/int/ - certified time wasters

>>17748
>I need to get a job where I can wear a suit and a tie like fuck.
Become department head.

Woke up with sun in my face and a massive boner.

>>17748
> I felt great while wearing it.

Then wear them not only to a university interview.

Tie LARP: you work in finance in an English-speaking megapolis. Act and dress like it.

>>17748
>I think I have talked about this before how I felt like I was owed a handshake at least. Or some kine of verbal acknowledgement.

You think too much about this academia thing, I'd say. As you said, do your own thing, and don't expect people to be congratulating you for your merits. Academia is a lot about academic merits. Everybody that sits there has gathered the results of some kind of merits. Maybe they don't care that much about the specific merits simply because it is not their cup of tea. I never got a handshake for doing what I did and I find it a bit strange to expect this congratulation as well for getting an award as a BA. People told me that I do good work, they hinted at an academic career or understandingly nodded their heads when I told them I wanted to do a PhD.

>I guess I should count myself lucky. Most BA students don't have lunch with their supervisor or smoke cigarettes with a lecturer or drink with them

Most people don't even want that I could imagine. I also had breakfast sort of with a lecturer once I worked for and we talked about doing PhD. We have no contact anymore whatsoever. I know some people at my old university. That is fine. But in the end none have been really beneficial in getting a PhD.

So my advice to this emotional event of yours is that you should continue what you do academically but rethink your expectations of academia to not be too disappointed about it and its rituals and reality. You will find people who support you, you already seem to have them. Not everybody will be like that, you will probably even have "enemies" at some point. And don't make your person dependent on academic success too much.
While I still want to do the PhD on that topic I developed, with distance I care less now. I don't actively look for people to support me and that can solve the financial issue for me as well. I still need to write back to a known academic in my circle from the US, I got declined for a good reason but was forwarded contacts that I haven't reached out to yet. Still need to write a thank you email. Well. What I want to say is: don't get caught up too much in it. From my experience, it is not worth it. Especially if you have other problems as well that need your attention. It took me quite some time to realize I should fix other things instead of concentrating on getting a PhD / having academic success.

Also, make sure you go to China.

>>17759
do you have access to papers?
need hälp >>>/b/24330
(https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2024.1807 seems the last on that topic from those)

>>17756
Making my own department with blackjack and hookers.

>>17759
Yes I know. I know it. It's just that even when I know it, it still hurts a bit for some reason. It's not logical.
Kissinger is right that this feels and is vicious because the stakes are very low.

>>17708
And suddenly I was cured. Date went well but it turns out she isn't a perfect human being or someone I'll stay with forever, our souls becoming one, etc.

>>17763
What did she do? Fart?

>>17764
Nothing in particular. It's just how it goes.

>>17764
>>17765
She farted, hands down.

>>17761
I did not know SciHub has been DNS blocked in Germany. Haven't looked up a paper since end of 2023 I think. Also no new papers. That is really shit, what do people do these days?
I don't have any other sources than you already mentioned. Looks like the r/scihub discusses alternatives all the time.

>>17762
>It's just that even when I know it, it still hurts a bit for some reason. It's not logical.

That's alright. I wish I could say something mindful about it but I have a problem with knowing and feeling and rationality as well and working on a solution.
Do you want to be acknowledged and handshaked by academic higher ups to prove your worth (to yourself) perhaps? Academic validation is one way to fill gaps left by others I'd say.

Speaking of awards. I received my award for an above-average graduation in MA in the mail. Sadly no comparative metrics like with my BA. Very bland, just a single page saying award and what for. I will personally stop by the office of the president and make him issue a handshake
Doesn't help with getting a job. However, I have seen job postings that require a very good master's grade. Usually something in science management.

why can't none of you academia snobs with free(*) access to uni-lib upload some papers as *.pdf for this neet?
DOIs were provided.


*you only had to sacrifice your sanity and morals in order to access it.

>>17770
Besides Hungary and Switzerland, nobody is part of a university anymore as far as I know. Also depending on the journal it might not be part of the library catalog.

>>17770
You just have to ask and I’ll check my access. Where are said DOIs?
What’s the probability I get arrested for doing that?

>>17772
>What’s the probability I get arrested for doing that?
Doing what? Looking up forbidden knowledge?

>>17764
>>17766
Now that I could stop and think about it, I believe it was a mix of what I perceived as a lack of interest in her part for myself, and how we don't share the same ideas of what relationships should be. I'll have to continue looking. at least she paid for dinner :DDD

>>17773
Posting restricted academic pdf files on EC

>>17774
And you dare calling it a Swiss level infatuation. Where’s the long process of self destruction? How dare you just walk away

>>17767
Germany is not a rogue-state, the Internet must not be a lawless space!

>>17775
>Posting restricted academic pdf files on EC
Holy shit are all zoomers such sissies?

This is academic knowledge, which should be shared and made available for everyone.
Journals are raking in money for doing nothing (because reviewers are also not paid, but you still have to pay for your own paper), so fuck them.
There's a reason why they did everything they could against scihub, but they brought it on themselves.
In fact I had a professor who told us that if we can't get something through institute access we should get it elsewhere, wink wink.
You are doing the right thing by spreading the knowledge.

And if all else fails, single publications can usually also be acquired by sending a nice email to the author.

>>17772
the main article would prolly be
> https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2024.1807
since that seems to be the "break-thru".

but would also be interested in previous works done.
> https://doi.org/10.1109/JPROC.2022.3203215
> https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2023.Th1B.7
> 10.1364/OFC.2023.Th2A.11
> 10.1109/JLT.2023.3339391
> 10.1109/JLT.2024.3379676

basically anything since attached *.pdf from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37275212900 which isn't open access.
(maybe even 10.1109/SUM53465.2022.9858323 and 10.1109/SUM53465.2022.9858223 since it seems close enough)

BUT I would decide which of those are worse digging in, after reading the first paper - so prolly not worth your effort :3

> What’s the probability I get arrested for doing that?
if u paranoid, use whonix https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Download
alternatively, just delete post after a short while - if i am not fast enough, it's a me problem :)

>>17775
Btw you could also upload that stuff to a dropbox and share the link here, or upload it to catbox or whatever, if you don't want to upload directly on the EC which is probably closely monitored by the BKA, BND, BfV, MAD, FBI, NSA, Mossad, KGB, OMON, tiktok marketers, Gestapo and the 中華人民共和國國家安全部.

>>17779
> dropbox
highly likely monitored. on a coding competition DoD-Jury-Person and Dropbox-Jury-Person were buddy-buddies :D

>>17775
>Where’s the long process of self destruction?
I will simply skip it. I think having regular sex keeps things in perspective.

>>17777
>You are doing the right thing by spreading the knowledge.
I pertinently know that and instantly agreed. I have no knowledge on how much monitored is the spreading of academic knowledge. So I ask. Doesn't mean I never pirated anything.
I remember too that .xyz was used by eastern euros as a pdf sharing platform or something along those lines, the question was asked back then as to what risk it represented for the site.

>>17778
I'm sorry my institution doesn't have access to any of these papers

>>17782
> no access
Are you training to be a beautician?

>>17777
Sounds like something a pedophile would say. Are you a pedophile?

If you are as smart as you claim to be, you should find a way to either pay or get access without roping some undergrads into pirating papers for you. What a loser.

>>17782
> I'm sorry my institution doesn't have access to any of these papers
:( stuhpid humanities!!

>>17777
> reviewers are also not paid
it's even worse: some papers actively ignore reviewers, because they want to publish even shit papers.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/scientists-aghast-at-bizarre-ai-rat-with-huge-genitals-in-peer-reviewed-article/
some fakes are harder to detect, but this was so obvious, that even the unmotivated, unpaid workers noticed it but they got ignored.

science publication could be done for soooo cheap with a simple p2p network. publishers should be abolished completely; we simply do not need those anymore. would free up grants for reviews, if universities do not need to pay those license fees anymore.
A lot has been done towards the direction of open access, but it is still a long way.

>>17783
am not that guy, but the person who asked.
am neet. have 3 letters from dentist reminding me to pay 95NG, half of which i could get back from krankenversicherung, but couldn't effort the 95NG in a single pay last few months. you expect me to pay for words? :DDDD

gonna send an e-mail to the authors now >.<*

>>17783
Note sure if larping or actual retard, but you should go back to the cabbage where you belong.

>>17782
> I have no knowledge on how much monitored is the spreading of academic knowledge.
not too sure, but some copyright holders are real sharks. e.g. the *.mp4 song in >>17704 got taken down pretty much instantly everywhere that had automated detection. even if it was fair use commentary. I doubt any copyright holders even know of EC's existence. maybe some secret/intelligence agency lurk or crawl here, but those are usually not interested in banal copyright the contrary: it would make their lurking or crawling more likely to be detected

> what risk it represented for the site.
not 100% sure how it is now, but afaik you had to respond within 1 (work?) day if someone reported illegal content on your site. only if you ignore complaints, you might be liable. you do not have to actively review all content yourself. how are you even supposed to know if something is copyrighted or not? you simply can't. maybe EC can be forced to share the IP (if still saved. was it 1 or 2 weeks?), but a single hop should be enough so you, as poster, are 100% on the safe site. only if some agency really, really, really wants to track you down, you might wanna consider more than 1 hop in order to mask your IP.

In all honesty: EC is too small. No copyright holder would be interested in paying a lawyer for the time needed to write a take down request. the impact of EC is just not worth it.

I would like to play a game, but since yesterday I've been feeling under the weather. I don't feel sick, but I also don't feel fine, I am not sleepy-tired, but just "stretch my limbs away from myself and do nothing" tired.
I got bitten by a tick on sunday, but it can't have been there for more than four hours, I removed it as soon as I noticed and TBE needs more than two days to incubate.

Can't you use VPN to access scihub? Or Anal-Lena Bareback's great firewall is unpenetrable?

Reaching that point again where I have no clue what I'm doing
Like what the fuck is China even

So many posts. Did you consider that a uni access pdf will have the date, time and uni ingrained in that pdf for every other Ernst to see?

>>17789
A VPN does not change the fact that the paper is not available on scihub and that scihub apparently doe snot update its database anymore.

>>17793
>Did you consider that a uni access pdf will have the date, time and uni ingrained in that pdf for every other Ernst to see?
No, tell me more. Does the journal website embed the credentials or what?

>>17795
I don't know how it gets watermarked, probably by the publisher when a download is requested by an institutional ip or however that works. When I downloaded articles or books via the uni VPN I ot watermarked pdfs with the institutions name, date and time. You can see this in pdfs from Scihub as well btw. For example a paper from scihub I downloaded had the watermark of

>University of Chicago, date and time. and usually an ip adress

>>17796
Huh, I just checked, I do indeed have a bunch of papers with the uni library's watermark.
I am too lazy though to check if other papers I have without watermark are also free access.

> *.pdf watermark
shouldn't it be trivial to remove it?
can't be more work as adding it... and that is automatic. so removing could be done automatically as well (like removing EXIF from image files?).

maybe we could add a little script to our tinyboard/vichan fork for automatically removing any *.pdf watermark? (has that been done before? If it's not a simple copy&paste, doing it from scratch shouldn't be too hard, either)

>>17810
>shouldn't it be trivial to remove it?
>can't be more work as adding it...

shouldn't it be trivial to take square roots?
can't be more work as squaring...

>>17810
Since I don't know anything about that I think the easiest is to ask the authors of the paper for a copy explaining you are highly interested but don't have the money to pay for it.

It's so humid.
Yesterday there was a big thunderstorm without anything really cooling down.
I just opened the windows, but instead of getting more wet, hot air it didn't amount to anything.

Speaking of free knowledge, tomorrow is another court day for the internet archive.
I already donate money, but they also have a petition going on. Doesn't hurt to sign it, does it?
https://chng.it/JHN9bR7kzs

Of course nobody fucking said that the list of topics on the website is not complete because THERE WILL ALSO BE A CHINESE LANGUAGE ORAL EXAM FUCK THIS DEPARTMENT.
THEY HAVE THE SAME DOCUMENT UPLOADED TWICE TO THE FUCKING WEBSITE AND I GET TOLD ABOUT THIS SHIT LIKE 8 HOURS BEFORE THE EXAM.
TAIPING HEAVENLY KINGDOM 2 INCOMING

天生萬物以養人
人無一善以報天
殺殺殺殺殺殺殺

>>17812
good point.
never rly looked too deep into *.pdf and how it suxx. does it have integrated DRM?
I was naively assuming you can just .read() the header/watev, scan for the field(s) and .write() without those.

to be quite honest, i don't like *.pdf as a file format anyway and never understood why we (still) use it. Anything digital should default to dark mode (to safe energy!! - saving the world one small step at a time still support light mode as option for the sight-impaired, of course. Barrierefreiheit und so).

DRM is destroying our world as well: it costs additional energy and tries something which is theoretically and practically impossible to achieve. Trying to enforce something physically impossible via laws is stupid af. Next thing habbening is pushing the legal prohibition of breathing natural O2, because it is not Nestlé®-O2™ or what? 🙄

Just finished my exams. Long live my youth and summer vacations!

Have a badd ass weekend everyone!

>>17875
Will you travel? Have you considered doing an interrail, young sparrow?

>>17882
He's not in school anymore. Uni summer break means working a job to pay for shit.