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Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:02:15 +0100

saddest & depressing thing to read :

The missing part – Sexual exploitation of minors in French-speaking Belgium: the great blindness

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:34:08 +0100

Aucune puissance étrangère, russe, chinoise ou autre, n’aurait pu rêver de causer autant de tort à l’Occident que ce qui est permis de l’intérieur, entre des dirigeants à courte vue, des élites déconnectées et des électeurs inconscients des conséquences.

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:25:44 +0100

No outside power, either Russian, Chinese, or otherwise, could dream of doing as much damage to the West as what’s being allowed/enabled from within, whether through short-sighted politicians, disconnected elites, or voters making choices without understanding the full weight of the consequences.

Portugal... Portugal... Saudades

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:41:01 +0100

A última vez que fui a Portugal foi em 2018. Desta vez, volto com minha filha, para 15 dias de descoberta. Quero que ela sinta este país que carrega nas veias, que faz parte das nossas raízes, das nossas origens.

O mais estranho — ou talvez o mais bonito — é perceber o quanto Portugal me fazia falta sem que eu soubesse. Até o corpo esquece. A alma adormece. E de repente, ao ouvir de novo esta língua nas ruas, tudo desperta.

O que me faz falta não é só o som do português, mas a mente portuguesa. A maneira de falar com quem não se conhece. A forma como se pertence, como se faz parte de um todo, mesmo de passagem.

Há qualquer coisa de profundamente familiar e reconfortante em voltar. Como se Portugal, mesmo mudado, continuasse a ter um lugar guardado para mim.

Recette maison : 🥚✨ "Oeufs du Matin Tardif"

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:47:14 +0100

Un plat réconfortant, fondant, à base d’œufs et d’oignons confits — parfait pour les matins paresseux.

🧄 Ingrédients (pour 2 personnes) :

1 oignon moyen, finement émincé

1 gousse d’ail, finement hachée

1 bonne cuillère à soupe d’huile d’olive

1 belle noix de beurre

1 cuillère à café de mélange d’épices (type poulet, curry, ou légèrement pimenté)

1 à 2 cuillères à soupe de shoyu, tamari ou sauce teriyaki (selon le goût)

4 œufs entiers (sans casser les jaunes)

1 pincée de sel (option)

🍞 À tartiner pour accompagner :

Pain complet ou aux céréales, grillé

Beurre

Fromage frais type Philadelphia

🍳 Préparation :

La base d’oignons Dans une poêle à feu moyen-fort (niveau 8 ou 9), fais fondre le beurre avec l’huile d’olive. Ajoute l’oignon émincé et l’ail. Laisse revenir jusqu’à ce qu’ils deviennent tendres et brillants.
L’assaisonnement Ajoute le mélange d’épices de ton choix.

mélange d’épices poulets ou
mélange d’épices italiennes ou
mélange d’épices à l’indienne ou
Un quart de bouillon de légumes (éviter le sel en +)

Verse un petit peu d’eau pour aider les oignons à s’attendrir et à bien absorber les saveurs. Incorpore ensuite la sauce choisie — shoyu, teriyaki ou tamari (attention au sel si tu choisis tamari !). Mélange délicatement, couvre la poêle, et laisse réduire jusqu’à ce qu’il ne reste presque plus de liquide et que les oignons commencent à griller légèrement.

Déposer les œufs Baisse le feu à moyen (autour de 5 ou 6). Casse délicatement les œufs au-dessus des oignons sans briser les jaunes. Sale légèrement. Avec une cuillère ou une spatule, déplace les oignons pour que les blancs soient bien en contact avec la poêle.
Cuisson douce Couvre à nouveau. Laisse cuire lentement : les blancs doivent prendre, les jaunes restent coulants (ou selon ta préférence). Surveille bien la cuisson pour éviter que ça ne brûle — on cherche le moelleux mais facile à servir et à manger sur une tranche de pain grillée.
Servir avec tendresse Sers directement à l’assiette, accompagné de tranches de pain grillé, d’un peu de beurre et d’une belle couche de fromage frais.

Tout se joue entre le contraste du fromage frais, les oignons caramélisé au shoyu et aux épices et le tendre des œufs, fort conseillé après une cuite 😅

Maturity isn’t about who wins an argument—it’s about knowing when an argument isn’t worth having.

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:56:14 +0100

Helen Mirren once said:

Before you argue with someone, ask yourself, is that person even mentally mature enough to grasp the concept of a different perspective. Because if not, there’s absolutely no point.

Not every argument is worth your energy. Sometimes, no matter how clearly you express yourself, the other person isn’t listening to understand—they’re listening to react. They’re stuck in their own perspective, unwilling to consider another viewpoint, and engaging with them only drains you.

There’s a difference between a healthy discussion and a pointless debate. A conversation with someone who is open-minded, who values growth and understanding, can be enlightening—even if you don’t agree.

But trying to reason with someone who refuses to see beyond their own beliefs? That’s like talking to a wall. No matter how much logic or truth you present, they will twist, deflect, or dismiss your words, not because you’re wrong, but because they’re unwilling to see another side.

Maturity isn’t about who wins an argument—it’s about knowing when an argument isn’t worth having.

It’s realizing that your peace is more valuable than proving a point to someone who has already decided they won’t change their mind. Not every battle needs to be fought. Not every person deserves your explanation.

Sometimes, the strongest thing you can do is walk away—not because you have nothing to say, but because you recognize that some people aren’t ready to listen.

And that’s not your burden to carry.

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 09:18:41 +0100

About astrology being BS

Clearer Thinking’s Study: Can #astrologers truly gain insights about people from entire #astrological charts?

#astrology

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:53:38 +0100

The idea that someone can just proclaim him/herself a “healer” is absurd. At most one can be a healer for oneself, finding the resilience to be at peace with one’s past and the foundation to grow and be happy.

But that doesn’t make you a patented healer for others.

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 22:05:19 +0100

Si vous avez une heure à tuer, je vous conseille un docu-fiction sur Bruxelles, ça s’appelle le Dossier B, c’est tellement dingue tout en étant mêlé de fait historique et de vérité que ça en fait un ovni complètement dingue Au bout d’un moment, on ne sait plus où est la fiction 🇧🇪 #Bruxellisation

Tarte dite Dolma - au chocolat et crème de marron

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:04:31 +0100

L’origine de cette recette, un jour j’editerais ce post avec cette petite histoire.

Ceci est une recette approximative, faite de mémoire, essayée hier soir avec un résultat plutôt pas mal.. Pour la prochaine fois je dois rendre la pâte plus fine et la cuir plus longtemps avant d’étaler la crème de marron et le chocolat.

Ingrédients :

300 g de farine 3 cuillères à soupe de sucre 1/2 cuillère à café de sel 150 g de beurre 8 cl d’eau 50 g de noisettes 1 noisette de beurre 400 g de chocolat au lait (ou noir, selon les goûts) 50 cl de crème fraîche 200 g de crème de marron Cacao en poudre pur Instructions :

Dans un grand bol, mélangez la farine, le sucre et le sel. Ajoutez ensuite 8 cl d’eau, puis incorporez le beurre coupé en petits morceaux. Mélangez jusqu’à obtenir une pâte homogène. Concassez les noisettes et mélangez-les avec une noisette de beurre. Étalez-les sur une plaque et faites-les griller au four à 180°C jusqu’à ce qu’elles soient dorées. Faites fondre le chocolat au bain-marie, puis mélangez-le avec la crème fraîche en fouettant bien jusqu’à obtenir une préparation homogène. Étalez la pâte dans un moule et faites-la cuire au four jusqu’à ce qu’elle soit légèrement dorée. Retirez-la du four et répartissez les noisettes grillées au beurre sur la pâte. Vous pouvez remettre au four quelques minutes pour une dorure parfaite. Étalez ensuite la crème de marron sur la base de pâte, puis versez le mélange chocolat-crème par-dessus. Assurez-vous de bien fouetter le mélange pour qu’il soit lisse et homogène avant de le verser. Placez la tarte au congélateur pendant 2 heures, le temps que la couche de chocolat commence à prendre. Retirez du congélateur et saupoudrez de cacao en poudre avant de servir. Bon appétit !

Recette en portugais : Ingredientes :

300 g de farinha 3 colheres de sopa de açúcar 1/2 colher de chá de sal 150 g de manteiga 8 cl de água 50 g de avelãs 1 noz de manteiga 400 g de chocolate ao leite (ou amargo, conforme o gosto) 50 cl de creme de leite 200 g de creme de castanha Cacau em pó puro Instruções :

Em uma tigela grande, misture a farinha, o açúcar e o sal. Adicione 8 cl de água e, em seguida, incorpore a manteiga cortada em pedaços pequenos. Misture até obter uma massa homogênea. Triture as avelãs e misture-as com uma noz de manteiga. Espalhe-as em uma forma e asse no forno a 180°C até que estejam douradas. Derreta o chocolate em banho-maria e misture com o creme de leite, batendo bem até obter uma mistura homogênea. Abra a massa em uma forma e asse no forno até que esteja levemente dourada. Retire do forno e espalhe as avelãs torradas com manteiga sobre a massa. Se desejar, leve ao forno mais alguns minutos para dourar perfeitamente. Espalhe o creme de castanha sobre a base da massa, depois despeje a mistura de chocolate e creme por cima. Certifique-se de bater bem a mistura antes de despejá-la para que fique lisa e homogênea. Coloque a torta no congelador por 2 horas, até que a camada de chocolate comece a endurecer. Retire do congelador e polvilhe com cacau em pó antes de servir.

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:09:09 +0100

How to #Junk planet Earth? #starlink satellitemap.space

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 18:18:12 +0100

it gets being born in a cult, living inside a cult for 2 decades to notice how people, here in the “free world” behave often like cult indoctrinated people, they can’t exist without picking a tribe, they can’t coexist in plurality, identity as dominated power dynamics. #microcults

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:54:41 +0100

Chiffrer un fichier de 25GB, je m’attendais pas à ce que ça prenne autant de temps… Là ça tourne depuis 12h et c’est loin d’être fini… Oups.. 😅

Même avec un AMD Ryzen 9 et 64GB de RAM 🤨 Et disk SSD

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:16:58 +0100

Plus que 2 jours… #vacances

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:05:06 +0100

Plus que 3 jours de taf et puis vacances du 29 juillet au 16 août !

Ça va faire du bien de débrayer, déménager, aller peut être un peu à la mer si il fait beau, rien faire.., ou essayer de rien faire 😅

La mercantilisation du bien-être et de l'altruisme

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 19:40:13 +0100

Le business des “alternatives”, sorte de trou noir avec une porosité à toute sorte de croyance et désinformation qui donnes aux individus qui tombent dans ces vortex, une interprétation d’un délire en apparence cohérent qui permet d’adhérer à une tribu, un cercle social, une construction sociale qui donne “du sens” tout en étant complètement à côté de la plaque.

Ça peut durer des décennies ou même une vie entière et créer des sous branches qui partent dans d’autres directions toutes plus délirantes les unes que les autres où l’interprétation du réel, subjectif ou objectif, évolue dans des réalités parallèles qui permettent “d’expliquer” les phénomènes encore non-intégré de l’expérience.

Tout est absorbé, recyclé et régurgité pour s’insérer dans une théorie du sens qui évolue au gré des groupes et des micros ou macros gourous qui y prêchent la bonne parole.

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:26:06 +0100

Recevoir un appel d’un système automatisé qui une fois que tu décroche, se fait passer pour la police locale en t’annonçant que tu as commis telle et telle infractions, suivi d’une arnaque pour sous tirer des informations privées, suivi d’une arnaque pour faire un paiement.🙄

Nan mais ça va aller ?

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 06:13:49 +0100

Pluies diluviennes à Bruxelles hier soir.. Et j’étais à 10km de chez moi, en vélo électrique.. Résultat ? Arrivé chez moi trempé après avoir bravé les éléments en me disant tant qu’à faire, autant y aller à fond et assumer la drache.

C’en est devenu presque drôle du coup 😅

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:24:38 +0100

La revanche du Sum 2024, bientôt sur vos écrans 😅

Wed, 29 May 2024 20:46:20 +0100

Didjou, la série Tribes of Europa, c’est d’une violence.. un truc de dingue..

Thu, 09 May 2024 08:33:13 +0100

Interesting… oui j`ai un clavier #qwerty avec lequel j’aimerais bien écrire plus souvent en français

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:29:24 +0100

Metro Reading : “Timothy Leary and the Baby Boomers did not usher in the first psychedelic era,” Breen writes. “They ended it.”

Book Review :

When America First Dropped Acid Well before the hippies arrived, LSD and other hallucinogens were poised to enter the American mainstream.

Sun, 17 Sep 2023 13:51:37 +0100

Mes boulangeries préférées à Bruxelles :

C’est si Bon Lien
Blond Lien
La Miche de Pain Lien

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 18:55:29 +0100

Ya un brouillon sur mon blog, ça s’appelle : Carrefour de vie, digital et judiciaire je n’ose pas publier ce que j’ai écrit en fait.

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:15:18 +0100

Moving 55GB from one #nextcloud to another, from #cloudron to another cloudron stack sharing the same SSHfs storage box, this is so easy it’s a delight 😊

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:58:07 +0100

Ironic & sad that Gab, Parler, Gettr, Truth Social all wanted to become the next far-right / fundamentalist platform but in the end, former Twitter morphed into Mwitter than into X = a 4chan clone with monetization worth shit because we left. it’s inevitable now.

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:14:09 +0100

Would be quite neat to have an RSS feed from the #microblog bookmark page…

Maybe that’s included in the Premium @manton ?

I want to be able cross-post my Bookmarks, using the title+link I use N8N but without RSS it’s a bit more pain to play this out :)

Sat, 27 May 2023 08:29:51 +0100

Morning… Bonjour… Bom dia…

Odd bug in the android mobile app?

Fri, 26 May 2023 18:03:27 +0100

I’m trying to understand…. why should I have to select my default blog when I want to publish?

The selector (in the official android app) is always positioned on my test blog which I mostly never use or only to test theme changes… so if I’m distracted I might publish to my test blog..it’s.. Annoying… No issue when using the browser.

Is this related to a misconfig on my side? @manton.org

Fri, 26 May 2023 08:06:55 +0100

Spoutible about to launch its mobile apps in the coming days!

Tue, 23 May 2023 17:43:32 +0100

Un doc ARTE super intéressant, mais aussi dur à voir : Adeptes, de l’emprise à la déprise - La vie en face ARTE - dérives sectaires uptostream.eu/1kujb8whw…

Liberating Ourselves: The Call for Action Over Idolization

Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:36:13 +0100

Influencers, geniuses, self-made men’s myths

In a world captivated by the allure of heroes, gurus, and stars, it is time to relinquish our addiction and embrace the power within ourselves. Instead of lavishing admiration upon others and becoming ensnared by the mirage of projected qualities, let us cultivate the very attributes we so eagerly attribute to others - but within our own selves.

Imagine a world transformed from its current state, spellbound by the influence of heroes, stars, and gurus, into one where we embody the virtues we admire so deeply. All too often, we lack discernment and become victims of our own projections, ensnared by the gaslighting of our misplaced admiration.

It is time for us to cease our delusions of dependency on others and awaken to our own boundless potential. In doing so, we can dismantle the hierarchies of heroes, gods, masters, and gurus that have long held us captive.

We need not rely on external forces to fill the void within us. Instead, let us be filled with the actions and thoughts that embody the very qualities we once projected onto others. In doing so, we can forge our own paths of empowerment and become the architects of our own destinies.

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 20:24:57 +0100

Have been playing with my #rpi400 both for python learning and watching some movies!

Relay : Standard Template Construct: Store and Search The Entirety of Human Knowledge

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 08:54:59 +0100

I’m storing this here because people need to find this and have access to this and help relay this, it’s too important that knowledge be shared and accessible.

Pasted from Reddit Scihub sub https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/12detqs/standard_template_construct_store_and_search_the/

We are creating free, unblockable, and easily clonable library for both people and machines, living entirely in IPFS and working without any centralised server. It’s already functional and provides access to many contemporary scholarly works that are missing from other free libraries.

The site does not host any illegal content - there is no any site in a classical meaning - but just guides you through what already has been stored in IPFS :)

History

Even leaving aside these already well-known claims that knowledge should be free, I was personally insulted when saw something like this:

Would you pay 40€ for the names of potato overlords? Are they afraid to be death noted and hiding behind the paywall?

But formally, we have always been keeping in mind that

Unrestricted access to all knowledge is necessary for emerging new (semi-)digital lifeforms, such as AI and cyborgs
The free flow of information promotes growth, while restriction leads to stagnation and starvation
Withholding knowledge further perpetuates inequal opportunities amongst individuals and nations
In the event of potential armageddon, private knowledge will not survive. However, freely replicating knowledge will serve as resurrection points for fallen civilizations
Colonizing new worlds will require a reliable replication of knowledge, which is hardened by copyright

All these reasons have led to the creation of Nexus, the search engine and the group of people with the same name aimed at fighting against copyright in science through the most famous tool available when other ones are failing - the riot, namely digital riot. We also wanted to experiment with search and distributed technologies, and, of course, we had a desire to read.

Three years ago, we created a Telegram bot called Nexus that mirrors books and scientific publications from Library Genesis. Telegram of 2020 was a welcoming house, and we spent the past three years productively. The bot acquired the capability to provide access to new papers in the end of 2021, which was especially useful as Sci-Hub stopped doing so, linked Z-Library books in 2022, and even fought against a stupid Indian publishing house that bombarded us with claims in 2022/23 (the traces of the fight are remembered by the name of the currently working Telegram bots). Over time, Nexus Bots became a convenient way to find papers, given the blocks happening here and there on the wild Web.

TorrentFreak about us, unwillingly confused with Z-Library

But the most important changes are about to become a reality. Here, I would like to summarise all that we have done and highlight essential details that our users are still unaware of. We have never had enough time to promote ourselves rapidly (the team is small, sometimes small to the most degenerate size possible), and I hope this post will answer several asked questions about Nexus.

Inside the Nexus Search

Bots are just the face of Nexus and every your search query is served by the search engine, the heart with the name Nexus Search. Originally, the first versions of Nexus Search were based on Postgres tables, but their search capabilities were too sad. As a result, we used a dedicated search software that has been the core of Nexus for years, namely Summa.

This is the reason why Nexus does not publish SQL dumps like LibGen - there are no such dumps because there is no SQL server behind - but publishes data dumps in binary format of Summa that can be downloaded, attached and used directly in this search engine.

If you want to explore the landscape of scholarly publications, you can freely use Nexus Search as a replacement for the CrossRef Database. It does not contain all fields that exist in CrossRef but provides the most important ones required for search, such as title, authors, abstract, journal name, ISSN/ISBN/DOI identifiers. Nexus Search also contains cross-references, allowing users to explore graph properties of scholarly publications. And not a single asshole such as Elsevier will be capable to interrupt you.

Summa search engine provides many opportunities for researchers. It allows you to perform aggregation queries to conduct analytics, and export documents into JSON much faster than any SQL database if you want to use data in other databases. In addition, we have calculated PageRank for all papers up to 2023 year and extracted text layers for top-downloaded 350k articles, providing valuable data for researchers.

Our next goal is to reliably distribute scholar data across the globe using IPFS, after which we plan to extract all text layers. Together with search, it will open doors for people to train AI on various scientific topics or even on the entire corpus of science.

Additionally, Nexus Search contains IPFS content identifiers (CIDs) for almost all books and for a lot of recent papers that are absent in many known libraries. CIDs make possible for users to download PDFs directly through the IPFS network. The collection of CIDs nowadays are not very large but constantly growing up.

A several words about IPFS, a system similar to BitTorrent. With IPFS, you can get an identifier for your file and pass it to other people, who can then download the file directly from your computer using the identifier. After that, they can become a source of the file for others too. This means that files can spread like a ~~digital~~ disease. This is exactly what we need to ensure that knowledge is replicated reliably. If we can put scholarly papers on IPFS, store their identifiers to the search database and then put the search database on IPFS too, and then ensure that people use and replicate Nexus Search on their computers, our goal of knowledge preservation will be achieved.

Important: Nexus Search does not contain CIDs for all scimag items, though we are going to add them. Our focus is on items, absent in scimag and other collections: recent papers and the most important papers of the past.

Nexus Search is a valuable database, but users need a way to access its information. While it is possible to download and deploy the data on a local search server, this process is not always comfortable for most people. Therefore, Nexus Search requires a front-end. The original method of accessing Nexus Search was through already mentioned Nexus Bots.

A Breed Of Nexus Bots

Bots exist on Telegram, and you must be a registered user of this messenger to use them. Legal restrictions have compelled us to remove direct links to the bots, but they can be easily found if you navigate through our social media pages (linked at the end).

Bots are widely used, can be cloned, and provide a rather rich query syntax to request what you need. The only remaining issue is that it is still Telegram, a proprietary and closed system that may ban us or disappear one day.

To mitigate our dependency on the proprietary system, we have started to build Standard Template Construct on the basis of existing distributed technologies to ensure that the flow of knowledge will never stop.

Standard Template Construct

Named after the imaginary computational machine of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Standard Template Construct (STC) is an IPFS-backed web-site that touted as the most reliable way to access knowledge. Here is a brief introduction to what it is, how to use it, and why it is important.

Nexus Search, the main database behind STC, was already put to IPFS for replication purposes. But we have moved further and used a search engine that also may be executed within static sites, doing all search operations inside your browser. Such a search engine can be put to IPFS too and access Nexus Search living in IPFS.

In the field of IT, there is a concept of a network drive, which acts like a physical drive but is accessed over a network. Most databases store their files on drives and can store files on network drives as well. IPFS can also be considered as a large, reliable and slow network drive, which means, in theory, that any database can be launched over IPFS. In practice, this depends on how the database accesses its files. For instance, if the database reads many small intervals of its files, this pattern can be inefficient because every read is translated to a network request. We have worked hard to reduce the number of reads in our database, making STC usable over network drives and IPFS in practice.

This means that all the necessary components to access Nexus Search are available in IPFS. There is no need for a dedicated search server or website to execute your search request, and therefore accessing papers can be done without the involvement of centralized services. All you have to do is to open STC through IPFS, perform a search, and then to download your book or paper through its CID that is also stored in Nexus Search.

Who entirely replicated STC since several days after release

By using STC you are also becoming a seeder of database and stored items. It happens because of the way how IPFS is working: after getting a data, your IPFS instance starts to distribute it further.

This also means that no one will be able to collect logs on your search queries or sell your personal data to a third party. IPFS makes you the owner of the database and search engine, significantly enhancing your privacy.

How to Access STC

Before you begin, please keep in mind that we are still in the process of developing STC. We’ve done our best to reduce network requirements, but you should be aware that opening the 70GB search database will require you to download 20-30MB on your first visit after which it will be cached, and 0.5-1.5MB for each search thereafter.

It’s also worth noting that we do not currently support Safari versions prior to 16.4, and we have not tested STC on every possible browser. Unfortunately, it is also required to disable Brave Shields (if you use Brave browser) as it breaks subdomain queries that are normal for many sites. Refresh page if it hangs (and report us about it).

The first thing you need to know is that STC is a static site, meaning it doesn’t require any API or remote server. Once you’ve retrieved the site files through IPFS, your browser can render the site, and you can start making search queries. All search requests are served locally or through interaction with IPFS.

So the main issue is how to receive STC to your browser. In general, IPFS supposes two antagonistic ways of how you may open static sites hosted on it:

Public Gateway

IPFS is a separate network and to access it, you need to have IPFS Desktop installed. To address the case when you have no way to install IPFS locally (e.g. iPhone, restricted environments, casual users who do not care about this fancy technology), the authors invested in creating public gateways that allow to access IPFS through HTTP. You may use such a public gateway without installing IPFS, but you should remember that there are many other users who think the same way, creating incredible pressure on public gateway sites. Hence, gateways usually work very slowly. Moreover, public gateways are the first subjects for censorship.

Local IPFS Daemon

The more preferable option is to install IPFS Desktop and IPFS Companion. Then, you will have direct access to IPFS, which is more performant and reliable.

Now, after you have chosen between Public Gateway and Local IPFS Daemon, you are ready to open STC, but before that, you need to learn its name in IPFS network. IPFS provides non-human-readable identifiers called CIDs for all stored entities which are unique for every stored entity and also is generated automatically.

Every particular version of the STC has its own identifier. It’s important to underline that CIDs are immutable, so visiting the site by its CID means you will get the same version of the site every time. But what if we add new features or upload new papers to STC? New versions of STC will have new CIDs and to help you find the actual CIDs of new versions, we have registered the domain name: standard-template-construct.org

Here you are, opened the Standard Template Construct and ready to read. Put in the search bar DOI or text query, navigate through what you have found and download it.

Recent versions of STC

How to help us?

Easy mode

You may join our Telegram where we publish DOI-CIDs lists which is enough to help us with seeding and to start your own library. People from South America, Asia and Africa are especially welcomed because now STC is under-replicated on these continents.
Pin can be done as following:
cat doi-cids.txt | xargs -L1 bash -c 'ipfs pin add $1'
Pin STC itself (papers not included, ~70GB) and repin it periodically:
ipfs pin add /ipns/standard-template-construct.org
Donate, we have a tip jar at Donate page in STC: http://standard-template-construct.org/#/donate

Hard mode

If you have an access to scholarly publications (no matter how - via scimag torrents, direct access, or any other means), you can organise seeding yourself and provide us with a list of DOI-CIDs in text format (<lowercased-non-escaped-doi> <cid>\n) that we will merge into STC.
The condition is that you will stay and seed your collection for a while, and only DOI-stamped items will be accepted. Files should be chunked and hashed using the following parameters:
ipfs add --hash=blake3 --chunker=size-1048576
As mentioned earlier, Nexus Search does not contain all CIDs of the scimag collection. However, if you are a SciHub torrent seeder, you can unpack scimag zip files, hash them individually, and organize their seeding. Such DOI-CID lists will be accepted to STC, but keep in mind that a single IPFS instance will hardly be capable of managing more than 1-2 million individual files.
Deploy your own Nexus Search server, do search queries and pin sub-collections of your interest

Battle for the Free Knowledge is Already Going On

The Internet Archive, Z-Library, and Sci-Hub are currently facing legal challenges, leaving us to question the world we want to live in. Do we want a world dominated by superficial entertainment and corporate/government censorship, or do we aspire to a scientific utopia with a free flow of knowledge?

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The answer is clear. We need to protect free libraries as they are a breath of fresh air in our contemporary web. Let’s work together to spread the word and support this vital cause. Remember, the Web was created to share knowledge, not to restrict it.

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