The credible threat of violence is often much more powerful than violence itself. See unions, the civil rights movement, mutually assured destruction.

Society is very often an implicit contract of “do what we want or else.” Without the “or else”, the powerful have no reason to listen.

omg, how did I forget BenHeck tore one down, ty!

i wonder how much hardware is added besides the CD drive…

datacenter electricity is subsidized by every household in the area, they pay fuckall for their electricity.

i can reduce it by 100% by flipping like two breakers.

gonna need some hard drives lol. wikipedia is only about 100GB. annas archive is like 1PB, and even just the index is 1TB. the various government archives that were collected are at least 500TB (and probably closer to several PB).

other good things to mirror are probably open source code repos (they get taken down all the time - especially emulators, p2p, and now encryption), libretexts, linux repositories, 3d printed gun files, documentation, project gutenberg, the internet archive, openstreetmaps, the reddit archive, and any other content you find personally valuable - including websites and youtube videos.

the sum of this data is in the dozens to hundreds of petabytes, which is obviously infeasible so i personally try to curate what i find personally valuable and of highest societal value and risk, and to partially mirror what i can for the rest.

71% to go!

signal is a good option for messaging. it is technically american, but i feel like FOSS projects should generally get a pass.

also, as an american who is very not okay with what our (russia’s) government (puppet) is doing, wouldn’t supporting non-american businesses mean paying the tariffs and supporting the oligarchs? i’m not really sure what us yanks can do besides just trying not to spend ANY money.

Frankly, both are good options. Valve has done so much for linux gaming, and CDPR has done a lot for game preservation and DRM-free gaming. I’ve bought plenty of games from both.

as always dns is the weak link in internet infrastructure. if they can takedown piracy domains they can take down anything.

I mean it’s easier and vastly more compatible than it was even a couple years ago thanks to the proton devs.

my backup is staring longingly at LTO drives and wishing they would magically be affordable.

Statistically, so are most north american humans.

Why did I think this was about Wayland?

Didn’t bsky turn on federation last year?

Adding in yt-dlp. Not a platform but a useful tool to download youtube videos for archival or redistribution.