Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution

• rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is there an ELI5 of how Kiwix works? I’m having some trouble wrapping my head around it.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  record scratch

  I was under the impression linkwarden just saved… links.

  Entire webpages? Do tell!

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  • wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you use it to search for old versions of web pages too?

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      • wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Unless I missed that feature, no, you only have one version.
        But it creates a link to archive.org so you can see if there’s older versions there.

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