marc0s @marc0s@librem.one

An argument that's often made is that piracy harms content creators. That music piracy impacts the revenue that artists earn through royalties, etc. The gist of the argument is "piracy hurts those who make the content you love".

Whether you believe that or not, do you know who this DOESN'T apply to?

Do you know who receive NO royalties for their published work, and in fact must PAY just to get published? Academics.

You should feel no guilt for obtaining free scientific papers. The authors are losing nothing; their research is being seen by more people than it would otherwise.

So why do they pay to get published? Reputable academic journals serve as a clearing-house. Getting your paper published in a journal is a mark of quality, indicating that your paper has been peer-reviewed and accepted as a valid contribution to science and knowledge. And I have no problem with this; people pay for certifications all the time.

What I have a problem with is that the journal, who have already been paid to publish the article, then turn around and charge the general public for access to the article. (I guess it's usually free if you're a student, but still.) Essentially the journal is taking ownership of, and restricting the dissemination of the scientific knowledge that they were paid to publish.

Publish: from the Latin publicare, "to make public". If it's behind a paywall, it's not publically available; so technically, it's not actually published.

Consider also the rise of "predatory journals", something that can only exist because of this business model. Predatory journals basically exist to scam academics into "publishing" their work in a journal that is neither peer-reviewed nor reputable. They also make money off those who want to advance an agenda; predatory journals will happily take money to publish just about any paper, including those which were outright lies or would never pass a real peer review.

The only ones who benefit financially from all of this is the journals themselves.

So, pirating academic papers may harm the journal it's published in, as they lose out on potential access fees. But the authors don't lose anything financially. And they also don't lose any value in publishing; they are paying for the legitimacy that being reviewed and published grants their work, and the journal still receives the publishing fee. And the journals will always get plenty of money flowing in from all of the universities that provide access to their students.

Who's really losing out here? Anyway, SciHub is a thing.

Terrorist watchlist exposed via misconfigured Elasticsearch cluster
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/secret-terrorist-watchlist-with-2-million-records-exposed-online/

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OK. This is quite technical. But TL;DR - the neural hash system #Apple uses for their CSAM detection has been confronted with its first possible collision by some good hackers. This dog might be marked by the system as suspicious. Ouch. Issue 1 at https://github.com/AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX

It's summertime, but we're still working hard! Version 1.3 of #Mobilizon is now available. Discover all new features on https://joinmobilizon.org/en/news#21-08-17

« After years of a push to digitise databases in the country, and introduce digital identity cards and biometrics for voting, activists warn these technologies can be used to target and attack vulnerable groups.

“We understand that the Taliban is now likely to have access to various biometric databases and equipment in #Afghanistan ,” the Human Rights First group wrote on Twitter on Monday. »

https://www.reuters.com/article/afghanistan-tech-conflict/afghans-scramble-to-delete-digital-history-evade-biometrics-idINL8N2PO1FH

A minke whale. And yes, this is my best photo of a minke whale ever. It's pretty hard to take a good shot to them.

*Against*

RT @AFP@twitter.com

#BREAKING Macron vows EU initiative to protect against migrant flows from Afghanistan

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1427332973897166849

Inside Racism HQ: How home-grown neo-Nazis are plotting a white revolution

https://www.theage.com.au/national/inside-racism-hq-how-home-grown-neo-nazis-are-plotting-a-white-revolution-20210812-p58i3x.html

RT @Miquel_R@twitter.com

Infiltrados en una red neonazi.

Periodistas y antifascistas se infiltran en los grupos neonazis australianos y revelan sus identidades y sus planes: están armados y preparados para la guerra.

La investigación publicada hoy en @theage@twitter.com:
https://www.theage.com.au/nazis-next-door

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Miquel_R/status/1427149408412569601

Debian 11 “Bullseye” Released
https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210814

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RT @boye_g@twitter.com

No es "justicia", solo son tribunales militares dirigidos por no juristas y con acusadores (fiscales) que tampoco lo son:

La Justicia israelí suspende hasta principios de septiembre el juicio contra la española Juana Ruiz https://www.elespanol.com/reportajes/20210810/empieza-israel-trabajadora-humanitaria-espanola-juana-ruiz/603190027_0.html a través de @elespanolcom@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/boye_g/status/1425348243282665475

Just read a stupid discussion between some English folks saying that it isn't possible to have more than one mother tongues. My son has 2 mother tongues (Basque and Spanish) and that's very common in bilingual places.

RT @mikelayestaran@twitter.com

El argumento de invadir #Afganistan para “luchar contra el terror” queda ahora a la altura de las armas de destrucción masivas de #Irak

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mikelayestaran/status/1425894700280696833

The "good" thing of being able to speak and read many languages is that I can see that the hate to minority/native languages is widespread in this fucking world, everywhere, and is commonly fueled by people that only speak and understand a single language.

#EmacsConf 2020 recordings are now live! Check them out, and make a party out of it by playing them inside of Emacs, while wearing your Emacs shirt, while drinking your favorite beverage from an Emacs mug. It's #Emacs all the way down! https://u.fsf.org/37- https://u.fsf.org/37g

"Ningún gobierno lucha en contra del fascismo para destruirlo. Cuando la burguesía ve que el poder se les escapa de sus manos, alzan el fascismo para mantener sus privilegios"José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (León, España, 14 de julio de 1896 – Madrid, España, 20 de noviembre de 1936) #anarchism

Chasing a Performance Regression with Erlang/OTP 22
https://tech.nextroll.com/blog/dev/2020/11/03/chasing-a-perf-regression-erlang.html

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RT @xmpp@twitter.com

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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/xmpp/status/1273638429058793473

New progress note (W08) available at https://www.goffi.org/b/HsWxUHzXdvsH7Syrx8f6Ne/progress-note
It's talking about some UX improvements in Cagou

#salutatoi #XMPP #progress_note #cagou #android