Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away
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.
Por que no los dos?
Also, donate to the internet archive. If they go down the internet is megafucked.
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.
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.
Done. I've also been hitting up estate sales looking for any kind of book with knowledge in it, especially tables, numbers, conversions, or formulas. I don't trust our AI riddled internet to tell me how many pints are in a gallon at this point.
Yes, yes, metric system blah blah. I didn't choose the system, I just make brownies with it.
4 quarter gallons to the gallon, 2 pints to the quart, 2 cups to the pt, 8 US fluid Ounces to the cup, 2 table spoons to the floz, 3 teaspoon to the tbsp, 5 ml to the tsp.
Oh, and a HAndLe is a HALf gallon, and a FIFTH is one FIFTH of a gallon. You can remember that because it starts with ha for half, and fifth for fifth.
Yo, I literally did this because I think they're going to shut down the internet soon.
I don't think that the fed will shut down the Internet. Not just because it's effectively impossible to do for a timeframe that's anything less than a month, but because it would literally destroy the entire country and the regime's ability to do anything.
There's a reason China still has the Internet, and why VPNs are still kind of tolerated. The U.S. nor any industry in it cannot survive without it. We are dozens of much less serious (but still serious) steps away from an internet shutdown, and I genuinely think that we won't reach internet shutdown at all.
Without the Internet it's not just credit cards that stop working, it's literally the capability for any store to order stuff to sell. Or the capability for every federally regulated employer (nearly all of them) to pay employees. Third world countries can get away with it because their economy isn't anywhere near as modernized as that of western countries.
Additionally, the way that the U.S. government is organized makes attacks on the Internet very difficult without Congress.
I hope you're right.
I'm still going to have my local archives of Wikipedia and the like.
And I'm also going to have my meshtastic and software defined radio
Edit: what stops the USA from cutting all fiber and just using Nazi starlink?
I'll add that many of the administration are tech bros (or are the property of tech bros) and they need the internet to work to push their products. Heavy censorship and filtering is possible, however.
Shut it down? No. Fascist firewall it and fill it with shitty boot-licking AI answers? Sure.
they’re going to shut down the internet soon
They would never do that. If they did, then how would Trump keep spreading his bullshit?
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
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...
This is literally true though, why is it on the onion?
Article was posted in 2017
I think it is safe to say The Onion has basically turned into a Time Machine rather than a Satire site. It seems to be predicting just how crazy things will be in the future.
Oh I didn't notice that, thanks.
Not enough onion flavor here. I just downloaded a full copy of Wikipedia last week in case the trumpanzees go after it.
Hey, don't insult chimps like that!
Not chimps, chumps.
I did that in February... after my copy from early January got damaged.
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.
the flavour dulls after 8 years
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
Here's the Kiwix library too which can be a bit hard to find. Click on the "blue" link for a given file to get a download including a torrent.
Thank you! I can never remember the link and I'm always commenting from my phone
Wow, It's crazy how onions make you cry.
Stockpiling late night tv show hosts
get ready to pirate disney+ movies or shows.
The overly restrictive DRM preventing you from getting above 720p video on a streaming service that you pay for is generally reason enough alone to pirate.
They can keep Jay Leno.
i heard he became super wierd lately.
Yes I do have the entirety of Wikipedia on my personal cloud. That is a prudent step. You should too.
Got an article on how I would do this?
https://kiwix.org/en/ Is a good start. They have relatively up to date downloads of multiple knowledge bases like wikipedia.
Including images? How much data is that?
Under 200 GB for all of Wikipedia in English using Kiwix.
Library of other ZIM files for use with Kiwix can be found here.
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?
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.
aard2 is primary a dictionary app, but it has wiki* snapshots as well. (https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Wikipedia)
Me too, and I'm not even American. I fully expect the Wikimedia foundation to be attacked.
Mirror Anna's archive!
facts are useful in emergencies
conservatives arnt stockpiling thats for sure.
They prefer ammo over facts
I actually downloaded all of Wikipedia to self-host. The Onion van not even make Onion stuff any more.
data hoarders will become heroes
this is why my zotero is 50+ GBs lol.
This one is true.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-race-to-save-climate-data-before-its-deleted-by-the-trump-administration
EDIT - There are many people trying to save all types of facts before they are removed from the internet.
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.
Modern day book burning. Funny how history rhymes like that.
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.