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Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump (www.404media.co)
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Title is a little sensational but this is a cool project for non-technical folks who may need a mini-internet or data archive for a wide variety of reasons:

"PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content. It’s part external hard drive, part local hotspot antenna—the box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it. It doesn't store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with content for the apocalypse."

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, you have to take it for what it's worth, and it's worth a lot. Most of what it says is pretty close, and when close is good enough, go for it. When AI is telling you how to secure your brake hydraulic connectors and it doesn't seem quite right - time for a 2nd opinion.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

For sure, AIs/llms can be dangerous if you don't also apply critical thinking, but that's been true of the internet forever, and even before. The Anarchist cookbook has recipes that will, at best, waste a bunch of soap and gasoline or have you scraping banana peels with a razorblade, or at worst, have you making chlorine gas in your basement. 4chan had a popular recipe for "peanut butter cookies" that would result in an oven fire, and instructions to drill a hole in your iPhone to use the headphone jack.

It's much more important to protect and promote critical thinking skills than it is to try to shield everybody from misinformation and hallucinations.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 44 minutes ago

more important to protect and promote critical thinking skills

My father had a 50 year career in education, he spent it trying to promote critical thinking - he recently retired and feels that the system has made negative progress through all 50 years of his career in terms of improving critical thinking skills through the educational system.