A parallel web updated through physical media.

EDIT: lobsters thread has some good discussion

  • Arghblarg
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    92 months ago

    Hmm, sounds like a nice tie-in to anonymous USB dead-drop sites and so on. Go connect to a tree somewhere, upload your new .snk files, download any new ones placed there since your last visit :)

    Maybe have a Meshtastic solar-powered node feeding new .snk files onto it too, from afar!

    • @john_lemmy@slrpnk.net
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      52 months ago

      I would like to try this. Any accessible way to verify that a USB pen was not infested with malware in between visits?

    • 0x1C3B00DAOP
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      12 months ago

      That was my thinking as well. This plus a solar powered mesh could give us an incredibly resilient and decentralized web. Its like appying the concept of managing your feeds through RSS to managing your own personal web.

  • comrademiao
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    42 months ago

    That’s an interesting idea, do I want my website guaranteed to be fully downloaded to someone else’s computer tho lol

  • Strit
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    32 months ago

    So this is just a “Manager” for offline websites?

    • @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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      32 months ago

      Feels like this is a modern day rehashing of the windows 95 briefcase system.

      It’s interesting but I think a distributed internet makes more sense. There’s no reason this couldn’t be folded into that too though. If it disappears off enough peers that it’s done, someone opens up the dead-dropped site and that new peer shares with the others again.

      • Strit
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        12 months ago

        I would be seriously worried about malware on a random USB stick in the wild…

  • rako
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    12 months ago

    This is really nice, but I don’t understand what the willow part really brings, unfortunately

  • K3CAN
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    12 months ago

    What is the advantage of this over just dropping HTML files onto a USB drive?