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Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not a prepper, but I always found immediate dismissal of their stance odd. If you see clouds on the horizon, reasonable people start preparing. Some preparations take longer than others so longer than others. And this does not account for the fact that one the steady lull ( in US and most of Europe ) of the past 70 or so years is not the norm in our world.
The kind of prepping in "prepper" culture though is bullshit. People living and having actual experience in such dangerous places don't prep like that.
But I bet they would've loved the opportunity to do so before it all went sideways.
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#83Anybody know of an alternate version of this with no AI?
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#84So has this project actually curated an extra source of useful info for emergencies/off-gridding/civilisation-restart? or is this just an alternative bundling of existing resources (Wikipedia and so forth)?
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#85I come from a time when internet connectivity was not permanent. It was only available a few times per day when you connected via the phone line. My first ISP gave me an allowance of 20 hours of internet per month. You would dial-up, check the news, check your email, read a page or two, download what you had to download, and then disconnect. The internet was very slow by today's standards, and the connection would ge…
> have in an offline format. I keep offline docs either in pdf or in html format of most of the programming languages and frameworks that I use. I keep the source code of various projects that are essential to me.
This is such a good idea. Thanks. I'm going to start to do the same.
> I keep a local wiki with notes on various things that are useful
Can you recommend a good wiki software?
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#86Normally I cringe at doomsday preppers but given how many dictators out there love the idea to cut their country off Internet whenever anything starts going not in their favor, I imagine a lot of people may find this useful. I wouldn’t want to lose access to knowledge how to fix a sink or which medication is better, just because the local kingface currently feels that free exchange of opinions about him threatens his…
Stuff like this is why I keep a small library at my house. Full encyclopedia set, Merck Manual, home repair book, etc. May never use them, but I like having them. Facebook ads even successfully targeted me for that “how to rebuild all of civilization” book. :)
You should get a copy or three of Pocket Ref by Thomas J Glover. Packed full of useful things in a good size. I keep one in the car even.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a serious “rebuild all of civilization” book? Sounds like a good read.
In a doomsday scenario one wouldn't need a "rebuild all of civilization" book, but more a "basics like building a fire, filtering water, repairing a car engine, basic wound treatment" and such book. Nobody is going to be building cathedrals, and factories and computers for a good while...
And we did it all without a manual the first time, so it stands to reason we (or more accurately, our descendants) could figure it out.
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#88There's a company which sells something like this, as "Prepper Disk".[1] In the 1950s, US Civil Defense had a set of microfilms on how to rebuild society. These were packaged with a sunlight reader and stored in larger fallout shelters. Someone should find one of those. [1] https://www.prepperdisk.com/
joke’s on the survivors who have to go find sunlight in nuclear winter
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#89I come from a time when internet connectivity was not permanent. It was only available a few times per day when you connected via the phone line. My first ISP gave me an allowance of 20 hours of internet per month. You would dial-up, check the news, check your email, read a page or two, download what you had to download, and then disconnect. The internet was very slow by today's standards, and the connection would ge…
I travel a lot and do the same. Yes most places have internet. But I don't need much. And it's easier to have an "offline" folder with docs you need compared to carrying around a satellite dish. Also works in an airplane.
Mine contains language, library and game engine docs. Sometimes I back up some sites completely. But it's getting harder to do that as many sites block crawling now.
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#90Anybody know of an alternate version of this with no AI?
Just delete the model file?