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And here are my qBittorrent stats. I left my computer running for 6 days, I never thought I'd get this far! But that electricity bill's gonna sting...

It's good to give back to the community.

EDIT: To any three-letter agencies who might be reading this post, I was uploading Linux ISOs and scientific research papers. I would never dream of uploading copyrighted material...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

FYI, scientific research papers are more often than not copyrighted.

Thankfully sci-hub.se exists.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pour one out for Aaron Shwartz

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I always excitedly go to Scihub or LibGen only to find that they never have the paper I am wanting. Smh