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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 ratmeadow »

My first impression after reading a bit about their lifestyle was "how on earth do they have time for all this?" Things like maintaining the boat, sourcing fresh food every day for cooking, making games, creating art. Meanwhile they do all this in a very constrained environment, which can't help efficiency. Where is the time in the day for everything, after working? Then I saw they say they only work during the morning.

Soooo... kinda no shit, you can live a more creative and meaningful life if you don't work. Which most people can't afford(?) to do. Where's the secret? What's the cheat code they have?

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Post by xiwenc »

Reading through the homepage one part stood out: they burn through quite some laptops. I wonder, perhaps it’s related to their environment? Salpeter is probably damaging the electronics. Consumer laptops were never designed to be out on sea for such extended time.

Now… what could they do about this issue? Assuming this is the root cause of the failures.

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Post by lloeki »

Vegenoid wrote: post #134
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…

The simplest thing would be to simply link to a Youtube video, perhaps with a small warning that it will take them to Youtube which uses trackers. You could even make the link an image that is the thumbnail of the video. Not the prettiest or purest solution, but very simple.

I've seen youtube embeds be overlaid and say things like "this embed carries tracking, click here to load inline at your own peril or here to watch on original site" or something to that effect.

Can't recall where though.

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Post by chairmansteve »

hosh wrote: post #107
lancesells wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it's like permaculture but for software.

That's the idea. However, my initial criticism of the way permacomputing is formulated are: 1. We could have examined each of the 12 Permaculture Design Principle and attempted to directly apply them to software design. For example, "Observe and Interact" is so broadly useful and versatile (and the core of adversarial domains, such as warfare), it can easily be applied to software. You won't see it directly listed he…

"Technology's place within...a living systems world view"

If you mean modern high technology, I suspect it has no place.

It is a really interesting question,

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Post by polairscience »

nathanfig wrote: post #51

At WHOI we frequently run into some of these issues. Ocean-going projects often have long periods of disconnect, or have just a tiny bandwidth-capped connections that are meant for sending home critical data and not for automated software updates... So much software also just takes for granted that it should be allowed on the Internet.

You're telling me. Being on HN and working on remote autonomous systems is such a dichotomy. We measure transmission rates in Kb still and costs in thousands of dollars. Not to mention power consumption. Sometimes I wish there was a conference for people working on these kinds of projects. "The union of Luddite scientists annual meeting" or something.

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Post by raverbashing »

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.

A lot of sites (that follow GDPR mostly) have a "turn on embeddings" switch so that you only see embedded content if you want

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Post by mihaaly »

gmd63 wrote: post #216

"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 rac…

> a growing storm of complexity that humanity increasingly depends on

Yet real engineers ought to now that “An engineer has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing left to take away”. ... or they never new and yet attempting engineering anyway?

Growing portion of my life is spending time with the complexity of toolchain and work context, while my outcome diminishes in every sense, amount and importance. Pissing into the headwind and getting almost nothing to show for kind of feeling. More and more draws me towards the lifestyle of the rabbits (stopping somewhere in between though).

Btw. financial selection is the way how society work on top of finite resources since ancient times. That's part of the game. ... saying so while I ferociously avoid competition steering into directions that circumnavigate the competing crowd, taking less busy alternative route. When available.

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Post by acedio »

freethejazz wrote: post #230

Similar cross of art, low power/resilient tech, and sailing I saw at strange loop last year. Non-standard tech talk for sure, but fit right in at that conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3u7bGgVspM

The presenter, Devine, is one of the folks behind 100r :)

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

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Post by twojacobtwo »

lloeki wrote: post #233
Vegenoid wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The simplest thing would be to simply link to a Youtube video, perhaps with a small warning that it will take them to Youtube which uses trackers. You could even make the link an image that is the thumbnail of the video. Not the prettiest or purest solution, but very simple.

I've seen youtube embeds be overlaid and say things like "this embed carries tracking, click here to load inline at your own peril or here to watch on original site" or something to that effect. Can't recall where though.

I believe duckduckgo offers a similar warning when playing videos from search results.
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