walthervonstolzing

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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')

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Michael W. Lucas's "Networking for System Administrators" is a great resource: https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yes, just as GNOME stands for GNOME has NO MErcy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I mean all vertebrates are A digit creatures in their front set of limbs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Where's the 'PtrSc' key? On Peter's keyboard presumably.

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