• bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
    231·
    2 months ago

    For those of you that have yet to embark on your secondary education, this is how you know you’ve got a champ of a professor

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPMEnglish
      82·
      2 months ago

      Oh no, it also looks like I’ve spilled https://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. Next thing you know, they will be screaming Kropotkin quotes… Cannot have that kind of radical behaviour in a science community after all.

      • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

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

          • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15·
            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.

            It links to a fake version of libgen populated with ads

            (And sadly instead of re-hosting all 550+ TB of libgen for downloads they force the downloads through libgen’s servers while throwing ads on top of their fake UI)

            It links to a fake version of sci hub populated with ads

            (Most of these all flowing into mobang.top, another throwaway url with Chinese DNS)

            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, and if you use nix you’re too busy modifying one of your .nix files to even read this)
            5. Anything you download, upload to https://www.virustotal.com just to be safe

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

            • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPMEnglish
              10·
              2 months ago

              It used to be at that URL, and that URL redirects to it. They recently updated it and I am unsure where they are taking it.

              • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
                5·
                2 months ago

                It makes sense to use throwaway urls, libgen does it all the time, I just wanted to inform people of what I found when looking at the site. Definitely not saying don’t use it, just be cautious

    • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      68·
      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.

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        62·
        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.

      • klemptor@startrek.websiteEnglish
        19·
        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

            • vortic@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              Entropy Man would be a scary accidental villain. Just random acts of chaos as they go through life until enough shit goes wrong and they become persecuted. The they learn to use their powers for revenge against an unjust society.

              • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                OMG somebody else knows this movie!!! :D

                My dad would always laugh to the point of wheezing at the bee sting bit…

                • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  My dad would always laugh to the point of wheezing at the bee sting bit…

                  Are you a brother I didn’t know about?!
                  My Dad does the same thing!

                  He doesn’t even need to be watching the movie. I can just say, ‘Hey remember Martin Short getting stung in that movie?’ And he’ll start guffawing.

                  Show this to yer Pa!

        • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          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.

      • CptEnder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        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.

      • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        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.

    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      You can also ask a librarian for help. We like finding things and might be able to get a copy through interlibrary loan or other connections. We also like girl scout cookies, especially the ones with coconut.

      • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        If you are are doing any kind of learning (as a citizen or registered student) your local librarian, particularly your local academic librarian, is your best friend and you just don’t know it yet. Introduce yourself, and come with questions.

        But don’t neglect your public librarians either - that light I saw in their eyes when asking about an obscure service they offered stuck with me.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    2 months ago

    This is horrible. I’m going to download a bunch of these PDFs so that there are less copies available for other dishonest people to download.

    I’m doing my part!

  • President@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    37·
    2 months ago

    I don’t suppose your professor teaches a class in film too and also knows where I SHOULD AVOID PIRATING TV SHOWS?

    It’s been a long time and I’m not sure which waters are safe to sail anymore.

  • Sceptri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    I’ll just recommend Anna’s archive… And we all know which Anna I’m talking about (if not, than google and you shall see)

    • higgsboson@dubvee.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      That’s to be expected. It’s probably an oldish image. Libgen (and Anna’s Archive, et al) have periodically drawn attention from prosecutors, not unlike other so-called “piracy” sites. I wish I had enough storage and upstream to seed their torrents. In particular, Anna’s Archive has ebooks of old books I’ve never been able to find elsewhere, regardless of price. I wish libgen had been around when I was in college.