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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 nine_k »

saulpw wrote: post #160
jrvieira wrote: post #155

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why wouldn't you host your own video file? I don't understand this dependency on youtube

Streaming is important, especially for longer videos. I don't believe any static hosting site supports video streaming.

I suppose any reasonable browser can play off a HTTP stream. I not so sure it would be able to navigate in the stream easily (like clicking at a particular time on the progress bar), because the bitrate is highly variable.

What else am I missing?

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Post by culi »

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.

That doesn't happen until you actually attempt to play the video though, right?

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Post by autoexec »

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

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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…

> Serve them on the frontend using JW Player or some other JS video player

Just make sure that player supports right click->Save I'd much rather download and view a video in VLC than somebodies janky JS player

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Post by culi »

actionfromafar wrote: post #145
axblount wrote: post #50

Hundred Rabbits is like Urbit without the evil aura and digital real estate.

Hundred Rabbits is... nothing? Nirvana?

Urbit had a fair bit of creativity in both aesthetic and tech. But yeah I agree it was mostly a crypto scam mainly driven by a no-longer-open/loud neonazi.

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Post by sarimkx »

criddell wrote: post #137
sarimkx wrote: post #129

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38878760 Crazy how HN works. I posted this 6 months ago because I collect unique personal websites, but no one took a bite... Glad people took interest this time.

It's been submitted many times. Sometimes people read and comment, sometimes they don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=100r.co

Yep...I understand.

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Post by lmm »

anticorporate wrote: post #79
senorrib wrote: post #73

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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.

Emulators tend to be better for compatibility than live systems. Did you try using Wine on windows? And if you take a similar-vintage Linux program, you may well find it runs more easily under SFU or WSL on Windows than on a current version of Linux.

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Post by lmm »

fngjdflmdflg wrote: post #164
omoikane wrote: post #159

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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…

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

A relentless cynicism and the willingness to shoot down bad ideas are vital for producing anything worthwhile. Someone who was able to improve real-world networking is very likely to have been "negative" by modern standards.

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Post by autoexec »

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

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> 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…

> Where it used to be you actually had to have something to say to bother putting it online, because it took an effort

That didn't last very long. Even before geocities there was a huge amount of random/pointless stuff online. It was okay though because those people weren't looking to make money. They didn't feel the need to misrepresent or SEO the hell out of their personal sites to drive traffic.

Greed killed the internet. Once people started putting up websites with the intent to line their own pockets instead of doing it just to share something fun or cool or personal or helpful it was doomed. Corporations quickly got involved and everything else got crowded out, bought out, or replaced by ad-filled trash.

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lmm wrote: post #178
fngjdflmdflg wrote: post #164

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>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…

> That top comment is from John Nagle of Nagle's algorithm. I doubt his karma is from being negative. A relentless cynicism and the willingness to shoot down bad ideas are vital for producing anything worthwhile. Someone who was able to improve real-world networking is very likely to have been "negative" by modern standards.

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