In what's partly an effort to push back against domain seizures and blocking efforts, Z-Library has upgraded its mirror infrastructure. Users of the shadow library can now create custom-branded, login-only mirrors of the site, creating a network of stealthy, white-label pirate sites. Running a mirror site comes with costs and legal risk, but Z-Library offers to share a 20% cut of its donations as compensation.

i essentially dont save cookies except for a few sites to not log in constantly, so knowing if that gets saved would save me a lot of time.

instance-level signals

• brand new account with no post history outside political threads
• account from a known bad-faith/large general purpose instance (lemmy.world etc) that only ever shows up in communist/.ml communities

content signals

• "both sides" framing but applied asymmetrically, equating us imperialism with defensive responses from targeted states
• humanitarian interventionism: "but what about the people of x" used specifically to justify nato/us positions
• treats western ngos and media as neutral baseline, demands extraordinary evidence for any counter-narrative
• whataboutism that only ever runs one direction, deflects from western atrocities but never from the targets of western aggression
• "im a leftist but..." followed by a position you could copy paste from a state dept briefing
• disproportionate focus on us adversaries (china, russia, cuba, dprk, venezuela, iran) with zero comparable scrutiny of us allies
• concern trolling about "authoritarianism" that somehow only ever applies to socialist states

behavioral signals

• posts consistently during us business hours
• only shows up when a specific topic is active, disappears otherwise
• never updates their position no matter what evidence you put in front of them, the argument is purely performative
• high comment to post, or post to comment ratio, always replying never posting, reactive disruption pattern
• posts are concentrated in the same few communities, often with overlap between suspected accounts suggesting coordinated targeting

i think the image size limit has been reduced some time ago, because of this i've encountered various situations where i had to manually compress images to be able to upload them. i think the size limit is at around 800kb, at least based on my experience. is there a way that images could be compress upon upload to avoid this? i genuiley rather have them look like a blurry mess than to have to edit them manually.

https://github.com/gary-host-laptop/ushiro https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/%E5%BE%8C%E3%82%8D-ushiro/

Every image a website doesn't want you to have is still there — just gated. Ushiro drops you behind the scenes to find it. Background images, clickable decoys, alternative resolutions, inline SVGs, base64 chunks, shadow DOM. If it rendered on your screen, you can take it.

I forked behind! extension and added a little extra touch, plus some improvements