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This is something a came across yesterday.

“We will not be age-gating Wikipedia under any circumstances, so, if it comes to that, it’s going to be an interesting showdown, because we’re going to just refuse to do it. Politically, what are they going to do? They could block Wikipedia. Good luck with that.” - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-online-safety-act-privacy-surveillance-vpn-anonymity-regulation

I'm going to assume Wikipedia wouldn't be the only ones fighting this crap.

I don't know why it took me 4 attempts and reading comments to actually understand what this post is about. It was just random sentences with random words before that.

California fuckwit OS age verification means I'm going offline soon.

Go read the actual bill. It has issues, but it's not an ID requirement. It's an "are you over 18?" type of check (with several brackets) at the OS level.

The California bill only affects software distributors. And how would it be enforced with something like Linux?

I've been regularly downloading the 100+GB data dumps of wikipedia on an annual basis for the past few years. It seems the worse the world gets, the more often I download another new copy.

I use Kiwix and download the ZIM files to keep it updated.

Is the whole age verification thing void if you compile the OS yourself?

Debian stable apt package archive

Until some details drop about how they plan to actually enforce this, I wouldn't bother with trying to archive all that.

I have a 200tb nas with all kinds of shit on it. Shows, music, books, manga, llms, software, etc

Keep in mind everything you use the internet for.

Unfortunately llms and tariffs have caused storage to shoot up in price quite a bit. It was quite a bit different a year ago or even better 3-5 years ago. There was a time where I’d add a drive to my NAS every few months when I had an extra hundred bucks but now I only generally only replace a drive when absolutely necessary because it’s pricey. And then on top of that each new drive means more electricity used which is also going up in cost

Im a little out of the loop on this one... Might be easily overcome with a VPN rather than going feral?

I have a few gb of music.

Otherwise i say "well, that was fun" and then go outside.

Pull a copy of Wikipedia.

Set up mirrors for package repos you mentioned. Each has documentation on how to set them up.

What's happening with Cali?

If you went with Arch Linux, you could effectively set up your own mirror, download the wiki zim file, and you should be good to go.

There is bandersnatch for mirroring PyPI but docs are all over the place for Python packages. You might just have to hope they made liberal use of docstrings…