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Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Post by stonethrowaway »

Their philosophy makes me think they should just use Windows XP/7 or something and call it a day. Offline first? “past-proofing”? These are desktop and console programs where the OS vendors have spent onerous amounts of capital to maintain backward API compatibility. In other words: Windows and Win32, and nothing but. Everything else, including the Web, has been broken and deprecated several times over.

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Post by mikae1 »

stonethrowaway wrote: post #2

Their philosophy makes me think they should just use Windows XP/7 or something and call it a day. Offline first? “past-proofing”? These are desktop and console programs where the OS vendors have spent onerous amounts of capital to maintain backward API compatibility. In other words: Windows and Win32, and nothing but. Everything else, including the Web, has been broken and deprecated several times over.

https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos

> Dusk OS is a 32-bit Forth and big brother to Collapse OS. Its primary purpose is to be maximally useful during the first stage of civilizational collapse, that is, when we can't produce modern computers anymore but that there's still many modern computers around.

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Post by Bluestein »

stonethrowaway wrote: post #2

Their philosophy makes me think they should just use Windows XP/7 or something and call it a day. Offline first? “past-proofing”? These are desktop and console programs where the OS vendors have spent onerous amounts of capital to maintain backward API compatibility. In other words: Windows and Win32, and nothing but. Everything else, including the Web, has been broken and deprecated several times over.

The way you put it, it makes sense.-

PS. For many XP was some sort of "sweetspot", as far as Win OSs are concerned.-

PS. Then again, it depends. How much evidence of "past-proof"-ness do you need - in terms of "backstory" to meet that requirement? Linux, or - even better - some BSD variants go way further back.-

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Post by Bluestein »

mikae1 wrote: post #3
stonethrowaway wrote: post #2

Their philosophy makes me think they should just use Windows XP/7 or something and call it a day. Offline first? “past-proofing”? These are desktop and console programs where the OS vendors have spent onerous amounts of capital to maintain backward API compatibility. In other words: Windows and Win32, and nothing but. Everything else, including the Web, has been broken and deprecated several times over.

https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos > Dusk OS is a 32-bit Forth and big brother to Collapse OS. Its primary purpose is to be maximally useful during the first stage of civilizational collapse, that is, when we can't produce modern computers anymore but that there's still many modern computers around.

> 32-bit Forth OS mixed with C

I mean, what's not to love here? :)

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Post by Bluestein »

bagels wrote: post #5

My solution would have been: older copies of photoshop that don't require an internet connection and a larger battery + solar panels.

PS. Were they not to be bitrotten beyond repair, maybe some old "shareware" copy of Paint Shop Pro or similar, on a CD-ROM even.-

Re: Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech

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Post by jldugger »

mikejulietbravo wrote: post #8

The start of this reads like the beginning of a cult manifesto, but then transitions to a very logical solution for an important problem. Baffling. I'm in

It keeps bouncing between too real and too absurd.

Absurd: Not enough power on our sailboat to run Ableton and Photoshop.

Real: So we replaced it with open source technology.

Absurd: That technology was based on Electron.

Real: Electron was too bloated.

Absurd: So we ported everything over to the NES.

Real: And now you can run our software anywhere you can emulate an NES

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