Web free As free as the web blows As free as the web grows Web free to follow your heart Web free The wiki surrounds you The porn still astounds you Each time you look up a star
Poetry drops worse than jokes on this crowd, I enjoyed it though :)
Internet in a Box
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Re: Internet in a Box
#112I'm going to put one of these in my "zombie-apocalypse" go-bag.
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#113To clarify, the "box" is any UNIX computer (very well suited for Raspberry PI devices, since the wifi can act as a hotspot), and the "internet" consists of all the best FOSS apps and open content that get served from localhost, see full list here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_services_.28IIAB_app... The use case is to make apps/content/tools normally requiring internet accessed work offline (either on loca…
Surely an old android smartphone can do all this better than a hard to replace/repair UNIX "internet-in-a-box"? Old Android phone: 1. Has screen - (strong, tested, replaceable). 2. All the Android apps. 3. Wifi hotspot functionality + FTP + server hotspot. 4. MicroSD slot for massive and switchable data store. 5. Solar powerable, with removable and replaceable battery. 6. Touch friendly, kid friendly, low IQ requirem…
Your thoughts are in the right place. Reuse old Android devices for this purpose. Could be one very phat app :)
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#114Does this solve real people's actual problems? Selling the 32 gig SD card together with an Android app to browse the data seems far better. The majority of the world either has an Android phone (possibly a decade old), or a family member with one. Have the android app available in the app store and the data downloadable for those who occasionally have internet connectivity (for example visiting a big city), but don't…
> Does this solve real people's actual problems? I have seen a IIAB device used in a school in a remote area (one IIAB for several clients on the WLAN, old PCs with wired network, phones, and tablets). The IIAB scripts, https://github.com/iiab/iiab/tree/master/roles , make setting up such servers very easy (including best FOSS apps, wifi hot spot, networking, and web admin interface). You just need to bring one beefy…
Oh for a minute I thought you meant Kolibri-OS ... love that project!
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, what very, very poor rural schools and hospitals in the heart of Africa really want is porn and not access to teaching aids and medical databases.
What's an example medical database they could and would want to setup and will IIAB run those services?
It’s literally in the article:
> See Mexico's live demo and these medical examples used by clinics in Asia and Africa especially, as hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia).
Re: Internet in a Box
#116To clarify, the "box" is any UNIX computer (very well suited for Raspberry PI devices, since the wifi can act as a hotspot), and the "internet" consists of all the best FOSS apps and open content that get served from localhost, see full list here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_services_.28IIAB_app... The use case is to make apps/content/tools normally requiring internet accessed work offline (either on loca…
I would love to have one myself. I may have to put one together. Just thinking if I had the device and if even only Wikipedia were on it — would save perhaps a small amount of internet traffic? Maybe negligible, but I think if I knew I had a "local cache" of all of Wikipedia I might rely on it more. Then I wonder if there was a way to integrate it with my browsing of the actual internet — perhaps keeping a running fe…
I use Kiwix in my iPad to store all of Wikipedia (with images). It’s a 88gb download.
Just the text is smaller at 11gb.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Data hoarder that I am I would like it to scrape more of the site than I actually visit ... in case I missed something when I'm browsing offline later.
Yeah, a "spider this page with depth X" would be a neat addition. Edit: Though the way it works as a sort of proxy, it seems like you could combine it with something like this, and it would just work: https://github.com/naoak/chrome-site-spider
Cool thanks for that, indeed it seems like it would work.
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#118To clarify, the "box" is any UNIX computer (very well suited for Raspberry PI devices, since the wifi can act as a hotspot), and the "internet" consists of all the best FOSS apps and open content that get served from localhost, see full list here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_services_.28IIAB_app... The use case is to make apps/content/tools normally requiring internet accessed work offline (either on loca…
I would love to have one myself. I may have to put one together. Just thinking if I had the device and if even only Wikipedia were on it — would save perhaps a small amount of internet traffic? Maybe negligible, but I think if I knew I had a "local cache" of all of Wikipedia I might rely on it more. Then I wonder if there was a way to integrate it with my browsing of the actual internet — perhaps keeping a running fe…
"With the local Wikipedia cache of course I have no privacy concerns."
This is one reason why bulk data downloads are (IMO) extraordinarily useful. Speed and reliability are some others.
There is no reason to limit this approach to Wikipedia. It can be applied to any data that we consume regularly. I use this approach for DNS data and some websites (= frontends to databases) I use frequently, though none of those sources facilitate bulk dowloads the way Wikimedia does.
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#119The headline is extremely misleading, which is a shame, since the product seems very useful. I had expected to see a remote Internet router of some kind, yet this is literally NOT the Internet.
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#120The Lokole email benefit to the offline communities:
When a community has no Internet availability or its population cannot individually afford existing Internet data, it will be very difficult for this community to use traditional email sustainably, but condemned to use SMS. As you know, SMS has a limited capacity.
The Lokole is the solution to this problem. The Lokole brings the online email full power to offline use for the unconnected communities in a shareable, affordable and sustainable way. Using the Lokole reduces the cost of data to more than 95%. For instance in the Congo DRC, 100 people can share US$ 0.50 a day to send a hundreds of emails with attachments.
The Lokole creates a shareable local email network in the office, school, or clinics and church facilities without Internet. The Lokole email can also be accessed online such as Internet café.