Did WinRar ever try to break a union
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Only into a mutlipart rar file.
... like WikiMedia Foundation has. (to be clear)
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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 WinRar is obsolete.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.
What you recommend?
7 Zip
I’m gonna go against the grain here and recommend 7-zip
7-Zip
7zip
7zip is solid
7ziiiiip
7 ziP
Seven-Zip
7zip
7zip
7 Zip is good
7Zip
7zip
7ZIP
Have you ever heard of 7zip?
7-up
7zip
7-Zip
7zip
i think people will mostly say 7zip
I've heard from some people that 7zip is pretty good
xz comes standard with every Linux distribution, and it implements the same 7zip compression algorithm but with more options.
7z
7zip is good but the UI is shit.
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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
It's so crazy to me that a non profit is anti union. Like, I know we live in a capitalist dystopia but I guess I didn't think it was that bad.
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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.
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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!
I donate to them regularly, or at least I did until I found out they were going to spend my donation on union busting.
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.
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Donated to wiki. They proceeded to spam my inbox every other day begging for more.
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.
I donated regularly to Wikipedia and will again when they pull their heads out of their asses.
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My good sir, I donated five dollars to Wikipedia
Enshittification comes for us all. But we really need to be proactive about saving wikipedia, or at least it's data.
Wikimedia Foundation has enough assets to keep hosting Wikipedia for the next 60 years, according to their financial reports:
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.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries
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Just a heads up, Wikipedia has been operating with huge margins, they're completely safe and do not need donations right now.
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I've done both. No need to grovel, but you can call me "your excellence"
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