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1. Julia Evans (b0rk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 12:17:48 JST Julia Evans

   thinking about what to write zines about in 2023. I have a few ideas, but: what would you like to read a zine on? (all suggestions are ok -- even if I don't know anything about the topic, maybe someone else will see it and be inspired and write a zine! :))

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 12:35:24 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @b0rk Yeah, that would be a great zine! Could be followed up by common compression algorithms? I've just read several of tools for this, so its on my mind.

     (Reminded of a Wolf359 extra where the protagonist struggles to "enter the hexcode for yellow in binary", not knowing what he's doing, at the request of greenhouse security)

   • Julia Evans (b0rk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 12:35:25 JST Julia Evans

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     my current top idea for what to write next is a "how binary things work" zine, that explains how your computer represents things in memory, and the most common things you find in binary file formats

   • Julia Evans (b0rk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 12:42:18 JST Julia Evans

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     • Adrian Cochrane

     @alcinnz what have you been reading? i implemented gunzip 10 years ago and it was so fun and really blew my mind (huffman codes are cool!)

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 12:42:44 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @b0rk GZip, ZStandard, ZLib, & BZip2 sourcecode.

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 12:43:29 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @b0rk And yes, Huffman codes are cool! Very widely used too!

   • jasonpeacock (jasonpeacock@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 14:45:50 JST jasonpeacock

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     • Adrian Cochrane

     @b0rk @alcinnz similarly, you could do common image formats - gif, jpeg, png, bmp?