stonemilker

Here are the official links: https://zlibrary-global.se/z-access#useful_link_tab. I would recommend just opening the .onion link (last tab on the page) with the Tor Browser in Safe mode and logging in with an anonymous e-mail and random password. Nowadays I'd rather use Anna's Archive, though, it has most of the Z-Library database indexed anyway

I think it happened because I dropped some of my own pretentiousness, to be honest. I was young, had lots of fun with the first movie, but always under the pretense of it being "philosophical", and then the sequels turned the ridiculousness to 11 — but it's not like the first one was tame, in retrospect. I rewatched all of them after the fourth movie came out and now I really enjoy and respect the second one. The Wachowskis didn't play it safe, wore their hearts on their sleeves even harder, shot some badass and equally silly action scenes, and made a genuine story about love that I found really endearing

The Matrix Reloaded, one of the biggest turnarounds for my personal taste in movies

My use case: I like to have all my emails stored locally just in case some disaster happens with the copies in the cloud; I also get to have both personal and work email addresses, from different providers, in one organized and unified interface, and the same goes for tasks, calendars and contacts; and some features from big web clients are sometimes too nosy for my taste (suggested replies, pushing their calendar, messaging, tasks and contacts products, etc)

You beat me to it, so let me recommend what I check when Anna's Archive and LibGen don't have what I need (usually recent articles that are not on Sci-Hub): Standard Template Construct, here's their GitHub repo

Good article about this: https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/02/02/floss-security/

Yeah, for now I'm skeptical because they're Meta and they have to find ways to monetize this service, but on one day they've already overshadowed the rest of the fediverse easily. Even if they can't profit as effectively off other instances, their instance is already ridiculously big and profitable regardless; the scraping thing really sounds like fear mongering. So if the only downside of federating with Threads is that my federated timeline would get cluttered with business accounts posting ads, I'd be alright with it, as long as I can get more content on my Home timeline from LOTS of people I want to follow who are not willing to interface with Mastodon, Pleroma, etc. Unless they force regular user accounts to publish advertisements to people outside the Threads instance, I'll take it

On their app that should be harder to skip because the timeline is based on their algorithm and ads should be unavoidable, but how the hell would they force a user on another platform to see it? And how would they even directly target this person with a specific ad? If what people on instances federated with Threads see on their federated timeline are regular posts from business accounts placed in chronological order, I'm guessing there'd be no problem just blocking those "profiles" and moving on

Agreed. I have an account on Fosstodon and I like how they handled it. Not too friendly with Meta, not jumping on the bandwagon when we don't even know how it works yet

No problem! You can find admins and users talking a lot about this by searching for the #p92 and #fedipact hashtags, lots of instances are preemptively defederating from Meta domains, although the software hasn't implemented federation yet

Yeah, and they've been contacting big instance admins already: https://hub.fosstodon.org/facebook-fosstodon-fedi

They meet the criteria for Privacy Guides, at the very least: https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/1312