now more and more interent is more centralised and i want to expand my horizons

  • a_jug_of_marx_piss [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Have you heard of this site called reddit? It's a bit like this one but incredibly racist.

  • asABOVEsoBELOW [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I hope you all use libgen, but in case you don't, this is where you're gonna download most (if not all) your books from now on

    • asaharyev [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      call me a luddite, but i prefer to get physical books from the library. typically, they can keep up with the pace of my reading, so it works out, too.

      i'll keep this in mind for anything they don't have.

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I use my library's digital services and when that's not an option I don't mind buying a book from a smaller author.

      • asABOVEsoBELOW [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        you shouldn't need anything ? libgen.li works for me, maybe some countries blocked access and you have to look fo a mirror. In any case, you don't need to torrent it, just direct download

        • carlin [he/him,comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          nice that link works, other links like gen.lib.rus.ec show this:

          Sorry, this page is not available through <Your ISP> <Your ISP> has received an order from the <the court> requiring us to prevent access to this site. For more information about the order and your rights, please click the relevant link below.

          • joshieecs [he/him,any]
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            4 years ago

            you can also use Tor browser or Brave (and open a Tor private window) -- Tor is basically a VPN on steroids and free to use.

            • carlin [he/him,comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              (if you're a big fan of the VPN ignore this) I'd recommend the Vivaldi browser over Opera. It's made by the original developers of Opera and it's got a lot of customisation and powerful features. It's still Chromium so extensions etc still work

  • OptimusPrimeRib [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    https://www.ifixit.com/Right-to-Repair/Intro

    Fight back against consumerism and pick up a few hobbies/skills along the way.

    • FanondorfAmiibo [they/them,none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I used to dig for PDFs on Google whenever someone on the old Chapo wanted or recommended books. I don't remember who it was, but someone just linked me libgen one day and it's completely changed the way I read, it's an amazing resource.

  • Chombombsky [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Etymonline.com

    Looking up etymologies of words is more efficient for learning than looking up definitions/dictionaries

  • Girtsquirt [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    9gag has the best anti trump content. Have you heard about the orange man? You gotta check it out

  • carlin [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Hacker News has bad neolib politics but good range of interesting old and new tech content. I'd honestly say the hive mind is very very weak and you'll find people arguing over literally everything in long form and well thought out arguments.

    • spez [any]
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      4 years ago

      Show HN: A piece of software I spent months building.

      Top comment: I don't know how you can expect anybody to take your software seriously when your website doesn't work with JavaScript off.

    • NonWonderDog [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      n-gate is a good introduction to Hacker News politics. Just don’t mention it on Hacker News.

      • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]M
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        4 years ago

        A webshit tries to fix more problems with money. Hackernews doesn't really understand what the hell this is about, but since javascript and money are the only problem-solving tools Hackernews has any faith in, they're very excited by whatever this is.

        LMAO

      • Vayeate [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I read HN a lot because I hate myself and I hate it. I'm so glad to see this because without fail HN is full of the worst takes ever

        • carlin [he/him,comrade/them]
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          even when I was fairly lib I could tell their politics were awful when they were doing the whole "migrants should die in the Mediterranean bc think of the Economy of the country they are going to"

          edit: 200th comment o7

      • mayor_pete_buttigieg [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Wow, n-gate doesn't even support TLS in 2020. Also it didn't look very good when I browsed it with Plasma Mobile. I can't believe that someone would capitulate to Big Tech like this.

    • mayor_pete_buttigieg [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Hacker news is probably the most toxic website I've ever used. Every person to every comment there has a giant stick up their ass.

      Also, it's literally a forum run by a venture capital group, so no, they're not open to radicalization.

    • 0xACAB [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      reddit.com/r/shithnsays is the prefered way to read hn

    • Owl [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Remember to push unions and co-ops in the comments of HN stories whenever you see a chance. They're relatively open to radicalization on that front, and they all work in industries that are important for organization purposes.

  • cadence [they/them,she/her]
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    4 years ago
    • https://korn.club The internet currency!
    • https://cytu.be Watch videos together
    • https://www.friskyradio.com/show/infinite_music/12-22-2019 Some good music
    • https://robertheaton.com/preventing-impossible-game-levels-using-cryptography/ tech blog
    • https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo Tom Scott
    • https://chapo.chat HOG OUT OR LOG OUT
  • crime [she/her, any]
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    4 years ago

    The text-based play-by-post rpg sphere is still a fairly big niche if you're looking to get in the habit of writing, so long as you can find a fairly mellow group.

    • spez [any]
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      4 years ago

      Wait what? That sounds awesome. Can you link to an example?

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        I don't want to link mine at the risk of doxxing myself lol, so I haven't vetted any of the listed ones for quality but there's a lot of different directories of various rpgs: https://www.toprpsites.com/ https://rpginitiative.com/directory/ http://rplovers.gotop100.com/

        A lot of them are just on forums (proboards or jcink generally) and will have varying levels of activity, but usually it looks like you create a character (or several) and then you write posts as that character in whatever situation, and someone else responds and you go back and forth for awhile. I've had better luck with RPGs where the join requirements/restrictions/etc are super lax, and some fandom-related ones are a good jumping off point since there's already established lore.

        ETA: If you've done tabletop things before, it's a lot like that if it were the roleplay-only bits (or the mainly-roleplay bits) except there isn't always a set campaign and isn't generally a DM

  • Owl [he/him]
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    4 years ago
    • href.cool - An index of websites following the old, pre-aggregation, model of the internet.

    • Atomic Rockets - Everything you ever wanted to know about scientifically plausible science fiction space travel.

    • Think Labyrinth - An extremely web 1.0 page on mazes and maze generation algorithms.

    • A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry - An extremely good ancient roman and medieval Europe history blog. Examines the differences between fiction and history. Also writes topics specifically because he thinks people want to know about to prep their D&D campaigns.

    • Student StarCraft AI Tournament - 24/7 (well, it goes down for a few minutes every hour or so) livestream of Starcraft: Brood War bot matches. They're a lot of fun because all bots are alternately brilliant and ineffectual.

  • Mitski [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Falling Fruit is a massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest. By uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters everywhere, the map already points to over a half million food sources around the world (from plants and fungi to water wells and dumpsters). Our rapidly growing user community is actively exploring, editing, and adding to the map.

  • ancom20 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    ecosia.org search engine, they plant trees with the money they get from ads. It's Bing-based, which seems to be less biased (to me) than Google's results. More private than Google, not totally anonymous. I like them.