frrad's comments

On: Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS

[frrad]

I wrote this https://github.com/frrad/skyhub the other day to provide a nicer interface on top of the scihub torrents.

On: Sci-Hub users cost ASA journals thousands of downloads

[frrad]

It's still extremely raw, but I've done some work on decentralized access to sci-hub. Given an index of scihub ID <> DOI which can be generated from the DB dump made available by libgen https://github.com/frrad/scimag it's possible to selectively download only the parts of the torrent required to get the article you are looking for.

Check it out, contributions welcome. https://github.com/frrad/skyhub

On: A New Way to Tell Your Airline You Hate It

[frrad]

Here I thought this was going to be about someone having implemented my idea.

Basically, a fund you can donate to that then looks for lawsuits against the airlines to underwrite Peter Thiel/Gawker/Hulk Hogan style.

On: Google Says 5% of Visitors to Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed

[frrad]

Pretty sure parent was being sarcastic

[sjolsen → frrad]

It's so hard to tell sometimes.