Only into a mutlipart rar file.
Egonallanon 82 points 2 months ago
perishthethought 28 points 2 months ago
... like WikiMedia Foundation has. (to be clear)
ShinkanTrain 9 points 2 months ago
Wikimedia Foundation has 650 enployees as of 2025.
One chance to guess where I got this from
bandanawearingbanana -1 points 2 months ago
Honestly didn't stop me from donating, ultimately no one was fired and while it does sound scummy I have yet to see an alternative to Wikipedia that isn't run by grifters or looneys.
ShinkanTrain 8 points 2 months ago
ultimately no one was fired
Except for Brooke Vibber and other union organizers.
username_1 83 points 2 months ago
People who buy WinRar should consult with psychiatrist about their medication. WinRar is obsolete. We have better open-source alternatives for a decade or even longer.
SolidEnigma 13 points 2 months ago
What you recommend?
username_1 65 points 2 months ago
7 Zip
Tyr_Raidho_Othala 44 points 2 months ago
7-Zip
aeronmelon 38 points 2 months ago
7zip
enchantedgoldapple 29 points 2 months ago
7ZIP
uncommoncorvid 18 points 2 months ago
i think people will mostly say 7zip
FiniteBanjo 12 points 2 months ago
7z
sudoMakeUser 8 points 2 months ago
zip zip zip zip zip zip zip
Axolotl_cpp 7 points 2 months ago
Hot take: 7Zip
brachypelmide 5 points 2 months ago
7zip
AllHailTheSheep 5 points 2 months ago
this may be unpopular but I suggest 7-zip
LucidNightmare 2 points 2 months ago
Nanazip
Uebercomplicated 1 point 2 months ago
There's also the more modern and powerful zstd. Better than 7zip/xz and far more flexible.
UltraGiGaGigantic 1 point 2 months ago
7zip? Or is there a new one for me to check out.
Legitimate_lake 4 points 2 months ago
Ark is good too
henfredemars 3 points 2 months ago
You keep your hands off my ACE Archiver.
username_1 6 points 2 months ago
No way I would touch THAT, don't worry :)
ToiletFlushShowerScream 57 points 2 months ago
I did both in the past.
And promptly lost the RAR license.
And not feeling so great about wikimedias recent organizational actions.
The world is complicated
cosmos8188 6 points 2 months ago
The issue with wikipedia goes more than this when the realisation hits that some pages are extremely biased with whole sections relying on a singular reference. Its a non profit alright, but it has its share of gatekeepers that lean on serving factually incorrect info or even commonly accepted but incorrect info.
rumba 21 points 2 months ago
WinRAR got what they needed. You did good.
Wikimedia... Hindsight is a bitch, you either live life not helping places that need it or take chances on helping people you don't know are assholes.
TBF, organizational actions aside, they made a thing, it's pretty damned useful, you can download the thing and keep it forever. I've donated to causes that have done less for me.
daniskarma 30 points 2 months ago
I donated to wikipedia once and they went after me every year like I had fed an hungry dog.
No, I doesn't got more cookies boy!
dimmuborgnine 19 points 2 months ago
I donate to them regularly, or at least I did until I found out they were going to spend my donation on union busting.
Pika 13 points 2 months ago
Yeah, this is why I stopped donating to them
I donated to them for a few years, $20 a year, so not much. And then one year they sent me an email that was very clearly meant to guilt trip me into thinking I wasn't donating enough to the platform. So I cancelled the contribution instead.
UltraGiGaGigantic 4 points 2 months ago
Marketing people really love the smell of their own farts. They all feel like they are the smartest people ever.
I bet the person who typed up that email was thinking "hell yeah, I fucking got those suckers right where I want em."
FiniteBanjo 4 points 2 months ago
Worst part is they don't even need the money right now but are claiming they do.
FluorideMind 24 points 2 months ago
Donated to wiki. They proceeded to spam my inbox every other day begging for more.
ThirdConsul 22 points 2 months ago
Don't. They had 180 million usd income, with operating cost of 3 million usd, and they currently have over quarter BILLION is net assets. They (Wiki foundation) are at the point where they become cancerous to the Wikipedia - e. g. they are currently union busting.
DaleGribble88 7 points 2 months ago
The Crohns and Colitis foundation must have spent triple on mailers and phone calls than I have ever actually donated. It upsets me because I know how much good that organization does, and it's upsetting to feel that my donation has contributed none to those efforts. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I'm speaking to how the pestering for more money makes me feel.
oppy1984 7 points 2 months ago
I donated to st Jude for a while, every month I got mail multiple times a week asking for more money along with my "free gift". Even talking into account buying supplies in bulk and using every conservative low-ball numbers I estimated I was getting around 60% of my donation back every month. I just gave up and stopped donating, and even sent them a letter telling them why I was ending my donation. I still get mail from them at least once a month and it's been at least 15 years since I last donated.
They are doing something extremely important, but I don't want my donation being thrown away like that. Send me a donation envelope once a month, that's fine even though I was making my donation online, but the almost every other day mailing that was packed with notepads and return address labels? Nope I'm not fund that. On the plus side I haven't bought return address labels since Obama was in office, and I doubt I'll have to buy any until Chad who just graduated from DeVry, becomes our 64th president.
bobbyfiend 20 points 2 months ago
I donated regularly to Wikipedia and will again when they pull their heads out of their asses.
explodicle 0 points 2 months ago
Still mad they stopped accepting Bitcoin?
jivandabeast 24 points 2 months ago
No, probably the union busting
explodicle 2 points 2 months ago
Holy shit
Arachnidbrilliant 16 points 2 months ago
My good sir, I donated five dollars to Wikipedia
tetris11 49 points 2 months ago
Maybe don't from now on: https://www.quippd.com/...
Allero 25 points 2 months ago
Wikimedia Foundation has enough assets to keep hosting Wikipedia for the next 60 years, according to their financial reports:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/...
Wikipedia will really be fine. It is all the other expenses that raise eyebrows in a major way. This, of course, includes the pay of the executives and high-ranking officials that earn anywhere between $150k to $500k a year, and their salaries keep growing exponentially. At the same time, they spend donated money hiring union-busting firms - presumably, to crush on the latest unionization attempts and keep growing their pay.
Donkter 1 point 2 months ago
The concern isn't that Wikipedia sticks around. It would be the financialization of Wikipedia. Them turning on their workers and paying their executives enormous salaries doesn't necessarily mean they are compromised, but it's a concerning pattern that we've seen before (hell, reddit is a good example).
surewhynotlem -1 points 2 months ago
It's good the only thing required for a website is hosting costs that never increase. And not like... maintenance.
nforminvasion 7 points 2 months ago
If you have a spare hard drive lying around (rare amidst this storage famine), consider downloading Wikipedia and a few other things you would be interested in. There are multiple ways to do this, but I'll recommend Kiwix.
Literally just for the sake of preserving and archiving information, for a bunch of reasons (fascist retconning, natural disasters, cyber attacks, etc...). You don't even have to seed it or make it available publicly. Use it if you want, or throw the drive into a drawer.
If anyone are unable to do this, absolutely no worries. But to those who can, please do. It helps.
FiniteBanjo 15 points 2 months ago
Just a heads up, Wikipedia has been operating with huge margins, they're completely safe and do not need donations right now.
Martin2789 6 points 2 months ago
can you point me at some data/facts about rhose margins?
FiniteBanjo 14 points 2 months ago
https://upload.wikimedia.org/...
Page 3 and 5, while it's unclear the terms of the investments that make up the majority of their assets they still have net assets over 300 Million Dollars and have even been prepaying services far in advance. Their lease liability and accrued expenses are only 500K each and they payed an extra 4.5M to Wikimedia voluntarily last year, it's expected that they could run the site somewhere between 50 to 100 years based on this.
antonim 11 points 2 months ago
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This essay is effectively a classic.
Even if it's not necessarily a bad thing for Wikimedia Foundation to have so much income, just a few days ago it's been revealed they have made a contract with a union busting legal agency, since their workers are forming one. In other words, money that people donate for Wikipedia is spent on internal bullshit conflicts by the increasingly insular leadership.
jumping_redditor -8 points 2 months ago
is there a place to donate to take money from unions?
slazer2au 9 points 2 months ago
A place I use to work purchased over 1000 licenses, no corporate discount, retail prices over 5 years.
Stupid dev refusing to use anything but winrar, stupid manager not contacting a reseller for a discount.
makeshiftreaper 7 points 2 months ago
My work was matching donations at one point and Wikipedia was an option so I donated $50 + $50 of corpo money to Wikipedia at one point. They've never stopped asking me for more
Jankatarch 8 points 2 months ago
Wikipedia is volunteer-run and an awesome project.
Wikimedia on the other hand...
Jankatarch 4 points 2 months ago
Wikimedia mainly does the technical work like programming the servers and hosting the website.
You can think of it as almost like a tech company, they are even partnered with google, another union-busting tech company, tho wikimedia is a non-profit.
One issue people had is that only a small portion of donations go to wikipedia, and rest go to wikimedia's other projects.
For example, they own the wikipedia trademark and sell merch, so donation money goes there also.
Honestly I overall liked the foundation, their other projects are still "free dictionary" and "free textbooks" and so on. However union-busing is really makimg me dislike them now.
LucidNightmare 5 points 2 months ago
So, a long time ago, I tried using 7zip for extracting a zip file or similar. I don't think it was a RAR file at the very least. I noticed that 7zip was slower than WinRAR, which is what I had always used since it was the first I'd heard of a program that could unzip files.
Fast forward a few years, I had some money and bought a WinRAR license, just because I liked the program that much.
Fast forward a few more years, and I use Nanazip on Windows and Ark on KDE/Fedora.
I will always remember the book stack icon for zips/RARs/etc. fondly and just how much faster (again way way back in the day). Multipart RARs were how I got a lot of stuff back in the day, even larger mods!
Anyway, I know it is popular to hate on WinRAR, but for me, it will always be remembered fondly for what it was. :,-)
black0ut 6 points 2 months ago
Afaik (and I may be wrong), RAR is a proprietary format created by the guy who made winrar. Because of it, the compression/decompression libraries are licensed, and cannot be freely written. However, in order for the format to catch on, the developer released a freeware (free as in beer, not as in freedom) decompression library. That way, anyone can easily incorporate decompression code in their software, and thus, anyone can decompress a rar.
However, the code isn't free to rewrite, so rar decompressors (at least those that don't make a deal and pay money to winrar) are stuck with the same implementation of the rar decompressor. If that freeware code is slower than what winrar uses, winrar will always be faster.
Imho that's a bit anti-competitive, and is what has kept me from ever using the RAR format. Especially now that we have way better formats (both in compression and features), like 7z.
LucidNightmare 2 points 2 months ago
I'll be honest with you, I never cared about any of that stuff when I was younger, so it wouldn't have made much of a difference to me back then.
As I said, the zipped file was not a RAR file, but this was almost 20 years ago, so that is a bit fuzzy. 7zip was much slower for the file that I unzipped, that much I do know! I still remember seeing a progress bar on 7zip, which I had never seen before on WinRAR (unless it was one of those multipart files, which was rare even then for me!). That is what stood out to me and why I can remember it so well. I even remember asking myself, "Why do people prefer 7zip if it is slower?"!
I will say these days I don't use WinRAR, and just stick with Nanazip and Ark! I care more about stuff like that now though, so I appreciate you giving me more context! :-)
Itdidnttrickledown 4 points 2 months ago
This meme is just beggin for a lower decks redo.
ILikeBoobies 0 points 2 months ago
Probably the same that misspelt honour.
demizerone 3 points 2 months ago
I bought a copy to give back for decades of pirating everything.
criss_cross 2 points 2 months ago
People still use winrar?
Imgonnatrythis 4 points 2 months ago
No but we are still happy to remind people we paid to support it.
FiniteBanjo 3 points 2 months ago
They don't actually need it, unfortunately. It's a bit disingenuous of them to claim they do.
kestrel7_7 1 point 2 months ago
I think this was my favorite scene in Barry Lyndon.
henfredemars 2 points 2 months ago
Windows doesn’t have native support for many archive types, such as RAR.
black0ut 1 point 2 months ago
Rar is proprietary, so you can't freely implement it. Only the decompression code is freeware, and you have to implement it as is. The license includes clauses against reverse engineering and rewriting the code.
Microsoft could totally pay the fees, but you know how scummy they are.
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