Ask HN: Offline resources during internet outages?

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  • zeal

    Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash

  • feeds

    Collection of Dash docset feeds

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • iiab

    Internet-in-a-Box - Build your own LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA with a Raspberry Pi !

  • Internet in a Box might be a good place to start: https://internet-in-a-box.org/

  • devdocs

    API Documentation Browser

  • SingleFile

    Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file

  • Save webpages offline as HTML (resources inlined, even things like iframes and web components) https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

  • omapsapp

    🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by MapsWithMe (MapsMe) founders and our community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!

  • Organic Maps (https://organicmaps.app/) might come in handy in that situation.

  • aard2-android

    Aard2 for Android, a simple dictionary app

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • awesome-selfhosted

    A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

  • How locally is locally? Your country, your city or your house? And how much extended, hours, days, months?

    If it is just your home. You can have a mirror for your Linux distribution at home. There are plenty of self-hosted software (https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted for some initial suggestions) on which you can rely on instead of cloud services, you can download copies of wikipedia and other more or less static files like books, tv shows and movies (most streaming services let you do that for offline viewing, besides not so legal ways) and so on to have enough to see and read for months or years. Just have with you some good storage to hold them all and you can rely less on online internet.

    For your country there is probably caches, local mirrors and some local presence of major services (i.e. a local 8.8.8.8, if you use that instead of your local ISP dns). There may be things that will be definitely outside, from social networks to cloud content, but there are enough self-hosted solutions to have your own content with you, and create local communities with your self-hosted solutions.

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