cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29541820

A man who was abducted as a six-year-old while playing in a California park in 1951 has been found more than seven decades later thanks to the help of an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.

The Bay Area News Group reported on Friday that Luis Armando Albino’s niece in Oakland – with assistance from police, the FBI and the justice department – located her uncle living on the US east coast.

Albino, a father and grandfather, is a retired firefighter and Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam, according to his niece, 63-year-old Alida Alequin. She found Albino and reunited him with his California family in June.

On 21 February 1951 a woman lured the six-year-old Albino from the park in West Oakland, where he had been playing with his older brother, and promised him in Spanish that she would buy him candy.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/23517820

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17748238

TIL That the entirety of Wikipedia is only ~100Gb and you can download it for offline use

In light of the recent Crowdstrike crash revealing how weak points in IT infrastructure can have wide ranging effects, I figured this might be an interesting one.

The entirety of wikipedia is periodically uploaded here, along with many other useful wikis and How To websites (ex. iFixit tutorials and WikiHow): https://download.kiwix.org/zim

You select the archive you want, then the language and archive version (for example, you can get an archive with no pictures, to save on space). For the totality of the english wikipedia you'd select the "wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim"

The archives are packed as .zim files, which can be read with the Kiwix app completely offline.

I have several USBs I keep that have some of these archives along with the app installer. In the event of some major catastrophe I'd at least be able to access some potentially useful information. I have no stake in Kiwix, and don't know if there are other alternative apps and schemes, just thought it was neat.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/12851483

What's the craziest or funniest Wikipedia outline you've seen?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17525307

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15411587

The state of streetwear lately let's be honest

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/15388716

Mumbai billboard collapse: Eight dead and dozens injured

Tens of people are still feared to be trapped with a rescue operation under way, emergency services say.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/Pru6m

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/13733540

Dorset police instructor removed female trainees’ earrings with bolt cutters, hearing told

PC Martin Briggs’ alleged treatment on day of fitness test left one woman bleeding from her ears

Archived version: https://archive.ph/Mid5o

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/11518767

a booty that makes it rain