• DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
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    19 hours ago

    I'm in a class right now that requires a DMR locked live service textbook. I can only access it as long as I am connected to the internet. I live where 2 back to back hurricanes just hit so I expected to not have power or internet and wanted to copy some of the text from the textbook into a txt file. However, the DRM detects the copy/paste usage and limits the ability to only copy like 100 words. After a quick search I found out the dumb-asses that created this textbook site put all of the text in <p> tags in the plain html doc.

  • J'Pol @lemmy.sdf.org
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    20 hours ago

    I have never been anywhere close to academia, hell I don't have a degree at all. However, I am very aware of the bullshit that goes on with publishing. Oddly enough, I occasionally need to read papers on material science or metallurgy.

    From my limited experience and understanding, there is no journal for null findings. Isn't that equally important? Tempted to just make something basic for that.

    Anyway, to the point of the post - please seed.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      19 hours ago

      there are a few, but these are small and new, and most of the time null results are published along positive results, not on their own

      you can mirror entire scihub repository, it's listed as hundreds of torrents somewhere, each is zip of 100000 pdfs. i think it's under 200TB