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Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by ehutch79 »

blazerunner wrote: post #127
bcraven wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't agree with your assessment. Did you find the 'About Us' page insufficient?

I don't think the previous comment was trying to be snarky - I can see where they're coming from. Take my feedback with a grain of salt, as I am entirely not the target audience, but... "Stay Connected, Always" - weird way to put it, given it's for offline situations. At this stage it sounds like it could be a 4G or portable wifi solution? "Use our apps for offline content or the Kiwix Hotspot for reliable access." -…

I honestly thought this was a self contained relay to provide internet access to remote locations...

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by xandrius »

katabasis wrote: post #182

I'd love to see something like this that is marketed to parents or schools who want to give kids a way to access the good parts of the internet (Wikipedia, e-books, etc) without the toxic parts. Maybe throw in some kind of de-centralized social media or file sharing for collaboration with other students or like-minded families. Kiwix + Pi-hole + Activity Pub basically. The device could create its own network (that on…

I'd definitely support this (even help). My non-related wish for my future kids would be to have some modern version of the BASIC games you would have to type in manually.

I never did that but it sounds a really fun to get into technology and programming. The difference is that I'd use different languages and maybe also allow them to draw images (with paint) and such. Everything offline and simple.

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by xandrius »

simgt wrote: post #172
kilroy123 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have 4 Seagate Exos X18 14TB drives crammed into a JONSBO N2 Black NAS ITX Case. 2 TBs of SSDs, and 64 GB of RAM. (Going to double the ram soon)

Why is it useful to have as much as 64GB of RAM in a NAS?

What if you want to load all of Wikipedia and images on the RAM for even faster access of every page?

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by Rediscover »

katabasis wrote: post #182

I'd love to see something like this that is marketed to parents or schools who want to give kids a way to access the good parts of the internet (Wikipedia, e-books, etc) without the toxic parts. Maybe throw in some kind of de-centralized social media or file sharing for collaboration with other students or like-minded families. Kiwix + Pi-hole + Activity Pub basically. The device could create its own network (that on…

Didn't England or GB do (does?) a curated dump precisely for that purpose? I'll pull up the info tonight if no one else chimes in.

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by settsu »

fritzo wrote: post #187
katabasis wrote: post #182

I'd love to see something like this that is marketed to parents or schools who want to give kids a way to access the good parts of the internet (Wikipedia, e-books, etc) without the toxic parts. Maybe throw in some kind of de-centralized social media or file sharing for collaboration with other students or like-minded families. Kiwix + Pi-hole + Activity Pub basically. The device could create its own network (that on…

It's exciting seeing grassroots censorship efforts like this.

That is entirely not how a healthy society works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by ThinkingGuy »

moffkalast wrote: post #146
flaburgan wrote: post #26

With the crazy news we have those past months, I actually started to wonder what would happen if internet went offline "for real" (let's say, several weeks) here in developed countries. I know we can easily download Wikipedia and Openstreetmap. But what else? And how to share it? I can do a hotspot home, but would my neighbors understand it? I would need some kind of captive portal to tell them when they connect to m…

> easily download Wikipedia and Openstreetmap Isn't OSM like 2TB to host if you include all tile scales? I guess you could skip the last few where most of the size explosion lies but that doesn't give you much precision.

More like 54TB

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_disk_usage

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by jjulius »

fritzo wrote: post #187
katabasis wrote: post #182

I'd love to see something like this that is marketed to parents or schools who want to give kids a way to access the good parts of the internet (Wikipedia, e-books, etc) without the toxic parts. Maybe throw in some kind of de-centralized social media or file sharing for collaboration with other students or like-minded families. Kiwix + Pi-hole + Activity Pub basically. The device could create its own network (that on…

It's exciting seeing grassroots censorship efforts like this.

I don't think it's productive to assume we know exactly why someone would use this, and how they would both implement this and discuss it with their children in their own home, and then attack them based on said assumption.

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by fritzo »

settsu wrote: post #195
fritzo wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's exciting seeing grassroots censorship efforts like this.

That is entirely not how a healthy society works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Do you think katabasis' proposal is unhealthy for a society? It strikes me as healthy for parents to keep their kids at ideological home during an information pandemic, to provide access to educational material and shelter from social media.

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by jeffhuys »

fritzo wrote: post #198
settsu wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is entirely not how a healthy society works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Do you think katabasis' proposal is unhealthy for a society? It strikes me as healthy for parents to keep their kids at ideological home during an information pandemic, to provide access to educational material and shelter from social media.

I think your original comment was mostly parsed as sarcastic.

Re: Internet in a Box

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Post by [deleted] »

einpoklum wrote: post #42

It is the opposite of Internet in a box. This exemplifies how, in our day and age, "The Internet" is mostly a one-sided experience where a few large organizations offer a bunch of content, which they control, for your perusal. It would have been more "Internet in a box" if it would have helped people set up their own services and pages; and if it were extensible using other radio-capable devices.

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