Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
- wooptoo - 431 sekunder sedanI come from a time when internet connectivity was not permanent. It was only available a few times per day when you connected via the phone line. My first ISP gave me an allowance of 20 hours of internet per month. You would dial-up, check the news, check your email, read a page or two, download what you had to download, and then disconnect. The internet was very slow by today's standards, and the connection would get lost very often. It was during that time when it was drilled into my head that the network access comes and goes. That it should not be taken for granted. So a lot of the stuff that I use nowadays, I also have in an offline format. I keep offline docs either in pdf or in html format of most of the programming languages and frameworks that I use. I keep the source code of various projects that are essential to me. I keep a local wiki with notes on various things that are useful to me. Obviously it's not enough for a major catastrophe but it's better than nothing. I'm by no means a prepper, but I also believe that each of us should be prepared for short term disruptions of various kinds. The network should not be taken for granted.
- adsharma - 14086 sekunder sedanSo this thing is based on Kiwix, which is based on the ZIM file format.
In the meanwhile, wikipedia ships wikidata, which uses RDF dumps (and probably 8x less compressed than it should be).
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download
There is room for a third option leveraging commercial columnar database research.
- hamstergene - 2946 sekunder sedanNormally I cringe at doomsday preppers but given how many dictators out there love the idea to cut their country off Internet whenever anything starts going not in their favor, I imagine a lot of people may find this useful.
I wouldn’t want to lose access to knowledge how to fix a sink or which medication is better, just because the local kingface currently feels that free exchange of opinions about him threatens his kingship.
- Animats - 3269 sekunder sedanThere's a company which sells something like this, as "Prepper Disk".[1]
In the 1950s, US Civil Defense had a set of microfilms on how to rebuild society. These were packaged with a sunlight reader and stored in larger fallout shelters. Someone should find one of those.
- Yokohiii - 15558 sekunder sedanI like the idea of an LLM that acts as a public knowledge base. But that doomsday framing on the site is pretty annoying.
- Lapra - 12870 sekunder sedanIn a world where this is useful, you aren't going to be spending your precious battery on running an LLM...
- Aargau - 3762 sekunder sedanClosing on 40 acres in Panama for an eco-resort.
I was planning to build my own offline repository, but will check out this repo.
- nelsonic - 6040 sekunder sedanFor anyone wanting the video explanation from the creator, watch: https://youtu.be/P_wt-2P-WBk
- cstaszak - 8777 sekunder sedanI'm a fan of "civilization in a box" kinds of projects. However the ZIM file format leaves a lot to be desired in 2026. I've been exploring a refreshed, alternative approach: https://github.com/stazelabs/oza
I do think having an LLM as an optional "sidecar" is a useful approach. If you can run a meaningful Ollama instance alongside your content, great!
- JanisIO - 21028 sekunder sedanAnyone thought about using a Steam Deck with this? Or explored the concept of a "Nomad Deck"?
- WillAdams - 22749 sekunder sedanMissing a chance to note (or configure for?) installation on a Raspberry Pi --- that'd make an affordable option to leave powered down, but ready to go in an EMI-shield/Faraday Cage.
- iandanforth - 14836 sekunder sedanI like this idea! I don't need the LLM bits, and want it to run on an old Android tablet I have lying around. Can anyone recommend similar software where I can get wikipedia / street maps / useful tutorial videos nicely packaged for offline use?
- born-jre - 1925 sekunder sedanwhat a coincidence, i am just downloading 110gb wikipedia dump on kiwix right now
- amarant - 6394 sekunder sedan>Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
>What is Project N.O.M.A.D.? Node for Offline Media, Archives, and Data
That's the first header, and the first sentence of the first paragraph, and I'm confused.
- moffers - 20442 sekunder sedanReally clever targeting of a niche. I’d be interested to hear if they find success!
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- leowoo91 - 9622 sekunder sedanIt could use some own wisdom not to use nodejs..
- ZeroCool2u - 12613 sekunder sedanSee I really want this in a simpler format. Like a single file embedded database on my filesystem that I can point a single/or few tools at for my model to use when it needs.
- itintheory - 9360 sekunder sedanWhy does it have to have AI? Ugh.
- balkanist - 4466 sekunder sedanThis is really cool. Having offline Wikipedia + local LLMs in a single bundle is a great combo for emergency preparedness. Do you have any benchmarks on how it performs on lower-end hardware? Curious about minimum specs.
- bpavuk - 15969 sekunder sedanturns out I have the same setup (sans local LLMs - they are pretty useless on 2018 cards) but in Obsidian :)
whatever I think might be useful later, I capture through the web clipper extension. [0]
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- mohamedkoubaa - 15411 sekunder sedanGreat premise for a science fiction story
- shevy-java - 19363 sekunder sedanSo how does that work?
- tsss - 23766 sekunder sedanI was expecting the game from my childhood and was disappointed.
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Nördnytt! 🤓