First they destroyed the library of Alexandria. Now they want to destroy the library of Alexandra.
Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline
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#72Is there a way to mirror parts of sci hub?
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#73FYI. http://sci-hub.ee https://sci-hub.ee https://sci-hub.wf http://sci-hub.wf https://sci-hub.cat
Are any of those official mirrors? Wikipedia points to https://sci-hub.ru as the official URL, and that site lists all official mirrors as [1]: sci-hub.se sci-hub.st sci-hub.ru All of which are different from your list. I have no idea personally, I'm just wondering how to know what to use. [1] https://sci-hub.ru/mirrors
Any of them.
.se was the official, post-seizure Elbakyan suggests .ru.
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#74Handshake solves this. https://blog.neuenet.com/post/why-get-a-tld
They decided they did not want to work with the existing system and the only option was a complete replacement, rather than a dual system. They shot themselves in the foot. On top of that, they guy who ruined freenode took over Handshake and ruined that too. They lost several core developers along the way
You're operating under several incorrect pretenses.
Handshake works with the existing DNS. "The guy who ruined Freenode" had a minor part in the creation of Handshake but does not control it. The core developers of Handshake are still active.
Re: Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline
#75Is there a way to mirror parts of sci hub?
Or all of it? How many TB
Hmm I guess they don't want to get accidentally DoS attacked
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is not always about what something is not doing, but rather the unintended (often malicious) use cases it enables without any way to prevent or mitigate.
curious what “malicious” use cases a decentralized name registry enables that dns doesn’t?
you're focusing on the first part (what it enables) and not the last part (without any way to mitigate)
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Certificates are free, and all certificates are surveilled with a cryptographically secure append-only log. Meanwhile, if you think the biggest problem with the DNS infrastructure we have now is rent-seeking, take a look at the blockchain alternatives that have been proposed. There might be no modern analog to "attempting to sell the Brooklyn Bridge" more fitting than blockchain DNS.
> attempting to sell the Brooklyn Bridge Handshake reserved the top 100,000 Alexa domains and allowed all trademark name holders to claim theirs. Not to mention the ten million in FOSS grants for developers to build tooling Sadly the ideologues will somehow decry their attempts for an alternative while defending the indefensible ICAAN.
Oh, that's nice of Handshake. Definitely it makes sense to me now that Handshake should be able to sell the domain namespace! Why not, if they're going to donate to FOSS?
My question to you is: if I donate MAC addresses to FOSS projects, can I tokenize ARP? I promise to be nice about it. The first 10,000 IP addresses can have their ARPCoin for free.
Seriously, this FOSS donation thing with Handshake: it's like selling people the Brooklyn Bridge, but promising generous new bike lanes. See, the FOSS stuff? It wasn't the problem with the plan.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Certificates are free, and all certificates are surveilled with a cryptographically secure append-only log. Meanwhile, if you think the biggest problem with the DNS infrastructure we have now is rent-seeking, take a look at the blockchain alternatives that have been proposed. There might be no modern analog to "attempting to sell the Brooklyn Bridge" more fitting than blockchain DNS.
Thomas, I’m not sure what you mean when you say that certificates are free. Self-signed certs are free, but only situationally useful in a business context. Let’s Encrypt certs are free, but not usable in all contexts. GoDaddy, Namecheap, and Verisign will still gladly charge $50-$1500 for certs will various features like $50/SAN, and extended validation. If you want to terminate TLS at an AWS managed edge resource,…
Tell me more about the contexts in which you can't use LetsEncrypt certificates.
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#79I just wanted to take a moment to say what a lifechanging tool sci-hub has been for research. In doing research for a big writing project on Mars I ended up with a folder of maybe 800 scientific and technical papers, some of them dating back to 1910. This is material it would have been hard to collect even with access to a major university library. Online publishers, meanwhile, demand extortionate per-paper fees for…
I think I'm probably HN's most fervent copyright supporter, and I want to find a way to disapprove of Sci-Hub; it feels like cheating? Like sidestepping the real issue, of how journals are organized? But I can't take myself seriously trying to argue that. Even my kids, who are both practicing scientists at institutions with official access to all these papers, use Sci-Hub to get stuff.
Re: Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline
#80I just wanted to take a moment to say what a lifechanging tool sci-hub has been for research. In doing research for a big writing project on Mars I ended up with a folder of maybe 800 scientific and technical papers, some of them dating back to 1910. This is material it would have been hard to collect even with access to a major university library. Online publishers, meanwhile, demand extortionate per-paper fees for…
I can get access to papers through my university, but even then there are many which lack subscription. And working from home, usually it is faster to just download the paper from sci-hub than go through a university login to get access.
I remember even using sci-hub for some 19th century papers, which are surely in the public domain...