About the only time I find myself using regular Wikipedia these days is if I need to know if someone died since August 2025 when this ZIM dump was created.
I have all of wikipedia in a single 156 GB text file. in my
.zshrci havefastWikiLookup() { cat ~/wikipedia.txt | grep "$@" }rip Greg would shine here
Poor Greg. 😔🪦
You know what? I’m leaving it.
RIP ripgrep
Long live rip Greg
How fast is it, really? How do you differentiate between topics?
the topic differentiation technology doesn’t exist yet, so i just hit ctrl+c about a second after i hit enter
lol database engineers who’ve built very complex systems and ingest and query mechanisms across the world all the sudden got very mad at your comment and they’re not sure why
When I have to poop, I scroll through the Wikipedia app, I’m done scrolling reels/short. The front page is well curated and entertaing and at least I don’t have to deal with sloppy and fake content.
WikiTok Swipe through random articles.
First article it gave me was for “Human extinction” lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages
This was my favorite random pull
