Janet

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22/9/22

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i have decided to teach people how to archive instead of just generating an archive

mainly because

  • it's less effort for me
  • i like it when more people know how to do the thing

normally im all for just making it easy on folks but for this? My website is literally the perfect thing to cut your web archival teeth on if you've never done it before. It's like the tutorial level. I figure if someone's getting into archival, might as well show 'em how it's done on the relatively simple example. Though this is actually somewhat tricky if you're on windows, idk if there's better ways than my recommendation of wget in WSL. If you do website archival from windows LMK if i should recommend something else.

UPDATE: i have now successfully taught someone how to do this on their phone from termux and then use python -m http.server to run a local web server to view it WTF that's so cool!!!!

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wget is nice, but what if we had a browser that allowed you to enter a mode similar to dev mode to archive as you browse?

and while we are at it: how about an emulator that uses custom screenshots or even screencaps as previews in the games-selection list. and a hotkey to overwrite preview material with your own take

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AH i forgot about this. So that is actually not real wget, that is a fake wget provided by something called BusyBox. BusyBox is basically a single tiny executable file that pretends to be a TON of commands, all in one. For all the basic programs, it's usually fine, because it implements the standard command line options (though if you ever use the extensions the full-size version of the commands provide it wont work). but for wget, well, busybox basically does not implement any of wget's features except for downloading a file.

unfortunately because of Apple's policies, iSH can't give you a package manager out of the box to install real wget. but you can use fake wget to download the package manager, to then download real wget!

These commands shooould install the package manager, i havent fully tested it tho so lmk if it breaks.

wget http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.17/main/x86/apk-tools-static-2.12.10-r1.apk
tar -xz sbin/apk.static -f apk-tools-static-2.12.10-r1.apk
./sbin/apk.static add apk-tools
rm ./sbin/apk.static ./apk-tools-static-2.12.10-r1.apk
rmdir ./sbin

and then you should be able to run

apk add wget

and then you'll have real wget instead of fake wget! Let me know if this works btw, if it does I'll put something about it on my website.

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yay!!! i am not sure if there is a good way to browse the website locally on an iphone in like Safari or something but you can use apk add links to install a command line browser and use links index.html to load up the website that way. not the best! but i am not super knowledgeable about iOS stuff anymore

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