web
Bugs, enhancements, ideas for our Web presence (by kiwix)
slob
Data store for Aard 2 (by itkach)
| web | slob | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 8 | |
| 6 | 222 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 1.1 | |
| 3 months ago | about 1 year ago | |
| HTML | Python | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
web
Posts with mentions or reviews of web.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-17.
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Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 and Web Standards
Off topic: How does the EPUB compare with the ZIM format used by the [Kiwix Project](https://kiwix.org) to create offline Wikipedia dumps? Can EPUB handle extremely large content size like hundreds of MBs or even few GBs?
- How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?
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OpenAI Negotiations to Reinstate Altman Hit Snag over Board Role
Text really doesn't take up that much space, and in addition it compresses pretty well.
The entire English language Wikipedia is only around 60GB in a format that can be readily searched and randomly accessed (ZIM), for example: https://kiwix.org/
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Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy
Without article history and videos, it's small enough that many modern smartphones can have a local offline copy.
http://kiwix.org/
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Downloadable resources?
It is pretty massive, but you can get the whole thing in a .zim file from kiwix.org. I downloaded it from there and put it on all my units before shipping them out.
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What's a single valuable piece of information you know, you would like to share?
kiwix.org
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Looking for the Ultimate Mathematics Reference Book
You can also go to the Kiwix website (kiwix.org), and search for other mathematics websites under Download -> Contents. Here is the search result for English, Math
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15 STHF items to have, according to ChatGTP.
That's https://kiwix.org, it's an awesome project
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Hoarders, Remember, no library is complete unless you have Wikipedia for offline access!
You can download it from Xowa or Kiwix.
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Your objective is to go back into time in the 1700s and blow the minds of everyone there. What do you bring?
Just going to serious mode for a second... If anyone is travelling in modern day earth to somewhere with limited Internet access (e.g. North Korea, parts of rural Africa) the KIWIX project https://kiwix.org provides a simple way to get all of Wikipedia, Gutenberg Library, TED talks onto a small portable device like a raspberry pi
slob
Posts with mentions or reviews of slob.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
- How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?
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Offline dictionary/translator for Android and/or Linux
For Android, Use AARD2. You have to import the dictionaries manually though, which you can find here.
- How do I download Wikipedia?
- I just found game changing info
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Wiki dictionary for download
Im using Aard 2 app Where i can upload dictionaries for offlibe use. But i have problem with download polish wiki pack. Can someone help me and send another link? Thia is bad: https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries
- Slob (sorted list of blobs) is a read-only, compressed data store
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Offline english-english dictionary
Aard2 with WordNet and Wiktionary (from https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries).
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The full English Wikipedia on Kiwix now weighs 79Gb instead of 94Gb thanks to improvements in image compression
Also, its english wikipedia file is about half the size (17.6gb) of the Kiwix one (39gb): wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2020-10.zim
What are some alternatives?
When comparing web and slob you can also consider the following projects:
Frontpage - Dynamic ToS;DR CMS, used in our frontpage
kiwix-tools - Command line Kiwix tools: kiwix-serve, kiwix-manage, ...
xsixel - Compiling Xorg to render with Sixels inside a terminal
gpt4all - gpt4all: run open-source LLMs anywhere
reddio
go-unsplash - Go Client for the Unsplash API
asciiMol - Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for terminals.
zeal - Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash
browsh - A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers
webscrapbook - A browser extension that captures web pages to local device or backend server for future retrieval, organization, annotation, and edit. This project inherits from legacy Firefox add-on ScrapBook X.
devdocs - API Documentation Browser