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Post by sgt »

laumars wrote: post #84
sgt wrote: post #46

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If you think a smart phone lasts 10 years in the hands of poor people, you are extremely optimistic. From what I can tell, even here in South Africa's townships they are using fairly new Samsung, Huawei etc smart phones (always with a broken screen - this happens without exception), albeit cheap ones. Even my gardener has a Samsung 10 something. Not entirely sure how he can afford it, but I suspect he borrowed a lot…

There’s a lot of African countries where that isn’t the case. I recently did some work for a mobile based game targeting a number of African countries and we had to support WAP and SMS. India is another country where poorer regions wouldn’t have good cell coverage with most people without phones (let alone smart phones). If you live in a region that can have luxuries like a gardener, then you’re likely already more a…

My point was that this project isn't even targetting my gardener or his neighbors. They all have smart phones with Internet access. One more physical asset is a liability to them. Something else that can be stolen.

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Post by Ensorceled »

aaron695 wrote: post #138
Ensorceled wrote: post #126

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Are you arguing with me or or the article? I'm not a doctor, I can't review the databases they include. Have you read the article? It has links.

The article makes zero claim that it includes medical databases or any databases I can find. https://www.google.com/search?q=database+site%3Ainternet-in-... This is why I want to know the name so I understand what you think IIAB does. You seem to think these communities can skip the internet development of the Developed West which was - Academia -> Porn -> Shopping -> Illegal Movies -> Legal streaming movies-> Gettin…

http://med.iiab.me/medbox-ng/

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Post by nednar »

We can learn a lot from this about distributed, decentralized systems and their resilience. Caching as much and as local as possible, while accepting that the processes might have no network connectivity is key. This way each node, and whoever can reach this one node, can work independently for long stretches of time.

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Post by thricegr8 »

tyingq wrote: post #80
JKCalhoun wrote: post #77

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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

Would something like this work for single-page applications? Given that most applications today are built entirely through the DOM, would regex matching on embedded scripts be that useful?

I've actually started thinking about how to build a spidering/scraping tool that extracts links/JS, etc from an SPA but would rather not reinvent the wheel if possible.

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Post by kayodelycaon »

nine_k wrote: post #122
kayodelycaon wrote: post #116

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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.

Do you even update it? Like maybe once a year?

I just downloaded a new copy a few nights ago.
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