Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?

Re:Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to g... by a2128 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:05PM (#42034778)

A few years ago I was concerned of this being a genuine possibility (at least for a few months) due to regional conflicts, so I prepared the following on some SD cards and flash drives:

* Offline copies of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow and some others using Kiwix

* Arch Linux iso and mirror of some packages for installing a new system

* Godot Engine along with game assets shamefully stolen from hl2, so I can have some creative outlet, or make training sims if things got so bad

* Hours of videos and songs I like

Today I would probably include Llama or other LLMs.

It's unfortunate to see big companies pushing for an online-only world. Windows 11 requiring Internet access to install, YouTube restricting yt-dlp and YouTube Premium downloaded videos only being playable if the app was able to ping YouTube servers in the past few days. It really feels like technology is regressing, we are creating new problems for ourselves for no good reason. But I guess it's fine when all of the company offices are in rich Western countries with fast and stable internet access.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to g... by can16358p on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:43PM (#42035121)

I agree with you, and it's not only about rich and Western countries: you might be rich and have a stable Internet connection, but would like to stay totally offline too, which is very hard (if you just want to watch YT videos on something when offline etc) nowadays.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to g... by eacnamn on Sunday November 03, 2024 @01:23PM (#42034930)

Does your Wikipedia mirror include media? Text-only wiki seems a bit bleak to me, but including all media would devour so much storage, I just haven't been able to justify using that much of my limited storage space

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Re:Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to g... by rightbyte on Sunday November 03, 2024 @03:36PM (#42035931)

It would be nice if there was some 'horribly compressed media' dump. Like, I can live with '96 pic resolutions for an offline copy.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to g... by rmunn on Monday November 04, 2024 @02:35AM (#42039387)

yt-dlp still works fine for me. Used it just today to download some videos for later offline watching. How have they been restricting it?

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Re:Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to g... by a2128 on Monday November 04, 2024 @03:24AM (#42039621)

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128

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