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+<h2 id="toc-title">Contents</h2>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#why">Why?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#how-to-use-a-web-browser">How to use a web
+browser</a></li>
+<li><a href="#how-to-use-a-search-engine">How to use a search
+engine</a></li>
+<li><a href="#how-to-read-and-find-scholarly-articles">How to read and
+find scholarly articles</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#how-to-use-wikipedia">How to use Wikipedia</a></li>
+<li><a href="#how-to-find-articles-with-google-scholar">How to find
+articles with Google Scholar</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><a href="#advanced-topics">Advanced Topics</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#how-to-use-tor-to-browse-anonymously">How to use tor to
+browse anonymously</a></li>
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+<h2 id="why">Why?</h2>
+<p>Changing times and a forgetful youth have forced me to write this
+guide.</p>
+<p>I am increasingly disturbed by the amount of people I meet (young and
+old) that navigate their lives at least in part online, but are unable
+to use the internet for it's intended purpose: finding infomation.
+Writing to someone or posting a picture of your cat seems to be second
+nature for most people, but converting a picture from a PDF or looking
+up a study (or even a word!) you saw in an article is something else
+entirely.</p>
+<p>For the most part, it is not anyone's fault or laziness. It's the
+fault of what the internet <em>has become</em>. For one, there's just so
+much more <em>stuff</em> now; it's hard to know exactly where to start
+and who to trust. And so much of that stuff is now <em>garbage</em>,
+either in the way it's presented--with disruptive ads that don't close
+correctly--or in the way it's written--vague, misleading, or straight
+incorrect. But for seconds: no one really teaches you how to use this
+thing do they? There are no courses on "How to use a search engine" or
+"How to find good posts on a forum," yet these are the kinds of skills
+you really need if you want to navigate the modern world without getting
+constantly distracted, misled, or totally lost.</p>
+<p>There are of course, countless guides on "netiquette" geared towards
+every possible internet subculture you can find. While many of them have
+influenced this document and give many helpful tips on writing good
+informative posts, none of them really go over what I think is most
+important: what to do with the information you're reading.</p>
+<p>This will probably be an evolving document as new services and
+websites become available (or go down), but much of this material in the
+beginning should be pretty generally applicable no matter what services
+are available.</p>
+<h2 id="how-to-use-a-web-browser">How to use a web browser</h2>
+<h2 id="how-to-use-a-search-engine">How to use a search engine</h2>
+<p>As for which search engine to use: you should use all of them, until
+you get the results you need. In my experience, none of the major search
+engines are particularly good and I get inconsistent searches on all of
+them depending on what I'm searching. There is much preaching these days
+about privacy concerns, but to be honest I don't believe any service is
+more "private" than another. These are all privacy nightmares, your best
+bet is to just search often and as varied as you can.</p>
+<h2 id="how-to-read-and-find-scholarly-articles">How to read and find
+scholarly articles</h2>
+<h3 id="how-to-use-wikipedia">How to use Wikipedia</h3>
+<p>A common complaint lodged at me whenever I recommend Wikipedia is
+that it's not a source of truth since they found X mistake somewhere, or
+made Y edit when they were a teenager that's still there. No one has
+ever (or should ever) claim Wikipedia is reliable. Frankly, you should
+not consider <em>any</em> source to be reliable, but that's a separate
+issue. If you know how to use Wikipedia you can use it to get closer to
+a true understanding of whatever you're studying.</p>
+<p>For starters, as a general rule, you should not trust anything you
+read on a topic that is less than 20 years old. We're still living
+through the history at this point and new things can come to light.</p>
+<h3 id="how-to-find-articles-with-google-scholar">How to find articles
+with Google Scholar</h3>
+<h2 id="advanced-topics">Advanced Topics</h2>
+<h3 id="how-to-use-tor-to-browse-anonymously">How to use tor to browse
+anonymously</h3>
+<p>Many in the advertising world will boast about using a VPN for
+anonymity, or using a VPN in conjuction with Tor to "increase privacy."
+This is simply a misunderstanding of terms. A VPN provides
+<em>privacy</em> of the user's connection since it provides
+encryption--only the VPN provider can "see" what is searched. The goal
+of Tor is <em>anonymity</em> not privacy. Anonymity means "no one knows
+who you are" not "no one knows what you're doing." Technically, traffic
+is encrypted between nodes of the Tor service, so some level of privacy
+is provided as well, but this is most effective when using hidden
+services, not using Tor in general.</p>
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