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Nah, that’s the easy part. Checksum technology has been around for many decades

https://www.lifewire.com/what-does-checksum-mean-2625825

I think i have an old thumb drive with 10 exabytes free on it

I assume that contains all the different languages. So most articles will repeat the same information like 10 times or whatever for all the different common languages. Still a huge amount of text though!

But that’s just for the text version without media files

Wikipedia essentially can’t be destroyed without a global catastrophe that would mean we have way worse problems. Wikipedia is downloadable. Meaning the ENTIRE Wikipedia. And so there are many copies of it stored all around the planet.

If you have an extra 150 GB of space available then you can download a personal copy for yourself

https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/

Why? It doesn’t seem terrifying or amazing to me. Maybe an eyebrow raise.

Hm ok yeah, that seems quite scary sounding so that i would strongly hesitate before clicking on “discard ALL changes”. Still, I wonder if a second confirmation dialog with more information is warranted for a command that’s so destructive.

I don’t know anything about programming, i came here from /all, but it seems to me that a command that’s this permanently destructive warrants a second confirmation dialog message reminding the user that the files will be permanently deleted and not undoable

How dumb do you have to be to think that was a good idea?