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    5 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

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      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.

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        5 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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            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

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              5 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.

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                5 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