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

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Post by mburns »

kragen wrote: post #67
Bluestein wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 32-bit Forth OS mixed with C I mean, what's not to love here? :)

the z80 more generally, collapseos is cosplay, not engineering in more detail, collapseos is not a pragmatic engineering effort to foster resiliency, but an essentially religious effort to atone for the sins of the worldly through ascetic renunciation of pleasures such as guis, returning to an imagined arcadian past of austere virtue see against-collapseos.md in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git for the f…

DuskOS != CollapseOS (same author, the latter inspired the former).

DuskOS doesn’t run on z80. It’s i386 or ARM. Whether that makes it a serious effort or not is still up for debate.

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

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Post by pmarreck »

kragen wrote: post #67
Bluestein wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 32-bit Forth OS mixed with C I mean, what's not to love here? :)

the z80 more generally, collapseos is cosplay, not engineering in more detail, collapseos is not a pragmatic engineering effort to foster resiliency, but an essentially religious effort to atone for the sins of the worldly through ascetic renunciation of pleasures such as guis, returning to an imagined arcadian past of austere virtue see against-collapseos.md in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git for the f…

that URL leads directly to what looks like the contents of a .git directory (so, all the metainformation but no project directory listing)

I'm curious because I buy this comment more than their mission statement, although I absolutely agree with their stance on the "longevity/maintainability problem" in software and hardware.

but as soon as I saw the ranting about colonialism I was like "oh... basically, anarchist anti-capitalists"

as soon as they have kids, they will quickly abandon their non-acquisition of resources stance, LOL

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

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Post by copx »

kragen wrote: post #67
Bluestein wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 32-bit Forth OS mixed with C I mean, what's not to love here? :)

the z80 more generally, collapseos is cosplay, not engineering in more detail, collapseos is not a pragmatic engineering effort to foster resiliency, but an essentially religious effort to atone for the sins of the worldly through ascetic renunciation of pleasures such as guis, returning to an imagined arcadian past of austere virtue see against-collapseos.md in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git for the f…

I can't see the file there.

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

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Post by kragen »

lovethevoid wrote: post #75
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.

also you could just embed a self-hosted image that links to youtube. presumably if somebody clicks on the image with the youtube logo on it they know they're going to youtube

i mean peertube is a great alternative, and nowadays browsers are pretty okay at just playing bare mp4 files if you re-encode them with ffmpeg -movflags faststart -c copy, but if for whatever reason you choose to use youtube instead there are some harm-reduction measures you can take

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

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Post by kragen »

copx wrote: post #83
kragen wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the z80 more generally, collapseos is cosplay, not engineering in more detail, collapseos is not a pragmatic engineering effort to foster resiliency, but an essentially religious effort to atone for the sins of the worldly through ascetic renunciation of pleasures such as guis, returning to an imagined arcadian past of austere virtue see against-collapseos.md in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git for the f…

I can't see the file there.

it's a git repo, you have to clone it

i've added a header to that effect since it seems to have been confusing people

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

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Post by Bluestein »

smrq wrote: post #27
montebicyclelo wrote: post #14

Their 2d music programming language, Orca is very cool/fun. Some examples: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MNF8SF69QvM&list=PLb1uDATFJPcEEG... https://youtube.com/watch?v=DBI8eBMGyYs https://youtube.com/watch?v=mxr8Dtw2R5w https://youtube.com/watch?v=RDZiKYSGsjg

Orca singlehandedly got me out of a multi-year musical rut. It's such an interesting and different way of sequencing than the traditional piano roll experience. Like modular synthesis, it can be easier to just use it like a toy and not make anything "finished", but it really can spark the imagination.

The best kind of tool (for creative work at least). Unpretentious "toys" that - particularly - don't "get in the way ...

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

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Post by pmarreck »

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.

NixOS can.

Because literally every piece of software in the Nix repo includes all dependencies (including things like build dependencies, not just runtime dependencies) that existed at the time it was built, all the way down to the metal basically

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

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Post by kragen »

pmarreck wrote: post #82
kragen wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the z80 more generally, collapseos is cosplay, not engineering in more detail, collapseos is not a pragmatic engineering effort to foster resiliency, but an essentially religious effort to atone for the sins of the worldly through ascetic renunciation of pleasures such as guis, returning to an imagined arcadian past of austere virtue see against-collapseos.md in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git for the f…

that URL leads directly to what looks like the contents of a .git directory (so, all the metainformation but no project directory listing) I'm curious because I buy this comment more than their mission statement, although I absolutely agree with their stance on the "longevity/maintainability problem" in software and hardware. but as soon as I saw the ranting about colonialism I was like "oh... basically, anarchist an…

cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133098

collapseos isn't a 100r thing, and i haven't seen anything from virgil that sounds like an anarchist anti-capitalist. i have a lot of sympathies for the anarchist anti-capitalist point of view although personally i've suffered a lot more harm from anti-capitalism than from capitalism

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

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Post by pmarreck »

I never heard of these guys and this is a fascinating rabbit hole. I don't agree with everything they stand for (and that's OK!) but the long term maintainability and sustainability of computer software and hardware I am 100% onboard with.
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