This meme is just beggin for a lower decks redo.
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.Doesn’t all the functionality of winrar exist in windows now?
no password protection, batch compression, or file splitting
Windows doesn’t have native support for many archive types, such as RAR.
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
I didn’t know winrar was the first ai slop malware app.
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
I didn’t donate this year
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.
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.
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.
People still use winrar?
No but we are still happy to remind people we paid to support it.
7zip ftw!
Well this comment section just convinced me to never donate to Wikipedia :(
Wikipedia is volunteer-run and an awesome project.
Wikimedia on the other hand…
Are they the image hosting for Wikipedia or what’s their exact involvement?
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.
What’s the point of union busting if they’re non-profit?
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 mean more pay raises for employees rather than managers when that happens.
Technically “openai foundation” is also a non-profit too.
I donated regularly to Wikipedia and will again when they pull their heads out of their asses.
Still mad they stopped accepting Bitcoin?
No, probably the union busting
Holy shit
Donated to wiki. They proceeded to spam my inbox every other day begging for more.
This is true of any non-profit you give to ever though
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.
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.
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.
You think somebody bought Winrar?
What kind of monster would break the honor system?
Probably the same that misspelt honour.
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.
This sign can’t stop me because I can’t read
Also no psychiatrist in a 300 mile radius accepts new patients
Ark is good too
What you recommend?
7ziiiiip
7-up
7-Zip
7 Zip
7zip
I’m gonna go against the grain here and recommend 7-zip
7zip
7Zip
7 Zip is good
7 ziP
7zip
7zip is solid
Seven-Zip
7zip
7ZIP
Have you ever heard of 7zip?
Winzip
7-Zip
7zip
Sept-Zip /French
Nanazip
7zip
i think people will mostly say 7zip
I’ve heard from some people that 7zip is pretty good
xzcomes standard with every Linux distribution, and it implements the same 7zip compression algorithm but with more options.7zip is good but the UI is shit.
7z
7zip is good
zip zip zip zip zip zip zip
7zip has been around for a couple decades now
Hot take: 7Zip
7zip
this may be unpopular but I suggest 7-zip
7zip
You keep your hands off my ACE Archiver.
No way I would touch THAT, don’t worry :)
8zip is better because it’s one more.
I bought a copy to give back for decades of pirating everything.
Did WinRar ever try to break a union
Kinda pointless to unionize when it’s run by two brothers and there are, as far as I know, no other employees.
Wikimedia Foundation has 650 enployees as of 2025.
One chance to guess where I got this from
GPT?
Only into a mutlipart rar file.
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.
ultimately no one was fired
Except for Brooke Vibber and other union organizers.
… like WikiMedia Foundation has. (to be clear)
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.
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.
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
It’s good the only thing required for a website is hosting costs that never increase. And not like… maintenance.
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.
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.
Worst part is they don’t even need the money right now but are claiming they do.
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.
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.”
