now more and more interent is more centralised and i want to expand my horizons
Have you heard of this site called reddit? It's a bit like this one but incredibly racist.
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
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.
e-readers are really fuking cool, in that regard. I don't read much, but I wouldn't read at all if it wasn't for this thing
ok, i guess that means i shouldn't have a preference for the library. thanks, i'll stop using them.
Also Z-library and Imperial Library of Trantor. If you can't find the book you're looking for on any of these sites, try dedicated IRC channels.
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.
can someone spoonfeed me how to access it, is a vpn all you need? do I need to torrent?
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
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.
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.
(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
https://www.ifixit.com/Right-to-Repair/Intro
Fight back against consumerism and pick up a few hobbies/skills along the way.
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.
Etymonline.com
Looking up etymologies of words is more efficient for learning than looking up definitions/dictionaries
9gag has the best anti trump content. Have you heard about the orange man? You gotta check it out
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.
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.
n-gate is a good introduction to Hacker News politics. Just don’t mention it on Hacker News.
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
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
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
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.
feels like something I need a glossary to read , or maybe I'm not getting the tone right
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.
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.
If you find yourself using scripts to remove parts of your operating system, its a good clue that you should find a new operating system.
No you see, Windows is like that block of marble Michelangelo carved David out of.
because he was upset it would let you find users racist post histories
wait really? i assumed that was the reason it was set up in the first place, lol
this monday im gonna hit you with such force you'll never recover, go get your icepacks while you are capable
- 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
I can confirm that there are actually no viruses on the korn sandwich page. If you're bored, you should try it out, you might be surprised.
If it was a dot com website I'd say use the wayback machine at archive.org but that .club domain means it's of this century.
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.
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
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href.cool - An index of websites following the old, pre-aggregation, model of the internet.
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Atomic Rockets - Everything you ever wanted to know about scientifically plausible science fiction space travel.
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Think Labyrinth - An extremely web 1.0 page on mazes and maze generation algorithms.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
