β² 1538 βΌ Probably a good idea to go see how much storage will be necessary... (slrpnk.net) submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 225 comments fedilink hide all child comments Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?
[β] jstin86457@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (6 children) Sorry, I'm out of the loop. Is there something particular that triggered this that I missed? permalink fedilink source hideshow 12 child comments replies: [β] meliaesc@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago* gestures broadly permalink fedilink source parent [β] Taldan@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children) The broad censorship of government data in the US, combined with the recent political attacks on Wikipedia caused me to download the whole English Wikipedia earlier this year. Guessing OP is similar Not sure why they'd download Debian with all packages though Edit: I should mention it's less about a potential loss of Wikipedia as it is a personal source of truth on politically sensitive topics that get censored, or turned to propaganda by bots For example the Wounded Knee Massacre. Pete Hegseth has recently been calling it the, "Battle of Wounded Knee". I wouldn't be surprised if the current administration went to war with Wikipedia and forced them to 1) Change articles they disagree with, and 2) Hide those changes from history permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net [S] 9 points 10 months ago My rationale with Debian is that distros are kind of like portals to entire compendiums of free and open-source software. With the increasing attacks on vpns in particular right now, I'm concerned there are any number of programs we take for granted that we might not have access to soon. The internet is already deeply enshittified. There is a real possibility that it will no longer be a free and open web in any capacity soon. So it's past time to make archives, and start setting up meshnets. permalink fedilink source parent [β] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago I had downloaded the full (no pictures) Wikipedia earlier this year for exactly this reason. This thread told me about kiwix, which is awesome, so I downloaded the "Wikipedia .08" using kiwix, which is the best 45,000 articles from Wikipedia with pictures and it's 7G, very manageable, has most topics anyone would care about. permalink fedilink source parent [β] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago (1 child) Well for starters, teachers have had to start telling students that .gov websites are no longer considered credible sources for research. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 10 months ago Nice! permalink fedilink source parent [β] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago I saw that post about texas requiring app stores (specifically says mobile devices, so not the typical distro repository... yet) to have age verification. If they expand that, it would mean all linux distros, while maybe leaving the windows .exe downloads (ugh, shudder) alone. Wikipedia is probably more relevant in most folks' minds for having a backup though. permalink fedilink source parent [β] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net [S] 4 points 10 months ago Nothing in particular that I'm aware of, just a growing recognition that things are very much not well in the US these days. permalink fedilink source parent [β] chat_mots@jlai.lu 3 points 10 months ago Yeah I wonder too. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] meliaesc@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago* gestures broadly permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Taldan@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children) The broad censorship of government data in the US, combined with the recent political attacks on Wikipedia caused me to download the whole English Wikipedia earlier this year. Guessing OP is similar Not sure why they'd download Debian with all packages though Edit: I should mention it's less about a potential loss of Wikipedia as it is a personal source of truth on politically sensitive topics that get censored, or turned to propaganda by bots For example the Wounded Knee Massacre. Pete Hegseth has recently been calling it the, "Battle of Wounded Knee". I wouldn't be surprised if the current administration went to war with Wikipedia and forced them to 1) Change articles they disagree with, and 2) Hide those changes from history permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net [S] 9 points 10 months ago My rationale with Debian is that distros are kind of like portals to entire compendiums of free and open-source software. With the increasing attacks on vpns in particular right now, I'm concerned there are any number of programs we take for granted that we might not have access to soon. The internet is already deeply enshittified. There is a real possibility that it will no longer be a free and open web in any capacity soon. So it's past time to make archives, and start setting up meshnets. permalink fedilink source parent [β] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago I had downloaded the full (no pictures) Wikipedia earlier this year for exactly this reason. This thread told me about kiwix, which is awesome, so I downloaded the "Wikipedia .08" using kiwix, which is the best 45,000 articles from Wikipedia with pictures and it's 7G, very manageable, has most topics anyone would care about. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net [S] 9 points 10 months ago My rationale with Debian is that distros are kind of like portals to entire compendiums of free and open-source software. With the increasing attacks on vpns in particular right now, I'm concerned there are any number of programs we take for granted that we might not have access to soon. The internet is already deeply enshittified. There is a real possibility that it will no longer be a free and open web in any capacity soon. So it's past time to make archives, and start setting up meshnets. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago I had downloaded the full (no pictures) Wikipedia earlier this year for exactly this reason. This thread told me about kiwix, which is awesome, so I downloaded the "Wikipedia .08" using kiwix, which is the best 45,000 articles from Wikipedia with pictures and it's 7G, very manageable, has most topics anyone would care about. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago (1 child) Well for starters, teachers have had to start telling students that .gov websites are no longer considered credible sources for research. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 10 months ago Nice! permalink fedilink source parent
[β] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago I saw that post about texas requiring app stores (specifically says mobile devices, so not the typical distro repository... yet) to have age verification. If they expand that, it would mean all linux distros, while maybe leaving the windows .exe downloads (ugh, shudder) alone. Wikipedia is probably more relevant in most folks' minds for having a backup though. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net [S] 4 points 10 months ago Nothing in particular that I'm aware of, just a growing recognition that things are very much not well in the US these days. permalink fedilink source parent
