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

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Post by hosh »

worldsayshi wrote: post #44
hosh wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oops, I meant "permacomputing". Among my friends in a private discord group, we were generalizing that to all of tech and I forgot it originated from "permacomputing".

There is a related project from permacomputing that I'd like to highlight: CollapseOS/DuskOS which has overlapping and adjacent ends with what 100 Rabbits are trying to do with UXN. I know there are attempts to port UXN to DuskOS.

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Post by senorrib »

Bluestein wrote: post #4
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.-

Windows has become a garbage pile of spyware lately, but even Linux can't really compare to the insane level of backwards compatibility Windows offers.

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Post by VyseofArcadia »

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 the general thesis statement is, "there are very few things we do today that couldn't have been done on older hardware".

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Post by lovethevoid »

Animats wrote: post #55

Site: "This website has no tracking or analytics." Privacy Badger blocked tracking from: googleads.g.doubleclick.net static.doubleclick.net play.google.com www.google.com www.youtube.com Because If you use anything from Google, you will be tracked.

The embed has to be changed to YouTube-nocookie (which is what happens when you enable privacy enhance mode when sharing embeds). But that might not entirely comply with GDPR, as Google still does attempt other measures of tracking.

So they should either introduce a cookie banner, find an alternative host that more strictly adheres to privacy concerns, or just host the video themselves in a video element.

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Post by troupo »

Animats wrote: post #55

Site: "This website has no tracking or analytics." Privacy Badger blocked tracking from: googleads.g.doubleclick.net static.doubleclick.net play.google.com www.google.com www.youtube.com Because If you use anything from Google, you will be tracked.

Apparently there's http://youtube-nocookie.com/ that doesn't do that, but of course that's not the default.

Someone just pointed out I have the same problem on my blog and I'm very pissed. It's not enough that their embeds break every Lighthouse metric and recommendation. It's all this, too

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Post by istrice »

I've been following these guys for a decade now (maybe more??) and I was always blown away by their skills and aesthetics. Devine has been a huge influence on my own artistic style and finding xxiivv.com on some random chan during high school, and getting lost in it, was a big mind-changing event. Glad to see they're still sailing around the world.

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Post by anticorporate »

senorrib wrote: post #73
Bluestein wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.-

Windows has become a garbage pile of spyware lately, but even Linux can't really compare to the insane level of backwards compatibility Windows offers.

> even Linux can't really compare to the insane level of backwards compatibility Windows offers.

My experience is quite the opposite. I still play the Windows Entertainment Pack version of Tetris. In Linux, thanks to Wine, it just works. In Windows 10, I'm told to contact the publisher for a new version.

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