stevemclaugh

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by stevemclaugh 4y ago
Recorded at Iffy Books in Philly on November 19th, 2022. Led by Nelson Chu Pavlosky.
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by stevemclaugh 4y ago
In this project you’ll build a solar-powered oscillator circuit, using two NOT gates to generate a square wave. Then you’ll add two push button switches and a potentiometer to adjust the pitch.
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Build a Solar-Powered Music Synth Zine(iffybooks.net)
2 points by stevemclaugh 4y ago|1 comments
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Judge Ignores Congress, Pretends SOPA Exists, Orders Site Blocking of Sci-Hub(techdirt.com)
52 points by stevemclaugh 9y ago|1 comments
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US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub(torrentfreak.com)
221 points by stevemclaugh 9y ago|123 comments
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by stevemclaugh 9y ago
Thanks for this. These cases may or may not be phishing. When corporations are hacked for their user credentials, those databases sometimes end up in dark web markets. It would be easy to extract email addresses with .edu domains ... so if
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by stevemclaugh 9y ago
Academic librarians, who negotiate terms with publishers, are obsessed with privacy and academic freedom. Bless 'em. In theory, publishers don't know who's downloading what. The librarians I've talked to say they delete
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by stevemclaugh 9y ago
The only data we have are the 2015-16 download logs posted by Elbakyan and a reporter for 'Science.' At the time they had 28 million+ downloads over 6 months. I truly hope no more logs are released (at least not with that level of
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by stevemclaugh 9y ago
There are torrents.
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by stevemclaugh 9y ago
The entire collection is available via large torrent files. Check Reddit or the Archive Team site for details.
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by stevemclaugh 9y ago
Most items on Archive.org have torrent files, so there's some degree of (potential) decentralization. They run their own tracker, but in principle the torrents could live on via DHT. Most are poorly seeded, however. They also have mult