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

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Post by imp0cat »

jldugger wrote: post #9
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

    Chat rooms and bare bones text editors aren't supposed to be process-heavy, and yet the popular communication platform Slack requires outrageous amounts of ram and CPU to function. [...] Making software this way is costly to off-grid users, or those on slow connections, [...]
So true.

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

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Post by 0x3444ac53 »

Bluestein wrote: post #18
munificent wrote: post #10

I had the good fortune to meet and spend some time with Devine at Handmade Seattle a couple of years ago. It was an absolutely wonderful, inspiring experience.

Wishing to thank you for your comment, please, do tell. Can imagine it would have been (inspiring, etc.).-

You being in awe of them is very relatable to me lol. I discovered them a few years ago and seem to be surrounded by people that just don't "get it". A lot of people think programming and/or computer science as a way to make art, as a tool.

What I think is cool about 100r is that it is not "computer generated art" or "digital art", but rather "computer science/language design/programming as art". It's like they have this respect and reverence for it that I've often felt, and I often feel isolated in feeling.

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

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Post by worldsayshi »

hosh wrote: post #37
mephitix wrote: post #28

Occasionally i've stumbled upon some neat tool or beautiful software and i'm like, wow - who's behind this? And then I realize it's these two folks. Their approach is so surprising and inspiring, thanks for putting out some cool stuff into the world!

Have you looked into the permatech community in general?

What do you mean by permatech community? When i googled it I didn't find anything that fits the context.

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

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Post by worldsayshi »

jldugger wrote: post #9
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

I think you need to have the right mix of the absurd when you try to make something interesting.

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

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Post by kragen »

skadamat wrote: post #43

One quirk here is that they say "This website has no tracking or analytics." but Brave is showing Double Click / Google Ads? Might be an oversight!

i think this is the culprit:
it seems to be doing telemetry/surveillance to play.google.com

a thing to keep in mind is that accelerometer access has recently been shown to leak enough information about passwords to compromise them

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