Comment by 🌲 Half_Elf_Monk
Re: "pandoc and website preservation"
@stack - That would work, but I simply don't trust the LLMs to get details right. @decant - interesting. Realistically, shouldn't there be a way to simply download a snapshot of wikipedea as a whole? As mostly-text, it shouldn't be that big. Why are there no local wikipedia browsers?
2025-12-12 · 5 months ago
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@Half_Elf_Monk -- there is a stripped down wikipedia distribution, people often put it on local devices feaured on Gizmodo and such... Can't remember where to get it, and not at a decent computer now, but I am sure you can easily find it.
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pandoc and website preservation — Back when I used firefox/chromium. I use their print function to save full web page to a pdf file. For example, Paul V Bolotoff wrote articles on the history of DEC alpha CPUs, but his website is long gone, the only copy of the article I could find is on the archive section of someone’s personal site. But I found out I could use pandoc accomplish this task: pandoc [http link] -o oldarticle.epub I find the epub family of formats better suit my needs. PDF is...