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

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Post by _whiteCaps_ »

https://100r.co/site/princess_louisa_inlet.html

"PLI is truly a picturesque place, nestled between extraordinarily large mountains and cliffs, blessed with clear waters and lush forests. The waters in the inlet are very calm, it is well-shielded. Any boat wakes travel far thoughout the inlet, from wall to wall, and take a long while to subside. If motoring in this inlet, go slow."

Wow. Surprised to see one of my favourite places show up on HN.

If you have the opportunity to go to Princess Louisa Inlet, I highly recommend it.

The contrast between the glaciers and the ocean is breathtakingly beautiful.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Princess+Louisa+Inlet/@50....

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Post by tumult »

venantius wrote: post #31

Two people and a pet isn’t really a “collective”

There are a bunch of contributors to these projects. I wrote the C version of Orca (and helped design the second version of its evaluation strategy) but also had help and ideas from other contributors as well. I wrote the Windows version of Uxn, Uxn32, which was a from-scratch implementation, except for a couple of things like the palette mixing table. The code from Uxn32's VM core ended up in other versions of Uxn emulators, which were then modified and improved by the people running those projects. There is not any governing body, committees, or authoritative leadership for these projects. We just talk to each other through various channels and do stuff. It's a collective.

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Post by Bluestein »

devjab wrote: post #136
Bluestein wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you use anything from Google, you will be tracked Google's become a marketing-profiling engine, wrapped in ad-serving infrastructure, wrapped in the decaying remnants of a search engine.-

It’s been like that since August 2000 when they launched their premium sponsorship program, which was replaced by AdWords later that year. I’m not sure you can fully blame Google for what the web became though. Part of the reason search engines are close to useless here 24 years later is because most of the content people produce go to SoMe sites. Sites like Hacker News, sites like Medium and so on and because of how…

> on just how much internet “content” gets created by people on a toilet.

I'll pull out an equally haphazard guess: Up to 5%.-

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Post by fngjdflmdflg »

omoikane wrote: post #159
mrandish wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brings to mind a comment I saw here the other day observing that some on HN seem to default to a rather "unkind" mode.

The HN audience seem to encourage this type of comment by consistently upvoting them, like how the current top comment is one that complains about tracking due to embedded video as opposed to something that is materially related to the site contents. I will do my part by upvoting the other comments, but judging by the karma ranking and comment history of some of these commenters, I think I am in the minority.

>by consistently upvoting them

My comment is actually downvoted at -3 points currently. As for the top comment, I don't see the issue with pointing out that the site is enabling the tracking of users when it claims not to, especially since it is directly related to the topic of the site itself. I don't think being unconditionally positive is in line with the site's goal of promoting "intellectual curiosity."

>judging by the karma ranking and comment history of some of these commenters

That top comment is from John Nagle of Nagle's algorithm. I doubt his karma is from being negative.

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Post by cortesoft »

throwup238 wrote: post #152
codazoda wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love their work. I’ve also been working on some video to teach people how to publish their own book (the first of which I’ll make available free when it’s ready). Anyway, I’d like to NOT embed YouTube. Maybe I will anyway, but I wonder if anyone has alternatives, especially if they are scrappy, tiny alternatives like those that I imagine 100r might produce. I’m considering MP4 or WebM in HTML and wilder ideas like…

Turn your videos into HLS playlists (.m3u8) or mp4 and host the individual video files behind Cloudflare. Serve them on the frontend using JW Player or some other JS video player and from the backend using a $5 DigitalOcean droplet that serves the files from block storage. You’ll have to learn some ffmpeg incantations but the bandwidth will be free and your total costs will be the tiny VM and block storage. Might eve…

Doesn't cloudflare TOS forbid video content?

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Post by buyreddit »

devjab wrote: post #136
Bluestein wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you use anything from Google, you will be tracked Google's become a marketing-profiling engine, wrapped in ad-serving infrastructure, wrapped in the decaying remnants of a search engine.-

It’s been like that since August 2000 when they launched their premium sponsorship program, which was replaced by AdWords later that year. I’m not sure you can fully blame Google for what the web became though. Part of the reason search engines are close to useless here 24 years later is because most of the content people produce go to SoMe sites. Sites like Hacker News, sites like Medium and so on and because of how…

Makes sense. Tangentially, people always mention of spending time on the toilet, but I never could relate as its a max 2-3 minute activity for me, usually less. Only have enough time to read some Reddit posts. Maybe, as I get older, this will change.

Edit: I am vegetarian, probably has something to do with it.

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Post by throwup238 »

cortesoft wrote: post #165
throwup238 wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Turn your videos into HLS playlists (.m3u8) or mp4 and host the individual video files behind Cloudflare. Serve them on the frontend using JW Player or some other JS video player and from the backend using a $5 DigitalOcean droplet that serves the files from block storage. You’ll have to learn some ffmpeg incantations but the bandwidth will be free and your total costs will be the tiny VM and block storage. Might eve…

Doesn't cloudflare TOS forbid video content?

Huh, looks like it does unless you use Cloudflare Stream. Thankfully this is a throwaway account :-)

I think by keeping the HLS segments at a few megabytes each and not using a file extension in the URL, I've slipped through the cracks.

(My religion forbids me from recognizing any terms of service that haven't been given the three blessings of the matriarch)

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Post by bitwize »

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

It could be worse. One word: Urbit.

What the boat couple is doing strikes me as the most romantic sort of bricolage and just gives me the warm fuzzies all over. But Urbit just pisses me off for a variety of reasons.

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Post by yardie »

I've been following their travels since I guess 2016. Right around the time we were winding down our own seabattical. It's good to see they are still out there, traveling. creating, and coding. Even on our much bigger boat, boat projects were much bigger and more complex. So, there is a lot to be said about their minimalist travels. It really strips you down to the essence and encourages you to focus on what's most important.

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Post by dialup_sounds »

devjab wrote: post #136
Bluestein wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you use anything from Google, you will be tracked Google's become a marketing-profiling engine, wrapped in ad-serving infrastructure, wrapped in the decaying remnants of a search engine.-

It’s been like that since August 2000 when they launched their premium sponsorship program, which was replaced by AdWords later that year. I’m not sure you can fully blame Google for what the web became though. Part of the reason search engines are close to useless here 24 years later is because most of the content people produce go to SoMe sites. Sites like Hacker News, sites like Medium and so on and because of how…

One could probably put a date on the moment when the decreasing friction of publishing to the web intersected with the increasing potential for monetization. Suddenly all of these new people are writing blogs for AdSense revenue instead of good vibes and the atmosphere has all the vibrancy and vitality of a strip mall.
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