PurpleJillybeans 
My latest frivolous #RetroComputing project: a #Kiwix ZIM reader for vintage web browsers.
If you're curious, it's on #CGHMN at http://kiwix.n8fq.retro
HenningJust donated to @kiwix!
They do great work of making the download of various dictionaries and knowledgebases offline extremely easy!
This is essential for people in regions with bad internet, like a refugee camp.
I couldn't find any legal advice, which would be pretty important, apart from a general #StackExchange backup.
Spread the knowledge!
Pete the Gopher Keeper@terminaltilt @kiwix Edit: there's a reason why it's no longer available but there are still copies available onljne.
https://hub.kiwix.org/weblog/2025/1/wikihow-content-has-been-deprecated/
WikiHow content has been deprecated
TL;DR: the WikiHow zim files have been deleted and there are no plans to bring them back. The longer story is that the WikiHow folks reached out around the end of 2024 asking for their removal. Their content is apparently being harvested left and right by LLMs for their training, and they are trying to
Terminal TiltTired of Enshittification? Take your knowledge offline.
I am currently self hosting a @kiwix instance on my homelab. Having local, searchable copies of Wikipedia, the ArchWiki, and iFixit feels like a cheat code for digital sovereignty.
Spin up the Docker image, grab your ZIM files, and stop relying on big tech to keep the lights on for your reference data.
#Kiwix #SelfHosting #DigitalSovereignty #RightToRepair #ArchLinux #Docker #NoAI
merlin / alex glowOne of my favorite sites is https://etymonline.com β it adds so much nerd-joy to my life! Recently subscribed to support them, and now I wanna see if they're open to making a .ZIM file for #Kiwix π€
Saw this fun exchange today and [linguistics ramble loading...]
// Edited to link the EOL entry for "griffin" (to which "griffon" and "gryphon" are linked as alternatives): https://www.etymonline.com/word/griffin
There's more surprising history in there too!
desirable_dialogue
Nemo_bis π@alex It would be cool to have #EmacsWiki in the #Kiwix library (there's already a ZIM for Emacs Q&A SE)! Not sure how easy it is these days.
https://wiki.openzim.org/wiki/Build_your_ZIM_file
RobSetting up Offspot, a #kiwix hotspot (offline Wikipedia and other learning resources) from this tutorial: https://github.com/offspot/overview/blob/main/docs/Kiwix%20Hotspot%20Tutorial.md
Haven't yet built the image but I'm wondering if I can't run it and pull from previously downloaded archives. I tend to use torrents to save on server bandwidth. I would also prefer older (pre-"AI") archives. Any tips appreciated, though I won't be online much of the day. @kiwix
Haven't yet built the image but I'm wondering if I can't run it and pull from previously downloaded archives. I tend to use torrents to save on server bandwidth. I would also prefer older (pre-"AI") archives. Any tips appreciated, though I won't be online much of the day. @kiwix
Eugene 
@livefish You are very lucky! 
I have a small list in my head, of course 
From #Kiwix library:
β Wikipedia [EN]
β ArchWiki (good source of information about tips&tricks for software not only for ArchLinux users)
β To fix some hardware/software without the Internet:
+ iFixit library
+ Docs for foundations of Internet and it's services: C++/PHP/HTML/Perl/PostgreSQL/nginx/etc docs
+ StackOverflow parts (network engineering, ServerFault, programming, etc)
+ Source code? (at least to install something without the Internet on the some OS with compiler and some libs)
Some things which may be useful for other people:
β Project Gutenberg library parts (medicine, agriculture, usual literature (to read something without the network), philosophy)
β Public Domain Recipies and GrimGrains Recipies
β Flibusta archive. Without PDF and DJVU it weights near 1Tb. And I suppose, after removing all the cringe literature about fucking ΠΏΠΎΠΏΠ°Π΄Π°Π½ΡΡ β it will weight lesser 
β Some guides about plumbing, woodworking, soldering etc β also to fix something. I have a printed book about how to service house, from near 1998 β still using it, lol 
β ISOs for some Linux/BSD distributions
All of these obviously not for one user, but for sharing on necessity, like it was at 199x
Kalvin Carefour JohnnyBecause the internet in my area normalises internet outages (sudden loss of internet seems normalised here), I'm downloading offline LLMs I can chat with or use. I have already downloaded many Kiwix articles, and it's nice.
#offline #internet #selfhosting #resilience #technology #LLM #Kiwix #digitalindependence #preparedness #opensource #learning #knowledge #privacy #decentralisation #infrastructure