"Street Geek" fashion article

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.gitea/workflows/build-pdf.yml

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+name: Build PDF
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ main, master ]
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  pdf:
+    name: make pdf
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Setup Go (from go.mod)
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version-file: go.mod
+          check-latest: true
+          cache: true
+
+      - name: Install Chrome and tools (no snap)
+        run: |
+          set -euxo pipefail
+          if command -v sudo >/dev/null 2>&1; then SUDO=sudo; else SUDO=; fi
+          $SUDO apt-get update
+          # Base tools and fonts
+          DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive $SUDO apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            ca-certificates gnupg make fonts-liberation
+
+          # Add Google's official Chrome APT repo (avoids Ubuntu's snap-only chromium)
+          $SUDO install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
+          curl -fsSL https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | $SUDO gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/google-linux-signing-keyring.gpg
+          echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/google-linux-signing-keyring.gpg] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" | \
+            $SUDO tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list >/dev/null
+          $SUDO apt-get update
+          DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive $SUDO apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends google-chrome-stable
+
+          # Clean up apt lists to keep image lean
+          $SUDO rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+      - name: Build PDF
+        env:
+          # Ensure our tools pick Chrome first if multiple are present
+          CHROME_PATH: /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
+        run: make pdf
+
+      - name: Upload artifact
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: output-pdf
+          path: _dist/output.pdf
+          if-no-files-found: error

pages.yaml

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 - cover.html
 - hack-the-planet.html
 - wtf.html
+- ai-disclosure.html
 - drivingmissmuni.html
+- crashman.html
 - vranklevictim.html
 - pearlstreetcafe.html
 - gtkapplang-1.html
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 - gtkapplang-3.html
 - gtkapplang-4.html
 - broken-screen.html
+- fashion.html
+- streetgeek-1.html
+- streetgeek-2.html
 - windows-shirt.html
 - free-dirt.html
 - mr-nickel.html

pages/ai-disclosure.html

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+<style>
+    #ai-disclosure-page {
+        background: url("assets/img/circuit-board.jpg") no-repeat center center;
+        background-size: cover;
+
+        font: 8.75pt/1.40 Tahoma, sans-serif;
+        padding: 10px;
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+        font-family: "Heading Now";
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+
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+        justify-content: center;
+        margin: 0;
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+        font-weight: bold;
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+        background: linear-gradient(90deg, #004000 0%, #10a050 50%, #004000 100%);
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+
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+        width: 28px;
+        height: 28px;
+        image-rendering: pixelated;
+    }
+
+    h1#titlebar span {
+        margin: 0 8px;
+    }
+
+    div#content {
+        background: #f0f0e8c0;
+        padding: 10px;
+        color: #000000;
+        line-height: 1.4;
+    }
+
+    span#dumb {
+        font-family: "Heading Now";
+        font-size: large;
+        font-stretch: condensed;
+        font-style: italic;
+    }
+
+    span.stuff {
+        font-weight: bold;
+        font-style: italic;
+    }
+</style>
+
+<div id="ai-disclosure-page" class="page-base">
+    <div id="overlay-window">
+        <h1 id="titlebar">
+            <img src="assets/img/computer_2_cool-3.png" alt="">
+            <span>AI Disclosure</span>
+            <img src="assets/img/computer_2_cool-3.png" alt="">
+        </h1>
+        <div id="content">
+            <h2>A DISCLOSURE ABOUT AI USAGE</h2>
+
+            <p>
+                Seems like everything is slop now days. And I'm not just talking about stuff
+                generated by the <span class="stuff">"Large Language Models."</span>
+            </p>
+
+            <p>
+                You, dear reader, deserve better than slop. Therefore, we are proud to declare that
+                nothing in this issue of <strong>SMART BAR</strong> is generated by A.I. We're
+                talking 100% pure homegrown human creativity, the best this side of the Bay Area has
+                to offer.
+            </p>
+
+            <p>
+                That's not to say that we didn't try. Writing good quality content is hard, which is
+                why we tasked our <strong>Tech Wizard</strong> <em>P. Michael Cho</em> with employing the
+                newest, hottest transformers to create hard-hitting philosophical pieces for this
+                issue.
+            </p>
+
+            <p>
+                Unfortunately, <span id="dumb">WE COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT</span>.
+            </p>
+
+            <p>
+                Despite paying a hundred bucks for <span class="stuff">G.P.T. Pro Max
+                    Extreme</span>, getting <span class="stuff">"API Keys,"</span> and doodling a
+                couple of <span class="stuff">shell scripts</span>, we kept getting back <span
+                    class="stuff">MUFFIN RECIPES</span> and <span class="stuff">PYTHON
+                    PROGRAMS</span>. Needless to say, this is not content that you spent your hard
+                earned cash on to read.
+            </p>
+
+            <p>
+                In any case, we hope you enjoy these words and ideas from a couple of baseline
+                humans.
+            </p>
+        </div>
+    </div>
+</div>

pages/crashman.html

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+<style>
+    #crashman-page {
+        position: relative;
+        background: url("assets/img/crashman/crashman-bg.png") no-repeat center center;
+        background-size: cover;
+        overflow: hidden;
+    }
+
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+        display: flex;
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+        padding: 5px;
+
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+        bottom: 30px;
+        left: -50px;
+        transform: rotate(-5deg);
+    }
+
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+        flex: 1 1 0;
+        width: auto;
+        object-fit: contain;
+        max-height: 100%;
+    }
+
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+        position: absolute;
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+
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+
+    #text {
+        position: absolute;
+        top: 390px;
+        width: 100%;
+        height: auto;
+        background-color: rgba(62, 6, 62, 0.704);
+        font: 11.75pt/1.40 Tahoma, sans-serif;
+        padding: 24px;
+        color: #fff;
+        line-height: 1.9em;
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+
+    .stretch {
+        font-weight: 800;
+        transform: scaleX(2.1);
+        transform-origin: left;
+        display: inline-block;
+    }
+
+</style>
+
+<div id="crashman-page" class="page-base">
+
+    <div id="text">
+        <p>
+            <b>Rusty Haight</b> is the human crash-test dummy. As director of the San Diego-based Collision Safety Institute, 
+            Rusty has experienced more than 950 violent vehicle crash tests at speeds of up to 54 mph, 
+            and taken <span class="stretch">140 air bags to the face.</span>
+        </p>
+        <p>
+            Haight has contributed several publications on the topic of automobile safety 
+            in <b>Collision Magazine</b> such as <em>Hyundai and Kia Crash Data: the Indispensable Compendium.</em>
+        </p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div id="snips">
+        <img src="assets/img/crashman/crashman-1.png" />
+        <img src="assets/img/crashman/crashman-2.png" />
+        <img src="assets/img/crashman/crashman-3.png" />
+    </div>
+
+    <div id="title" class="ytmnd-1">crash man</div>
+
+</div>

pages/fashion.html

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+<style>
+#fashion {
+    background-image: url("assets/img/fashion.jpg");
+    background-size: contain;
+}
+</style>
+
+<div id="fashion" class="page-base">
+</div>

pages/streetgeek-1.html

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+
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+
+<div id="streetgeek1-page" class="page-base">
+
+<div id="sg1-header">
+    <h1>Street Geek</h1>
+    <p id="sg1-deck">Notes from the front lines of hacker haute couture.</p>
+    <p id="sg1-byline">By <strong>Bram Noidz</strong></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr id="sg1-rule" />
+
+<div id="sg1-body">
+
+<p class="drop-cap">
+    My day in meatspace wasn't going well. I woke up in the late morning and acquired the day's
+    outfit using my usual clothing drawer LIFO mechanism. This week's permutation of clothing in the
+    drawer left me with a depressingly common combination: black t-shirt with black jeans. I thought
+    for a brief second that I should break out of the LIFO ordering and make a daring attempt at a
+    more arbitrarily stylish outfit. Brief panic attack. Ultimately I decided against it. <i>The
+    purpose of a system is what it does.</i> If I decide for even one day to ignore my LIFO
+    clothing system, then it really is no system at all.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+    I hobbled downstairs in my algorithmically chosen outfit and made a cup of coffee. Double
+    espresso with a bit of hot water mixed in. While reading something on my computer, I
+    accidentally spilled about half of the coffee onto my shirt. Luckily for me, the stains were
+    practically invisible on the black t-shirt, and very little ended up on my pants. The only
+    evidence that I had spilled something on myself that morning was the faint coffee smell that
+    lingered after I mopped it up. But who doesn't love the smell of coffee? I actually wouldn't
+    mind a cologne with the scent of the glorious roasted bean imbued into it. Similar to the
+    clickety-clack sound of the mechanical keyboard, the coffee cologne might have the Pavlovian
+    effect of stimulating the electronic productivity of the people around you. Free idea for any of
+    our young entrepreneurial readers out there.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+    You might be wondering why I spent more time than usual at this time of the morning thinking
+    about what I'm wearing. Today, I am meeting my friend <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> for lunch at the vegan
+    restaurant <i>Cha-Ya</i> on Valencia. <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> is a one-of-a-kind genius level programmer
+    that I met on an IRC channel one evening. This guy slings code so neat and clean, he puts Linus
+    Torvalds and that guy who made the <i>McMaster-Carr</i> catalog website to shame. I had never
+    met <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> A.F.K. before. Therefore, needless to say, I felt intimidated and eager to
+    please.
+</p>
+
+<div id="sg1-pullquote">&ldquo;The purpose of a system is what it does.&rdquo;</div>
+
+<p>
+    I got to <i>Cha-Ya</i> a little bit early and ordered a green tea while waiting for
+    <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> to arrive. I spilled a little bit of this on my shirt as well. Unfortunately
+    now, mixed with the coffee stain from earlier, the combination gave off a toilet smell that was
+    quite unpleasant. I started praying that <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> had a cold and wouldn't be able to
+    smell anything. Luckily the stains were still mostly invisible on my black t-shirt.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+    When <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> walked in the front door, I almost mistook him for one of those cool
+    hip-hopper guys. He was decked out from head to toe and looked <i>on fleek</i>.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<!--
+<div id="sg1-footer">
+    <span>Smart Bar</span>
+    <span>Continued on page 02 &rarr;</span>
+    <span>01</span>
+</div>
+-->
+
+</div>

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+    background-color: white;
+    color: black;
+    font: 8.6pt/1.42 'Times New Roman', serif;
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+    margin: 2pt 0 4pt 10px;
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+    display: flex;
+    justify-content: space-between;
+    align-items: baseline;
+    border-top: 0.75pt solid black;
+    margin-top: 6pt;
+    padding-top: 4pt;
+    font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
+    font-size: 6.5pt;
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+    text-transform: uppercase;
+    color: #333;
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+
+</style>
+
+<div id="streetgeek2-page" class="page-base">
+
+<!--
+<div id="sg2-topbar">
+    <span>Street Geek</span>
+    <span>Field Report</span>
+    <span>Page 02</span>
+</div>
+-->
+
+<!--
+<div id="sg2-header">
+    <h2 id="sg2-headline">The Look</h2>
+    <p id="sg2-subhead">ByteLord, spotted in the wild at Cha-Ya on Valencia.</p>
+</div>
+-->
+
+<div id="sg2-gallery">
+    <div class="sg2-frame left">
+        <img src="assets/img/streetgeek-java.png" alt="ByteLord wearing a Java t-shirt under a gray plaid overshirt" />
+        <div class="sg2-caption">&quot;Java&quot;</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="sg2-frame right">
+        <img src="assets/img/streetgeek-evangelion.png" alt="ByteLord wearing an Evangelion t-shirt under a black overshirt" />
+        <div class="sg2-caption">&quot;Evangelion&quot;</div>
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+<div id="sg2-text">
+
+<p>
+    A typically chilly San Francisco summer afternoon, he was dressed for warmth. A beanie with an
+    off-white color, reminiscent of the Windows XP start menu background. A comfy gray overshirt
+    with a clean geometric pattern. Some kind of smart watch whose battery was obviously dead. Most
+    tellingly, a <i>Java</i> t-shirt underneath the overshirt which, in the context of the rest of
+    the outfit, gave the programming language an undeserved level of coolness.
+</p>
+
+<div class="sg2-frame solo">
+    <img src="assets/img/streetgeek-dogtags.jpeg" alt="ByteLord's necklace: a Mac OS X Panther dog tag on a ball chain" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+    Besides the comfortable textiles, I was impressed with <span class="computer">ByteLord</span>'s choice of accessories.
+    A wallet chain, which I hadn't seen anyone wear since the mid 2000's, added a metallic balance
+    to the lower half of his appearance. His neck was adorned with a necklace that didn't appear to
+    serve any functional purpose, but matched the wallet chain quite nicely. Finally, he was wearing
+    rather large, television-sized eyeglass frames. Frankly, I had never given much thought to
+    accessories in an outfit, unless they have some kind of microchip in them. But <span class="computer">ByteLord</span>
+    had arranged them in such a way to make the outfit look effortless, yet stylish.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+    We ordered <i>zaru soba</i> with <i>vegetable tempura</i> and spoke about various topics from
+    cyberspace. After we finished talking about the guy that supposedly defaced fellow editor P. M.
+    Cho's website, we started talking about fashion. I was surprised to hear that <span class="computer">ByteLord</span>
+    was quite into fashion on a deeply philosophical level. He explained to me that what you wear in
+    meatspace is like the <i>graphical shell</i> for a person. A hacker should present himself to
+    others in the same elegant way that a computer program presents itself to users. You wouldn't
+    want to walk away from an interaction with someone having the same feeling as using the
+    <i>git</i> command line interface.
+</p>
+
+<p> I paid for the <i>zaru soba</i> and <span class="computer">ByteLord</span> sent me some <span class="cyberwheel">SMARTCOIN</span> for his
+    portion. We parted ways, each walking opposite directions on Valencia street. After our meeting,
+    I couldn't help but notice and observe all of the outfits people were wearing that day in the
+    Mission. Thousands of distinct <i>graphical shells</i> all populating the virtual desktop that
+    is our city. I smiled, and started thinking about a new ordering system for my wardrobe.
+    <span class="endmark">■</span>
+</p>
+
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