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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.</p> -<p>For two: 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," and definitely not on "How to <em>write</em> -good posts on a forum." But these are exactly 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.</p> -<p>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 a lot of preaching these days about privacy -concerns, but I don't really believe any service is more "private" than -another. These are all privacy nightmares, arguably by design. Your best -bet is just to search often and as many platforms 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 a source of truth on it's own. -But you can use it to find more sources and maybe get a little -closer.</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> -</body> -</html> - |