Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?
Wait, isn't there an offline copy of a part of Wikipedia? The article Just by yourself a nice printer with enough ink and do it yourself ;)
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Sorry, I'm out of the loop. Is there something particular that triggered this that I missed?
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
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.
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Well for starters, teachers have had to start telling students that .gov websites are no longer considered credible sources for research.
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I still have a copy of wikipedia from 2021 somewhere on my NAS.
I would love to have a small Wikipedia browser that can survive the apocalypse.
E-ink display, mini keyboard and touchpad, multiple ways/ports to transfer info, All wrapped up in a heavy duty equipment case that's able to survive a building collapses and burns in an earthquake, that's shielded from EMP.
You mean like the wiki reader:
I used it as an ebook reader until the screen gave out.
Sounds like the beginning of a proper Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Actually having something telling me Don't Panic is big friendly letters would help my mental health...
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I keep a wiki copy as well as Reddit pre-fuckuspez. A Debian archive copy sounds like a good idea.
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Might store it on an external HDD. I got plenty.
Get out of my mind.
I bought a 14tb drive just for backups of all my other drives... and I got a shitload more space.