I've often felt that the web should work more like Git, so you can keep the content locally and just pull updates when you need.
CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
I strongly encourage everyone to protect the things they love, download all of Wikipedia, screenshot & download all the things. It’s a little paranoid, sure, but between all of us downloading & saving all our little pieces of the web & all its information, we effectively safeguard most of it from digital terrorism, tyranny, erasure. It costs very little, relatively speaking. Do your part & I’ll do mine.
chromodynamic@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
All I have is like QWEN 3B that fits on my HDD and and an USB with memories
wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I have Kiwix (offline versions of Wikipedia and other online resources) and Linkwarden (preserve specific websites in multiple formats) running on my home server.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
record scratch
I was under the impression linkwarden just saved… links.
Entire webpages? Do tell!
wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Yes! It saves it as HTML, readable HTML, PDF and image.
Results can vary a lot depending on how the page is implemented. Sometimes most of the formats are empty or broken, but I always got at least one that’s usable.
rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Can you use it to search for old versions of web pages too?
rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Is there an ELI5 of how Kiwix works? I’m having some trouble wrapping my head around it.
wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
You have two things, the application and the libraries.
The libraries are files with the data you want to host (wikipedia, stack overflow, etc).
There’s a lot of applications for different platforms. Some allow to download the libraries directly, otherwise you can download them manually into a folder and tell the app where to find them.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
It’s kind of like a PDF of a web page. But it’s functional You don’t have to load the whole site at once and links take you from page to page just like it did in the original website. The content is stored in monolithic ZIM files and you can get a decent selection from archive.org. But it’s mostly reference material and the content is quite static.