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Americans know what facts are? I thought they all just believed whatever nonsense fit their narrative?
This is literally true though, why is it on the onion?
Not enough onion flavor here. I just downloaded a full copy of Wikipedia last week in case the trumpanzees go after it.
I did that in February... after my copy from early January got damaged.
the flavour dulls after 8 years
Hey, don't insult chimps like that!
Not chimps, chumps.
Been lowkey prepping for a while.
I've been keeping a copy of the Zim for ages just waiting for doom :)
good time for local copies of books/movies/tv
good time to have a decent stock of long-term food staples.
keeping a copy of some LLMs around isn't bad either; they're not great, but they are bang for the buck (compression wise) FULL of data from all over the net, you just need to be careful and not just trust it openly.
I can't say i'm happy that it seems like it might be useful in my lifespan.
this is why my zotero is 50+ GBs lol.
Uhhhhh, I have specifically downloaded an offline version of Wikipedia. I'm pretty sure this is just regular reporting from The Onion.
Where can you download the entirety of wikipedia and how do you actually use it?
aard2 is primary a dictionary app, but it has wiki* snapshots as well. (https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Wikipedia)
Wikipedia actually hosts various snapshots of the entire website that you can download. If you download the text only version in English it's less than 10GB if I recall. If you want photos and other things it's in the hundreds of gigs.
The easiest I'm aware of that requires the least effort and knowledge is an open source application called Kiwix which has apps for Android (both F-Droid and Play Store), Windows, Linux, iOS, and MacOS.
Me too, and I'm not even American. I fully expect the Wikimedia foundation to be attacked.
Not satire...
This one is true.
EDIT - There are many people trying to save all types of facts before they are removed from the internet.
I have been doing this just so when my kid comes home from high school in ten years to tell me what they learned in "history" class, i can set the record straight
My linkwarden has been VERY busy.
I've been careful to categorize only reportable fact, seeing it condensed all on a page from just a couple of months is fucking horrifying.
Well, fuck me, that's just. I'm at a loss.
How can he ever have been seen as a candidate to lead a fucking McDonald's, let alone a country. Fuck sake.
I don't think he could even run a shift properly at a mcD joint without getting sued into the ground.
He'd be way too giddy around the happy meals.
Modern day book burning. Funny how history rhymes like that.
Backup wikipedia yall
It's been backed up a zillion times already. Scanning a rare old book and uploading it to Internet Archive and/or Libgen/Z-lib, seeding Anna's Archive torrents, stuff of that sort is more valuable than an another copy of Wikipedia on your hard drive where nobody will ever touch it.
Also something that you should consider regarding Libgen:
if you go to university you can get access to a lot of studies and papers through your university. This also means, that you can download them and then upload them to libgen, to make them more accessible.
Yep, that's a good practice as well. But make sure to clean up the watermarks that contain identifying info! (I recommend PDF-XChange for that, it's really powerful.) Sci-hub PDFs are full of them and I wonder if the uploaders ever got exposed that way and had trouble, aside from Aaron Swartz.
is more valuable than an another copy of Wikipedia on your hard drive where nobody will ever touch it.
You're assuming they don't manage to make ISP's shut down suspected torrent users and nuke IA from orbit.
If it's on your HD, they have to come and take it from you directly for you to lose it.
Still contribute to IA and AA, absolutely, but don't except them always to be there.
Unless things change direction, all that shit is going to have to way further underground and we might end up sneakernetting shit if they decide high-speed internet is to be completely censored.
I know the IA has mentioned in the past they have projects in place to try to back up their archive. I hope their backup plans are true, and if they are attacked by the US, they can relocate to a new safe haven and come back online quickly. The IA has been such a wonderful resource for research and accountability.
I suppose the major bit of hope I have about the IA is with their partnership with the Library of Congress.
As for ISPs shutting down Torrent users, I suspect they would do that strictly based on bandwidth usage alone. I know my local Cable company will send nastygrams if they see you using a disproportionate amount of bandwidth compared to other customers. I've seen them also shut down Business Internet accounts for doing the exact same thing!
Por que no los dos?
Also, donate to the internet archive. If they go down the internet is megafucked.
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facts are useful in emergencies
I’m not pirating content, I’m saving it.
My plex server is the library of Alexandria.
Ohh Potolemy, yeahhh right there.....
Ohh, it's probably not that kind of content. my bad...
Yo, I literally did this because I think they're going to shut down the internet soon.
They won't shut down the internet. First, there is way to much $$$ involved in keeping it running. The Tech Bs will push back hard against that. Also, they will realize it is more useful to sensor it and use it for state approved information distribution.
Basically, this conversation will happen: https://youtu.be/gyt0bZms5zU?t=2069
Shut it down? No. Fascist firewall it and fill it with shitty boot-licking AI answers? Sure.
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Did this with Wikipedia in 2024 before they took over.
Anyone interested, look up kiwix. Offline browser and there should be whole bunch of wikis up on the site if you poke around a bit
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