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.
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 WinRar is obsolete.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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Non-profits still have employees and managers and so on.
Unions mean non-profits can't just hire/fire people unfairly, and managers see it as a personal attack on them. They don't want any less than 100% control.
Also corporate grants and donations give steady increases to their income, and unions negotiate raises for employees rather than managers when that happens.
Technically "openai foundation" is also a non-profit too.
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. :,-)
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.
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! :-)
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.
120 Comments
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 133 pts · 11d
Did WinRar ever try to break a union
Egonallanon@feddit.uk · 82 pts · 11d
Only into a mutlipart rar file.
perishthethought@piefed.social · 28 pts · 11d
... like WikiMedia Foundation has. (to be clear)
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 11d
Kinda pointless to unionize when it's run by two brothers and there are, as far as I know, no other employees.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 11d
Wikimedia Foundation has 650 enployees as of 2025.
One chance to guess where I got this from
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11d
GPT?
Kanda@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 10d
You went to your local library and read the 2026 lexicon?
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 11d
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@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 11d
Except for Brooke Vibber and other union organizers.
username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 83 pts · 11d
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@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 11d
What you recommend?
username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 65 pts · 11d
7 Zip
Carnelian@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 11d
I’m gonna go against the grain here and recommend 7-zip
Tyr_Raidho_Othala@reddthat.com · 44 pts · 11d
7-Zip
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 11d
7zip
sidebro@lemmy.zip · 36 pts · 11d
7zip is solid
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 11d
7ziiiiip
reev@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 11d
Seven-Zip
Kage@discuss.tchncs.de · 34 pts · 11d
7 ziP
shweddy@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 11d
7zip
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 11d
7zip
tpihkal@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 11d
7 Zip is good
brb@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 11d
7Zip
chisel@piefed.social · 30 pts · 11d
7zip
enchantedgoldapple@sopuli.xyz · 29 pts · 11d
7ZIP
Maven@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 11d
Have you ever heard of 7zip?
oyo@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 11d
7-up
Linearity@piefed.zip · 23 pts · 11d
7zip
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 11d
7-Zip
uncommoncorvid@piefed.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 11d
i think people will mostly say 7zip
Zomg@piefed.world · 18 pts · 11d
7zip
Denvil@piefed.world · 16 pts · 11d
I've heard from some people that 7zip is pretty good
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 12 pts · 11d
7z
pelya@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 11d
xzcomes standard with every Linux distribution, and it implements the same 7zip compression algorithm but with more options.Hawke@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 11d
7zip is good but the UI is shit.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 11d
Sept-Zip /French
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 11d
zip zip zip zip zip zip zip
black0ut@pawb.social · 8 pts · 11d
7zip is good
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 7 pts · 11d
Hot take: 7Zip
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 11d
7zip has been around for a couple decades now
brachypelmide@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 11d
7zip
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 11d
this may be unpopular but I suggest 7-zip
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 3 pts · 11d
7zip
Grimy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11d
Winzip
LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 11d
Nanazip
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 9d
There's also the more modern and powerful zstd. Better than 7zip/xz and far more flexible.
glibg10b@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 9d
xz-utils
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 11d
8zip is better because it’s one more.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 11d
7zip? Or is there a new one for me to check out.
Legitimate_lake@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 11d
Ark is good too
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 11d
This sign can't stop me because I can't read
Also no psychiatrist in a 300 mile radius accepts new patients
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 11d
You keep your hands off my ACE Archiver.
username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 11d
No way I would touch THAT, don't worry :)
shweddy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11d
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 57 pts · 11d
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
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 33 pts · 11d
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.
cosmos8188@leminal.space · 6 pts · 11d
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@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 11d
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.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 11d
I didn't donate this year
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 11d
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@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 11d
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@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 11d
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@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 11d
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@feddit.online · 4 pts · 11d
Worst part is they don't even need the money right now but are claiming they do.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 11d
FluorideMind@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 11d
Donated to wiki. They proceeded to spam my inbox every other day begging for more.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 11d
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.
Vreyan31@reddthat.com · 14 pts · 11d
This is true of any non-profit you give to ever though
oppy1984@lemdro.id · 7 pts · 11d
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.
DaleGribble88@programming.dev · 7 pts · 11d
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.
bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com · 20 pts · 11d
I donated regularly to Wikipedia and will again when they pull their heads out of their asses.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 11d
Still mad they stopped accepting Bitcoin?
jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev · 24 pts · 11d
No, probably the union busting
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 11d
Holy shit
Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 11d
My good sir, I donated five dollars to Wikipedia
tetris11@feddit.uk · 49 pts · 11d
Maybe don't from now on: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/08/04/wikipedia-turned-on-its-volunteers-now-its-coming-for-its-workers.html
Donkter@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 11d
Enshittification comes for us all. But we really need to be proactive about saving wikipedia, or at least it's data.
Allero@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 11d
Wikimedia Foundation has enough assets to keep hosting Wikipedia for the next 60 years, according to their financial reports:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/3f/Wikimedia_Foundation_FY_24-25_Audit_Report.pdf
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
Donkter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11d
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@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 11d
It's good the only thing required for a website is hosting costs that never increase. And not like... maintenance.
Allero@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 11d
If your operating expenses for a website outweigh hosting 50:1 while most work is done by volunteers, something is seriously wrong with your books.
nforminvasion@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 11d
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@feddit.online · 15 pts · 11d
Just a heads up, Wikipedia has been operating with huge margins, they're completely safe and do not need donations right now.
Martin2789@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 11d
can you point me at some data/facts about rhose margins?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 14 pts · 11d
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/3f/Wikimedia_Foundation_FY_24-25_Audit_Report.pdf
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@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 11d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer
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@sh.itjust.works · -8 pts · 11d
is there a place to donate to take money from unions?
Covenant@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 11d
I donated while they are begging for ir. And yeah i like Wikipedia so i did, later I found they do have more than enough.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 11d
I've done both. No need to grovel, but you can call me "your excellence"
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 11d
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@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 11d
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
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 11d
And now they're using it to hire union busters. fuck em
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 11d
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/08/04/wikipedia-turned-on-its-volunteers-now-its-coming-for-its-workers.html
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 11d
I donated to Fraternal Order of Police in my 20's when i was drinking the cool-aid, they hounded me for 25 more years.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 11d
Well this comment section just convinced me to never donate to Wikipedia :(
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 11d
Wikipedia is volunteer-run and an awesome project.
Wikimedia on the other hand...
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 11d
Are they the image hosting for Wikipedia or what's their exact involvement?
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 11d
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.
Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 11d
What's the point of union busting if they're non-profit?
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
Non-profits still have employees and managers and so on.
Unions mean non-profits can't just hire/fire people unfairly, and managers see it as a personal attack on them. They don't want any less than 100% control.
Also corporate grants and donations give steady increases to their income, and unions negotiate raises for employees rather than managers when that happens.
Technically "openai foundation" is also a non-profit too.
LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 11d
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@pawb.social · 6 pts · 11d
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@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 11d
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! :-)
hOrni@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 11d
You think somebody bought Winrar?
tpihkal@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 11d
What kind of monster would break the honor system?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 11d
Probably the same that misspelt honour.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 11d
This meme is just beggin for a lower decks redo.
demizerone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d
I bought a copy to give back for decades of pirating everything.
tio_bira@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 11d
I actually donated 5 five dollars (or at least the equivalent on local currency) and even paid for the bank taxes (about 25 cents of dollar)
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 3 pts · 11d
They don't actually need it, unfortunately. It's a bit disingenuous of them to claim they do.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11d
People still use winrar?
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 11d
7zip ftw!
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 11d
No but we are still happy to remind people we paid to support it.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11d
I think this was my favorite scene in Barry Lyndon.
Fermenade@feddit.org · 1 pts · 11d
Taleya@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 11d
Wiki is not getting my money this round after their union busting bullshit.
You picked a bad time to fuck around jimmy
dudeface@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 11d
Doesn’t all the functionality of winrar exist in windows now?
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 11d
Windows doesn’t have native support for many archive types, such as RAR.
dudeface@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11d
I just looked on my work laptop and it has zip, 7z, bzip2, gzip, xz, zstandard so it definitely has a few built in, no rar though
black0ut@pawb.social · 1 pts · 11d
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.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 11d
no password protection, batch compression, or file splitting
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11d
I didn't know winrar was the first ai slop malware app.