/leftypol/—/edu/ Resources Handbook junko !!9cfznBf./Q 2022-01-07 (Fri) 01:16:49 No. 9298
ITT: resources and tips about navigating the Internet and researching topics Feel free to post your own resources and tips too. I'm going to post a lot of my own that I have gathered over the years.
I ask that random chit-chat in this thread is kept to a minimum except regarding technical questions & answers on the topic matter.
This is so that resources are kept as compact as possible, and so, readable.
First I'll dump resources and tips for
researching various topics. Note: I don't even have access to or use some of these myself (e.g. LexisNexis which seems to be pay-to-use), but I figure they could be helpful in some narrow cases. I use most of these myself. If the initial things I post don't interest you, keep reading anyway. I'm going to be dumping a lot of content.
PressReader https://www.pressreader.com/ Find key terms in newspapers and magazines.
I would say this is more helpful for finding sources that do exist rather than for reading them, per se. You can try to read the articles elsewhere than PressReader if you know their titles or part of their body text. The site appears to brand itself as pay-to-use, however you can use the search tool anyway and even read some resulting articles.
e.g.
https://www.pressreader.com/search?query=Facebook Nexis newspaper database https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/professional/nexis/nexis.page https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/professional/nexis/nexis-features.page I can't speak much about it because I have not used it. I learned it existed because of a mention in a FAIR.org article. It's apparently a searchable database of newspapers similar to the above-mentioned PressReader. So I can't vouch for it (plus it's pay-to-use). But it's worth a mention. It seemed like at least one university system uses it.
Chronicling America Library of Congress project that lets you search some historical American newspapers. By no means is it an archive of *all* historical newspaper content.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ The Wikipedia Library This is a list of various resources compiled or provided by the Wikipedia Library, which is a system aiming to help the site's editors gain better access to sources. Some of this requires you to be an active editor on the site to access, some of it doesn't.
A. https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/ Their main program, which provides access to partnered pay-walled content for active Wikipedia editors.
B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Find_sources 'Find sources', for finding sources in the first place. Useful for non-editors, too.
C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Find_your_source 'Find your source', for finding a source you already know about but can't access. Just a general advice page, much of it you don't need to be an editor to exploit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Find_your_source One editor's misplaced advice supplementing C.
D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RD Wikipedia's reference desk. You don't need to be an active editor to ask questions here. You might also try /marx/ (see later planned entry about /marx/ for best info).
E. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Find_your_library Some advice from WPL about finding a library with a source you are seeking (like a book).
F. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Free_resources Free resources list. Compilation of resources on a plethora of topics usable by non-editors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unreferenced_articles/Resources Supplement.
G. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_English_newspaper_sources Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ Free e-book library.
The Internet Archive https://archive.org/ Also a free e-book library. Has video and audio too. Make an account and you can freely check out e-books as though it were a physical library.
Google stuff A. Google's "Talk to Books"
https://books.google.com/talktobooks/ Enter natural queries, get related books.
Related projects:
https://research.google.com/semanticexperiences/ Broadly, but rarely helpful.
B. Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/ I recommend unchecking "include citations" on the side, will save you a lot of asshurt.
C. Google Newspapers
https://news.google.com/newspapers I have no idea why this isn't visible from the main Google search area.
D. Google Books
https://www.google.com/search?q= "INSERT+TEXT+HERE"&tbm=bks
E. Programmable Google search engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Syced/Wikipedia_Reference_Search This was programmed to find Wikipedia references but it should be broadly useful.
F. Tips to improve your Google search effectiveness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPw4PSsi55A https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-tips-use-google-search-efficiently.html cont.
Anonymous 2022-01-07 (Fri) 02:19:59 No. 9308
These types of things are better maintained in the git.leftypol.org repo.
Anonymous 2022-01-07 (Fri) 02:44:14 No. 9315
>>9299 >Sci-Hub You should CyberLeninka which is a search to find and read Sci-Hub papers online without having to download hem.
https://cyberleninka.org/ >>9306 >Invidious Another YouTube frontend is Piped. This project is separate from Invidious.
https://piped.kavin.rocks/ Anonymous 2022-01-07 (Fri) 03:06:13 No. 9319
>>9307 He only did 9 actually 🤔
>>9298 Good post Junko this will really come in handy. Way better than googling everything lol
Anonymous 2022-01-07 (Fri) 03:07:29 No. 9320
>>9318 LocalCDN by Nobody is more up to date and encompassing than Decentraleyes I've been told
https://codeberg.org/nobody/LocalCDN Anonymous 2022-01-07 (Fri) 03:26:10 No. 9321
Forgot about Wikibooks till now. Occasionally I find good info in it. A lot is very incomplete though.
https://www.wikibooks.org/ Anonymous 2022-01-07 (Fri) 07:36:30 No. 9327
>>9298 Great thread junko, learned a few new things here
Anonymous 2022-01-07 (Fri) 14:51:16 No. 9339
>>9298 This is really good. I'm going to do as anon above and some in the matrix suggested and start a git repo for all this so we can collectively add stuff.
Mushr 2022-01-07 (Fri) 18:02:51 No. 9343
I'll add some of my own. They are from my bookmarks. I haven't used all of them. Use at your own risk yada yada. Hope they are useful.
Pretty much what this thread is about https://osintframework.com/ Paywall bypassing Unpaywall
https://unpaywall.org Burlesco
https://burles.co/en/ supports 24 periodicals
General Web Utilities Collection of Direct Links to delete your account
https://backgroundchecks.org/justdeleteme/ Note: You should scrub everything you have on the account and then wait a few weeks for cached versions to update before deleting it.
Login Detail Sharing
http://bugmenot.com Supply chain map
http://www.empirelogistics.org/sci-map/ Find Unlisted Youtube videos
https://unlistedvideos.com YouTube comment search:
https://ytcomment.kmcat.uk Twitter trend map
https://www.trendsmap.com/ Map of Political YouTube
https://transparency.tube Anarchist PeerTube instance
https://kolektiva.media/about/instance SingleFile
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile Save an entire web page—including images and styling—as a single HTML file.
Find IRC chats
https://search.mibbit.com/ List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines Mushr 2022-01-07 (Fri) 18:03:29 No. 9344
>>9343 Better front-ends for mainstream services SimplyTranslate / Google Translate & DeepL
https://simplytranslate.org Google Translate and DeepL proxy. Works without JavaScript and can be used with Tor Browser
Libreddit / Reddit
https://libreddit.spike.codes/ Instances:
https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit Proxy for reddit like teddit but is similar in style to the reddit redesign. Also works without JavaScript
pic8 / Image hosting sites
https://pic8.co/ Image hosting site that doesn't actually store the images itself, but uploads it to various other image hosting sites that it uses as its own storage. This makes the site less likely to shutdown in the future due to smaller hosting costs and less legal accountability. It can also do Webpage Screenshots.
Alternative Search engines search.marginalia.nu
https://search.marginalia.nu/ Experimental search engine that favors text-heavy and simpler (in terms of web-design) webpages.
Wiby.me
https://wiby.me/ Indexes only user-submitted websites. Attemps to catalogue the so-called small web.
Fagan Finder
https://www.faganfinder.com/ Quickly change between search engines. Not open-source.
Mushr 2022-01-07 (Fri) 18:07:09 No. 9349
VPN Make sure you actually need one. Don't fall for marketing.
https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html VPN providers:
https://mullvad.net/en/ https://protonvpn.com/ <Barebacking LibGen files As far as I understand you should be fine if you only read .epubs and .pdfs with a pdf reader that doesn't support scripting. Don't know about other formats.
>>9318 >>9329 It's questionable whether or not those privacy extensions are a good way to improve your privacy. Every extension that you download makes your browser's fingerprint more unique. If you want to improve the privacy of firefox look into arkenfox.js
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ The extensions they recommend to use and not to use:
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions Or consider the Tor Browser.
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/browser-tracking.html Smart HTTPS > HTTPS Everywhere. The former tries to actually upgrade your connection and the latter simply maintains a whitelist. You can also enable HTTPS-only mode from you browser settings. NoScript is redundant if you have uBlock Origin. LocalCDN > Decentraleyes as the other anon said. But you shouldn't be using those anyway. See the arkenfox.js wiki. uMatrix is abandonware. Privacy Badger is snake oil.
Anonymous 2022-01-08 (Sat) 08:20:35 No. 9361
>>9308 I agree, it looks like someone is already working on it.
https://git.leftypol.org/aabm/edu-resources >>9348 >https://riseup.net/ (potential glow) uygha wat?
Would you like to give a quick explanation of why you would consider riseup.net out of all of them a potential glow?
>B. 4plebs has a great FAQ page that has a table of a couple of dozen archival sites and the boards they specialize in. Props for adding archiveteam: one of their members are responsible for (IIRC) desuarchive.
Anonymous 2022-01-10 (Mon) 12:45:44 No. 9386
oh sweet thanks for using a username. totally respect you bro and appreciate your efforts have an upvote +++++++++++karma. when I see you post, I'll be more generous to your opinion because I can see all the work you do. 👍👏💪
Mushr 2022-01-12 (Wed) 15:59:24 No. 9401
Japanese web archival tool
https://megalodon.jp/ Mementoweb
https://timetravel.mementoweb.org/ Looks through several web archives to find archived versions of websites
Anonymous 2022-01-14 (Fri) 12:19:20 No. 9408
I like this thread
Anonymous 2022-01-15 (Sat) 18:26:16 No. 9422
>>9303 Just found this:
https://www.gmailnator.com/ It will give you temporary gmail addresses you can use. This should be better for temporary emails what with so many site blacklisting known temp-mail sites these days.
Anonymous 2022-01-21 (Fri) 09:35:24 No. 9467
>>9410 >I put this starter pack together for you <3
Anonymous 2022-01-30 (Sun) 23:29:05 No. 9583
>>9306 links to mirrors of nitter, including tor and i2p:
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances Anonymous 2022-01-31 (Mon) 07:28:25 No. 9593
Buying used books https://www.abebooks.com/ Abebooks is supreme, alongside Amazon from time to time. Independent brick-and-mortar bookstores can be a bit undesirable since their inventories tend to be limited in a lot of arbitrary ways, so it's best to look online.
Buying used records https://www.discogs.com/ Likewise, online bazaars are best for musical records, although IRL record stores can have a lot of obscure local stuff too.
Anonymous 2022-02-02 (Wed) 08:58:21 No. 9617
https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror Browser extension for quickly saving a page to the Wayback Machine, archive.is, and other web archives
Anonymous 2022-02-06 (Sun) 16:04:15 No. 9664
https://github.com/philc/vimium Browser extension that lets you navigate entirely with your keyboard, for convenience sake
Anonymous 2022-02-07 (Mon) 10:04:40 No. 9672
http://sebaro.pro/viewtube/ Browser extension that automatically proxies YouTube and Dailymotion and Vimeo, as well as letting you load them in a specific codec, including audio-only and video-only options
Anonymous 2022-02-07 (Mon) 10:47:03 No. 9674
>>>/tech/13433 >>>/tech/13438 >>>/tech/13443 You can use these to browse the clearnet anonymously as well as discover underground censorship-resistant websites/mirrors
>>9349 https://openvpn.net/vpn-client/ Most VPN hosts will provide UDP and TCP config files to connect to with OpenVPN.
Also that article doesn't touch on it at all but VPNs (and the p2p proxy networks linked above) don't guarantee against your metadata being collected or stop you from making opsec slips, obviously. All they do is help mask certain points of transmission over the internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_layer Anonymous 2022-02-07 (Mon) 13:36:22 No. 9675
>>9617 I click on the chromium installation link but it gives me a 404.
Anonymous 2022-02-07 (Mon) 13:42:12 No. 9676
>>9675 oh yeah it’s kinda unmaintained. that’s a shame. i only used it on chrome a couple years ago
Anonymous 2022-02-07 (Mon) 13:54:07 No. 9677
>>9676 you can download the source and add through developer mode or whatever though i think
Anonymous 2022-02-08 (Tue) 10:40:54 No. 9682
Marx/Engels Collected Works:
https://libgen.is/search.php?&req=marx+engels+collected+works Marx2Mao PDF Library:
https://files.catbox.moe/36ey5c.zip —Marx: Volume 1 of Capital and all 3 volumes of Theories of Surplus-Value
—Lenin: All 45 volumes of his Collected Works by Progress Publishers
—Stalin: First 14 volumes of his Works published by Foreign Languages Publishing House (Moscow)
—Mao: All 5 volumes of his Selected Works by Foreign Languages Press (Beijing)
Anonymous 2022-02-15 (Tue) 13:41:37 No. 9784
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webrtc-control/fjkmabmdepjfammlpliljpnbhleegehm Privacy add-on for Chrome/Chromium browsers that disables the WebRTC API functionality which can leak your IP even if you're using a proxy (better yet, get a better browser lol)
Thread on where to download music:
>>>/music/3520 Includes this guide on downloading youtube-dl for Windows
>>>/music/3675 >>>/music/3676 https://youtube-dl.org/ https://ffmpeg.org/download.html https://github.com/apertium FOSS translation platform
Static HTML/CSS website hosting:
https://neocities.org/ (Requires you to pay monthly to link your own domain, which is stupid)
https://pages.github.com/ https://surge.sh/ https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.md Nitter but for Instagram
Anonymous 2022-02-15 (Tue) 21:53:25 No. 9785
https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog https://untitled.vimuser.org/ Static site generators that use bash. As minimal and UNIX as you get.
Book recommendation Anonymous 2022-02-27 (Sun) 09:37:23 No. 9917
>been reading The betrayed Revolution by Leo Trotsky
Anonymous 2022-03-13 (Sun) 20:15:57 No. 10046
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch https://mycroftproject.com/ plugins that support many different forms of online search queries. lots of niche stuff and you can even write your own for something if you can’t find it on there
Anonymous 2022-03-26 (Sat) 02:18:30 No. 10150
Can we please have an /econ/ thread here like we do chem, lit and the others? I'm taking an interest in the subject lately and hoping it'll make me a more competent leftist. I'd start a thread myself but I don't have much to share on the subject myself unfortunately.
Anonymous 2022-03-31 (Thu) 14:32:30 No. 10256
Can someone tell me how to find all the Soviet Journals that lib historians tend to cite? Web and Scholar searches give me nothing for these things, only the source that cited them in the first place.
Anonymous 2022-03-31 (Thu) 23:45:56 No. 10264
>>10256 I managed to find it by searching for "Пролетарская революция и право 7" at the National Electronic Library, see attached .pdf and the link to it here:
https://rusneb.ru/catalog/000199_000009_60000270773/ Here is the link to a collection for this journal:
https://rusneb.ru/catalog/000199_000009_008754830/ There's a smaller collection as well, at the B. Yeltsin Presidential Library:
https://www.prlib.ru/section/684670 Additionally, they handily had created a section for "journals" in general here:
https://www.prlib.ru/section/684568 Finally, you can also find them in the digital collections at Saint Petersburg University (and I imagine any other big university with a digital repository, this one just came up first when searching):
https://dspace.spbu.ru/handle/11701/28454 Unfortunately they didn't file them under a specific category there, just dumped them into "legal journals".
I think you should be able to find more journals via these resources, usually by searching for the title in Russian. Hope this helps you, anon.
Anonymous 2022-04-01 (Fri) 01:10:56 No. 10267
>>10264 Welp, time to either:
1) Actually learn Russian
2) Put the text into Google Translate 1 paragraph at a time
This will be a fun one, people. Book that cited this is picrel if anyone cares.
Anonymous 2022-04-01 (Fri) 16:43:32 No. 10271
>>10267 how about just leave it alone instead of trying to study something that you don’t understand for stalinist denialism happy hour
Anonymous 2022-04-01 (Fri) 23:09:44 No. 10281
>>10271 What would you recommend I do with my time then?
Anonymous 2022-04-05 (Tue) 15:49:22 No. 10298
My contribution
https://www.beic.it/en https://www.beic.it/it A lot of italian books(especially early medieval), but also books in other languages. A lot of them are not present on archive.org. I suggest to translate with google translate, because the the english search engine has no division by topics.
Does anyone have a good website where i can get russian (preferably soviet) books? I want to read the primary chronicle translated in russian by the soviet ministry, but the version on archive.org makes my eyes bleed…
Anonymous 2022-04-05 (Tue) 15:51:00 No. 10299
>>10264 >>10298 Im gay. Didnt skimmed the thread. Thanks anyway
Anonymous 2022-04-16 (Sat) 05:37:46 No. 10388
>>10370 Don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for, but People's History of Ideas podcast about China is pretty excellent and show notes include sources and names to research
Anonymous 2022-04-20 (Wed) 00:32:54 No. 10415
I don't know where else to ask this but does anyone have know or have a good biography of Ho Chi Minh? I know of The Selected Works but I'm looking to learn more about the man himself
Anonymous 2022-04-24 (Sun) 20:16:11 No. 10451
Is there any sort of pastebin for images, instead of text? I've been putting mine on a personal whatsapp group, but it's very disorganized. I also have no interest in saving them all in my computer.
Anonymous 2022-04-29 (Fri) 17:14:28 No. 10517
>>10475
Anonymous 2022-05-27 (Fri) 12:11:33 No. 10811
>>10451 https://imgbb.com/ , not that dumb channer shit that’s gonna link rot in a year or 2 tops
Anonymous 2022-06-13 (Mon) 04:26:34 No. 11039
Hello I'm a brainlet but this seems the right place to post something like :
It searches a lot of sources from Wikileaks to newspapers in many languages to sci-hub, locally without a server and you can add new sources, export results and do all sorts of fancy filters. IDK how good or new this is actually, but it's blowing my fucking mind tbh, and it wasn't posted so here. Enjoy.
META-PRESS https://www.meta-press.es/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/meta-press-es/ https://www.meta-press.es/pages/a_propos.html Meta-Press.es is a tool to search the online press (international reference press, specialized reviews, general purpose press…). It can be used to make press reviews for big associations for instance or scientific press coverage (via dedicated sources). Researches are keyword driven and you can select precisely in which sources to search (via type, language, theme, result type…). So users have full control over the sources queried to perform their searches and they even can add their own sources.
Then it’s possible to schedule daily searches (or monthly ones).
This search engine is shaped as a web browser addon (WebExtension standard format). The search and sort job is handled by the the extension itself, on the computer of the user and it allows to gives the user fine grained control over the tool.
Meta-Press.es is already able to search through hundreds of sources and this number regularly grows.
Using Meta-Press.es, there is no central server involved, to watch over and profile users, to adapt search results to their behavior and habits or to add targeted ads. So there is no bubble effect like with commercial mainstream search engines.
Meta-Press.es works great with the Tor Browser (which have been made, among other goals, to read the press with more confidentiality than with an ordinary web browser).
Meta-Press.es is a free / libre software with open sources. Those whom know HTML and JavaScript can explore its source code and adapt the tool to their needs (or easily add new sources).
To finish, Meta-Press.es is an energy efficient tool : there is no need for polar circle datacenters to perform searches through the online press…
Anonymous 2022-06-13 (Mon) 21:18:49 No. 11040
I just want to thank OP for this post! Really useful websites!
Anonymous 2022-07-17 (Sun) 20:49:46 No. 11260
>>9298 https://vk.com/@marxist_science-100-knig-dlya-marksista Hello everyone! If you can speak/read in russian there's an awesome reading list by Marxist Science. If you've been following on "drama" they've been destroying others on topics such as bourgeois counterrevolution of 1953, were nuking philosophy out of marxism, all in all pretty consequent scientific communists. this reading list is a gem, i'm gonna be studying mainly guided by this.
Anonymous 2022-07-31 (Sun) 10:03:17 No. 11341
>>11260 >>11260 >were nuking philosophy out of marxism revisionist garbage.
Anonymous 2022-08-16 (Tue) 19:29:45 No. 11446
Can someone get me a digital copy of Pikkety's Capital?
Anonymous 2022-08-24 (Wed) 21:33:08 No. 11514
>>11260 >nuking philosophy out of marxism <hurr durr, i'm gonna butcher marxism because my STEMautism tells me so Reminder that saying that philosophy is useless is philosophy in and of itself (also know as metaphilosophy).
>>11461 Feel free to stop calling yourself marxist anytime then, pseud.
Anonymous 2022-08-25 (Thu) 10:54:07 No. 11529
>>11514 Marx, famously a huge fan of interpreting the world in various ways
Anonymous 2022-08-25 (Thu) 21:38:31 No. 11533
>>11529 >implying philosophy can't do that while also being made into concrete action That was
precisely Marx's inovation in the field, jfc.
Anonymous 2022-08-25 (Thu) 21:40:25 No. 11534
>>11529 >>11533 thesis: change da world
antithesis: interpret da world
synthesis: interpret da world so you can better change da world
Anonymous 2022-08-27 (Sat) 19:38:20 No. 11559
>>11556 Yeah yeah yeah, the fact that he criticised philosophy didn't mean he wasn't actively partaking in it. Otherwise he wouldn't have thought of concepts such as hismat and diamat later in his life, which are nothing but philosophical products.
Anonymous 2022-08-27 (Sat) 19:52:58 No. 11561
>>11559 marx never thought up histmat or diamat
historical materialism was already developed by french enlightenment thinkers and barely referenced by marx himself, with engels mostly referencing it
dialectical materialism was developed by the second international from an interpretation of capital and later on adopted by the "marxist-leninists"
Anonymous 2022-09-08 (Thu) 12:15:50 No. 11624
https://15mpedia.org/wiki/Portada Recurso para los hispanohablantes
Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:51:08 No. 11943
SearX https://searx.space/ This is a list of SearX instances. SearX is a meta-search engine. This means you can search on Yandex, Bing, Google, etc. all at once. I haven't preferred to use it but it's a way to not be tracked by Google. From my experiments you can't actually use the Google power-searching tips listed at the end of my last post, so I haven't really preferred it for that reason.
Sci-Hub https://sci-hub.se/ (main site)
https://twitter.com/ringo_ring (social media)
https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub_tweets (social media)
https://vk.com/sci_hub (social media)
For accessing scientific literature. Works on some books I think, particularly if they're hosted on sites that also host scientific papers.
With Sci-Hub, it's often useful to try multiple existing links for the same paper if you want to access it and it doesn't work the first time. For example, you would try the regular page URL for where the paper is hosted, and also its DOI code that should be on the page somewhere, and also URLs for any alternative hosts of the same paper you may find through Google (exact searches with quotation marks around available text strings or the exact title are often most helpful for academic papers), plus the alternate DOI codes for those.
https://archive.today/KRs2x And here's Sci-Hub's own advice about what to try if you need access to a paper and Sci-Hub doesn't have it.
Library Genesis (LibGen) https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/ Not even going to link the actual site because I don't know which one is the best instance up right now. There's several mirrors up. You may find best info on that subreddit.
To my knowledge anybody can upload things there. I would suggest exhausting other means of obtaining access to a book before this, or else only read it in a virtual machine if possible, though I didn't bother with that and just took the risk because I'm not too experienced with good VMs. I don't want to FUD this site, I might just be overcautious.
JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/ While you can generally read papers hosted here on Sci-Hub, it isn't really foolproof. I recommend making an account, you can get access to up to 100 papers a month on there for free. You can also use this:
https://www.jstor.org/analyze/ JSTOR's text analyzer. It will analyze a PDF you feed to it and then show you papers it thinks are related.
RationalWiki's recommended sites https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Websites A lot of this is shit. I still thought it was worth a mention since some of it isn't shit.
The Free Library https://www.thefreelibrary.com/ Research anything, organized by topic
Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:51:31 No. 11944
>>11943 Anti-paywall tools for news, magazines, etc.
12 Foot Ladder https://12ft.io/ Hops most news paywalling.
Archive.Today https://archive.today/ Saves an archive of article without scripts. Works to hop paywalls on some sites like the Financial Times.
A comment on this, it's best practice to replace the domain endings (e.g. ".is", ".ph", ".md") with a ".today". This is because from there it will direct you to an Archive.Today instance that isn't blocked in your country. I found that a friend in a foreign country wasn't able to access archive.ph or a few others, but when he used the archive.today link for that archive he was able to view it.
So I used
https://archive.today/XIoH1 instead of
https://archive.is/XIoH1 for an example
The Wayback Machine by the Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/ Hops some pay-walling.
Outline https://outline.com/ Hops some straggler paywalls like The Economist, also gives you a shareable URL that break sometimes for whatever reason.
This Chrome extension https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome Plugin for Chrome. I haven't tested it and thus can't vouch for it.
Honorable mentions PressReader and the Wikipedia Library again.
Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:51:50 No. 11945
>>11944 Some resources of /leftypol/'s own and co.
/marx/ http://eregime.org/index.php?showforum=719 Notable for some reasons given here:
https://archive.today/cDhZe Ismail is thus a competent reference desk operator, especially for topics directly concerning Marxism.
A note, as was mentioned in that /meta/ thread, though: it doesn't currently have a standard HTTPS related certificate. This means that you should assume anything that you post on that website is exposed. This includes passwords used to register to the site. This remains true until the site gets such a certificate. If you register, use a password you have never used and never will use anywhere else.
You can post pseudo-anonymously as a "guest" if you prefer that.
Misc. Questions that don't need their own thread: >>>/leftypol/296564 Reading General: >>>/leftypol/285223 Our booru (image arsenal): https://lefty.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list +
highlights (keep in mind some of it is parody like the Hibernian conspiracy shit lol):
https://lefty.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=chart https://lefty.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=graph https://lefty.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=debunk https://lefty.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=data https://lefty.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=infographic Welcome thread which links some resources:
>>>/leftypol/163675 Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:52:04 No. 11946
>>11945 Archiving tools.
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and Archive.Today are basically the standard archiving services at time of writing. I will list some others for fallback options.
The kings https://archive.today/ https://web.archive.org/ GhostArchive https://ghostarchive.org/ Google Cache https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:INSERTLINKHERE Note this seems to purge itself after a while. Usable as a stopgap option.
Perma.cc https://perma.cc/ This is more intended for scholars and I haven't used it yet. It might not be usable by laypeople, I have no idea.
Misc archiving tools + how-to's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_source Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:52:36 No. 11948
>>11947 Misc. missed
Searching. I've heard some good about this meta-search engine but no idea yet if it's better than SearX:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogpile Archives. Web Archives: Firefox add-on for viewing already created archives of the page you're on.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-archive/ Researching. Search for "(topic) handlist" to find some recommended works.
"Marxism handlist" returned me these for example:
https://www.socialist.net/the-fundamentals-of-marxism-suggested-reading.htm https://breadandrosesdsa.org/reading-list/ Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:52:49 No. 11949
>>11948 Some alternative social media.
Mastodon https://instances.social/ Similar to Twitter. Part of the fediverse.
PeerTube https://joinpeertube.org/instances YouTube alternative.
Miraheze https://miraheze.org/ Similar to Fandom/Wikia, but non-profit. A lot more customizable as well it seems.
Front-ends for mainstream social media.
Invidious / YouTube https://instances.invidio.us/?sort_by=version This is a list of Invidious instances. Some are more private than others.
https://incogtube.com/ IncogTube will proxy your connection to the video through their own servers, for instance, so you never have to connect to Google's servers (probably better recommended if you're accessing via the Tor Browser where you must allow the video-hosting site to run scripts to see the video). But it has no log-ins and it has no thumbnails for videos that haven't been loaded by anybody yet.
https://vid.puffyan.us/ You can alternatively use this for some convenience as it doesn't have the pitfalls of the above, but it will expose your IP to Google. This is less information given to Google than just straight up using YouTube, but it's something.
Either of these allow you to download the video or audio from what you're viewing.
Bibliogram / Instagram https://bibliogram.art/ https://bibliogram.snopyta.org/ I don't know how well this works, I don't use it. It seems to at least be partly working. It lets you view Instagram profiles without Instagram (which is owned by Facebook) gathering data on you.
Nitter / Fritter / Twitter https://nitter.net/ https://nitter.snopyta.org/ View Twitter posts on PC without Twitter collecting data about you.
Some general info:
https://www.inputmag.com/tech/nitter-is-a-new-front-end-for-twitter-that-helps-hide-you-from-advertisers https://fritter.cc/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jonjomckay.fritter Same concept as Nitter, but for mobile devices.
Teddit / Reddit https://teddit.net/ View Reddit without the site collecting data on you.
Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:53:07 No. 11950
>>11949 Stuff about chans.
A. Search tools
https://boards.4chan.org/search#/test/g https://boards.4chan.org/search#/test (both broke for me lol)
https://find.4chan.org/?q=test (not broke)
https://leftypol.org/search.php B. General archives
https://archive.4plebs.org/ https://archived.moe/ https://archive.wakarimasen.moe/ https://desuarchive.org/ https://warosu.org/ also
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/4chan C. Find when somebody saved an image from 4chan using the unix code generated when they saved it.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm Stick their filename into here and then remove the last three numbers. So
>>9307 (1641521876691) returns "07 Jan 2022" (though in this case that number was generated because anon posted an image, not because anon saved an image) when the last 3 digits are removed.
also I generally would recommend using 4chan-X.
https://www.4chan-x.net/ Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:53:16 No. 11951
>>11950 Some misc.
Link shorteners https://bitly.com/ https://archive.today/ Link unshortening
https://unshorten.it/ Organizing files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TagSpaces Shareable file/document storage tools CryptPad: collaborative, openly viewable.
https://cryptpad.fr/ GhostBin: Private. Instances known to go down unannounced.
https://ghostbin.com/ Streamable: store and share video files easily.
https://streamable.com/ Web scraping tools A. LinkGopher: grab all links from a page. Includes ability to filter. Plugin is also on Chrome.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-gopher/ B. How to screenshot an entire page:
Firefox has it built in. Just click the three dots in the URL bar (…) then 'take screenshot' and then you can select full web page in the top right corner.
C. Gesturefy has an option for saving a whole page (in a sometimes wonky fashion) as a PDF if you create a custom gesture for doing so.
Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:53:23 No. 11952
>>11951 Social media A. Map of Reddit: Offers a view into how different subreddits relate.
https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/ B. Just a random tip but if you go to the top of your Twitter feed, press the sparkles symbol and do "latest tweets" I swear it makes the site so much less cancerous. Also, utilizing the "lists" feature is helpful. I created a list for compiling news items for example.
C. Tips about shadowbans on Twitter. Don't repost identical text or images a lot, they'll think you're a spambot. The more followers (ratio of followers/following matters) and interaction (read: likes and retweets) your account has the less likely you are to be penalized. Don't tweet too rapidly, and don't follow-unfollow people rapidly. Having an older account protects you from penalization to an extent. Blue checkmarks (verified accounts) are probably immune. Tweeting in an aggressive way will get you penalized.
D. Twitter video downloader.
https://twittervideodownloader.com/ E. Glowcord server finders.
https://archive.today/Auu0w https://discordservers.com/ https://top.gg/ https://disboard.org/ F. Finding quote-tweets (example), you would insert the desired tweet ID from the URL. This is useful because Twitter doesn't always show you all of the quote tweets for some reason.
https://twitter.com/search?q=-from%3Aquotedreplies%20url%3A1477752056471506948&src=typed_query&f=live Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:53:34 No. 11953
>>11952 Some privacy tools 1. Anti-surveillance by EFF.
https://ssd.eff.org/ 2. Some recommended to try: Noscript, uMatrix Decentraleyes, HTTPS Everywhere, uBlock Origin.
3. Worth a look: SessionBox. Decent for hopping some paywalls as well.
4. The Tor Browser. Some documentation here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/wiki/index Some advice about URL "campaign" trackers… >>>/leftypol/676218
And more:
https://archive.today/XIoH1 A tip about your HTTP referer header. If you leave this setting at default, I think websites are able to view what the last page you were on prior to visiting theirs was. I know this is true if you clicked a link that brought you to their website (thus, it shows them your "referrer").
https://www.technipages.com/firefox-enable-disable-referrer This gives you instructions
https://privacyinternational.org/guide-step/4149/change-http-referer-settings-chrome I generally recommend Firefox over Chrome-based browsers but there are some okay browsers out there that are Chrome based, like Brave browser.
Note that disabling your referer header WILL break some pages. I've sometimes found it difficult to launch games, use various tools (like unshorten.it), etc. So you'll have to keep flipping this setting on and off throughout the day if you're as active as I am. I'm willing to do this for the extra privacy, but know what you're getting into there.
I think there's a Chrome extension that makes this process a lot easier. Don't know about Firefox.
With the URL "campaign" trackers, you have to be discerning.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Boomtown/P7HeHhOPkCsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22sneed%22+%22feed%22&pg=PR2&printsec=frontcover There are other symbols than "?" which demarcate the beginning/end of tracker crap in a URL.
In this case you have "&" symbols, you might see those.
But actually, in this case you want the stuff after "?" and "&" to remain. Because it's altering what content you're looking at. It shows you a particular page and all. You can basically deduce this by what the rough encoded text on the URL looks like. For a tracker URL campaign it will look different.
Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:53:50 No. 11954
>>11953 Some other random browser tools.
Search by Image https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_image/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/search-by-image/cnojnbdhbhnkbcieeekonklommdnndci Easily reverse image search. I have mine set so I can quickly use Google, Yandex, Bing, TinEye, Karma Decay, Pinterest and trace.moe
SponsorBlock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone This actually works on certain Invidious instances! Go and tamper with the settings. You have to feed it which Invidious instance you're using. I also recommend flipping on certain switches in the settings, to skip things other than sponsors in videos. Such as non-music in music videos, self-promotion, all sorts of crap.
Privacy Badger https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/ You may have to temp disable this on some pages since it'll break some content on a rare occasion. It blocks trackers.
Cookie Quick Manager https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-quick-manager/ I use this on Firefox, you'll have to find an equivalent for Chrome-based browsers. It's good for purging cookies
And a bonus. Here's a porn-free search engine if you care about that. It's also meant to be a more private search engine, as many alternative search engines claim
https://swisscows.com/ Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:53:59 No. 11955
>>11954 Academic metadata search engine:
https://www.crossref.org/ https://www.scinapse.io/ Another academic search engine. Poached from 4chan. Looks good, tested it once.
Directory of searchable, curated open-access (freely accessible content) journals
https://www.doaj.org/ Free educational books
https://openstax.org/subjects https://libretexts.org/ Brief resources list curated for the /dprk/ Matrix chat, and partially from their recommendations:
https://ghostbin.com/Erc03 Just generally worth digging around in despite the random garbage you'll encounter:
https://masterpostsnstuff.tumblr.com/archive https://masterposts-for-reference.tumblr.com/archive https://masterpost--of--masterposts.tumblr.com/archive Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 11:54:09 No. 11956
>>11955 Starter Pack selection:
Archive.org (they have a big online library at
https://openlibrary.org/ ), Sci-Hub, LibGen, Google Scholar, the Google power search tips (which you can find at various compilations online, not just the ones given above).
My main anti-paywall tools ( 12ft.io, archive.today, outline.com, SessionBox ).
Lately I would recommend our own leftybooru more than ever after seeing how much is there plus adding a lot of my own images to it.
Protonmail is decent for email, never been very fussy to use. If you can get a Riseup email (invite-only but seems like invites aren't impossible to find) it may be worth it.
TagSpaces seems really good for organizing if you have a lot of files like me.
uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere (an anon above said Smart HTTPS is better though), you can just install and basically done, don't have to think of it again most likely. Sponsorblock and Search by Image you install and tune the settings and done, don't have to think of it again although you'll probably use them daily if you're like me.
Not a substitute for looking through each of the above but I put this starter pack together for you and it's mostly focused on some basic quality-of-life improvements and basic research tools that people may not know of than on stuff like privacy (if you want to start looking at that, SponsorBlock works with some Invidious (YouTube proxying) instances which may be a fun place to start tinkering). There's plenty of stuff that's cut out that's still worth checking out above.
Anonymous 2022-10-26 (Wed) 14:47:19 No. 11957
Does an archived version of this thread exist? It would be a shame if it was lost.
Anonymous 2022-11-01 (Tue) 20:26:15 No. 11965
Im trying to digitalize my library of 75~ish books and my uni scanners arent always available. What scanning device is best for books of various sizes?
Anonymous 2022-11-02 (Wed) 13:43:30 No. 11967
>>11966 tried one of those and broke my camera :( im awful with shit like this
Anonymous 2022-11-18 (Fri) 22:05:32 No. 12032
>>11957 https://archive.ph/dMn5N , save with control+s.
if you feel savvy, you can use
https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/wpull or
https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site a comparison of web archiving tools exists here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FqxwaZnIhhQ7jDCC-W64NMRf5rDeh2Shx3u01MsBmTQ or as pdf version in file attached. (if the pdf doesn't render well use zathura (linux) or sumatra pdf (windows)
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