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submitted 5 months ago by electricprism@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I think it would be great to have a archive so that the various documentation, comments and hacks / workarounds could be searched.

The reason I ask is because they block VPN traffic, restrict some content behind a login wall and I have blacklisted them from my DNS so I plan on never returning.

But I find myself lacking odd tips from the Sway community and other communities.

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[-] gitamar@feddit.de 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The archive warriors are downloading Reddit for a while already. 15.6 billion items and counting. You can help too:

https://tracker.archiveteam.org/reddit/

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

It just lists name of people archiving reddit. where can I get the archived data. do I have to ask one of those people to send me a zip file?

[-] gitamar@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago

The data is integrated into the Internet archive and available e.g. via the way back machine. Not sure if you can get the whole reddit dataset.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 37 points 5 months ago

It's not an archive but RedLib provides an alternative frontend which deals with most of the hostile design

[-] governorkeagan@lemdro.id 22 points 5 months ago

Which you can use in conjunction with LibRedirect

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

Nice, there's also UntrackMe on Android

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 21 points 5 months ago

There is lemmit.online which does this purely.

It is pretty busy but may already do some of it. You could request a nieche and very useful community like the sway one. Or use your own server to fetch these results and post to the open Web.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 10 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately they don't take requests for new subreddits anymore. In addition, they don't mirror comments so in terms of answers to questions it's probably not that helpful.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

True. But that may be due to how the bot works?

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

As a sidenote, you can get around the VPN block with Redlib by just adding safe- to the start of most reddit URLs. So like instead of reddit.com/r/linux or whatever you can do safereddit.com/r/linux and it should work without needing a login.

[-] eveninghere@beehaw.org 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean, if people here don't like how Reddit took advantage of user comment data, why should we archive the same without consent from the people who wrote them? Legally speaking Reddit holds the copyright also.

[-] StrangeAstronomer@lemmy.ml -3 points 5 months ago

so just use chatgpt or gemini - pretty sure they sucked in all of reddit to form their KB

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Even if that's so, I have had many occasions where I thought that for something simple, ChatGPT could do the job. I ended up having a back and forth for hours (last case of that being yesterday) until I got it fixed. For most cases (but not yesterday's) I found it much faster by looking it up online.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mostly use Mistral personally. You also can use llava for image analysis

[-] nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 5 months ago

using llm ai for tech support is monumentally stupid lmao

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago

How is it worse than taking advise off of the Internet? At the end of the day you need to be aware of what you are doing.

Mistral has helped me with a variety of tasks such as finding tools and choosing ZFS geometry

[-] StrangeAstronomer@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

BTW - thanks for Mistral. Another tool in the box!

[-] StrangeAstronomer@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Quite right!

You need to take it all (AI or internet searches) with a huge pinch of salt. Even ye olde text books were not infallible and often out of date, so sodium chloride was also required even then.

The code either works or it doesn't - it's all in the testing. If you deploy AI suggestions without thought you deserve the consequences.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

I think the reliability of the response also depends on the prompt. Certain prompts decrease the reliability issues.

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