Where would one obtain standards namely international standards (ISO) and Australian standards (AS). Some can be found on the internet archive but a majority cannot. I believe some libraries let you download some version with all sorts of drm but that's not something I want to deal with.

How hard can it be to get a pdf that defined how literally everything in the world works.

EDIT: I have checked Library Genesis it has some but not all.

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[–] viking 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Library Genesis has quite a few ISO standards.

And using Google, Bing and Yandex with the parameter "filetype:pdf" is also surprisingly effective.

I haven't tried searching for any Australian standards, but maybe that's a starting point?

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I use searxng and have tried filetype:pdf even sent my uncensored AI after it, have had mixed success. Library Genesis doesn't have some of the ones I need. I'm honestly surprised their isn't a single torrent that contains all ISO's.

There are very few uniquely Australian standards (well for the areas I need) most of our standards are simply just ISO (thanks metric).

[–] viking 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe you could share which exact ones you need?

I used to access them through my university and they came in some proprietary Adobe DRM format that I couldn't open without a university account, with copy & paste blocked and all that.

Was fairly straightforward to take screenshots though and run them through a simple OCR program.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's against rules to ask about specific titles is it not? Yeah i got the same proprietary Adobe drm format which i obviously cant integrate with my knowledge environment. Seems i might be able to fuck around with Calibre to remove said drm tho.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Can you try the icanhazpdf hashtag on Mastodon? https://c.im/tags/icanhazpdf

[–] prettygorgeous@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What uncensored AI are you running and what tools does it have to search? I need this too

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I have a dolphin finetuning of llama3 running on ollams hooked up to openwebui which provides searxng search tool and some other tools.