Been trying to figure out—in principle, the reason StackOverflow is CC-BY-SA is to allow for community mirrors, right?
Is there any way that I could just get a total local mirror of StackOverflow and search that locally, instead of having to visit StackOverflow which really doesn't deserve my support?
…Or does SO ban scraping, and the only reason for CC-BY-SA was so StackOverflow could (now that the rugpull's happened) claim the right to block u from delerng posts?? CC for them but not for us?
Suddenly occurring to me that if I set myself up with this https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/112459925601002436 I could set up a personal search method for StackOverflow which, unlike the usual StackOverflow frontend (Google), actually weights questions/answers on how close they are to the present, so I can stop getting answers from 2013 saying "that isn't possible" about things that have been possible since 2018
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