dmonzel

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Where to turn to if I need books that are paywalled behind overly expensive academic portals? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Welp, I totally misunderstood the question then. Sorry.

Where to turn to if I need books that are paywalled behind overly expensive academic portals? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Have you tried emailing the authors? It's well known that some folks will gladly respond with a copy of the paper at no charge.

Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a ‘gigantic global sewer’ in c/[email protected]
Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 138 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I always thought the cyberpunk genre was a warning, not a blueprint.

Tim Cook tells Dua Lipa he wants the next CEO of Apple to be an internal hire in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

He was a guest on her podcast when he said this, so no, it's not stupid news.

People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Even further, ChatGPT isn't an AI, and AI doesn't exist.

People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (5 children)

That's basically the premise of the movie.

qBittorrent 4.6 launches with I2P support - gHacks Tech News in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (7 children)

From the article that was posted:

The main new feature is support for I2P, the Invisble Internet Project. It uses a fully encrypted privacy network layer to hide user activity and locations. The network does not use servers. Peers contributed "a portion of their resources" to other network particpants.

The maintainers promise that "non one can see where traffic is coming from, where it is going, or what the contents are" when the Invisible Internet Project is active.

Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave steps down in wake of controversy over his Israel comments in c/[email protected]
Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

universal healthcare won't solve the issue, unless we can get costs under control.

But universal healthcare would get prices under control. You're thinking completely backwards.

Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

universal healthcare won't solve the issue, unless we can get costs under control.

But universal healthcare would get prices under control. You're thinking completely backwards.

Should I create a new email for a private tracker? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

And to think, I just got downvoted to fuck the other day because someone claimed wasn't available in the UK. lol

Thank you for clearing that up.

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