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Brkdncr , to asklemmy in Windows Security Remediation Incomplete

Upload the files to virustotal to see what it says.

MajorHavoc , to asklemmy in How can money be both devalued and expensive?

Some other good answers already but here’s a sound byte version:

It’s currently expensive to borrow money, and then the borrowed money isn’t as useful as it used to be.

MewtwoLikesMemes , to memes in Everyone been misleading me?..
@MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world avatar

A N D Y E A T H E L O R D D I D S P E A K O N H I G H :

“JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HAVEN’T YOU EVER HEARD OF THE PRINT SCREEN KEY?!”

I N A S C I I ’ S N A M E . . .

A M E N .

aeronmelon , to science_memes in Nature saying the quiet part out loud.

Oops, all my research keeps getting leaked online.

Comment105 ,

If you’re looking at publishing it for free, I’d think it should be fine to put a PDF download in an ordinary blog post with the title and abstract.

ArcticDagger ,

You will transfer the economic copyright to most journals upon publication of the typeset manuscript meaning that you’re not allowed to publish that particular PDF anywhere. However, a lot of journals are okay with you publishing the pre-peer reviewed article or even sometimes the peer-reviewed, but NOT typeset article (sometimes called post-print article). Scientific publishing is weird :-)

Comment105 ,

Why publish through a journal at all? What do they do that WordPress doesn’t? Are they the source of your credibility? Do they pay the peer reviewers. Or are you all just whipped?

ArcticDagger ,

There are several benefits, but compared to WordPress, I guess the biggest one is outreach: no one will actually see an article if it’s published by a young researcher that hasn’t made a name for themselves yet. It will also not be catalogued and will therefore be more difficult to find when searching for articles.

Also, calling researchers “whipped” is a bit dismissive to the huge inertia there is in the realm of scientific publication. The scientific journal of Nature was founded in 1869, but general open-access publishing has only really taken off in the last decade or so.

Comment105 ,

So they are the source of your credibility. And you continue to agree to have it that way.

ArcticDagger ,

No, that’s not what I said. You’re right that journals, to some extent, also lends credibility to the publication, but it’s not the source of credibility. What I said was that an article published in Nature will have many more views than an article published on a random WordPress blog.

Again, saying that researchers “agree to have it that way” ignores the structural difficulty of changing the system by the individual. The ones who benefit the most from changing the system are also the ones most dependent on external funding - that is, young researchers. Publishing in low-impact journals (ones that has a small outreach such as most open-access journals) makes it much harder to apply for funding

Comment105 , (edited )

It’s not what you wanted to say, but it is what the words you wrote effectively meant.

Nature doesn’t lend you credibility. You and your colleagues read Nature because it’s how you filter out the trash.
Researchers agree to have it that way. I will not yield on that argument. You do, you agree to it by majority to this day.

ArcticDagger ,

That’s okay. If you view the journals as glorified blogs, I agree that they’re unnecessary. They aren’t and do more than that even though they’re also doing a lot of bad stuff with sky high profit margins. If you’re not open for changing your views, I don’t see the point of discussing any more. Appreciate the back and forth, tho!

kevin ,

By this logic, you and everyone else agree to climate change. Everyone in Venezuela agrees to Maduro.

It has nothing to do with majority, it’s a collective action and balance of power.

General_Effort ,

Publications in peer-reviewed journals are how a career in science is built. It’s impossible to measure the productivity of a scientist. What is done, is that one looks at their publications. How many publications do they have? How often are they cited? What is the quality of the journal?

This creates very bad incentives, leading to things like publication bias. It also means that you must publish in prestigious journals. You don’t have a choice but to accept their terms. Libraries don’t have a choice but to stock these journals. It’s a straight-forward monopoly racket. These publishers make fantastical profits.

All that money can be used for PR campaigns and lobbying to keep the good times rolling.

AeonFelis ,

or even sometimes the peer-reviewed, but NOT typeset article

What does that mean? The LaTeX source?

ArcticDagger ,

The typeset article is what you’d see if you download the .pdf from, e.g., Nature. See here.

It’s the manuscript with all the stuff that distinguishes an article from one journal to another (where is the abstract, what font type, is there a divider between some sections, etc.). Articles that have not been typeset yet can be seen from Arxiv, for example this one: arxiv.org/abs/2409.04391

AeonFelis ,

So basically the article you are allowed to release can have its typesetting - it just can’t have the journal’s preamble/theme?

ArcticDagger ,

If I understand you correctly: Yes, the article can have a typesetting like whatever you get out-of-the-box from Latex and that article can then be published anywhere. What is typically not allowed is to openly publish the article that have been typeset by the journal where you’ve sent in your article. This is probably what you mean by “preamble/theme”

AeonFelis ,

Yup that’s what I mean.

Seems like a reasonable limitation then (not that the entire business model of scientific journals is reasonable in the 21st century is reasonable - just this specific limitation). The journal’s theme is proprietary, but the paper’s authors still have the LaTeX source so they can just slap a free preamble on it and publish it with that.

Rolando ,

The last couple journals I published in let you put the post-print PDF on your web page after an “embargo period”. I’ve never personally seen a journal forbid you from submitting articles whose preprints had been posted in sites like arxiv.org.

But I think scientific publishing isn’t “weird”, more like “predatory”, “exploitative”, or at least “antiquated.”

refalo ,

Just leak it before publishing it. Also most authors will give you the pdf for free if you just email them and ask for it nicely.

casmael , to lemmyshitpost in Getting to work on these beam memes

Looks like they’re coming along nicely srgnt

MajorHavoc , to nostupidquestions in Are there any negatives side effects to using PGP all the time with email?

People will assume you work on Cybersecurity.

Edit: Also, people will use this method to verify an email is from you.

SidewaysHighways , to showerthoughts in I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising.

LibreELEC on a network with at least one Adguard home instance!!

Chozo , to nostupidquestions in How come drug dealers seem to have a messed up house or at least a messed up car with a bunch of trash in it?

I think you need to find better drug dealers.

Lojcs , to gaming in Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 8th

These are more like last 2 week but anyways:

  • Finished Agent A after a year of hiatus.
  • Got hdr to work in Dark Souls 2 with the graphics overhaul mod and finished getting the 4 big Souls.
  • Got tired of the difficulty of Dark Souls 2 and decided to start a new random shooter from my library… Devil Daggers
  • Had a management sim itch and gave another shot at FTL, never got to win. Half the time I lost in a single encounter to things like never landing a shot on the enemy ship due to shields + misses or 7 people teleporting to my ship and wrecking havok. Other times I got too greedy.
  • Tried to figure out which way to go next in Dark Solus 2 by checking the wiki but kept getting sidetracked by things I might’ve missed.
  • Also tried to quench the management itch with shapez, but didn’t like it much. Just made me crave the factorio dlc more. Amazing music though
luciole ,
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Don’t even try completing an FTL run at normal though. Easy is where the fun’s at.

PseudoSpock , to linux in Several windows programs won't work with Wine. Would running a Windows VM be a better option?
@PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Well yeah, I mean what are you going to do?

davidgro , to asklemmy in What is the craziest story from your life, so far?

This is going to be a bit long, and I’m posting it late, but anyway…

I met a couple former girlfriends through school and such, but not a lot happened until I started online dating. One of the first ones I met that way brought one of her friends along when we met in person because of course meeting a stranger from the internet was scary business (not that this has changed necessarily, but it was new at the time). Anyway after a date or two, things didn’t work out with the first girl. I forgot her real name, but I’m making up names anyway so I’ll call her Monica since mono=1.

But I later met the friend randomly at work! Small world. I’ll call her Jenny. Her real first name is quite rare and would identify her rather precisely. So we started dating, and things seemed to be going ok, but slow. However after my dad died the relationship kinda fell off.

I went back to the dating site and eventually met another girl, I’ll call her Amy. We scheduled a date for the local State Fair, and when the time arrived she was clearly really upset about something but still wanted to go on the date. So we did, and she was still visibly upset, but I didn’t pry.
Later that day she eventually told the story:

Amy had a few months prior moved to my state from Georgia, and did so because of a boy she had dated before who moved here, but had friendzoned her. And that boy had started seeing someone, and Amy didn’t like that, but it hadn’t really hit her until that day, when the boy and the girl he was seeing had told each other that they loved each other. But Amy liked me and was trying to move on, so I did what I could to emotionally comfort her (we weren’t physical).

Later on (forgot if same night) I invited her back to my place. Now of course I’m a geek and date geeky women, so when I say something stupid like “Want to see the cosplay pics I took at [the local anime convention]?” her response was “Sure”.

As I was going through the pictures, she knew many of the characters and even already knew some of the people playing them. At one point as I was about to move on to the next picture her tone changed - she said “Oh, I know her”. I raised an eyebrow and asked “Oh really?”, and she said “Yes, that’s the girl that [boy] is seeing”.

After some effort to pick my jaw up from the ground, I managed to explain:
“She’s my ex.”
Amy asked, “Jenny‽” (Remember, unusual real name, which I hadn’t told her)
“Yes.” I said.

So while I was dating a girl that recently moved in, her ex was dating my ex. Going over the timelines later, Jenny was probably cheating on me before we broke up.

And no kids, Amy’s not your mother my wife. This was many seasons years before.

vikingtons , to games in Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2?
@vikingtons@lemmy.world avatar

Something along the lines of hiring an expert on gambling. There’s a lot of game mechanics in games like Destiny 2 which lock you in through little feedback loops.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIuAeFu84kY

It’s a good looking game with decent movement and gunplay, but it fully disrespects your time. RIP if you ended up buying the game in 2017 with the first few expansions because that shit gone now.

Buttflapper OP ,

Seems like most live service games these days are built off of addiction or gambling. For example, gacha gaming is becoming more popular everyday, with their rolls and gambling loops. You can see this in games like Genshin impact. Kind of makes me miss the old days where we had games like battlefield and Call of Duty old school style, just running around playing something that we enjoy for fun.

vikingtons ,
@vikingtons@lemmy.world avatar

Yup. The gaming industry got lucrative enough for the bean counters to swoop in and bastardise.

PassingThrough , to nostupidquestions in Are there any negatives side effects to using PGP all the time with email?

One thing I can think of is an overzealous corporate security solution blocking or holding back your email purely for having an attachment, or because it misunderstands/presumes the cipher-looking text file to be an attempt to bypass filtering.

Other than that might be curious questions from curious receivers of the key/file they may not understand, and will not be expecting. (“What’s this for? Is this part of the contract documents? Oh well, I’ll forward it to the client anyway”)

Other than that it’s a public key, go for it. Hard (for me anyway) to decide to post them to public keychains when the bot-nets read them for spam, so this might be the next best thing?

aspensmonster , to science_memes in We are stardust.
@aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml avatar

“in the highest exalted way”

yewtu.be/watch?v=8g4d-rnhuSg

binchoo , to games in Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2?

People play the game because they like to play it? Just because the main story is over doesn’t mean that people don’t enjoy the game anymore. There are plenty of games without a clear and direct story that are very popular because people just enjoy the gameplay.

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