I am specifically asking about software and needed libraries, not stuff like Wikipedia or the writings of Ernest Hemmingway.

To keep people from archiving all of github on thousands of shucked external hard drives cobbled together all Frankenstein-y to create a postapocalyptic data center assume a ~1TB storage limitation. Though I’m sure that person exists here on Lemmy somewhere :D

  • knightmare1147@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’d raid a Google data center and work on rebuilding the Internet with whatever remains of their infrastructure. Wait is this us talking about our apocalypse plans or…?

  • silasmariner@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    I’d be fucked because I work on and use OSS multiple times a day, and have no idea what a distributed maven central looks like

  • atro_city@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Probably guides on how to make a mesh-net and the appropriate hardware to do so. No idea how that’s done.

  • abrahambelch@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    As a base: The Linux kernel source, GNU software sources and compiler binaries so I can - in theory - write missing software myself. For convenience probably some stable, offline-installable, ready to use distros.

    I would probably also archive sources and binaries of day-to-day software like web-browsers (I might still have an intranet to use), office tools, photo management software, audio/video players and all the codecs, etc.

    I think that’s a solid starting point but im sure I’m missing something important :D

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    I always see a lot of great and diverse solutions for maintaining information and even being self sufficient in the face of some sort of societal collapse and loss of infrastructure. I never see plans mentioned for what to do afterwards. The point being, there seems to be an assumption of either permanence to things like storage and alternative energy sources, or perhaps an implied having to just last a decade or so and things will be rebuilt.

    So hypothetical, something happens and things go away, but someone in your community has set up a center of preservation of knowledge that can be tapped into through a mesh network, and everyone has a minimal power setup to use some things to do this and other electronic based work. Now what? Is asking this question too vague since there can be so many scenarios possible and we just have to figure it out from there?

    TL;DR - what happens to a post-collapse tech center in the long run since we see all the time that there are limits to even the best storage media and parts wear out even in non-moving solar panels. Mass replacements and salvage are a given, but even that has limits and problems.

  • idriss@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago
    1. Fire Zeal and Fetch every API documentation listed there
    2. Pull latest deepseek models
    3. Clone entire debian current repo
    4. Clone Firefox, Linux and the gnu coreutils
    5. Clone Litecoin and Litewallet
    6. Download the most recent dump of Wikipedia
    7. Download all the maps and data available today in OSM

    That should do for me

  • minoscopede@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Open source collaboration will be difficult on mesh, so my contribution would be jailbreaks and cracked versions of softwares. My local government will need it since all their systems run on licensed software 🥲

    I’d also get my hands on a bunch of iphone and android jailbreaks, because phone OSes might just stop working in 9 months if they’re left unmodified.

    • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I keep a raspberry pi dedicated just to have NES/SNES/etc emulators via the “retropie” distro. I have thousands of ROMs that I can plug into any TV with HDMI and SNES/NES USB controllers for it. $100 for a full raspi kit to have full access to anything just by copying some files over to a microsd card. Can’t remember controller cost but that’s kind of a given requirement.

  • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’d download my entire GOG library of games. The offline installer versions they offer without GOG Galaxy client.

  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Though I’m sure that person exists here on Lemmy somewhere :D

    I feel seen!

    In all honesty, I’ve been doing something somewhat similar for the last 2 decades or so. Originally I was building my archives because I was often away from internet access. Now, though, it’s just become habit.

    I started with basic first aid and medical texts and whatever other books and reference texts I found interesting. To that I also archive proprietary software and the source code and releases for the open source software I find useful. Add to that ISOs of the distributions I tend to use and I’m at roughly 3TB. I could probably cut that to 2TB if I remove the older Ubuntu and NixOS releases. I’m over 30TB if you include CD and DVD rips.

    About the only thing I am missing from my current archives would be a clone of the Ubuntu and NixOS repositories for all of the “glue” dependencies that no one ever thinks of. After that you would just need the hardware to build out the network.