Nemo_bis

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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
> Oracle Corp. has spent five years and billions of dollars getting really good at following people around the internet. Six acquisitions reportedly totaling at least $3 billion since 2014 https://www.bloomberg.com/news&#
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
On The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/14/tiktok-by... On Reuters: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-autos/europe-br...
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
It's not quite a secret, you can see yourself if you look closely enough.
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Also on Reuters: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-arm-holdings-m-a-nvidia/nv...
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
There are many Goodreads competitors. To the others already mentioned, I'll add https://inventaire.io/ , which is fully free software and based on open data (Wikidata). It's useful if you want to have full control
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
That's pretty common either way. See Rekdal (2014), "Academic urban legends". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4232290
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
You don't. shhhh
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24425734
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Commercial publishing giants with subscription journals are ad-supported too, nowadays. You find ads in the weirdest places. https://mamot.fr/@nemobis/104755721369049700
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
I think the criticism is not about the paper, only about the article describing it.
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Indeed. One part of the problem might be addressed in EU in the coming years if art. 8 of the 2019 copyright directive gets implemented well. https://www.communia-association.org/2019/12/10/implementing...
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
You can use Zenodo (hosted at CERN with some EU funding). https://zenodo.org/
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
LOL, I waited since yesterday and ended up writing 5 min after you. :)
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Yes, the Internet Archive already used those URLs, or tried to. Bryan was so kind as to share some statistics about it: https://groups.google.com/g/unpaywall/c/AbNwXdyWZfE/m/OVoVmx... Having an URL
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Publishers in general are very bad at preservation. Entire runs of journals often vanish because the publisher went bankrupt, sold some assets or just didn't bother to do their homework. For this reason, customers (mostly libraries and
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Internationally, mostly https://www.lockss.org/ and https://clockss.org/ .
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
See, for publishing: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journals_published_by_libr... And for archival: https://www.lockss.org/
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Do you do bulk archival on your own will, i.e. without the authors having to ask and provide files? For instance, there are about 140k works under a Creative Commons license (mostly free ones, some unfree) from French authors, most of which
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Also, there are currently hundreds of seeders (according to a popular torrent indexers) and there were probably thousands of snatches. Good luck prosecuting that many people.
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JCR impact factor suspended for 50 journals over unusual self-citation patterns(retractionwatch.com)
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Outline is proprietary software. https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/develop/LICENSE Also, are you saying it requires you to run Slack alongside? There are many good and free software wiki engines, I
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
What, didn't Chomsky already solve that in the 1960s? /s
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
Nice. I hope GitHub is down 67 minutes every quarter, just so that Microsoft loses some money.
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
"Encrypt" !== "Protect"
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That's unclear to me. By running DoH, Comcast gets to spy Comcast customers. But Comcast of course can already see what IP addresses talk with Comcast customers, so what changes really? That the spying might become marginally easier ma
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
I sure hope that Mozilla writes contracts so that they can't be transferred by sale or merger. That's the most basic protection from your friendly counterparty joining your sworn enemy.
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
> Why does Mozilla need to care about Comcast's opinion on this Because Comcast has Washington in its pocket?
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How Can You Help the Internet Archive?(blog.archive.org)
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by Nemo_bis 6y ago
That's like saying that getting a prison sentence doesn't really remove your liberty, because it's just costly to regain it (with a period in prison). The point is whether the publisher respects the authors right of republica
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The Norwegian case and many others are listed in the SPARC cancellation tracker: https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-cancellation-trackin...

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