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Paged Out! is a free magazine about programming, hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics. Always accepting submissions of one-page articles.

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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · 5d

pagedout.institute ← we've just released Paged Out! zine Issue #7
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lulu.com/search?page=... ← prints for zine collectors
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Enjoy!

Please please please share to spread the news - thank you!

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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Aug 18

We are slowly nearing the required 50 articles. There is still time to submit yours and be published in #7. We are waiting for it at [email protected]! Please don't wait until the last second :)
Paged Out! #7 is scheduled for mid-September (this might still change).

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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jun 11

💻 From screen to shelf 📚
Paged Out! Issue #6 is now available in print-on-demand.
Feel the paper between your fingers beside your rig.
📖✨ Order yours today: pagedout.institute?page=buy.php
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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · May 28

Want a behind-the-scenes scoop? Here's an interview with Gynvael on the making of Paged Out! :)
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P.S. CFP for Issue #7 is open, help us make it by writing and submitting your article!

Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Apr 16

Issue #6 has overtaken Issue #5 in download count.

Do you want to show the older sibling some love?
Or make the younger one shine even more?

Both can be downloaded pagedout.institute?page=issues....
Let’s see if the victory will be solidified or if it was only temporary.

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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Mar 29

Paged Out! #6 has arrived! And it's jam-packed with content!
You can download it here:
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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Feb 17

Issue #4 just joined the 100K downloads club! Thank you!
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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Feb 10

We’ve surpassed 50 entries! Now onto the next stage: finalization!
No worries, if you are writing something for us, you have 10 days to still make it into this issue. After that, all submissions will likely go to Issue #7 :)

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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jan 27

Hi, a reminder - soft deadline for Issue #6 is February 1st :) There is still time to send an article our way!

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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jan 14

Issue #2 joined the 'over 100K downloads' club. All thanks to you!
Now Issue #4 is applying for a membership there, and it's not far from getting in :)

Want to help? Tell your friends about us!
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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jan 8

Issue #5 surpassed 50K downloads, and Issue #2 is real close to 100K downloads!
Thank you for the love you show our zine!
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And a little reminder that CFP for Issue #6 is open and the soft deadline is February 1 - there is still time to be a part of it :)

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Gynvael Coldwind @gynvael.bsky.social · Jan 7

(please re-post for reach - thank you!)
Learned a cool new Linux trick? Know an interesting quirk in a network protocol? Or have something else to share?

Write a 1-page article for the #6 issue of Paged Out! :)
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Soft deadline is Feb 1st.

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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Dec 18

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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Nov 19

Paged Out! Issue #5 is out now!
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Happy reading!

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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jul 19

As we are gathering articles for Issue #5, we want to help you answer a very important question.

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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jul 8

Leaking Host KASLR from Guest VMs Using Tagged TLB

Article Highlight #14 - check it out in Paged Out! #4 page 58
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CPU vulnerabilities are fun! Here's yet another article by Reno Robert to explain a different CPU timing issue – this time it's the TagBleed attack applied both to inner-VM and hypervisor ASLR leaks!

Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jul 5

Apparently I didn't understand cPython's INPLACE_ADD and then someone stole it!
Article Highlight #13 - check it out in Paged Out! #4 page 24
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The article by Gynvael is about curious Python VM implementation quirks. It is also an epic drama about broken expectations and wisdom learned the hard way. Worth the read for all low-level and Python enthusiasts – test how deep your Python knowledge is!

Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jun 28

XZ Outbreak (CVE-2024-3094)

Article Highlight #12 - check it out in Paged Out! #4 page 64
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A great primer to the jungle of details that the backdoor resulting from the XZ supply chain compromise left behind.

Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jun 24

Human Shader
Article Highlight #11 - check it out in Paged Out! #4 page 12
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Yes yes, a GPU has so many compute units that do all these shader calculations.
But what if we replaced a GPU with a lot of humans?
Inigo Quilez did just that!

Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jun 21

Python runs shellcode

Article Highlight #10 - check it out in Paged Out! #4 page 6
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Sometimes you just want to run x86-64 shellcode in Python. What is that? You never do? That's weird. Anyway, in this article, Gynvael & Łukasz present two(ish) ways to do it!

Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jun 17

Why You Should Get An ATARI ST In 2024!
Article Highlight #9 - check it out in Paged Out! #4 page 13
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You should buy an Atari ST. Why you ask?
We'll let Sébastien LARNAC / STS explain!

Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jun 14

BPPB: A bplist-protobuf polyglot recipe

Article Highlight #8 - check it out in Paged Out! #4 page 17
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Binary polyglots are amazing, aren't they? Here's a bplist-protobuf polyglot recipe by Shai Shapira, so that you can serialize your data in two different ways at the same time!

Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jun 10

How collisions are avoided in a multi-master CAN bus?

Article Highlight #7 - check it out in Paged Out! #4 page 19
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If you're just getting into the hardware side of computers and you're trying to wrap your head around the low-level concept of how a "bus" works, check out this article by Wojciech Kochański on the cool design of a CAN bus and its anti-collision trick!

Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · Jun 1

Issue #4 is out - enjoy!
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Please share and tell your friends!

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Paged Out! @pagedout.bsky.social · May 20

Wrapping GDB with Python to Easily Capture Flags

Article Highlight #6 - check it out in Paged Out! #3 page 46
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To solve a CTF challenge, sometimes you need surgical precision.
And sometimes you just need brute force! Check out the way ckrielle solved a rev-eng challenge by a character-pair brute force and automated GDB state inspection!