This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I imagine we will be saying goodbye to many such things soon, in the extreme maybe yhe entire idea of a global internet and many open projects like Wikipedia, I can't see how they can coexist with our world now without being shut down or subverted into evil, might as well go out on their own terms.
I do hope a copy exists somewhere, perhaps waiting for a brighter day. Maybe that's naive, but maybe truth and knowledge will become a desirable thing again one day.
The evil Wikipedia already exists, it's called Metapedia
For anyone who doesn’t know (as I didn’t), metapedia is pretty clear Nazi apologist crap, just to save you checking/ending up on a watchlist.
But is it a good list or a bad list these days. I’m confused. /s
Yikes. Thanks
Eh it's not really the same thing, there's plenty of these sorts of things like rationalwiki and prolewiki and whatnot. I meant the Wikipedia itself
You can download Wikipedia.
Anyone can actually.
I don't have the storage capacity required personally
The compressed text only dump is about 25gb.
It only grows to many terabytes if you include all revisions and media files
Damn, TIL. Downloading now.
Then feed it into an AI or something.
Well, I'm not sure how I feel about preemptively burning your own books, willingly diving back into the stone age for no good reason. Most of the fears outlined in the article are pure speculation and over-reaction to current events. If data from 23 and Me (the source of most of this data being burned) is really getting out there to be purchased, this hiding of data and data destruction does not even inconvenience bad state actors, it only puts up a big bad-actor sourced pay wall in front of legitimate scientists. This is really a shameful cowardice at best, anti-science either way, and at worst they may be actually selling the data to someone and then deleting the public database behind a big flourish with smoke and mirrors. (Reading back my post to myself I guess I am sure how I feel about preemptively burning your own books. It makes me mad apparently. )
