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Re: Visualizing All ISBNs

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>$10,000 bounty >There is much to explore here, so we’re announcing a bounty for improving the visualization above. Unlike most of our bounties, this one is time-bound. You have to submit your open source code by 2025-01-31 (23:59 UTC). >The best submission will get $6,000, second place is $3,000, and third place is $1,000. >All bounties will be awarded using Monero (XMR). ? Why are they using crypto, and, weirdly en…

Because the efforts of Anna's Archive are unfortunately currently very much illegal, and XMR is one of the few cryptocurrencies that can actually offer some privacy to its users.

Re: Visualizing All ISBNs

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>$10,000 bounty >There is much to explore here, so we’re announcing a bounty for improving the visualization above. Unlike most of our bounties, this one is time-bound. You have to submit your open source code by 2025-01-31 (23:59 UTC). >The best submission will get $6,000, second place is $3,000, and third place is $1,000. >All bounties will be awarded using Monero (XMR). ? Why are they using crypto, and, weirdly en…

Because it is a book download site, which is illegal in every country that has copyright, and revealing one's identity with a bank transfer would be a stupid way to go to jail.

Re: Visualizing All ISBNs

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The problem with such judgment is that they are subjective and subject to biases that change over time. Almost every scrap of information from ancient civilizations is considered priceless at this point because so few is left of it. Anything from obscene graffiti, shopping lists, personal messages, etc. All of it.

Many autocratic regimes editorialize and censure all forms of publications. But even in the US, which is nominally still a democracy you now have states like Florida forcing changes to literature works and banning books entirely for religious and ideological reasons. And this is not just a right wing thing. There have been a few publishers that took it upon themselves to editorialize literature from the 19th and 20th century to get rid of some things that are now considered sexist, racist or otherwise offensive. The whole cancel culture is not just about canceling people, but about limiting access to their work as well.

I was at a Christmas market in Berlin a few weeks ago near the Opera. There's a nice little monument there for the book burning that happened in the 1930s. Anything that was vaguely intellectual or Jewish in origin was burned right there during the Kristallnacht. Nice place for a Christmas market and a grim reminder that those calling for things to be deleted/cancelled aren't necessarily very nice people. And of course Hitler himself got cancelled. Possession or distribution of his books is still not allowed in Germany.

Anyway, imagine somebody in 5000 years finding their way to some archive of hacker news or some reddit thread might look differently at the value of some of the comments than the average moderator.

Re: Visualizing All ISBNs

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Some people in the archiving / 'data hoarding' community feel it's simpler to just back up everything. This attitude is particularly prevalent in the communities that deal with data other people have already digitised.

If you're paying $100 per book for someone to visit a major library, get the book out, scan it, check the OCR? Then you'd probably be selective, to get the most out of a limited budget.

But if you're grabbing epubs and pdfs, and a book only needs $0.002 of space on a hard drive somewhere? Grabbing the useless 41% is probably cheaper and easier than exercising editorial control.

Re: Visualizing All ISBNs

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Kind of hard to tell what corresponds to what in these graphs, maybe if someone could point out Bookland (i.e. 978), it would be a bit easier to orient oneself?

Making it easier to visualise is the whole point of the bounty announced by this post.

Re: Visualizing All ISBNs

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>$10,000 bounty >There is much to explore here, so we’re announcing a bounty for improving the visualization above. Unlike most of our bounties, this one is time-bound. You have to submit your open source code by 2025-01-31 (23:59 UTC). >The best submission will get $6,000, second place is $3,000, and third place is $1,000. >All bounties will be awarded using Monero (XMR). ? Why are they using crypto, and, weirdly en…

>Why are they using crypto, and, weirdly enough, specifically the crypto people use for buying drugs, to award this?

You really have to ask why a illegal/grey site is using currency that is build to protect privacy and anonymity?

is this some kind of sarcasm?

Re: Visualizing All ISBNs

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post #13

Hm, I got: "... European sanctions The Council of Europe has decided that the websites of RT (formerly Russia Today) and Sputnik News may no longer be transmitted. The website you are trying to visit falls under this European sanction. ..."

I think the website is censored at DNS level but they chose the wrong error page. In Italy it just errors out with a NS_ERROR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.

You're just cleared up a minor mystery I never bothered to investigate (BT, UK). Thanks.

Flipping DNS to 8.8.4.4 fixed it for now but I really need to move this connection to A&A.

Re: Visualizing All ISBNs

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>$10,000 bounty >There is much to explore here, so we’re announcing a bounty for improving the visualization above. Unlike most of our bounties, this one is time-bound. You have to submit your open source code by 2025-01-31 (23:59 UTC). >The best submission will get $6,000, second place is $3,000, and third place is $1,000. >All bounties will be awarded using Monero (XMR). ? Why are they using crypto, and, weirdly en…

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what a bunch of nonsense

Re: Visualizing All ISBNs

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Some people in the archiving / 'data hoarding' community feel it's simpler to just back up everything. This attitude is particularly prevalent in the communities that deal with data other people have already digitised. If you're paying $100 per book for someone to visit a major library, get the book out, scan it, check the OCR? Then you'd probably be selective, to get the most out of a limited budget. But if you're g…

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