Why are half the comments about chatbots
Half of all comments are now about chatbots.
I'm a little afraid of the implications.
Internet in a Box
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#82Why are half the comments about chatbots
half of the internet is now just chatbots taking to chatbots. it's why the internet has been slow lately
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#83It's a really great project and I hope there will be more like that in the future! I wonder, do you have any plans do enable https support? With browsers increasing becoming hostile to http and disabling modern features, it might be a good idea to enable access via https. I think a streamlined way how a teacher could quickly generate a custom root CA and install it on student laptops could be useful here. (And yes, I…
> install root CA Lol. Yeah, we didn't spend all this effort to centralize the Internet just to let you have such a powerful and dangerous tool as a private key, buddy.
one day someone is going to die, and the root cause will be found to be some nonsense like an expired certificate, invalid [old] ciphers, ocpp, lack of publicly signed cert, or some other ridiculous security feature that you should be able to turn off or ignore in an emergency
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#84It would be great if it had some "snail mail" like features: collect "sent" emails and "posted" posts, and synchronize them with real internet on regular intervals, probably on monthly basis.
aka "Sneakernet"
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#85This is a fantastic project, and we need more of those. Let's keep in mind that 50% of the world's population did not connect to the internet in the last three months (last un UN starts). On my end, I worked on an Android version since getting & maintaining a Raspberry Pi or a Linux machine is difficult in remote communities - where finding reliable access to a network or electricity can be tricky. Still, you will se…
Thanks for what you're doing. Couldn't that be achieved with kiwix as well ? It can serve content over WiFi as well
The project seems to be using Kiwix, but not only that. For example, you can't serve OpenStreetMaps cards using Kiwix (at least to my knowledge).
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#86This seems very cool. I’m trying to figure out if anyone would take a donation to build say 1000 of these and give them away, but I can’t find any kind of contact info for IIAB. They link to Wikimedia Medicine which I also can’t find any contact info for, apparently communication should happen over “meta” which must be some wiki thing?
Anyway, if you have or know about a 501c3 that can build and give away these devices, please share contact info here.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an outrageous claim lol.
I don’t post to make friends. Edit: Follow up thought, I’m not sure who the internet benefits anymore. It used to be about users. Now I don’t feel the same way.
I mean, you basically out of hand disregard the infinite potential network connectivity grants you to learn nearly anything to a good level.
Languages? State department language courses are available online, as are many other resources, language classes, language learning communities, etc.
Math? Physics? Chemistry? Again, infinite repository of info.
And so on...
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#88You arrive at the village. You've been separated from your family and you are desperate to get some kind of Internet access so that you can try to get in touch with them. Your phone still has 20% battery but no reception. You finally find a Wi-Fi hotspot! You connect... and it turns out to be one of these things instead of the real deal.
Just wondering aloud: once a region has a number of villages with these services going well, perhaps a low bandwidth mesh network between them would allow a slow messaging service like email to exist?
The solution between villages could be LoRa since it is cheap, less than 50 euro per device albeit too high-tech.
A lower tech option is plain old radio, for example: https://frn.dc4fs.de/
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#89I really don't get it. Many of these countries don't even have the resources for clean water, sewage, and reliable agriculture. The idea that they're going to just think their way out of poverty is a very western idea that comes from quite a privileged background. You're not going to be able to do any of that luxurious learning when your stomach is empty and you're having to sleep each night in some war-torn slum. Th…
There are billions of people living in situations between the poorest parts of the EU (yet still in better circumstances than the majority of the world) and war-torn starvation in Sudan, and things like this are for them. Plenty of people who can’t afford satellite internet can read just fine.
And I, a well-off tech worker in urban Germany, use the project as part of my own emergency communications prep. Internet outages are possible even for rich Europeans and Americans, and we’re awfully dependent on being able to look stuff up.
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#90This is a fantastic project, and we need more of those. Let's keep in mind that 50% of the world's population did not connect to the internet in the last three months (last un UN starts). On my end, I worked on an Android version since getting & maintaining a Raspberry Pi or a Linux machine is difficult in remote communities - where finding reliable access to a network or electricity can be tricky. Still, you will se…
I know this will get absolutely smashed but is this such a bad thing anymore ? If you can’t connect to the internet you’re immediately protected from a lot of garbage information, attention hijacking, scams and hacking, child grooming, IP theft, you’re job is probably a lot more secure etc. I know there is access to information which is beneficial but at some stage I’m not convinced having internet access will necess…
Oh boi. Don't ever go outside your home because you may get robbed, stabbed, spat on, laughed at, run over, kidnapped, etc. And even worse things await unsupervised children! No fun can be had outside and all knowledge must be carefully curated.
Ugh.