Håkan Geijer
Something like 2 years after it came out, I watched How to Blow Up a Pipeline. I gnashed my teeth and tore my hair while watching all the OpSec fails, and thusly I wrote about. Can we learn something from the film? Is there risk of activists mirroring the bad behavior they see on screen? Or maybe it's just fun to read something less dense than theory.
PopSec: How Not To Blow Up A Pipeline
As always, free of copyright and charge, available here:
https://opsec.riotmedicine.net/downloads/
Håkan Geijer
@viq This is a common request, and I haven't really found a way to do this cleanly without maintaining two sets of texts. Maybe it's about time to make that happen. Or, call me crazy, actually just post these as HTML articles too???
viq
@hakan_geijer do you depend on the page format? Would it be possible to also have an epub version?
Håkan Geijer
@viq I likely would so a semi-manual pipeline of latex -> pandoc -> html -> edit -> pandoc -> epub and then save the edited html in version control. Past attempt at using latex native tools to get epubs has been... unpleasant.
viq
@hakan_geijer I assume the source is LaTeX? From a quick search I didn't find a good way to make that into epub, though there are some mentions of using pandoc to convert, and there's https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/41402
I assume you're not particularly interested in changing what you write it in 😅
Yeah, epub is "just" zipped html, so the jump there would be small, and html would make it easier to read on whatever shape screen people happen to have
Håkan Geijer
@raize Yeah but Muse markup support for tables is pretty atrocious, as is all variations on markdown to my knowledge (so this isn't a dig against Muse). Since I care about print the most (why? I don't even know myself), I like to write in Latex because that gives me the most control there, and when it matters then it really matters. I don't know if there's any kind of markup that exists that can simultaneously output to PDF, HTML, and ePub with high degrees of control for each.
raize
@hakan_geijer @viq TAL auto converts muse markup to html, latex, various PDFs, and epub; e.g. here's the PopSec: Andor piece someone uploaded there: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/riot-medicine-popsec-andor
(no images on that upload, but those are trivial to add too)
Håkan Geijer
@wdenton i just updated two which i think means all the ones online have page numbers now
William Denton
@hakan_geijer Thanks for doing this and the others! They are really useful.
A very small request: if you ever regenerate these, or do new ones, perhaps you could include page numbers on print-ready versions? It makes it that little bit easier to make sure pamphlets are turning out properly. (Thanks also for making them available in this form.)
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