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Doomer fatalism is nearly as dumb as sci-fi optimism. It's 100% physically plausible, using technology we have today , to make humanity star-faring. The costs would be exorbitant at this point, but within the reach of human productive capacity (assuming we're willing to ditch the partial nuclear test ban).
> It's 100% physically plausible, using technology we have today, to make humanity star-faring. That kind of claim needs an actual source, because it's not . The distances are so many orders of magnitude too high for any of today's technologies, making this a pure daydream. The best we could plausibly do is travel within Sol, and that's not starfaring. It would have to be a multi generational journey in which any ref…
ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
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Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#522At least there is still tor. loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd .onion Update: The z-library wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library ) lists the following zlib onion domain which doesn't require a login: zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion
i can sign up fine in tor but the actual downloads directed me to zlibcdn.com/dtoken/ which is also down and the tor book preview doesn't work either.
Actually the Telegram bot works flawlessly.
1. access Z-lib page with TOR
2. Sign-up, get your token for the Telegram bot
3. Send your token to the bot: https://t.me/firstlibrarybot
4. Search and request your docs to the bot
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#523Earlier quoted context omitted.
They used various dark pattern marketing techniques to try and convince people to pay and make the site look like a legit library, so clearly some commercial intent even if it was always possible to download for free (maybe to provide some deniability?).
I disagree. The only thing approaching a dark pattern is asking you to sign in for advanced features. A free account gets you a bunch of those features. The main page has a single 'donate' link in the upper right corner. A contribution as low $1usd was enough to unlock all features except higher daily download limits. What dark patterns did you see?
- Making the service look like a legit library instead of clearly saying it's a repository of stolen books. Was confused myself for a while when I first stumbled on it, had to infer from it being too good to be true and doing some due diligence search.
- Various tricks to get the user to give an email (even if not necessary, similar to cookie boxes making "accept everything" very much easier than "only essentials".)
- After some time (download count or delay?) spam emails to try and get some payments out of the punter, again under false pretence.
Not saying it was bad value for money. Possibly not much worse than tricks average legal businesses employ. The point is someone sat down and devised that part of the UX with no other purpose than extract more money from users, by lying to them.
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#524Earlier quoted context omitted.
A multi-billion year backup is probably pointless. The earth will be uninhabitable in that time frame due to changes in the atmosphere and beyond that the sun itself will complete it's lifecycle. I know there's a big fad to "just believe" in a SF future that spans space and time but physical realities in this area are pretty rough. I think the best thing people could do is realise that, eventually, everything ends an…
> The earth will be uninhabitable in that time frame due to changes in the atmosphere and beyond that the sun itself will complete its lifecycle. At that point someone can just put it on a thumb drive and take it with. It's not beyond the realm of possibility that people ultimately inhabit a spaceship that wanders the universe looking for a new home.
"It's not beyond the realm of possibility that people ultimately inhabit a spaceship that wanders the universe looking for a new home."
We are doing that right now.
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#525Z-Library is still accessible via TOR. You may find and onion-URL in Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library
EXCELENTE PAGINA, MUCHAS GRACIAS
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#526Z-Library is still accessible via TOR. You may find and onion-URL in Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library
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#529Well, if the domain names are seized, maybe we could connect directly to the IP address? Does anyone know the IP address of z-lib domains (b-ok.cc or z-lib.org)? This is going to make me want to keep a local log of all IP addresses which the domain names map to :(
Also seized?? 66.212.148.115
Re: ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
#530Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like you're the one who's triggered here, so I guess my comments describe you?
Only with books in certain cases, not the rest. The word Oaf triggers me though: you are calling people stupid who care less than you about physical goods or who are ‘clumsy’. That’s good for nothing in an adult discussion.
Ok, maybe that word wasn't really what I was looking for. I was trying to describe clumsy people, not stupid people. Lots of people are clumsy and careless without being idiots.