The Onion

Article was posted in 2017

I did that in February... after my copy from early January got damaged.

Hey, don't insult chimps like that!

Been lowkey prepping for a while.

I've been keeping a copy of the Zim for ages just waiting for doom :)

good time for local copies of books/movies/tv

good time to have a decent stock of long-term food staples.

keeping a copy of some LLMs around isn't bad either; they're not great, but they are bang for the buck (compression wise) FULL of data from all over the net, you just need to be careful and not just trust it openly.

I can't say i'm happy that it seems like it might be useful in my lifespan.

Well, fuck me, that's just. I'm at a loss.
How can he ever have been seen as a candidate to lead a fucking McDonald's, let alone a country. Fuck sake.

I have been doing this just so when my kid comes home from high school in ten years to tell me what they learned in "history" class, i can set the record straight

Modern day book burning. Funny how history rhymes like that.

It's been backed up a zillion times already. Scanning a rare old book and uploading it to Internet Archive and/or Libgen/Z-lib, seeding Anna's Archive torrents, stuff of that sort is more valuable than an another copy of Wikipedia on your hard drive where nobody will ever touch it.

Done. I've also been hitting up estate sales looking for any kind of book with knowledge in it, especially tables, numbers, conversions, or formulas. I don't trust our AI riddled internet to tell me how many pints are in a gallon at this point.

Yes, yes, metric system blah blah. I didn't choose the system, I just make brownies with it.

Where can you download the entirety of wikipedia and how do you actually use it?

Me too, and I'm not even American. I fully expect the Wikimedia foundation to be attacked.

I don't think that the fed will shut down the Internet. Not just because it's effectively impossible to do for a timeframe that's anything less than a month, but because it would literally destroy the entire country and the regime's ability to do anything.

There's a reason China still has the Internet, and why VPNs are still kind of tolerated. The U.S. nor any industry in it cannot survive without it. We are dozens of much less serious (but still serious) steps away from an internet shutdown, and I genuinely think that we won't reach internet shutdown at all.

Without the Internet it's not just credit cards that stop working, it's literally the capability for any store to order stuff to sell. Or the capability for every federally regulated employer (nearly all of them) to pay employees. Third world countries can get away with it because their economy isn't anywhere near as modernized as that of western countries.

Additionally, the way that the U.S. government is organized makes attacks on the Internet very difficult without Congress.

Shut it down? No. Fascist firewall it and fill it with shitty boot-licking AI answers? Sure.

Here's the Kiwix library too which can be a bit hard to find. Click on the "blue" link for a given file to get a download including a torrent.

They prefer ammo over facts