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Fucking hell. Alright let's revise our Cheburnet Apocalypse backpack: wikipedia dump check, major programming languages docs check, Linux kernel not check (gotta clone it), arch wiki not check. There's room for improvement...
Funny, but is there an actual serious resource like this? I don’t think I’ll need it but it sure would be awesome from a data hoarding perspective. Particularly if there are projects dedicated to maintaining local copies. Obv git + cron job for easy up-to-dates but with so much data, managing it might get more complex. At least having the initial sources lined up would be a great head start.
I doubt that there's a single resource that fits all, but check out Kiwix, team behind Kiwix hoards and redistributes highly compressed wikis and other knowledge bases like stack overflow.
For stuff like coding documentation, I usually just go to the developers main site and they provide it in many formats.
For everything else I just wget mirror (properly throttled, I'm not a cunt) the entire thing once a year.
Welcome to North North Korea...
I am sure Russian population won't even muster up a dead exec.
That's both smart and worrying.
Disabling interconnexion shows what still work, and what breaks when only the country's own network is accessible. Doing multiple short tests allows gradually building a more isolated network while limiting disruptions.
Let's help them out with that and just cut them off.
Why do you think that helping the Russian government to enforce censorship is a good idea?
Because Russians have to suffer. Russia needs to collapse and that's only one way to achieve that. They will never stand up for as long as they can remain in this complacent state of comfortable slavery.
Unfortunately, that hasn't helped North Korea. I sometimes wonder about this myself, but I think It's unlikely people would attempt to overthrow a brutal government. It requires extremely desperate angry people with absolutely nothing to lose.
North Koreas never had access to the internet and its perks. There's no loss for them to experience here because they never had it in the first place. Russians are all over the internet, especially in video games, which is the only outlet for a lot of them.
Dear god are you really that naive? The Russian government WANTS this, not to topple itself but to stay in power as they can now control the narrative. You go home hungry? It's America's fault. Your son died in a senseless war? Well America is invading us and he died a heroes death
As trump has shown; people will support anything stupid and ridiculous as long as they've been told it's their best option
Want to organize a protest? Good luck, now that all forms of encryption have been removed and we see all messages
Speaking of naive... They already control the narrative. The majority of Russians do not even speak English and do not have anything but state TV to inform themselves. Cut them off entirely. No internet, no medications, no trade, nothing. Let them see how a world without the West truly looks like.
Want to organize a protest?
Protesting is already illegal. lmao And for that matter also useless.
I'm quite sure that limiting access to information and communication is supposed to reduce and prevent any form of organized protest. That's why the Russian government is doing it in the first place.
Many agree and would say the same is true for people living in every country