▲ 779 ▼ MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs (gizmodo.com) submitted 11 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 154 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 child) thank yewwww. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 months ago (1 child) There is also apps like Aard2 that allow you to have all of wikipedia (no images duh) offline on your phone. https://github.com/itkach/aard2-android Its a general dictionary type app so it supports things other than wikipedia too. There is a link to the dictionary files in the readme on that github, but it can be confusing. If you have 23GB of space and your storage isnt fat32 formatted: https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/enwiki/enwiki20250801-slob/ If it is fat32 then you gotta download it in 4GB chunks: https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/enwiki/enwiki20250801-vol-slob/ The downside to this is that i (you?) often want very recent fresh info from wikipedia and this obviously doesnt work well for that because it doesnt support updating in a way where you only have to download the changes. If somebody knows of an app that supports this, where you only have to download a couple MB of changes every day to keep the entire thing up to date let me know. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (1 child) sweet. alas, internet friend, i’m old enuf to have had printed (gasp) encyclopedias purchased new in 1985, so i can cope with static data just fine. i am curious, nonetheless - i see these are dated pretty recently. are these ftps updated with some kind of regularity so i can continue to dl them up until all knowledge gets banned for being too inclusive and woke and something something? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child) Always glad to share cool projects :) If you go up to the parent directory of the links i sent it shows the last couple versions (20250801, 20250601, 20250201, 20241201) so it gets updated every few months yes. I believe the URL has stayed the same for the past decade or so too, so it should be fairly easy to automate that even. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 child) you’re a champion among lemmings. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago thank you my friend :) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 months ago (1 child) There is also apps like Aard2 that allow you to have all of wikipedia (no images duh) offline on your phone. https://github.com/itkach/aard2-android Its a general dictionary type app so it supports things other than wikipedia too. There is a link to the dictionary files in the readme on that github, but it can be confusing. If you have 23GB of space and your storage isnt fat32 formatted: https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/enwiki/enwiki20250801-slob/ If it is fat32 then you gotta download it in 4GB chunks: https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/aarddict/enwiki/enwiki20250801-vol-slob/ The downside to this is that i (you?) often want very recent fresh info from wikipedia and this obviously doesnt work well for that because it doesnt support updating in a way where you only have to download the changes. If somebody knows of an app that supports this, where you only have to download a couple MB of changes every day to keep the entire thing up to date let me know. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (1 child) sweet. alas, internet friend, i’m old enuf to have had printed (gasp) encyclopedias purchased new in 1985, so i can cope with static data just fine. i am curious, nonetheless - i see these are dated pretty recently. are these ftps updated with some kind of regularity so i can continue to dl them up until all knowledge gets banned for being too inclusive and woke and something something? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child) Always glad to share cool projects :) If you go up to the parent directory of the links i sent it shows the last couple versions (20250801, 20250601, 20250201, 20241201) so it gets updated every few months yes. I believe the URL has stayed the same for the past decade or so too, so it should be fairly easy to automate that even. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 child) you’re a champion among lemmings. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago thank you my friend :) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (1 child) sweet. alas, internet friend, i’m old enuf to have had printed (gasp) encyclopedias purchased new in 1985, so i can cope with static data just fine. i am curious, nonetheless - i see these are dated pretty recently. are these ftps updated with some kind of regularity so i can continue to dl them up until all knowledge gets banned for being too inclusive and woke and something something? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child) Always glad to share cool projects :) If you go up to the parent directory of the links i sent it shows the last couple versions (20250801, 20250601, 20250201, 20241201) so it gets updated every few months yes. I believe the URL has stayed the same for the past decade or so too, so it should be fairly easy to automate that even. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 child) you’re a champion among lemmings. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago thank you my friend :) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child) Always glad to share cool projects :) If you go up to the parent directory of the links i sent it shows the last couple versions (20250801, 20250601, 20250201, 20241201) so it gets updated every few months yes. I believe the URL has stayed the same for the past decade or so too, so it should be fairly easy to automate that even. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 child) you’re a champion among lemmings. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago thank you my friend :) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] turdburglar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (1 child) you’re a champion among lemmings. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago thank you my friend :) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago thank you my friend :) permalink fedilink source parent