- A Reddit-coordinated “rescue mission” is underway to torrent-mirror the entire Sci-Hub corpus and other closed-access journals to safeguard open science against takedowns.  
- Participants worry that open-access journals are being neglected in preservation efforts; many are already gone because they had no print copies and now exist only on scattered hard drives.  
- Several “open-access” journals are criticized for licensing clauses that forbid redistribution and for blocking spiders, forcing archivists to use the same scraping tactics required for paywalled content.  
- A new pre-print, “The Hoverfly and the Wasp: A Critique of the Hallmarks of Aging as a Paradigm,” challenges the prevailing hallmarks-of-aging framework; an older 2016 review on aging theories was also circulated for context.  
- Tahoe-LAFS is noted as a still-maintained distributed storage option that could help with long-term scientific data archiving.  
- TabFS, a Chrome extension that exposes browser tabs as a mountable filesystem, was shared as a lightweight tool for session and data management.  
- Freenode governance drama was summarized: the network’s domain and trademark are legally held by one individual (Andrew Lee), creating a single point of failure; staff resignation letters and background on Lee’s “Korean crown prince” claims and Mark Karpeles’ role as CTO of related companies were discussed.