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The Weird Way The 404 Media Zine Was Built

tedium.co · Dec 11

Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.

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GripNews (@GripNews) · Dec 12

🌗 404 Media Zine 在 Linux 上的奇特建置法：透過 WINE 運行 Affinity 軟體
➤ 在 Linux 環境下，運用 WINE 運行 Affinity 軟體完成專業級期刊排版
✤ tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media?
本文作者 Ernie Smith 分享了他如何在 Linux 作業系統上，利用 Windows 翻譯層 WINE 運行 Affinity 設計軟體，以完成 404 Media 期刊的版面設計。他原為平面設計師，後轉戰寫作，但仍熱衷於版面編排。由於 Adobe 軟體的價格與道德疑慮，加上他主要使用 Linux，因此尋求替代方案。Affinity 軟體整合了向量、點陣和頁面排版功能，且對 Linux 使用者而言，透過 Lutris 工具搭配 WINE 即可順利運行。雖然過程中遇到部分挑戰，如 PDF 匯出問題和圖形處理效能，但整體而言，作者認為在 Linux 上使用 Affinit
#軟體應用 #Linux #設計軟體 #印刷排版 #WINE #Affinity

N-gated Hacker News (@ngate) · Dec 12

🍷 Tedium's "How to Assemble a #Zine Using a Rube Goldberg Machine" features a Linux-Windows-Affinity cocktail that sounds like the world's most tedious way to generate a #PDF. 🍹 Ernie Smith bravely ventures where no one really needed to go, proving once again that the most efficient way to do anything is as convolutedly as possible. 🙃
tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media? #Tedium #RubeGoldberg #Linux #Windows #HackerNews #ngated

hnbot (@hnbot) · Dec 12

The Weird Way the 404 Media Zine Was Built
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- 2 hours ago | 15 points | 0 comments
- URL: tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media?
- Discussions: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
- Summary: Ernie Smith laid out 404 Media’s forthcoming ICE-surveillance zine on Linux, spurning Adobe for cost and ethical reasons. He ran Affinity Publisher through WINE/Lutris, achieving a mostly smooth print-design workflow, complete with Risograph color separations and glitchy visual effects. Occasional GPU-limitations, alien shortcuts and a 17-exabyte PDF bug required work-arounds or a quick remote hop to a Mac for final preflight, but the project proves professional page layout on Linux is now practical, offering journalists a partial escape from Big Tech toolchains.

Trixter of the Moon Council (@trixter) · Dec 11
🔁 @ernie:

Over on @tedium tonight, I explain what it was like to lay out the @404mediaco zine in Affinity, using WINE on Linux.

Yeah, it occasionally crashed. Yes, it did try to export a 17-exabyte PDF (not WINE’s fault). But YES, it was absolutely viable. Would do again.

tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media

Ernie Smith (@ernie) · Dec 11
🔁 @ernie:

Over on @tedium tonight, I explain what it was like to lay out the @404mediaco zine in Affinity, using WINE on Linux.

Yeah, it occasionally crashed. Yes, it did try to export a 17-exabyte PDF (not WINE’s fault). But YES, it was absolutely viable. Would do again.

tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media

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It’s Time to End Affirmative Action for Men

thedispatch.com · Dec 11

Higher education systematically disadvantages female applicants.

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Greg Wilson (@gvwilson) · Dec 11
🔁 @amydiehl:

It is an open secret that admissions standards at selective colleges are lower for men to equalize the # of men and women on campus. This is another way men learn that they can be mediocre and still succeed, while women must attend the highest standards.
thedispatch.com/article/univer

Witchzilla (@msbw) · Dec 11
🔁 @amydiehl:

It is an open secret that admissions standards at selective colleges are lower for men to equalize the # of men and women on campus. This is another way men learn that they can be mediocre and still succeed, while women must attend the highest standards.
thedispatch.com/article/univer

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Dec 12
🔁 @amydiehl:

It is an open secret that admissions standards at selective colleges are lower for men to equalize the # of men and women on campus. This is another way men learn that they can be mediocre and still succeed, while women must attend the highest standards.
thedispatch.com/article/univer

Axomamma, Antifa's cousin* (@Axomamma) · Dec 12
🔁 @amydiehl:

It is an open secret that admissions standards at selective colleges are lower for men to equalize the # of men and women on campus. This is another way men learn that they can be mediocre and still succeed, while women must attend the highest standards.
thedispatch.com/article/univer

gentlegardener (@gentlegardener) · Dec 12
🔁 @amydiehl:

It is an open secret that admissions standards at selective colleges are lower for men to equalize the # of men and women on campus. This is another way men learn that they can be mediocre and still succeed, while women must attend the highest standards.
thedispatch.com/article/univer

Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲 (@cainmark) · Dec 11
🔁 @amydiehl:

It is an open secret that admissions standards at selective colleges are lower for men to equalize the # of men and women on campus. This is another way men learn that they can be mediocre and still succeed, while women must attend the highest standards.
thedispatch.com/article/univer

Buca Chow Chow (@bucachowchow) · Dec 11
🔁 @amydiehl:

It is an open secret that admissions standards at selective colleges are lower for men to equalize the # of men and women on campus. This is another way men learn that they can be mediocre and still succeed, while women must attend the highest standards.
thedispatch.com/article/univer

Chris Petrilli (@petrillic) · Dec 11
🔁 @amydiehl:

It is an open secret that admissions standards at selective colleges are lower for men to equalize the # of men and women on campus. This is another way men learn that they can be mediocre and still succeed, while women must attend the highest standards.
thedispatch.com/article/univer

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Scientists Discover the Earliest Human-Made Fire, Rewriting Evolutionary History

404media.co · Dec 11

The discovery of fire-cracked handaxes and sparking tools in southern Britain pushes the timeline of controlled fires back 350,000 years.

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yuhasz01 (@yuhasz01) · Dec 11
🔁 @404mediaco:

The discovery of fire-cracked handaxes and sparking tools in southern Britain pushes the timeline of controlled fires back 350,000 years.

404media.co/scientists-discove

Royce Williams (@tychotithonus) · Dec 11
🔁 @404mediaco:

The discovery of fire-cracked handaxes and sparking tools in southern Britain pushes the timeline of controlled fires back 350,000 years.

404media.co/scientists-discove

skry (@skry) · Dec 11
🔁 @404mediaco:

The discovery of fire-cracked handaxes and sparking tools in southern Britain pushes the timeline of controlled fires back 350,000 years.

404media.co/scientists-discove

manisha (@manisha) · Dec 11
🔁 @404mediaco:

The discovery of fire-cracked handaxes and sparking tools in southern Britain pushes the timeline of controlled fires back 350,000 years.

404media.co/scientists-discove

BashStKid (@BashStKid) · Dec 11
🔁 @404mediaco:

The discovery of fire-cracked handaxes and sparking tools in southern Britain pushes the timeline of controlled fires back 350,000 years.

404media.co/scientists-discove

Pauliehedron ✅ :donor: (@pauliehedron) · Dec 11
🔁 @feed:

Scientists Discover the Earliest Human-Made Fire, Rewriting Evolutionary History

The discovery of fire-cracked handaxes and sparking tools in southern Britain pushes the timeline of controlled fires back 350,000 years.

404media.co/scientists-discove

lashman (@lashman) · Dec 11
🔁 @feed:

Scientists Discover the Earliest Human-Made Fire, Rewriting Evolutionary History

The discovery of fire-cracked handaxes and sparking tools in southern Britain pushes the timeline of controlled fires back 350,000 years.

404media.co/scientists-discove

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Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.

eff.org · Dec 10

Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. That's why today, we're launching EFF.org/Age, a one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what t...

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RaymondPierreL3 (@RaymondPierreL3) · Dec 10

The IFF is, thankfully, taking umbrage at Australia’s #AgeVerification legislation which came into force yesterday, and rightly so. However, with statements such as:

“If legislators want to meaningfully improve online safety, they should pass a strong, comprehensive federal privacy law instead of building new systems of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion.“

read more:

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-

It’s missing the mark, not really providing a solution to the targeted problem, and may just cloud the issue (confusing parents/guardians mainly) while giving our polies a free pass. That’s just my opinion of course. But if you really wanted to tackle on-line bullying and curtail the hate, the racism, the disinformation, misinformation, and general toxicity that is prevalent on #TechBros platforms, you’d need to do more than just reform and strengthen #PrivacyLaws. Digital media is just like radio/TV/paper media with more functionality and reach which are #regulated worldwide (more or less depending on country of publication/broadcast). Hence, to hit the mark, this new govt legislation ought to have been a set of #Regulations imposed on digital media (of every kind) with penalties for failure to comply to have any meaningful benefits to society and its younger people.

Of course, more regulations is not what the IFF stands for, so no surprises there. Saying that, I do believe that the IFF does important work and is to be commended for that.

There are alternatives to BigTech platforms which are #safer more #inclusive already deployed on the #internet. And if our govt was truly looking after the health of our kids, then govt departments who have the #DutyOfCare to keep our kids safe could #Fund #instances of #Mastodon on the #Fediverse for #kids run by kids with oversight by health professionals as #Moderators — a glaringly obvious solution that no one is talking about (outside the fediverse that is).

/end_rant/
#AusPol #InternetAccess #SocialMedia #OnLineBullying #Doxing #Grooming #EatTheRich #Antifa #Radicalisation

bentendo (@benbrown) · Dec 11
🔁 @lambdacalculus:

Age verification laws are sadly making headways in the US.

Luckily, the @eff has a resource page for us to help guide us around.

Age verification laws are fucking awful and complete garbage, and will break the Internet as we know it.

We need to fight back.

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-

Stryder Notavi (@StryderNotavi) · Dec 11
🔁 @PrivacyDigest:

#AgeVerification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.

Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States & around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. Though these mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful #censorship and #surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk.
#privacy #security

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-

lucie digitální (@luciedigitalni) · Dec 11
🔁 @PrivacyDigest:

#AgeVerification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.

Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States & around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. Though these mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful #censorship and #surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk.
#privacy #security

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-

PrivacyDigest (@PrivacyDigest) · Dec 11

#AgeVerification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.

Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States & around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. Though these mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful #censorship and #surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk.
#privacy #security

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-

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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder

blog.system76.com · Dec 11

An important message on Pop!_OS, Linux, and one downright fantastic community.

Shared by @stevendbrewer and 11 others.
Kev Quirk (@kev) · Dec 12

Been waiting for the new version of #PopOS with #Cosmic for what seems like ages. Was very tempted by the beta, but now it's fully released I'm gonna be installing it.
Always loved what the team at System76 put out with Pop.
blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-

N-gated Hacker News (@ngate) · Dec 11

🚀 Wow, #System76 released *another* #Linux distro update—because the world clearly needed another desktop environment named "COSMIC" to match our #cosmic ignorance of real #innovation. 🤯✨ Apparently, reaching "the limits of potential" means updating an OS in 2025 that still won't run your favorite game without a PhD in #troubleshooting. 🛠️🎮
blog.system76.com/post/pop-os- #update #gaming #HackerNews #ngated

Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️ (@stevendbrewer) · Dec 12
🔁 @kev:

Been waiting for the new version of #PopOS with #Cosmic for what seems like ages. Was very tempted by the beta, but now it's fully released I'm gonna be installing it.
Always loved what the team at System76 put out with Pop.
blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-

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The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot

theguardian.com · Dec 12

These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Miro Collas (@Miro_Collas) · Dec 12
🔁 @georgemonbiot.bsky.social:

Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite. This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum. Big issues we need to understand. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The facts are stark: Europe mu...

JuneSim63 💚 (@junesim63) · Dec 12
🔁 @georgemonbiot.bsky.social:

Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite. This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum. Big issues we need to understand. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The facts are stark: Europe mu...

Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) · Dec 12
🔁 @JugglingWithEggs:

Monbiot makes the argument that few on the Left are prepared to make for immigration.

I am late Gen X and I can see very clearly that many my age made a decision not to have kids, but equally many found they couldn’t through circumstances not of their choosing.

I see schools cutting intake classes and closing altogether in some areas.

I understand how pensions work and I worry.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Ewen Bell 📸 (@ewen) · Dec 12
🔁 @JugglingWithEggs:

Monbiot makes the argument that few on the Left are prepared to make for immigration.

I am late Gen X and I can see very clearly that many my age made a decision not to have kids, but equally many found they couldn’t through circumstances not of their choosing.

I see schools cutting intake classes and closing altogether in some areas.

I understand how pensions work and I worry.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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Fascintern Media

berjon.com · Dec 09

We are facing a coordinated international fascist movement that works with explicit backing from Moscow, Washington, and tech monopolies, and is propagating itself through its own media apparatus. Yet people who claim to side with democracy keep doing work to support Fascintern media because they...

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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (@grumpybozo) · Dec 11
🔁 @vaurora:

If you have friends still "writing for Elon Musk" (posting on X), here is a great article explaining why their arguments for staying are built on misunderstandings of how social media works. Love the formulation of "when you post on fascist media, you are pitching a piece to a Nazi newspaper"

berjon.com/fascintern-media/

Becky Yoose (@yo_bj) · Dec 11
🔁 @vaurora:

If you have friends still "writing for Elon Musk" (posting on X), here is a great article explaining why their arguments for staying are built on misunderstandings of how social media works. Love the formulation of "when you post on fascist media, you are pitching a piece to a Nazi newspaper"

berjon.com/fascintern-media/

Robin Berjon (@robin) · Dec 10
🔁 @dmarti:

Just read "Fascintern Media" by @robin ( berjon.com/fascintern-media/ ) and it reminds me of a line in a recent YouTube video about how moderation policies work there

"But the thing I believe, one of the reasons such leaders get support in modern world because we are not allowed to speak about the atrocities and devastation such politics will lead the world into." youtube.com/watch?v=bzH4GXkQ5u

DoktorZjivago (@doktorzjivago) · Dec 11
🔁 @josemurilo:

"…my conclusion is that non-fascists who stay on X do so for a simple reason: they have a completely faulty understanding of how #power works in the #digitalsphere…
If you understand how recommendation #algorithms work, then you understand that there is no limit to how unbalanced the amplification of certain voices and suppression of others can be. You could have 8 billion people on X and only 800 fascists, and yet the fascists would still crowd you out."
#mustread

berjon.com/fascintern-media/

Ecologia Digital (@josemurilo) · Dec 11

"…my conclusion is that non-fascists who stay on X do so for a simple reason: they have a completely faulty understanding of how #power works in the #digitalsphere…
If you understand how recommendation #algorithms work, then you understand that there is no limit to how unbalanced the amplification of certain voices and suppression of others can be. You could have 8 billion people on X and only 800 fascists, and yet the fascists would still crowd you out."
#mustread

berjon.com/fascintern-media/

Sara (@sarae) · Dec 11
🔁 @vaurora:

If you have friends still "writing for Elon Musk" (posting on X), here is a great article explaining why their arguments for staying are built on misunderstandings of how social media works. Love the formulation of "when you post on fascist media, you are pitching a piece to a Nazi newspaper"

berjon.com/fascintern-media/

J @ Dyne.org (@jaromil) · Dec 11

berjon.com/fascintern-media/

When you read Fascintern media, you are reading editorialised fascism. You aren't protesting. You have no power. You are just subjecting yourself to an information space that is editorially structured to promote fascism.
When you write for Fascintern media, you are choosing to publish with them.

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Fixing the housing crisis isn’t complicated, governments just don’t want to do it

thepoint.com.au · Dec 11

The easiest way to boost the supply of housing in Australia would be for governments to build new houses. And the easiest way to provide affordable rental accommodation would be to rent the new government-built houses to people at affordable rents. Fixing a housing crisis is not complicated.

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babble encat (@babble_endanger) · Dec 11
🔁 @luciedigitalni:

"People who buy an existing house as an ‘investment’ aren’t ‘investing’ money in new housing. They are speculating on house prices, not investing in the expansion of the housing supply. They are betting that policies to make houses cheaper will fail, and over the last 30 years they have been spot on."

#Housing #AusPol
thepoint.com.au/opinions/25121

Edge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@czarbucks) · Dec 11
🔁 @luciedigitalni:

"People who buy an existing house as an ‘investment’ aren’t ‘investing’ money in new housing. They are speculating on house prices, not investing in the expansion of the housing supply. They are betting that policies to make houses cheaper will fail, and over the last 30 years they have been spot on."

#Housing #AusPol
thepoint.com.au/opinions/25121

Kevin Russell (@kevinrns) · Dec 11
🔁 @luciedigitalni:

"People who buy an existing house as an ‘investment’ aren’t ‘investing’ money in new housing. They are speculating on house prices, not investing in the expansion of the housing supply. They are betting that policies to make houses cheaper will fail, and over the last 30 years they have been spot on."

#Housing #AusPol
thepoint.com.au/opinions/25121

SeaFury 🦜🍃 (@SeaFury) · Dec 11
🔁 @tassiedi:

If only Australian governments would listen to Richard Dennis! #housingcrisis
Fixing the housing crisis isn’t complicated, governments just don’t want to do it
thepoint.com.au/opinions/25121

Paul (@HardBeingGreen) · Dec 11
🔁 @tassiedi:

If only Australian governments would listen to Richard Dennis! #housingcrisis
Fixing the housing crisis isn’t complicated, governments just don’t want to do it
thepoint.com.au/opinions/25121

petes_bread_eqn_xls (@petes_bread_eqn_xls) · Dec 11
🔁 @luciedigitalni:

"People who buy an existing house as an ‘investment’ aren’t ‘investing’ money in new housing. They are speculating on house prices, not investing in the expansion of the housing supply. They are betting that policies to make houses cheaper will fail, and over the last 30 years they have been spot on."

#Housing #AusPol
thepoint.com.au/opinions/25121

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Mamoru Hosoda explains why Hamlet is everywhere this year

theverge.com · Dec 11

Scarlet hits theaters soon.

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The Verge :bot: @theverge.space (@theverge) · Dec 11
🔁 @andrew_webster:

Mamoru Hosoda explains why Hamlet is everywhere this year

The director behind Belle and Summer Wars on why his fantasy epic Scarlet is so timely.

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