how it should have been done for ever.’ That one really could help.
t. former Linux sysadmin

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 No.1422

Would anyone be interested in a LaTeX crash course?

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 No.1423

>>1420
topkek

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 No.1424

>>1421
Wish I knew the answer lainon.

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 No.1447


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 No.1450

>>1447
sweet.

because I'm already writing it.

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 No.1451

>>1450
I’d be glad to read how to set up synctex in zathura and Emacs, cause I couldn’t make it work :D

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 No.1455

>>1451
I always make my LaTeX docs in Vim, so I've no idea how to set up a specific Emacs plugin. Sorry mate

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 No.1456

>>1455
Do you use any TeX-specific Vim plugins?

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 No.1457

>>1456
Not even. I find syntax highlighting to be enough

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 No.1458

>>1455
Nah, I asked just in case this setup happened to be used.

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 No.1460

>>1458
I'm keeping the article editor-independent.

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 No.1461

Quick question to the people putting the zine together: how fancy can I make my article? Is monospaced code with line numbers a possibility? Would I need to put the line numbers in the code for that?

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 No.1462

>>1461
Assuming you're writing in Markdown, just use a regular code block and note in a <!-- comment --> that you want line numbers.

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 No.1463

>>1462
I'm writing in LaTeX. Comments start with '%', and will probably be highlighted in whatever editor you use. I can also mention it in the email, if that helps.

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 No.1464

>>1463
Sure.

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 No.1466

>>1464
Alright, gonna submit now. Looking forward to the next zine, any idea when it will be out? Have we nearly got enough content already?

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 No.1477

>>1466
we're drawing close on enough content, now I need to get editing

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 No.1499

>>1477
im so excited!!

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 No.1534

Hows the zine going?

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 No.1535

>>1534
we got another submission while I was at the beach
editors are editing come to the IRC if you want to help out just call out Junk

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 No.1555

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 No.1557

>>1555
i emailed junk, lets see if he responds

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 No.1559

>>1557
>>1555
I sent the files out to the mailing list, if anyone wants to contribute a revision they can.
We've already revised A Dream of Lain, the next Lisp Recommended Reading, Console Hacking, an untitled short story, Electronics Revamped, and are currently working on Keeping Application Data Safe with GNUPG. Still need to do The Way of Schway (it came in after I sent the archive), as well as anonymous tips 1-5.

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 No.1561

>>1559
I believe I'm on the mailing list, since I received the last email, but I haven't received this one yet.

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 No.1562

>>1561
what was the last email you received?

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 No.1563

Very excited for the next Zine.

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 No.1565

>>1562
The last Lainzine file I received was `lainzine 2 file archive'.

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 No.1566

>>1565
I think I must be out of the loop, but I'll help edit if you'll put me on the maillist.

email's kk7@cock.li
c:

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 No.1576

Are you still taking for issue 2?
Or is it time to send stuff in for issue 3?

Have some (1 for now) OC info GRFX that are a bit special (might need doule page spread going sideways?). They are stand alone pieces/images but need to be quite big/high res.

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 No.1577

>>1576
sound nice man, lookding forward to it

they still working on 2 but i think submissions are closed so yes you'd be in #3.. correct me if im wrong

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 No.1579

>>1577
If still taking for issue 2 I will get my soykaf together an submitted ASAP (end of weekend max) if too late and for issue 3 I will submit once Issue 2 is released.

Let me know if I can still send in for issue 2...
I was thinking I could do 1 per issue - for a few issues - these things take 2 weeks each, i only have done 5 so far- wanted to make a book of posters with 20 in, but my time is not infinite and I only got to 5 so far!... Lainzine is special enough for me to let a few go at a just about enough to read res, as I still want to make my book one day, where the full resolution will be used.

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 No.1580

>>1579
Junk and Tilde said that they were editing the zine now, i'm saving mine for three, i don't what to give them more work.

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 No.1581

>>1577
cool 3 it will be!

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 No.1618

>>1557
Joke's on you, all emails sent to him go straight to Junkmail.

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 No.1620


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 No.1621

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Hey, just wanted to say I really enjoyed the last issue and will wait patiently for this one. You guys have at least one fan.

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 No.1622

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Ay mang where be tha zine yo looking fo some dank hacker info ya here me.

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 No.1659

Looking forward to the release of the second issue; it's not often that you find a tight-knit, active space that's still got a relatively chill userbase.

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 No.1660

>>1659
oy sorry this one's taking so long

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 No.1680

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>>1660
it's ok it's nice to hear it's still alive

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 No.1681

Just typed to much:
>>>/cyb/13577

What do you guys think of this?
Should I go on/say more?
Is my writing soykafty and I should kill myself?

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 No.1682

>>1681
>What do you guys think of this?
>Should I go on/say more?
i broadly agree and i'm writing a reaction inspired by your post right now. i feel like some of the reasoning behind some of the conclusions in your post is a little thin. your idea is good though imho, i could imagine creating lainzine content out of very good posts or entire discussion threads.

>Is my writing soykafty and I should kill myself?

if anyone tells you this report him :-)

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 No.1683

>>1682
Were I to write a short story, what should I focus on? What should I leave out?
I'd like to go more into how the cars are the problem, but they're more of the vehicle (no pun intended) for the problem to occur.

Making an apocalyptic scenario with this being the cause could be interesting, but I think it diverges from the point

In all, I'd like to make it fiction, but close enough to fact for you to be genuinely worried about it, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q

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 No.1684

>>1683
>>1681
Hi lainon, if you haven't seen this thread: https://lainchan.org/diy/res/398.html

Long story short there are a couple of /art/ and /lit/ lainons who might be interested in working with you on this. We're doing some tangentially related stuff at the moment, you can read about it on http://pastebin.com/nLDkQe77.

A few of us are working on some short stories too, I think. Join us, if you'd like!

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 No.1688

https://github.com/junk3/lainzine
so I made the git for the lainzine
we'll be using this to make edition 3

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 No.1694

>>1688
wait, lainzine uses github now?
ok, i'm outta here.

writing text for a pdf on the same website as this community is fine, but writing text and it's put on a commercial 3rd-party website is nothing i want to do. And don't want my text in any public database.

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 No.1695

>>1694
you gotta be soykafting me.

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 No.1696

>>1694
I feel the same way. I don't like github either.

I'm just going to continue emailing Junk my submissions.

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 No.1698


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 No.1699

>>1696
...and hope he won't put them there?

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 No.1700

>>1694
you dont want your submissions to a zine thats available to anyone in a public database? what?

>>1698
lets look into this or retroshare 06

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 No.1701

>>1694
>>1696

We're going to be moving to a self hosted GitLab hosted by one of the admins instead of GitHub. Fear not lainons.

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 No.1702

>>1694
we were going to host the content on a 3rd party site ages ago. The way we're doing it now is really unorganized and part of the reason why new releases are taking so long.

>>1701
thank you darkengine!

>>1698
>>1700
I'll look into these but it seems we have a better solution now

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 No.1721

>>1700
new retroshare key exchange thread is here for those interested:
>>>/cyb/13652

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 No.1727

Anyone got a link to vol 2?

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 No.1728

>>1727
its coming real soon. I've read through the draft. most if it is already set up were just looking for grammar\spelling mistakes and adding a couple nice touches. There will be an obvious announcement when its up

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 No.1742

One of the guys working on the Alphabet project here. I'm writing some short stories about Alphabet gaining a PMC and fighting in The Democratic Republic of The Congo against rebels and child soldiers to protect mining operations vital to the world of technology. It's basically a cyberpunk take on African conflicts and Johnny Mad Dog. I was looking to getting them published in the magazine. Here's some stuff I've come up with so far.

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 No.1743

>>1742
November 10th, 2016 - TPP is officially enforced worldwide.

April 26th, 2017 - Alphabet buys GK Seirra and renames it to Alphabet Security Firm (ASF) to staff their Google X facility because of the recent construction that

made the base 5 times bigger in 2016.

March 16th, 2018 - Alphabet buys ICS Copper Systems Ltd, and Katanga Mining Ltd mining companies stationed in The Democratic Republic of The Congo.

July 9th, 2019 - Alphabet buys the PMCs Constellis Group, and Aegis Defense Services and renames them Alphabet Defense Group (ADG) to serve alongside the US and UK in

their war against ISIS in Syria.

December 15th, 2021 - Joseph Kabilla abuses a law passed in 2015 to run for president of The Dem Rep of The Congo for his 4th time.

Febuary 5th, 2022 - Massive protests turn to an uprising in The Dem Rep of The Congo. The Third Congo War begins.

March 7th, 2022 - The US and UK agree to send troops to fight the rebellion in The Congo in the interest of The Dem Rep of The Congo's mines that hold minerals vital

to the first world's technology.

March 12th, 2022 - Alphabet publicly states that the US/UK have no buisiness taking part in a war that can potentially ruin Alphabet's resources.

March 22nd, 2022 - The French Foriegn Legion has training exorcises to help the US/UK in The Congo.

April 15th, 2022 - The US/UK/FFL agree to have ADG (Alphabet Defense Group) oversee the Third Congo War to protect Alphabet's mining operations in The Congo.

November 18th, 2023 - After massive protests against the US/UK wasting money and resources on the Third Congo War, the US/UK agree to leave The Dem Rep of The Congo.

The French Foreign Legion and Alphabet Defense Group are now the only foreign participants in the Third Congo War.

August 15th, 2024 - A unit of Alphabet soldiers push away M23 Rebels coming in from the forests outside of the city Goma.

"Hey!" Alpha 9 shouts. "What?!" Hotel 3 shouts back. "My sides are getting fuarrrking destroyed up here, want to switch me?!" "Come on you baby!" "I'm serious this soykaf hurts and besides I've been up here for an hour now, it's time for me to switch out!" Hotel 3 looks into space as he contemplates a way out of sitting atop the loud tank as it violently thrashes around making him push his ribs and back into the hard metal opening but comes up with nothing. He taps on Foxtrot 7's shoulder and tells him to stop the tank for a moment. They do and Alpha switches places with Hotel. The tank continues it's patrol around the garbage and ash covered streets of Goma.

>Here's a part of another story I'm messing around with.


30 boys ranging from ages 7 to 17 mingle in what was previously a gas station. The owner of the gas station sits behind the counter, his head falling apart from the

attack that made him lose both his buisness and his life. A general wearing a red beret and several adult soldiers come out from the storage room behind the counter

and push aside the body in their way. "Ok ok listen up!" The boys stand in a straight line facing the general, their paint and sticker covered AK-47s hang casually at

their side.

The General begins his report. "We know of a place where we can get tha same powers those AZ fuarrrkas use. We will storm this building and find potions and machines that

will make us not havta be hungry or sleep for days at a time. We also know of powers that will let us see through tha walls and even fly in the sky like a bird."

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 No.1744

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>>1743
Forgot image.

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 No.1745

>>1744
>>1743

This isn't the place to submit to the lainzine really. You should email your submission to junk0@openmailbox.org also by the Alphabet project you mean the 1998AD project? you should drop by the channel so we can talk about your story

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 No.1746

>>1745
Thanks for the email. And yeah it's for the 1998AD project. I've been talking about it in the irc today.

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 No.1776

In case anyone's reading these threads for ideas for an article: I'd welcome a piece on backups or something along these lines.

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 No.1825

INQUIRIES

1. Are there limits/minimums for submissions?
2. Is there a deadline right now?
3. Should I ignore the deadline and just submit whenever?
4. Does it have to be related to cyberpunk/technology/internet? The thing I'm working on is, but I'm curious
5. Where to find previous issues?

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 No.1827

>>1825
There's no real deadline at the moment. Lainzine vol 2 has all the material written. Submit whenever you feel like it. Hopefully it makes it to the zine sometime soon. It should be interesting to the average lainchan user. Latest and only copy can be found at lainchan.org/zine .

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 No.1829

>>1825
>5. Where to find previous issues?
https://lainchan.org/zine/

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 No.1830

the zine was supposed to be out by now, JUNK WHERE ARE YOU!?!?

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 No.1831

>>1830
We ended up scraping it because the articles were crap. Look forward to volume 3 in 4 months or so (God willing).

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 No.1832

>>1831
i read the first few articles and they were really good, what are you talking about?

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 No.1833

>>1831
lies. I've been at college orientation for the past week and haven't been able to get online a whole lot. Ivan should be finished in about a week. Sorry friends!

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 No.1834

>>1831
I got really scared there for a moment. fuarrrk you

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 No.1835

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>>1831
>:^(

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 No.1849

soykaf ivan
Are you really going to make me learn latex just to roll this thing out because you can't be arsed to finish the typesetting

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 No.1850

>>1849

The lainzine team is completely open if anyone wants to help they can.

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 No.1851

>>1850
How does one get involved then?

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 No.1856

>>1849
pls no bully. It's finished, I swear, we're just waiting for the appropriate planetary alignment.

>>1851
Mail junk0@opmbx.org

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 No.1857

>>1856
well have a page about getting involved and all the past lainzines displayed on the site.

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 No.1858

>>1857
what site?

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 No.1873

>>1858
This site. What else?



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