The Internet
I'm in a state that's affected by the OS age verification laws going into place in 2027. I don't give that information to any website except for my bank and for tax purposes. My phone doesn't have my actual date of birth, nor does google or facebook. I don't trust any of them with my data. But with the law taking affect I think I might lose all access to the internet.
I have decided to make backups of key websites containing either knowledge or entertainment that I might miss in a world without internet.
1. {Next Day Edit: In my panic I forgot about copyrights. Let's keep it to websites that allow copying/mirroring or otherwise encourage page backups.}
2. Wikipedia all text and images (early 2025 version compressed it's about 120 GB)
3. Have backed up several of my favorite Linux iso install files.
4. currently fetching all of gutenberg.org
5. Github sources of GCC, Linux Kernel, Busybox, SDL. Probably I should do the same for any open source program that I use daily.
What websites do you recommend backing up?
Extra points if you think it might be "at risk" some time in the near future.
Also points if it's less than 15GB in final size, this project is very tedious with sub 1Mb connection speeds. Some quick "wins" would be very welcome.
I have decided to make backups of key websites containing either knowledge or entertainment that I might miss in a world without internet.
1. {Next Day Edit: In my panic I forgot about copyrights. Let's keep it to websites that allow copying/mirroring or otherwise encourage page backups.}
2. Wikipedia all text and images (early 2025 version compressed it's about 120 GB)
3. Have backed up several of my favorite Linux iso install files.
4. currently fetching all of gutenberg.org
5. Github sources of GCC, Linux Kernel, Busybox, SDL. Probably I should do the same for any open source program that I use daily.
What websites do you recommend backing up?
Extra points if you think it might be "at risk" some time in the near future.
Also points if it's less than 15GB in final size, this project is very tedious with sub 1Mb connection speeds. Some quick "wins" would be very welcome.
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Write to or contact your local representatives. For those in states that haven't been affected by this, look into what bills are being introduced into your local legislatures. If we just let this level of surveillance and control happen without a fight, they're only going to take more away from us. Hopefully people will also sue once the law goes into effect if it causes a real, quantifiable harm or loss (not sure if you're allowed to prematurely sue, not a lawyer).
Same thing with trying to get rid of AI surveillance devices like Flock. If representatives know that people won't stand for this crap, maybe they'll reverse it.
> 1. cplusplus.com's reference pages (using wget)
Surely you mean cppreference? cplusplus.com is a bit out of date these days.
If you want videos archived, I suggest yt-dlp.
Same thing with trying to get rid of AI surveillance devices like Flock. If representatives know that people won't stand for this crap, maybe they'll reverse it.
> 1. cplusplus.com's reference pages (using wget)
Surely you mean cppreference? cplusplus.com is a bit out of date these days.
If you want videos archived, I suggest yt-dlp.
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