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Tea to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months ago

Open Source Genetic Database(OpenSNP) shuts down after 14 years to protect user data from misuse by authoritarian governments.

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Open Source Genetic Database(OpenSNP) shuts down after 14 years to protect user data from misuse by authoritarian governments.

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Tea to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months ago
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Sunsetting openSNP - a personal retrospective
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As this blog post is being published, we are sending out emails to all openSNP users with some news: OpenSNP will be turned off – and with that also delete all the data stored on it – on April 30, 2025. Given that the project has been part of my...
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  • @LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    I imagine we will be saying goodbye to many such things soon, in the extreme maybe yhe entire idea of a global internet and many open projects like Wikipedia, I can’t see how they can coexist with our world now without being shut down or subverted into evil, might as well go out on their own terms.

    I do hope a copy exists somewhere, perhaps waiting for a brighter day. Maybe that’s naive, but maybe truth and knowledge will become a desirable thing again one day.

    • NinjaZ
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      23•3 months ago

      The evil Wikipedia already exists, it’s called Metapedia

      • @scratchee@feddit.uk
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        42•3 months ago

        For anyone who doesn’t know (as I didn’t), metapedia is pretty clear Nazi apologist crap, just to save you checking/ending up on a watchlist.

        • @Dashmezzo@lemm.ee
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          15•3 months ago

          But is it a good list or a bad list these days. I’m confused. /s

      • morriscox
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        https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln is an example.

      • @LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Eh it’s not really the same thing, there’s plenty of these sorts of things like rationalwiki and prolewiki and whatnot. I meant the Wikipedia itself

    • @peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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      9•3 months ago

      You can download Wikipedia.

      Anyone can actually.

      • @LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I don’t have the storage capacity required personally

        • @peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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          The compressed text only dump is about 25gb.

          It only grows to many terabytes if you include all revisions and media files

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

          • @LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Damn, TIL. Downloading now.

            • Echo Dot
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              Then feed it into an AI or something.

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