Asemic Writing, a Zine


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Posted on October 24, 2024
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits, craft:zine
An open booklet with lines that look like some kind of cursive non-alphabetic script, framed by a border in the same script and four symbols in the corners.

I have no idea either.

The front of that booklet, with three lines of fake text in different sizes and a circle of the same.

Happy Maladay1 to those who celebrate it, I guess.


A template on white paper with pencil lines where text is supposed to go.

Multiple A4 sheet of tracing paper with fake text, plus an A6 sheet and a white A6 sheet with a stamp impression.

If you care about the how, it started as china ink on tracing paper, with the help of a template (and a correction sheet for one page where I used the wrong line on the template).

A rubber stamp was carved with the author’s signature and stamped on white paper because the ink from the pad wasn’t working well on tracing paper.

Then everything was scanned (with the correction on top of the wrong page) asemic_zine_scans.tar.

Imported in Inkscape and traced asemic_zine_svg.tar.

Printed, cut in half, folded and stapled. The magenta lines weren’t by design, but are there because my printer is currently2cursed.

And finally, asemic_zine.pdf was created, joining the pages together with pdfjam, for convenience in case somebody wants to download the full thing.

All the .tar and .pdf downloads from this page are released under the WTFPL, or All Rites Reversed..


  1. it’s still technically Maladay when I write this, even if by the time you’ll get this it’s probably the 6th of The Aftermath.↩︎
  2. I mean, all printers are always cursed, but at different times they can be cursed in different and novel ways.↩︎

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@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 la robba è arrivata. ripeto, la robba è arrivata.

(quella da mcenteestea.com/ )

Dopo pranzo ho provato l'Irish Afternoon, che ha un gusto bello amaro e astringente, quasi allappante ma nel senso buono.

L'unico problema è che anziché svegliarmi mi ha fatto rilassare.

C'è dentro lo stesso principio attivo rilassanti della camomilla¹!11!11ONE!111 #noncielodiconoh

¹ la camomilla non contiene principi attivi rilassanti, se non l'acqua calda

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@𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 a merenda invece abbiamo assaggiato il Sencha (té verde), per fortuna preso solo come campione da 20 grammi, e quello invece è stato fortemente deludente: insulso e pochissimo saporito.

O meglio, sarebbe stato deludente se avessi avuto aspettative, ma tutto sommato gli Irlandesi non è che siano famosi per i loro té verdi, per cui le aspettative erano basse, e posso dimenticarmene senza danno e tornare a comprare té verde dalle coppie italo-nipponiche :D

@Robo
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Più o meno come faccio io col formaggio, andando a comprarlo a decine di kg al caseificio e surgelandolo.
Non è che abbia sconti particolari, ma il prezzo rispetto a qui mi copre abbondantemente il viaggio.
E lo stesso faccio ogni volta che c'è qualcosa a lunga conservazione in offerta speciale in qualche supermercato.
Ovviamente bisogna avere un freezer grande, e una casa nella quale ci stia sia il freezer che tutte le altre scorte, cosa impossibile in un monolocale.
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔 e la fiducia nel fatto che non ti staccheranno la corrente, facendo andare male tutto ciò che c'è nel freezer, e a seconda di dove vivi i soldi per comprare un pacco batterie per tenere il freezer acceso se la corrente salta.

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I’m gonna be honest, it is difficult to take your anticapitalist “revolutionary” group seriously when they meet on Microsoft Teams and have documents saved on Google.

I understand meeting nontechnical people where they’re at, but this is just a bad look, y’all.

Also I feel like “meeting people where they’re at” would ideally involve helping them surpass where they’re at, rather than merely dropping to their level.

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To be honest, it is difficult to take anticapitalistic groups seriously if they use laptops at all. Laptops (and smartphones too) are basically a lot of capitalism squeezed and packed very hard to fit inside the the small devices we use today.

Electric power is pretty capitalistic too. Most electric power in the world is generated and distributed by huge capitalistic companies. Even if you have PV at home I doubt your panels were made by a local family-owned shop.

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@Yaku 🐗 @Rapita dagli alieni

ma la vera domanda è: questo ce l'avete?

un set stabilo con pennarelli, fineliner, matite ed evidenziatori tutto a base di colori pastello

(non so perché ma l'ho visto e mi son venuti in mente gli evidenziatori di non-ricordo-che stilista, e una serie di considerazioni sul late stage capitalism)

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@Rapita dagli alieni @Yaku 🐗 solo se poi i ricambi si trovano facilmente individuali (e le ricariche! gli evidenziatori stabilo boss non dovrebbero essere ricaricabili? credo di non aver mai trovato in giro le ricariche! non che io usi abbastanza evidenziatori da essere andata a cercarle con attenzione, ma di cazzeggio guardando prodotti di cartoleria ne faccio :D )
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Cleaning the nozzle of my bottle of carpenter's glue with Isopropyl alcohol when I suddenly remembered this D&D page.

Sovereign Glue
Wondrous Item, legendary

This viscous, milky-white substance can form a permanent adhesive bond between any two objects. It must be stored in a jar or flask that has been coated inside with oil of slipperiness [emphasis mine]. When found, a container contains 1d6 + 1 ounces.

One ounce of the glue can cover a 1-foot square surface. The glue takes 1 minute to set. Once it has done so, the bond it creates can be broken only by the application of universal solvent or oil of etherealness, or with a wish spell.

Notes: Utility, Consumable


#DND #WoodWorking

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If you use the Wayback Machine a lot and you’re concerned about what’s happening with the Internet Archive, you might like to give ArchiveBox a look as a way to do self-hosted website archiving. I run an instance at work, and it’s been really, really useful. Bonus points for installing the browser extension that lets you send a page off for archiving in a couple of fire-and-forget clicks.

archivebox.io/

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I am very happy to announce that Rabbit Waves is out!

The idea for this project came after @neauoire & I were discussing the disappearance of certain traditional seasteading skills and maritime communication knowledge. We believe these skills are valuable when electronics misbehave, but they're also just generally fun to learn and to use.

All of the art is drawn by hand :>! We will add more content as we go!

rabbitwaves.ca/

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It took me a little longer than expected, but I completed the Rabbit Waves page for Morse Code!

Below is an illustration for the sub-page about signaling Morse with flags.

rabbitwaves.ca/site/morse.html

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Non so quante persone di #Boves ci siano da queste parti… comunque rilancio.

«A Boves si cerca la gatta Sophie, smarrita a Fontanelle
L'ultima volta è stata vista in via don Pellegrino. È sterilizzata e chippata»

targatocn.it/2024/10/15/sommar…

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cooking appliances

Last weekend I've bought my first (convection) microwave oven, ever!

And. it. has. buttons. (and a knob)

And I didn't take much effort finding it, it was bought with supermarket points.

One meal has been successfully reheated, one piece of bread has been unsuccessfully grilled (I didn't allow enough time because the tea was already ready :D ) and actual cooking attempts will follow in the next months

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It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.

#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev

blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/I…

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Yesterday while sewing I was watching a second-channel video of somebody talking about the current status of the main-channel project while cleaning the house and doing laundry and washing the dishes.

This morning, while doing laundry, I thought that I really hope at least some of this kind of things survives in the future, because *how cool* would it be to have a video of somebody in the past just doing their daily chores while chatting about unrelated things? even if we no longer care about the unrelated things, just to be able to see a glimpse in the almost¹ regular life of people.

Honesty, it's already nice to see the difference with the way those things are done in this corner of the world.

¹ I mean, it's still somebody who is recording a video that will get posted on the internet for everybody to see, some things are probably a bit different from the way the would be done in private.

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and when it started to get written down a bit, often they skimp on the details that are obvious to everybody at the time (and baffle us).

a video on its own would probably have parts that leave us baffled too¹, but having both written sources and unrelated videos I hope would solve a number of mysteries!

¹ why is she saying that she's washing the clothes, when she's just putting them in an oddly shaped box and going away?

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The XSF has a fantastic page dedicated to debunking common XMPP myths. Here are a few examples:

• XMPP is XML, so it must be slow
• XMPP isn’t secure
• XMPP doesn’t protect privacy
• XMPP is too verbose
• XMPP is unreliable
• XMPP isn’t suited for the web

Of course, all of these are misconceptions.

You can read the full explanations and clarifications here: xmpp.org/about/myths/

Are there any other XMPP myths you’ve encountered that you’d like to see debunked?

#XMPP

#xmpp

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E con questo progetto credo di aver usato per la prima volta sia il mantua makers seam che il prickstitch (e no, non ho idea dei nomi in italiano). o magari li avevo già usati, ma con un nome diverso?

Comunque, li sto apprezzando

#cucito #cucitoStorico #cucitoAMano

(non ho smesso di cucire, ho solo avuto meno energie a disposizione per postare a riguardo)

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I never use Caps Lock, so I disable the Caps Lock key completely with xmodmap, to avoid hitting it by accident.

Occasionally my X server gets into caps-lock state anyway. (Usually some complicated stunt was involved, like attaching x11vnc to the display remotely.) And then I can't turn it off again using the Caps Lock key.

So I wrote a tiny X client that lets me type 'xcapslock off' at a shell prompt …

… and then I had to make an alias to it, called 'XCAPSLOCK OFF'.

Per chi deve prendere #trenord segnalo “La circolazione è sospesa tra le stazioni di MILANO BOVISA e SARONNO per un guasto alla linea elettrica nella stazione di GARBAGNATE MILANESE.”

immagino che sulle linee LeNord ci siano ritardi generalizzati

#trenò

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For those of you into historic #sewing , Folkwear Sewing Patterns is located in #ashevillenc and survived #hurricanehelene . If you want to help local businesses get back on their feet, you can buy their PDF patterns online and download them immediately. (They're on sale for 10% off, too.)

folkwear.com/

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This undergraduate thesis by Jan Strehmel deserves a prize:

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭. One of the most fundamental unanswered questions that has been bothering mankind during the Anthropocene is whether the use of swearwords in open source code is positively or negatively correlated with source code quality. To investigate this profound matter we crawled and analysed over 3800 C open source code containing English swearwords and over 7600 C open source code not containing swearwords from GitHub. Subsequently, we quantified the adherence of these two distinct sets of source code to coding standards, which we deploy as a proxy for source code quality via the SoftWipe tool developed in our group. We find that open source code containing swearwords exhibit significantly better code quality than those not containing swearwords under several statistical tests. We hypothesise that the use of swearwords constitutes an indicator of a profound emotional involvement of the programmer with the code and its inherent complexities, thus yielding better code based on a thorough, critical, and dialectic code analysis process.

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It cites some previous research:

• Yehuda Baruch et al. Swearing at work: the mixed outcomes of profanity, Journal of Managerial Psychology 32 (Jan. 2017),149–162, doi.org/10.1108/JMP-04-2016-01…

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭. In contrast to much of the incivility and social norms literatures, the authors find that male and female business executives, lawyers and doctors of all ages admit to swearing. Further, swearing can lead to positive outcomes at the individual, interpersonal and group levels, including stress-relief, communication-enrichment and socialization-enhancement

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It really sucks to be in a world where you have to choose between two vendors for the tools you must use to access most of your life, both of which have clearly stated they are actively working against both your best interests and the best interests of society. Of course, there's an alternative — various third parties, many of which are actively malicious and none of which are remotely reasonable choices when it comes to security, feature parity, or anything else.

Today this is about browsers, but the fact that I have to specify is its own problem.

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TFW you realize that it's mid afternoon and both you and your partner have forgotten to change from your sleep pajama into your work pajama (i.e. comfy home clothing)

thankfully we have to briefly leave the house, so we're not going back to bed this evening without changing :D

#workFromHomeLife

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E poi ti accorgi che è metà pomeriggio e sia tu che il tuo compagno vi siete dimenticati di cambiarvi dal pigiama da sonno al pigiama da lavoro (in realtà vestiti comodi da casa)

per fortuna dobbiamo uscire un attimo, e quindi stasera non torniamo a dormire senza esserci mai cambiati

#vitaDaSmartWorker

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Werner's Nomenclature of Colours

A guidebook with swatches to help when describing the colours of things before colour photography - as used by Darwin on his expeditions

c82.net/werner/

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Since there are no more analog TV stations on the air in this country, I have no way of testing sets I find it thrift stores anymore.

So, I finally decided to try the code that Charles Lohr developed for tricking an ESP8266 into transmitting analog TV signals over the air with its RX pin.

This is actually someone else's version of his code because he wrote his code to be compiled in the esp8266 SDK environment and I don't know how to use that. This code compiles in the Arduino IDE and it does work!

This is being transmitted over the air. This is not a composite video signal.

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This is your regular PSA to learn the “over-under method” of rolling cables!

Coiling a cable the ‘normal’ way, whether just in your hands, around your elbow, or somewhere else, imparts a 1/2 axial twist to the cable each time.
That’s the main thing that causes your extension cables to develop kinks and degrade!
If you use the over-under method, the 1/2 twist is counteracted by a -1/2 twist every second loop, so the cable is kept flat and unstressed.
This can hugely increase the lifetime of your electrical cables, to upwards of 20 years of heavy use, without kinks or twists.
(GIF credit hosatech.com)
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English translation later this evening (if I don't fall asleep).

Intanto tecnocasa: “una casa da vivere tutta la giornata. Ore 22:30 | Lavatrice”

che.

che.

ma anche fanculo no? se alle 22:30 una¹ è lì che riempie la lavatrice (anziché a letto a leggere o dormire) vuol dire che in casa non c'è stato per tutto il giorno, e adesso gli tocca recuperare con gli accolli prima di potersi finalmente rilassare. Ovvero esattamente il contrario del vivere la casa.

¹ ovviamente la foto è di una donna. Che sembra avere il numero giusto di dita, però sta caricando una lavatrice chiusa, e la marca della lavatrice sembrano pseudolettere.

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#mastoaiuto #mastoregalo #pianoforte #agazzano

questo pianoforte d’epoca (fine 1800) ha degli evidenti problemi però mi dispiace pure portarlo in discarica senza nemmeno provarci… ho provato a metterlo su piattaforme varie e chiedere ad antiquari locali, senza fortuna.
Ho chiesto a riparatori di strumenti e mi hanno detto “non ci proviamo nemmeno”.
Avete qualche idea alternativa o è destinato allo sfascio?

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Normal authors: release book to the public early in the week, with much fanfare.

Me, late Friday afternoon, from a dark alley: "psst! Hey, you! Yeah, you! #sysadmin! Buddy! You ever wanted to Run Your Own Mail Server?" #ryoms

tiltedwindmillpress.com/produc…

(boosts appreciated! :flan_beg: )

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food, accidentally vegan, no pics

It's officially autumn, the temperature indoors is the same that we would have in winter (except that there isn't a nice hot radiator to hug now and then) and I'm getting bored of cold lunches.

So I've just taken the thermal bento box out of the cupboard it has been sitting in for years, and on the stove there is a pot of mixed beans “ragù”, cooking at least for a couple of hours.

Tomorrow morning it will get re-heated, I'll prepare some cous cous, probably cook a few apples, and then we'll find out whether the thermal bentos are still working. (And if they don't, lukewarm cous cous is much more tolerable than lukewarm soup)

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cibo, accidentalmente vegano, niente foto

È ufficialmente autunno, la temperatura in casa è la stessa che ci sarebbe d'inverno (e non c'è neanche un calorifero caldo da abbracciare ogni tanto) e non ne posso più di pranzi freddi.

Quindi ho appena riesumato le schiscette termiche dal mobiletto dove sono rimaste per anni, e sul fornello c'è un “ragù” di fagioli misti che cuoce almeno per un paio di ore.

Domattina verrà riscaldato, preparerò del cous cous, probabilmente cuocerò un paio di mele, e poi si scoprirà se le schiscette termiche funzionano ancora. (E se non funzionano, se non altro il cous cous tiepido è decisamente più tollerabile di una minestra tiepida)

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GREAT change is approaching. NIST will standardise prohibition of requirement of composing passwords from various character styles, and requirement for periodic password changes. These are harmful and obsolete rules. Now they will be treated as a cybersecurity weakness pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-…
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NghiAm_Nullu

@francina1909 @LaVi […] In Lombardia la Regione ha rinnovato il contratto a Trenord – controllata al 50 per cento da Trenitalia, azienda del gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato, e per un altro 50 per cento dal gruppo Ferrovie Nord Milano (FNM), una società a sua volta controllata per quasi il 60 per cento dalla Regione – per altri 10 anni, anche in questo caso senza gara.[…]

Non lo avrei mai detto con ministro dei trasporti che abbiamo [sarcasm]

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l'Archivio di Stato di Como aderisce alle Giornate Europee del Patrimonio 2024 mostrando nuovamente al pubblico uno dei suoi tesori più grandi: le mappe realizzate dai disegnatori chiamati, assieme a geometri e tecnici, da Maria Teresa d'Austria per porre in essere la grande riforma del Catasto.
Recentemente oggetto di delicatissimi interventi di restauro, e normalmente escluse dalla consultazione per ragioni di tutela, le mappe saranno visibili sabato.

#storia #ASpassoNellaStoria #mappe #GEP

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Stefano Zanardi

strano, perché il catasto teresiano è uno strumento fondamentale per conoscere il territorio come era stato "fotografato" nel diciottesimo secolo.
Però capisco che sono più utili le pubblicazioni diacroniche, che di un dato territorio propongono una successione storica di mappe che ne documentano l'evoluzione.
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What’s this contraption? An Explainette, of course—a remarkable portable slide projector and record player used by Chevrolet corporate trainers. blogs.loc.gov/preservation/202…

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"Have you ever seen #soldering THIS close?"
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#SMD #SMT

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