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Post by canpan »

badsectoracula wrote: post #72
prima-facie wrote: post #59

I 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…

Yeah, that is normal for me too. If i find any article that i think is interesting i use SingleFile to download a local copy and ytdlp to download any video i find interesting/informational (e.g tutorials/howtos/etc). I avoid cloud-based stuff, preferring to use local/desktop software instead (and 99.9% of it is open source). And when it comes to AI i use local models only - with inference engines written in C++ (to…

For your linux distro needs, debian still provides the base iso and you can make a second disk with packages you need and apt-offline.

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Post by Animats »

Infernal wrote: post #73
nabeards wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had thought of building those exact Civil Defense devices a few years ago. Maybe it’s a viable product?

I’m searching for the source material here but must not be using the right keywords, any hints?

I've looked a few times over the years but can't find it online. National Archives probably has it somewhere, but not indexed where Google can find it.

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Post by fer »

coldtea wrote: post #79
nojvek wrote: post #71

Earlier 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...

> Nobody is going to be building cathedrals, and factories and computers for a good while...

Interesting mental exercise. It was explored in A Canticle for Leibowitz[0], novel in 3 parts (Fiat homo, fiat lux, fiat voluntas tua), the first set in the immediate post nuclear-war world, second 600 years after towards the end of the new middle ages, and the third 600 later in a typical futuristic scenario. The first part covers the religious efforts to preserve knowledge (even if said knowledge was not understood), and the second in the new renaissance from wielding such knowledge.

I wonder how LLMs, with their mistakes and all, would play a role in rebuilding civilization. Most media these days is not prepared for staying stable for 20 years, not sure how much and for how long it could be preserved. Perhaps mechanical hard drives in certain isolated environments?

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

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Post by brightball »

nojvek wrote: post #71
brightball wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. :)

Is there a serious “rebuild all of civilization” book? Sounds like a good read.

Yes.

https://a.co/d/0ieNUmhB (Not a referral link)

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

cousinbryce wrote: post #13
myself248 wrote: post #3

See also: https://internet-in-a-box.org/ https://wrolpi.org/

I’m convinced that the multitude of off-line Internet tools is a ploy to keep any one of them from gaining traction

On the contrary, "traction" is an antifeature. I hate technical monocultures. Like there being exactly one home automation software everyone uses now.

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Post by prima-facie »

beeburrt wrote: post #85
prima-facie wrote: post #59

I 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?

I would recommend Obsidian to new users.

I've been using Zim Wiki for years; back then there was nothing better available and now I can't be bothered to migrate formats. Plus I've already contributed a bunch of plugins to Zim :)

https://obsidian.md/

https://zim-wiki.org/

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Post by globalnode »

iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #69
hamstergene wrote: post #54

Normally 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…

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.

calling someone a prepper is an adhom, just like calling a greenie a tree hugger. just another way to dismiss something that is emotionally confronting so one can continue to feel some comfort in their own bubble.

Re: Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline

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Post by dryarzeg »

dogma1138 wrote: post #45
russellbeattie wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doomsday may not be the end of the world, but simply living in a country where you're being unjustifiably bombed by a foreign government lead by a delusional sociopath, and so access to information sources becomes limited.

You’ll be hanged from a construction crane if they’ll catch you with this project in Iran… :)

This situation is not unique to Iran.
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