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

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Post by defrost »

Sabinus wrote: post #210
fao_ wrote: post #197

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> , so saying it's retroactive justification isn't really true and minimizes the real problems they face. I wouldn't call any of the listed problems "real problems" in the context of my long winded disability and homelessness lmao. I used to be in their community, the mods, and indirectly, them, were abusive as hell. Their community is, last I heard, hemorrhaging queer folk (or maybe it's bled dry and queer folk just…

I'm very surprised to read this, considering both authors of the linked article use they/them pronouns.

The thing to understand about minorities, the disabled, queer and alphabet folk is that they are human beings just like everyody else.

Ergo: some of them are actual arseholes.

Oscar Pistorius was an abusive murdering douchebag, not just a brave para olympic gold medal winning runner.

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Post by mdorazio »

imrejonk wrote: post #15
bagels wrote: post #5

My solution would have been: older copies of photoshop that don't require an internet connection and a larger battery + solar panels.

A larger battery and more solar panels doesn’t seem to be an option for the authors: > The modern stack doesn't really work for us, it doesn't apply to the limitations that we have on the boat. We have 180 watts of solar. We just spent the whole summer with two 6-volt batteries, which is very small. When you're going down that route, at every turn people are telling to just put more solar panels, or to buy more batte…

I love what they're doing, but these are reasons that don't hold up to scrutiny. gluing flexible panels to the deck would solve the windage problem and the boat is over 16,000 pounds laden... adding another ~80 pounds (less if LiFePO) of batteries would decrease their "run away" ability by about 0.5%. They pretty clearly ran into a challenge, chose the fun solution rather than the practical one, and ran with it. Which is great.

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Post by packetlost »

fao_ wrote: post #197
packetlost wrote: post #113

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fwiw they actually live on a sailboat and have sporadic internet access and limited electricity, so saying it's retroactive justification isn't really true and minimizes the real problems they face.

> , so saying it's retroactive justification isn't really true and minimizes the real problems they face. I wouldn't call any of the listed problems "real problems" in the context of my long winded disability and homelessness lmao. I used to be in their community, the mods, and indirectly, them, were abusive as hell. Their community is, last I heard, hemorrhaging queer folk (or maybe it's bled dry and queer folk just…

Do you have anything I can review to see for myself? This is the first I've heard of any of this.

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Post by habosa »

It’s weird to be a “fan” of programmers but I’m a big fan of Hundred Rabbits. Orca is one of the most fun projects I’ve used in years and the fact that it’s from some hackers on a boat makes it all the more delightful.

I hope they keep it up (I donated, I’ll probably donate again now).

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Post by gmd63 »

"Go slow, and fix things."

Stark contrast from the core attitude of mainstream extractive tech work, and a necessary ethos amid a growing storm of complexity that humanity increasingly depends on

We are trying to go slow and fix things biologically that our natural evolution has left us vulnerable to. Cancer, prion diseases, etc. Yet we have resigned the evolution of information tech over to God as we haphazardly race in a survival of the "financially fittest" sort of contest, rewarding the companies that win at financial selection

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Post by shermantanktop »

throwup238 wrote: post #167
cortesoft wrote: post #165

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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)

I’ve heard that third blessing is pretty much impossible to get.

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Post by shermantanktop »

theendisney4 wrote: post #189
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…

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Not everyone wants to be a man, you know.

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Post by samatman »

kragen wrote: post #209
samatman wrote: post #206

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I'm somewhat surprised that this is your take on the project. I agree with some of it in modified form, such as pointing out that far more powerful systems like old Android phones are sitting around in great quantity and would be a useful scavenge for a complete CollapseOS. In fact that seems to be what DuskOS is about, I'll be interested in your take on that once you have one. But those are not microcontrollers, and…

i'm surprised to hear 6502s are being produced in quantity! thank you for the correction. any idea what they are used in? i've never found one ripping apart a tv, vcr, printer, dvd player, vacuum cleaner, power supply, radio, lab data recorder, washing machine, etc. i've found 8051 clones, 68000s, weird epson microcontrollers without a publicly documented instruction set, pals, z80 clones with dsp bolted on, and i've…

I've been unable to find a reference for this bit of lore, but I'm told that the typical traffic light has one, if built after the mid-90s.

They were also quite widespread in LCD games, the Tamagotchi used one, Furby, later-model Tiger handhelds, that sort of thing. There are a great many product numbers and variations, because it was widely licensed. Keyboards, computer mice, lots of things.

Digikey has the W65C02SXB, the NEO6502, the W65C02S, and I'm sure there are more in there somewhere. In a scavenge scenario, just figuring out what speaks the ISA would be challenging, but I'm picturing our plucky heroes getting the hang of it after awhile. And of course a Forth like in CollapseOS has an advantage in that adding words to take advantage of extended instructions is practical.

It looks like the project is converging on "OS that runs on comfortable hardware, which can serve as a hub for and talk to the microcontrollers which join the baling wire in holding remnant technology together" which is a more interesting vision of the future, although just as grimdark as it ever was.

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