I know wikis have been discussed here before, but I wanted to add my two cents after shopping around for a wiki at work and for personal use.

Obsidian

Pros

• plain text storage format
• great at gathering disorganized thoughts without imposing a rigid structure

Cons

• closed source
• many features that arguably define a wiki are either absent or paywalled, like easy sharing, collaboration, and versioning

Mediawiki

Pros

• it's the wiki. Everyone's used and possibly edited a Wikipedia page.
• version history
• close to Obsidian in terms of "write now, organize later"
• Probably the nicest-looking FOSS wiki platform out of the box
• a lot of the features that Obsidian paywalls are built in, like multi user support and version history

Cons

• Articles not stored in plain text
• Has its own markup. Granted Mediawiki predates Markdown but the table syntax is horrendous. The Mediawiki help page on the matter actually tries to dissuade you from using tables and notes that the markup is ugly.
• Extensions are annoying to install
• Absolutely zero access control. You can even edit other people's user pages. There's no way to hide sections of a wiki from the public or from particular groups of users.
• It tries to be all things to everyone. While this makes it versatile, it also means doing a particular thing probably requires knowledge of CSS or Mediawiki's own templeting syntax. Sometimes I just want to have an info box that doesn't clutter the source code of a page.

Dokuwiki

Pros

• Access control finally!
• Plain text files
• Easy to create namespaces, which Mediawiki also has but doesn't want you to go crazy making your own.
• While it's not Markdown, the markup is nicer than Mediawiki IMO. The table syntax at least is miles better

Cons

• Uglier than sin. Yes even many of the templates (themes) on offer aren't much better. The Bootstrap 3 template seems particularly popular, and while it's a marked improvement in most areas, like a lot of frontends that use those bootswatch pallets there are dusty corners that don't work, like black text on a black background.
• Some stuff like tags and moving pages have to be achieved via plugins. Seriously you can't even rename a page?
• Mutilates article titles. Makes everything lowercase and replaces non alphanumeric chars with underscores (or something else configurable).

Bookstack

Pros

• It looks good I guess. Haven't spent much time with it.
• Yay markdown!
• Also has access control

Cons

• Also not plain text
• remember earlier when I talked about "write now, organize later"? Bookstack holds a gun to your head and forces you to use its shelf>book>chapter>page organization system. I know some people thrive under this limitation, but I don't.

Other wikis I've tried but not to the same extent

Wiki.js

IDK, I don't know much about this one, but don't like the workflow of making new pages.

Gollum

Really simple, which is both good and bad.

An Otter Wiki (the article seems to be part of the name)

A lot like Gollum. Doesn't indicate when you link to a nonexistent page. No support for article tags.

Pepperminty wiki

Looks cool but it's abandoned

Tiddlywiki

Steep learning curve but pretty versatile. It's a single HTML file so you can host it on something like Neocities. Really rudimentary search functions

The U.S. faces a highly unique problem — they don't know where to spend an additional $500 billion from the defense budget. As a result, the budget proposal deadline has already been delayed by two weeks.

Hello fellow pirates 👋
I'm sick of Audible and it's buggy app. Due to their excessive a/b testing the app stops working every second night. So I setup a selfhosted audiobookshelf instance.

However, I need my audiobooks to fall asleep and I don't want to listen to the same books again and again, so I need a new source. Do you have any recommendations? In best case in German language, in worst case in English.

Thank you in advance! ☺️

Normally I’d be excited about a new rock based music game. But something seems really off to me ? I can’t put my finger on it. No bands announced. No customization. Just a guitar show but it’s full band ? Anyone have serious reservations ?

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The presence of Palantir and other corporations—along with recent changes banning non-profits unwilling to give data to Israeli authorities—is creating a situation in which the delivery of aid is taking a backseat to the pursuit of profit, investment, and the training of AI products, experts say.

Infinite Jerks

absolutely incredible year for backyard fans. never thought id see the day it came back

Hello, I'm currently setting up a nodeBB forum with some federated Communities. I wanted to test out how this post will work throughout the other instances. If you would be kind enough to leave a comment to see if it works, I'd appreciate it. :)

[Edit] does anybody know if nodeBB has a way to prevent federated upvotes from contributing to forum member specific reputation points?

His full story is forthcoming, but I don't know how that squares with incoming PC ports for Death Stranding 2 and the sequel to Kena. Maybe because they're only Sony published? Exclusivity of a handful of games that I may or may not be interested in still isn't going to make me want a PS5, personally.

The company compiled information from franchisees and guests on how to measure friendliness, resulting in the fast food chain training its AI system to recognize certain words and phrases, such as “welcome to Burger King,” “please,” and “thank you.” Managers can then ask the AI assistant how their location is performing on friendliness.

Début février, face à la commission d'enquête parlementaire sur l'audiovisuel public, la ministre de la Culture démissionnaire a accusé le magazine d'avoir tenté de monnayer un témoignage la concernant. Des allégations que les équipes de "Complément d'enquête" ont rejetées en bloc. Franceinfo révèle des documents venant appuyer leur version.

“There’s thinking in and around the administration that the politics are a lot better if the Israelis go first and alone and the Iranians retaliate against us, and give us more reason to take action,” one of the sources told Politico under the condition of anonymity.

Unlike previous Wi-Fi attacks, AirSnitch exploits core features in Layers 1 and 2 and the failure to bind and synchronize a client across these and higher layers, other nodes, and other network names such as SSIDs (Service Set Identifiers). This cross-layer identity desynchronization is the key driver of AirSnitch attacks.

The most powerful such attack is a full, bidirectional machine-in-the-middle (MitM) attack, meaning the attacker can view and modify data before it makes its way to the intended recipient. The attacker can be on the same SSID, a separate one, or even a separate network segment tied to the same AP. It works against small Wi-Fi networks in both homes and offices and large networks in enterprises.