Check your university’s policies. Unless you can justify it as related to your education, you probably won’t be allowed to do it if they notice it.

Edit: I thought you meant running your self-hosted services on the university’s servers.

No. It’s piracy, and piracy is based. 🏴‍☠️

Down for me too

Try https://annas-archive.li/

That works for me. I think they are hosted by the same people, so probably temporary 🤷

Based, copyright can eat it

It should be seized by the government people and mercilessly decentralized.

Library Genesis when it’s up and Anna’s Archive. Anna’s Archive’s database is a proper superset of the Library Genesis database but IMO Library Genesis is a little easier to search. For both sites, make sure you’re rocking uBlock Origin.

I don’t know much about TorGuard VPN, but it’s probably fine if it’s been fine for pirating other stuff. Books are on the order of 300MB for uncompressed scans or 3-50MB for books that are rendered directly to PDF, i.e. it’s not that much data unless you’re training the next ChatGPT. I pirate a lot of academic books as an autistic PhD student and I’ve had no issues 😆

Happy reading! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴🏴🏴

Software piracy is neither scandalous nor unethical. Information is meant to be free.

20 years ago, Pirate Bay’s response

Holy shit I’m so old 😭

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

Emphasis mine. Incompetence on Microsoft’s part is not an adequate explanation for this latest action matching a pattern of other actions designed to antagonize FOSS users.

Do you think a warrant canary would help? Basically post something ASAP that says “I haven’t been served any IP subpoenas as of today.” Then, update the statement every so often unless you get served.

Not yet, but I will when I get a job. I want to give back to the community, but I can’t afford it right now.

Briefly: My comment was basically a remark that the way FreeTube works is independent of how it is installed.

A very vaguely similar idea for Windows would be to compare the installed edition (usually distributed as an .exe) versus the portable edition (zip or 7z, i.e. an archive). For FreeTube there’s probably no difference, but in general, Windows programs break when made portable, so “portable editions” need to be tested separately.

Probably not important for a Windows user, but it’s something a Linux user might want to know. 😀

That’s the link to the official FreeTube Flatpak. More generally, the linked site, Flathub, is the largest source of Flatpak applications. If you click through the .io site, you’ll land on the Flathub page if you look for the Flatpak.

I actually switched from the .deb to the Flatpak just this afternoon so I can do updates with my package manager. The .deb version “phones home” (you have to enable it I think) every time it starts up to check for updates, but Discover (my package manager) fetches updates for Flatpak apps along with everything else. It’s basically been the same experience as the .deb so far.

Is it wrong to pirate {anything}

No.

Waves Audio Ltd

Not like I needed another reason not to use their plugins but thank you for providing me one anyways 😂.