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antitrust lawsuit filed against Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Sage, Wiley, and Wolters Kluwer, for conspiring to appropriate billions that should have funded scientific research in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

arXiv doesn't have peer review as far as I know

India considers joining Russia, China to build nuclear plant on Moon. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I read this in chief O'Brien's voice

Who is your favorite artist and what song/album would you recommend? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Seven Spires!!!

If an evil spirit cast a curse on me that I cannot listen to anything but Seven Spires, I wouldn't be too bothered.

They're a symphonic metal band, they released an amazing album this year "A Fortress Called Home".

MetaGer - An era comes to an end in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I've been using MetaGer for a long time and have been very satisfied with it. So sad to see it go. Time to look for a new search engine.

MetaGer - An era comes to an end (suma-ev.de)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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MetaGer, the privacy-focused search engine of the non-profit association SUMA-EV, will no longer exist in its familiar form. It will still be possible to use the token-financed service. Nothing will change for members and users who use MetaGer with a key. However, it is the ad-financed search that has ensured the main part of the revenue and thus the operation and further development. Unfortunately, this “normal” search is no longer possible as of today. This is just as dramatic as it sounds: it is no longer possible for SUMA-EV to continue to employ staff. All employees are being made redundant, as are the offices.

The reason is that Yahoo terminated our contracts unilaterally and without any notice on Monday. Upon request, we were merely informed that Yahoo would no longer be operating the business in Germany. For us as the operator of MetaGer, this means on the one hand that we no longer receive any advertising revenue, which has been used to pay for office space, servers and employees. On the other hand, we will also no longer be able to deliver our search results as part of the ad-financed search. Only with Yahoo did we have a central deal to receive search results in return for advertising. This no longer applies.

What happens now? MetaGer's supporting association, SUMA-EV, will continue to exist. It will also still be possible to buy a key for the token-financed search and search with MetaGer. With this model, MetaGer will still be able to query paid search engines and deliver the results without tracking as usual. We will also continue to work for SUMA-EV and MetaGer on a voluntary basis to ensure the operation of this small niche, but this will of course be on a very small scale and not what MetaGer is all about. MetaGer-Maps can also no longer be operated in this context. The plans to become bigger and to one day provide a really good alternative to “the big players” with its own index (or European index) have of course died with this termination by Yahoo. And that is what is really sad.

stop in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And that "no poop challenge" that was everywhere on lemmy about a year ago. Not sure whether that was a lemmy thing or wider, as I don't use anything besides lemmy.

I'm glad a local culture is growing here naturally, but I didn't expect it to be beans, jeans and no poop

Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I got the notification that it's on sale now. I'm buying it today and can't wait to play it when I get the time

SLRPNK Community Discussion - September 2024 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for mentioning Photon! I just tried it and it has a much better look and feel than the default lemmy UI. Though I noticed that I cannot collapse comment chains (or don't know how to), and on one occasion when someone posted a huge format video in the comments, the video was rendered over the comments below it, which didn't happen in the default UI. But other than that, it's great!
All in all I wouldn't mind if this were the default frontend, I'll probably keep using it myself.

How to quit VIM? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I know how you feel. I often find myself typing :w into notepad/word at work to save something. Or when I log into a machine that doesn't have the vim extension in vscode I constantly type /something to search, only to realize that I actually wrote that in the file. Then using 'u' to undo just adds more characters and people look at me like I'm on some drugs. Just embrace it!

:wq

CAW in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Interesting, I thought their beaks were just some hard material, like our nails. Didn't know that there's bloodflow there.

I was only gone for a day or two... in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

Exactly my experience. I often heard stories of vegans being like that, but I never ever saw it so I thought it was just made up to belittle vegans.

Then I joined lemmy and found out that I'm apparently in favour of massacres, slavery and rape because I consume meat/milk/eggs from time to time.

I imagine the vast majority of vegans just go about their lives and resprectfully discuss the ethics of animal consumption when the topic comes up, but these loud militant members really make vegans look bad and they sure as hell make it so that even less people consider going vegan

This happened a while ago but the irony is just so palpable in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember seeing to mod in the post commenting on someone's mention of North Korea. First he posted an image detailing the deaths caused by the US and South Korea during the Korean war, and that was it, no mention about NK specifically. Later he said that there was no proof that NK is brutally repressing its citizens. Then when someone said how everyone who fled NK said so, he said how they only do it for the shock value to get stories out and make money out of that, or something like that.

Basically people like that find anything anti-US as good, and if you say anything bad about those countries, they'll ask for proof and then call whatever you provide fake.

Compassionate Discourse in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That is a big question which I am sadly not equiped enough to answer adequately, as I have not invested that much time into anarchist works. What I can give is an example from Kropotkin's book "Mutual Aid":

He mentions how in village societies every dispute was treated as a comunal affair. If no resolution could be found, the case was brought to a group of people (can't remember specifically how they were chosen), and they would pass a verdict and resolution. The disputing parties could then either accept the verdict, or they would be excluded from the community. By excluded I mean that they would not enjoy the hospitality and aid of other members, and would thus have to leave the community. So if you are deemed a problematic member and won't change accordingly, nobody would exert power over you, you would just cease to be a part of the community. Obviously if someone got violent, self-defence would be acceptible.