Comment on Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people.

bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh no, it also looks like I’ve spilled www.smartquantai.com over there. What a disaster, don’t look at that mutual aid community for hard to find papers; it’s full of communists and anarchists. Cannot have that kind of radical behaviour in a science community after all.

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  • dogsnest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sure glad this isn’t a Music forum

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh goodness, looks like I splashed over here: mander.xyz/post/17313841

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      LOOKS LIKE I’LL NEED TO BREAK OUT ZOTERO TO CLEAN UP THE MESS.

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      • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Goddamn, butterfingers!

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know this is a helpful community, but it looks like the biggest scam site of all time lol

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    • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The url also sets off so many alarm bells for me. Lol

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      • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah lol the URL doesn’t match the page title which doesn’t match whatever wosonhj.com is. According to their DNS, some Chinese organization. I’m sure it’s a helpful site, but I’d recommend people accessing it:

        1. Don’t use your actual personal email
        2. Don’t reuse a password you’ve used elsewhere
        3. Access it through a VPN so your IP isn’t exposed
        4. Ensure you are running malware protection (the built in malware protection on windows or mac is likely fine and otherwise yes, I know you use arch)
        5. Anything you download, uplo https://www.virustotal.com just to be safe

        Realistically you should follow steps 1-5 for most online services, but here we are

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Haha, I know, but it’s a good site!!

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• CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of my professors wrote the textbook we were using. Before the first day of class, he sent out a greeting email. Attached to that email was a .PDF of the textbook. Hell yeah.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s really rare. Back when I was in school the professor who taught the class and wrote the book would, every year, change enough of it to sell a new addition. Either move the sections around or change the problems.

    Just so he could make more money.

    It was a calculus class.

    Fuck him.

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  • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh man. In undergrad I had a Thermodynamics professor who used the DRAFT VERSION of his textbook to teach with. It was completely unedited and he expected us to catch any errors. He was also like 80 years old, doddering, hard of hearing, forgetful, didn’t give us a syllabus until halfway through the semester… It’s the only class in undergrad that I got less than a B in. Years later I still resent him lol

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    • el_abuelo@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Entropy man. It’s a bitch.

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      • Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hmm…

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      • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Entropy Man!

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I give you permission to stop caring about that grade and to forgive someone who was surely on the way out after your class. The likelihood is that he died years ago.

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s more of a grad school thing but I’ve had professors just give us all physical copies of their book because they have too many cases of free copies at home.

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  • CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ha hell yeah. My dad did adjunct work for a while while working for the gov. He declined profits from his textbook and gave it out free to his students as he thought it was unethical. The copies the gov bought for their cont ed courses he gladly accepted the profits from though lmao my dad’s a real one.

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• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep, and a good way to make acquaintances in class if you let everyone know you can be the PDF kid. 🤓

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