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In praise of libgen

Let’s just all stop and appreciate that libgen is a thing in the internet. It has saved me so much money with very overpriced math textbooks during college when my family was low-income. It contains virtually all the books, and even obscure ones. It provides low barriers to entry for knowledge for people wanting to advance...

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Yes. I combine libgen with Anna’s Archive and Z-Library and there’s very, very little I can’t find.

Combine that with KOReader and this is pure bliss.

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I’m not completely sure. Sometimes I find stuff in one site I don’t find in any of the other two. Also, I don’t know how often catalogues are synced.

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I like it a lot, but sometimes I feel he’s going to get eaten alive by the character he’s created. He should tone it down a notch sometimes.

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IRC still rules. No ads in my irssi.

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If you mean that in some channels only some people can actually “talk”, I think it depends on the configuration of the channel, but it’s a possibility.

I thought people used Discord because you could have video / audio chats (not sure about this, I’ve used it very sparsely.)

And then there are Open Source projects that use Discord as the documentation repository. Hell is a place on the Internet, apparently.

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You’re right, I completely misinterpreted the comment. The thing is that “voice” is a very specific term within IRC, and I got confused :D

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Damn, I was used to work around shitty stuff on Teams. Are you telling me they’re going to push another, different set of bugs on me now?

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What has been your involvement with Reddit as a user so far? I’m trying to understand what users are getting those offers.

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Some people have already commented how to find it.

However, on a tangential note: last I heard, they stopped adding new papers due to a trial in India, but I never found out the outcome of that. Anyone has news about this, or did I dream it?

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Gnomon. A massive disappointment.

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I created my account in Spain around 2009, moved to Canada in 2014 and came back to Spain late last year. Never had a problem with this :-?

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There was a very nice episode of the Odd Lots podcast about this: bloomberg.com/…/huawei-mate-60-pro-chip-breakthro…

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The way it’s written fits very well with the madness that’s AWS, though.

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Yes. And on Microsoft Teams that triggers a chat call.

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I got a Nook in 2011 and it was my main reader device until it died a few months ago. I replaced it with a Kobo and I’m quite happy. Having backlight is a huge improvement.

How do you decide when to give up on a book?

I read The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, and take enjoyed it. Read another book, then started reading Devil and the Dark Water by the same author. I got about 25% through and just decided to drop it for something else. I’m not an avid reader so i never know if I should stay committed or not.

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I don’t typically give up. I mostly read non-fiction, so I always wait to see if there’s something for me past page 200.

I gave up on “Foucault’s Pendulum”. I started it as a teenager and obviously it was way above my league. I still want to pick it up again at some point in the future.

I also passed on “Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”, because I couldn’t even understand the introduction.

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