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DarkLinkXXXX  ·  2892 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity

Or, you know, we could just wear medical masks, which are already trendy in Asia.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  2906 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Protecting Software from pirates

Why would you want to do that?

Piracy didn't hurt Adobe when Photoshop got pirated the shit out of. In fact, it lead to more legitimate sales, especially by institutions.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  2925 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: US Jobless Claims fall to the lowest levels since the 70's

Another anecdote.

Back when I was in a staffing agency, one of my (non-agency) coworkers had a Ph.D in marine science. We were working for a moving company.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  2933 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Anime fans of Hubski, throw some shit my way

Hikaru no Go.

The main character, Hikaru, comes upon a goban (a board that Go, an ancient Chinese board game, is played on) and it turns out to have the spirit of a man who played Go over 1000 years ago, and didn't pass on because he wanted to keep playing Go. Later, Hikaru starts playing Go himself until he becomes a professional, trying to surpass his rival, Akira Touya.

Okay, that doesn't sound that exciting, but when I read the manga I thought it was really good. Apparently it even caused a spurt in the popularity of the game at the time.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  2960 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in second game

    Team Human vs Team AI

Why shouldn't we get credit for what we've created?

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  2974 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Netflix and Hulu users of Hubski, do you binge watch?

I pirate all my stuff, but yes, yes I do. Whenever I find an anime I'm interested in, I've watched all of it after three days or so.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  2988 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pirate Bay for Science!

    Now, how can journals fund the peer-review process and still have research freely available?

That money generally doesn't come directly from the university, but from the US or some other state's government. Why the researchers or university are then the legal owners of that publicly funded research, and have the rights to transfer that ownership to private enterprises like Elsevier, is beyond me.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  2999 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub

You're welcome!

Of course, Libgen/SciHub doesn't have everything either, but it has more than any single legal resource I know of.

Also, I'd like to give a friendly reminder that anyone can upload books or scientific articles here. If it's books, so I'd encourage you to do that if you find resources elsewhere. ;)

If you have any questions, there's a forum for libgen at https://genofond.org/. Most of it is in Russian, but the staff are bilingual between Russian and English.

Well, they have been doing it since 2011, so I have to imagine they're be able to do it for a good while longer. Regardless, if SHTF, the technology will still be there, and it will be up to them to pass the baton to someone else. I kinda wish they would open-source their scraper though, but I guess they worry that that'd make it more difficult for them.

I really hope this email works.

  Dear Mr. Jay,

  I'm very interested in your article "Taboo word fluency and knowledge of slurs and general pejoratives: deconstructing the poverty-of-vocabulary myth". However, I am no longer affiliated with a college. Could you please send me a copy of this article? I'd really appreciate it.

  Thank you.

  [redacted]

edit: Nevermind. I found it in the wild!

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3083 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why the world economy as we know it is about to be turned on its head

No abstract? Not even a DOI? That's brutal.

This seemed like a nice thing to save, so here's an epub of the article.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3089 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Michigan's mysterious, misunderstood coywolves

That's not very likely though, as much as it is possible, because the overlap between mating seasons is small, and the dog won't stick around to raise the offspring, thus they're not very likely to survive.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3095 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Minimal Maps — Michael Pecirno

I'm curious how these were made. Any ideas?

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3096 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Alexis Lloyd: The Future of News Is Not An Article

    Information should accumulate upon itself; documents should have ways of reacting to new reporting or information; and we should consider the consumption behavior of our users as one that takes place at all cadences, not simply as a daily update.

As an archivist, I really don't like this idea.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3109 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your digital privacy ends this time yesterday

This seems like a pretty big deal. I wonder how ASIO got their way.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3114 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Right Way To Stop Piracy

But PirateBear, piracy is a good thing!

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3117 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Where can I volunteer that will make me feel good about myself?

Maybe start contributing The Archive Team's efforts? There's a lot to learn there, and the things you learn will be useful later on in life.

It also works when there is no referrer header, such as the case when using this anonym.to link.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3125 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet

Ah, yes. This is what technical people call the sneakernet.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3128 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do we want a permanent web?

Honestly, I have no idea where IPFS's "permanent web" thing comes from. Content on IPFS is only available as long as people seed it (or "pin" it, in IPFS jargon). If there's only one ipfs user with a certain piece of content left, and he removes it, it's still gone forever! I don't know why they seem to be acting like ipfs content is any more permanent than torrents are. Regardless, I still believe it's a great step forward, and they have my support.

Here's the source.

  [Taylor Swift artist info](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/20244d07-534f-4eff-b4d4-930878889970)

  [Ryan Adams artist info](http://musicbrainz.org/artist/c80f38a6-9980-485d-997c-5c1a9cbd0d64)

  [Taylor Swifts 1989 album info (note that it's one of  11 versions of the same release) ](http://musicbrainz.org/release/907d30af-234e-4b63-b6a7-34ee88929e2b)

  [Ryan Adams 1989 album info (not much more than track list and album art, I'm afraid)](http://musicbrainz.org/release/3ca45f70-bfc3-4753-ab99-2590532e634a)

  P.S. Sorry, it looks like the parentheses messed up the markup parser.
DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3130 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bauhaus - Who Killed Mr. Moonlight

Taylor Swift artist info

Ryan Adams artist info

[Taylor Swifts 1989 album info (note that it's one of 11 versions of the same release) ](http://musicbrainz.org/release/907d30af-234e-4b63-b6a7-34ee88929e2b)

[Ryan Adams 1989 album info (not much more than track list and album art, I'm afraid)](http://musicbrainz.org/release/3ca45f70-bfc3-4753-ab99-2590532e634a)

P.S. Sorry, it looks like the parentheses messed up the markup parser.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3131 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: GNU Taler – a bitcoin alternative designed to be taxable but anonymous

What if it's classical liberalism, instead of progressive liberalism?

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3131 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Church - Russian Autumn Heart

bass guitar and keyboard: Steve Kilbey

drums: Richard Ploog

guitar: Peter Koppes, Marty Willson-Piper

assistant engineer: Joe Schiff

engineer: Shep Lonsdale

lead vocals: Marty Willson-Piper

mixer: Shep Lonsdale, Waddy Wachtel

producer: The Church, Waddy Wachtel

mixed at: Ocean Way Recording in Los Angeles, California, United States

recorded at: Ocean Way Recording in Los Angeles, California, United States

recording of: Russian Autumn Heart

Via: MusicBrainz

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3132 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – "Gopacapulco"

For more information, here's the Album information from MusicBrainz.

I also encourage you to add more detailed information, if you have a CD booklet.

DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3132 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: XTC - Ballad of Peter Pumkin Head

In case anyone's wondering…

bass guitar: Colin Moulding

electric guitar, Hammond organ and other instruments [church bell]: Dave Gregory

electric guitar, harmonica and tambourine: Andy Partridge

guest drums: Dave Mattacks

lead vocals and other vocals [cheers]: Andy Partridge

mixer: Nick Davis (Producer)

other vocals [cheers]: Gus Dudgeon, Dave Gregory

producer: Gus Dudgeon

recording of: The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead

Via: MusicBrainz