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Scientific papers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You could try Sci-Hub and LibGen. If you don't find what you're looking for, you can always email the authors or other scholars who may have access to the paper you're interested in. A less alternative site would be arXiv, but it just has preprints.

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/c/Scholar: For requesting and sharing scholarly literature (lemmy.ml)
 

Think of r/Scholar, but on Lemmy.

/c/Scholar

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lemmy.ml/c/scholar

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[Meta] Welcome to /c/Scholar (lemmy.ml)
 

Let’s face it, Reddit’s probably never going to return to what it once was. Most of the subs that haven’t either died or changed their rules are run by "power-mods" that "moderate" well over what someone can manage.

r/Scholar was one of my favourite subs. One of the reasons I was able to contribute so much to that sub was because I made a program that scanned the sub and made a list of the open requests, detecting those that were available on LibGen or SciHub. I had another program that automatically uploaded it to a file hosting platform, made a mirror to LibGen, and commented on the post in question.

With Reddit’s API change, that “bot” (I wouldn’t call it a bot per se, as it had to be run manually) will stop working, it’d take too long to scan the posts to be usable given the new restrictions on the rate limiting of the API. If this community gains traction (and if I have free time to code), I’ll port those programs to work with the Lemmy API.

Although this community is not affiliated with r/Scholar, if the mods there want to port r/Scholar to here and help me moderate, I’ll welcome them with open arms. The more, the merrier.

Thank you for reading my rant/introduction to this community.

PDF Editor in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

To the best of my knowledge, there isn't a good FOSS PDF editor.

There's LibreOffice Draw, but as you said, it messes up the formatting. There's also Inkscape, but good luck if you have pages of text. You can also try Scribus, but I wouldn't say it's good (or intuitive).

If all you want to do is write over a PDF, put (not edit, nor remove) text, formulae, or images, then Xournal++ is very decent.

If I need to edit a PDF, I use (*gags*) Adobe Acrobat running in Wine (with Lutris is very easy). It's as proprietary and evil as it can be, but it's good at editing PDFs.

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How to add a custom TLD? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've assigned domain names using a custom TLD to my home servers for ease of access.

When I put, say proxmox.server, in my address bar, it searches the web. To avoid that behavior, I have to specify http://proxmox.server.

I want Firefox to recognize .server as a valid TLD. I've searched the web to no avail, so that's why I'm writing this.

I came across this post in Stack Exchange, but the method described (ie, network.IDN.whitelist.server) doesn't work.

Does anybody know how can I add a custom domain to Firefox?

What was lemmy like before all the reddit refugees? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's been the same for me. 2 years ago, when I discovered Lemmy, the platform felt a bit dead. I looked around and there wasn't much content.

Now with the huge influx of people, Lemmy has seen an unprecedented grow. It's undoubtedly caused it's fair share of problems for the communities that were already in existance, although I don't see that as somerhing bad, just a step in it's growing process.

Way before the meltdown of Reddit, Lemmy was used mainly by it's creators and likeminded people. Now it's become way easier to find interesting content and diverse opinions.

I hope this wave of reddit refugees has given Lemmy the exposure needed to become a useful platform. I just hope that "the bad" of reddit doesn't come here.