It's either this fairy tale, or its flip side, the myth that 'private vices' somehow add up to 'public virtues'.
walthervonstolzing
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That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.
'Oxford Scholarship Online' would license different sets of books to different departments; so someone from the philosophy department couldn't get access to books classified under sociology or history.
Imagine doing something similar at the checkout table in a 'physical' library.
Here's another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriwCi6SzLo (including an interview with the great Alexandra Elbakyan).
Cory Doctorow recently wrote about this in some detail (incl. helpful links): https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier
The name of the pdf file inside the torrent is its md5 hashsum without the .pdf extension.
On libgen.rs you can see the md5 hashsum on the download page; on libgen.li you need to look at the JSON file provided at the link on the search result , as they don't render it on the ui.
The torrents are alive; as long as you can get the torrent links from libgen, you have access to the files. (No need to share whole archives either, you can pick & choose).
They’ve confused economic reality with their own ideal reality.
... and the irony in this statement is overwhelming, after the fairy tale you've just outlined about those providing the most value to society gathering the most power & influence.
Funny thing is that when the creators of the language told H.C.'s widow about it, she said he never really was fond of his name.
What's "Mordor Intelligence" -- is that a real thing, or a parody of the surveillance/'defense' industry companies that are coming up with names nicked from LotR? ('Anduril', 'Palantir')
Michael W. Lucas's "Networking for System Administrators" is a great resource: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa
There's a linux port for the SGI file browser featured in the movie: https://fsv.sourceforge.net/ ---- haven't run it in ages, though; I don't know if it's still functional.
Yes, just as GNOME stands for GNOME has NO MErcy.
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and like a goddamn fiddle!