Re:I'm a programmer – how can I help SciHub?
by andai on Sunday July 11, 2021 @03:16PM
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Couldn't we just use something like LimeWire? (Does anything like that exist now?)
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Re:I'm a programmer – how can I help SciHub?
by jazzyjackson on Sunday July 11, 2021 @03:38PM
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See lib gen and r/datahoarders, there are torrents available split into chunks, I think it was 77 terabytes last I checked
An interesting question I think, is what value add does Sci-Hub provide, because obviously it wasn’t happening before Alexandra made it happen, does it outgrow her or is she holding it together?
Re:I'm a programmer – how can I help SciHub?
by devoutsalsa on Sunday July 11, 2021 @04:01PM
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How about creating SciPubCoin, a blockchain where you get one coin from each published paper you submit!
Re:I'm a programmer – how can I help SciHub?
by beckman466 on Sunday July 11, 2021 @04:53PM
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> SciPubCoin, a blockchain where you get one coin from each published paper you submit!
Probably better to create a system that includes a reputation currency, since you can't 'spend' your reputation: https://medium.com/metacurrency-project/reputation-is-orthog...
First the interface problem needs to be solved, after that we get a good picture of adoption.
That there are gigantic torrents available is almost useless. A popcorn time type of GUI client is needed that allows search, can dl the right chunks reasonably fast, seeds the rare chunks, has tit for tad implemented for a group of torrents. Could even do full text search by downloading all possible candidates after applying some bloomfilter.
I think it's sorta decentralized. You can download the SQL files (couple GB) from the libgen site and search in it for the IPFS hashes you want, then download p2p from IPFS. A more decentralized way of searching those databases for the hashes would be trickier.