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Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it really is time to get open sourced AI and bots to archive useful information so they don't get monopolized.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's time to get back to old habits. Back in my cyber café days (and after too, since internet was not as reliable here), I would save pages to view them later at home offline.

Manual scrapping, basically.

Getting the language reference/docs in HTML format, like I used to for PHP.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One thing that is designed to be future-proof is MarkDown, I've been taking profesional and personal notes and exporting important information from web pages to markdown and hosting it on my own PC for a while.

MarkDown it's text based so you can have a huge amount of data with just a tiny bit of space. And it is easily translated/rendered as HTML. Apps like Logseq, Obsidian or Markor are good starts for managing huge vaults of information.

I'm thinking that whe should create a MarkDown community here.

edit: There's one already! https://lemmy.ml/c/pkb

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks a lot! You're right, backing up with MarkDown is much better.

You just reminded me of an old software I used to use, called WikidPad. It had some sort of MarkDown and it was FOSS. It was great for making portable/offline wikis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's plenty of software designed to store personal wikis and info in markdown, if you are interested checkout Obsidian, Logseq and Jopling (in that order for me)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll look into them. The one I mentioned is outdated/abandoned, afaik.