The world runs on standards that define everything. Unfortunately these standards are proprietary which is highly inconvenient.

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.

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
    14·
    4 days ago

    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.comOPEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      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@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        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.