Ehh sorry. I assumed/hoped you were talking about something more, that I wasn’t aware of. I know of these protests, but they were not nearly intense enough to disrupt the system. Much of the urban youth that might have led the protests has left the country in the meantime too, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the next round of recruitment is met with even weaker resistance…

Maybe I should just Google it but… do you remember any specific cases of this pushback?

I’m not sure if #ebooks mirrors Libgen. I wouldn’t be surprised if they copy from each other.

It is unclear to me what’s the method to upload to #ebooks. I’ve uploaded some obscure books to Libgen in the past, so I checked whether they’re available on #ebooks, and they’re not. So… they don’t mirror each other. I checked both UnderNet and IRCHighway, and the latter even directed me to these websites in case I’m looking for textbooks. It doesn’t seem like an adequate replacement for LG, at least for my purposes.

I have allergies against ads, countdowns, etc. The interweb is polluted with that stuff and so are most piracy sites.

As I’ve said, this is not a big issue with the sites listed on the uptime tracker I linked. Libgen.is and Z-library have neither (the latter has daily download limits per IP), AA has a countdown (not always), and libgen.li has ads (which I had no idea about until I saw other people mentioning it, thanks to uBlock).

Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t #ebooks basically just mirror Libgen?

Among the major book downloading websites, only libgen.li has ads, and only Anna’s Archive has a countdown.

It’s been offline for like a month, maybe more, I haven’t kept track. I don’t know any details, maybe there’s info on their forums, but overall the owners are quite secretive.

If the Russians remove too much from the Far East though, China is going to rename Vladivostok to Haishenwai.

Are there any real pretensions on the territory on China’s part? It sounds like it would just cause more problems than it’s worth (though it’s not like that fact prevented Putin from attacking Ukraine), and possibly kill off BRICS.

I hope you’re right. Because in general the reaction of the Russian population to the war has been so meek, I’m starting to doubt it would be any different once recruitment starts hitting the biggest cities.

Nah, he’s already an expert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$Trump

Meta did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment and has maintained throughout the litigation that AI training on LibGen was “fair use.”

When I upload a single half century old photo to Wikipedia, I have to fill out a relatively complicated form proving that it meets “fair use” standards. Internet Archive got legally fucked for allowing people to read their book scans without restriction for a while. And now these absolute cunts have the gall to defer to “fair use”! I really wonder if the same authors and publishing houses who sued IA will do anything about this.

Right, people shouldn’t inform themselves, we should all get our news only from online forums and blogs you politically agree with.

So… what was the post about?

I looked at “Individual-Quail”, who just replied “No?” to the request to generate a hello world script, and it does look like a human, tbh.

People can be just lazy and skim the posts they’re replying to, ignore or fail to understand the edited bold text…

I miss some of the bots.

Remember-Me or Haiku-Bot

have been my favourite ones.

(I’m a shitty haiku bot)