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

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Post by lannisterstark »

packetlost wrote: post #113
Avshalom wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

everything about it reinforces the feeling that it's all just retroactive justification for finding a toy they made more fun than expected ETA: to be clear there's nothing wrong with making a toy and then turning that toy into it's own all-consuming hobby (TTRPGs for example) and one of the best parts of programming is how easy it is to do just that. It's just kind of annoying watching people wax rhapsodic about nons…

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.

The problem is that none of their problems are real problems and there's nothing to minimize when they're not real. You cannot minimize made up first world problems

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Post by throwup238 »

shermantanktop wrote: post #217
throwup238 wrote: post #167

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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.

There hasn’t been a matriarch since the last one died in 1842. The two last surviving religious orders with voting rights have been in a deadlock ever since because they can’t agree on what color sesame seed belongs in “Everything but the Bagel” seasoning.

Saint Trader Joes tried to unite them by using both light and dark sesame years ago, but there’s just too much bad blood for them to work together. We are still waiting for the chosen one that will bring balance to the bagel.

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Post by jldugger »

mplewis wrote: post #118
packetlost wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They could solve these problems by not living on a sailboat.

"We choose to make this video game and do the boat life thing, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win!"

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Post by sgu999 »

mihaaly wrote: post #238
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, amoun…

> financial selection is the way how society work on top of finite resources since ancient times

I don't know where you get that from, but if anything it looks like there has never been a single society but many forms of organisation. I'd be even more careful with any reference to finance in that context.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

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Post by 159753456 »

xiwenc wrote: post #232

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.

> what could they do about this issue?

The problem is the moist, salty air, circulating through the electronics.

Use a tablet (it's closed, doesn't suck in air for cooling), ideally a waterproof one. There are also "sealed", splash-proof keyboards, but even if using a regular keyboard, replacing that from time to time is far cheaper than replacing a whole laptop.

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Post by smilingsun »

mplewis wrote: post #118
packetlost wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They could solve these problems by not living on a sailboat.

It's a bit like saying: People climbing a mountain can solve their mountain-climbing problems by not climbing mountings.

Also not unlike: It's not the destination, it's the journey.

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Post by yawpitch »

throwup238 wrote: post #242
shermantanktop wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There hasn’t been a matriarch since the last one died in 1842. The two last surviving religious orders with voting rights have been in a deadlock ever since because they can’t agree on what color sesame seed belongs in “Everything but the Bagel” seasoning. Saint Trader Joes tried to unite them by using both light and dark sesame years ago, but there’s just too much bad blood for them to work together. We are still wa…

Ahh, the utter tragedy of the Sesamoschism of 1842. The sad thing is that the deadlock between the Correctly Righteous Matriarchaleanbageloptomistrists and the Righteously Correct Matriarchaleanbageloptomistrists all comes down to one member’s error in mixing toasted light sesame seeds with raw dark sesame seeds, and neither side being able to agree which member needed to suffer the rites of immaculate defenestration.

May the bagel balanced be.

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Post by jll29 »

skadamat wrote: post #40

We sorely need more serious experimentation with computing & computing cultures and IMO Hundred Rabbits is a great example of this. Instead of talking about ideas, they practice what they preach. As with most experiments, we can observe and borrow shadows of their ideas into our own life hopefully!

I appreciate people who dare to experiment with their life style.

The boat idea would perhaps too lonely for most people, but it would be nice to see folks experiment with re-inventing communes/new types of forming communities.

There is strictly no reason for each person to own a TV, PC, dishwasher, washing machine, etc. - most of that could be shared so as to reduce electronic waste and increase sustainability.

The minimalism idea of their VM resonates with me and remindes me of Niklaus Wirth, who had similar values and pushed things even further (designing his whole hardware + OS + language all by himself).

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