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I'm holding in the palm of my hand the sum of all human knowledge (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well not quite but close. I'm holding a hard disk that has ALL of Wikipedia's text in 10 different languages.

Yes you can download all of Wikipedia and yes it can easily fit in a hard drive. Isn't that amazing? Text is incredibly dense compared to images and video. Around 22 GiB for English Wikipedia alone and 56 GiB for the 10 languages I downloaded.

I also have all of Wiktionary in the same hard drive. It's around 16.4 GiB.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No idea what that means. But thank you for adding more info.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

OK yes, some supporting info is: Aard2 is an offline wikipedia app, that uses small compressed data files in .slob format.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Slob compression is best visualized as putting a sleeping bag into a stuff sack, except it’s all your possessions and you’re stuffing them into an old Chevy Metro