- Qubes OS (https://www.qubes-os.org) was highlighted as a security-oriented operating system that isolates applications in separate virtual machines to reduce attack surface.  
- Two new transcripts from the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2016 were posted: NASDAQ Linq (http://diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki/transcripts/mit-bitcoin-expo-2016/linq/) and R3 (http://diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki/transcripts/mit-bitcoin-expo-2016/r3/), covering blockchain-based financial infrastructure developments.  
- Discussion centered on the status of paperbot (an IRC bot that retrieved paywalled papers); participants noted its apparent demise and weighed alternatives such as Sci-Hub and Library Genesis torrent mirrors.  
- A curated set of blog posts and essays on Sci-Hub was shared, framing it as “necessary, effective civil disobedience,” a “scholarly litmus test,” and a disruptive force against traditional academic publishing (links: svpow.com, Duke Library blogs, bjoern.brembs.net, Scholarly Kitchen).  
- It was mentioned that Sci-Hub’s corpus is now available via torrents hosted by Library Genesis, potentially eliminating the need for web-based captcha solving when bulk-accessing papers.