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Just tried to download and install handshake. Requires docker. Just tried to download and install docker on windows 7, failed install, requires more stuff. Opinion: This will never become a realization until these people realize the average Joe is not going to jump through all these hoops just to get an alternative browser up and running. It should be simple and seamless. Less than 1% will bother with all this.
Just tried to download and install handshake. Requires docker. Just tried to download and install docker on windows 7, failed install, requires more stuff. Opinion: This will never become a realization until these people realize the average Joe is not going to jump through all these hoops just to get an alternative browser up and running. It should be simple and seamless. Less than 1% will bother with all this.
> sci-hub.hns/ could not be resolved by HNS.to. Please try another Handshake resolver.. Can't censor what you can't reach, checkmate.
Resolves for me: $ host sci-hub.hns sci-hub.hns has address 186.2.163.57
$ host sci-hub.hns
Host sci-hub.hns not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
And the web frontend is unable to render anything, echoing that message I quoted above.
It is worth noting that this is exactly what Aaron Swartz was bullied to his tragic death 8 years and a day ago. May he rest in peace. And kudos to Alexandra. P.S. Corrected the date, seems like I still live in 2020. Thank you, lazyant.
RIP Aaron Schwartz. You are a patriot for truth and freedom.
Just tried to download and install handshake. Requires docker. Just tried to download and install docker on windows 7, failed install, requires more stuff. Opinion: This will never become a realization until these people realize the average Joe is not going to jump through all these hoops just to get an alternative browser up and running. It should be simple and seamless. Less than 1% will bother with all this.
Does the average Joe really reads articles from sci-hub ? The target public of sci-hub should be able to understand how to install a couple programs imo. Windows 7 has reached EOL a year ago (minus two days), so yeah, maybe it's not very well supported...
What a ridiculous statement, do you truly want to live in a world where they can't? Most authors on sci-hub themselves would struggle with containers.
If a mechanic mocked a room full of people for not being able to change their own oil what would you think of them?
Please reconsider such an ideological stance.
Beyond those institutions that have a financial interest in this. What would be the motivation for someone like twitter to ban scihub?
Elsevier and Wiley have a lot of lawyers who are likely arguing that leaving it up is condoning copyright infringement. There’s a long history of threats for anything related to targets of these lawsuits, and other companies taking something offline quickly to avoid being caught in the crossfire.
The science should be funded and free. The applications of the science are where the money is to be made.
These companies are unnecessary dinosaurs from a bygone era. It's time for them to fail and die off naturally. But it will probably take legislation to do so. And I for one can't wait to see them gone.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Followed by this: 'Handshake is “is effectively a decentralized domain name server,” Roquerre said.' -- thus implying that DNS is NOT decentralized? The article is pretty bad. For his sake, I hope they are taking his quotes out of context. Because I had a quick look at https://www.namebase.io/ -- and it does look interesting. It appears that they have decentralized the REGISTRY by putting it on the "Handshake" blockc…
But now that I think about it, the registry IS already decentralized. IE: .com is managed by an organization separate from .org. And the whole reason for "renting" from .com is because .com owns the space. If you "buy" a TLD on the Handshake blockchain, do you lose the ability to rescind delegations under that TLD once people have "bought" them?
Didn't last long? > sci-hub.hns/ could not be resolved by HNS.to. Please try another Handshake resolver..
Beyond those institutions that have a financial interest in this. What would be the motivation for someone like twitter to ban scihub?
In this case it seems that they would have considered the actions of the companies running the paywalls. How likely would they be to take legal action (not all of which is public) against Twitter? Fairly likely, if they feel that Twitter is helping to publicize the service they want to take down.
This is both in the legal and financial interest of Twitter. There is no real blow back from kicking off this person and their service versus dealing with US corporations. Copyright law changes and the impact of court decisions likely play a factor too. I find it hard to believe that some court somewhere, hasn't held Twitter (or similar service) liable for indirect copyright damages (that is likely being appealed.)