Most comments mention this, I feel less amount of information (even on 'nerd' topics) and more repetition of same idea/meme. I still use reddit (without account) to find useful info.
Back in reddit days I used it more than I use lemmy nowadays. In many communities, doom scrolling will soon lead you to posts months old here, which is I guess a good thing in some way?
Also this place isn't as congested as reddit so virtually no annoyance like bots and shilling and scams going on.
While you can't directly upload to scihub, https://libgen.li/librarian.php is an option. Eventually some from here might end up in scihub but it doesn't matter.
edit: I knew a researcher who used to send articles (own and others downloaded through institute) directly to Alexandra over email. But that was a while ago, no idea if that still works.
I wish I could rely on Patreon and user funding only. That would be the dream, and if Patreon reached the same amount of money monthly as YouTube ads, I would disable ads on my channel (if that’s still even possible?). The reality though, is that we’re not even close to that yet, and so for now, I need ads, and sponsors to pay the bills.
Though IMO if I don't act based on an ad, the purpose of the ad is defeated and hence effectively the ad is blocked. There are ways to 'clickjack' or 'show' ads without actually seeing it, my proposal is a simplified version of that. I have never done those 'ad viewing' tricks because they are complicated, and probably not suitable for people outside the tech bubble anyway. Also disabling blockers like ubo on a regular browsing session for any website has privacy and potentially security implication, not to mention requirement of using a non blocking dns for the said session.
Patreon is great, I'm talking about the gratis option. I personally have no 'guilt' regarding ad blockers and I don't remember last time I saw ad (except on other people's devices) online1. The question was about convincing people to use ad blocker or alt clients who do not want to or can't afford to pay creators directly.
1 excluding sponsorship in videos.. I do not use sponsorblock and I found sponsored contents from some channels useful.
Someone designs a compiler, makes it open source. Make an open runtime for it. 'Obtain' some source code with unclear license. Compiles it with the compiler and releases the compiled byte code that can run with the runtime on free OS. Do you call the program open source? Definitely it is more open than something that requires proprietary inside use only compiler and closed runtine and sometimes you can't access even the binary; it runs on their servers. It depends on perspective.
ps: the compiler takes ages and costs mils in hardware.
Microsoft should replace support team with llm chatbot. Much better.