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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.

Gotta give the hemorrhoid doctors some work. Ideally you should finish your business rather fast, but I think a lot of people simply find a nice break on the toilet. Obviously food has an impact but if any type of *vore has long shits it’s probably because they aren’t getting enough fibre, another boon for the hemorrhoid doctors!

The reason I know a shit should take 30 seconds is because there is this Danish doctor who has spent like 30 years studying how we shit, and her name is Gert which is typically a male name. Anyway some years back she was on TV telling the nation how to shit, and it sort of went viral and now everyone above a certain age basically knows who Gert “who knows how to shit” is.

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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

install mpv ytdlp

give site-url to mpv

watch video

PS:

vlc can play from urls too, but isn't as compatible with the way most sites implement it

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

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One thing I don't get is how they sustain themselves in terms of income - does anyone know what they do to support their lifestyle? Just really curious (and potentially out of the loop). Thanks.

I don't think they sustain themselves with this project.

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

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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!"

Living in a boat is not hard.

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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?

> any reasonable browser can play off a HTTP stream

most video players also support http and there is no problem with just putting files up.

imho all the streaming tech, drm, hls, adaptive bitrate selection and whatnot, are just commercial fads to increase margin

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Wishing to thank you for your comment, please, do tell. Can imagine it would have been (inspiring, etc.).-

They are exactly like you'd imagine from their online work. Extremely passionate about ecology. Pessimistic about where the world is headed but optimistic about our individual ability to cope with it. Super into low-level programming and old school pixel art and that whole aesthetic. Absolutely full of stories about sailing. And just completely present in conversation.

Extremly passionate about ecology but lives in a boat....

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Dynamic bitrate is the main one - the browser & server coordinate to figure out the highest video quality the user can watch without stuttering/buffering.

The client can do that 100% client side, you can serve pure static files with a JS player that handles the streaming. All you have to do is chunk the video into small 2-5 second chunks at a variety of nitrates and list them all in an .m3u8 playlist file if the right format. I know because I explored this for a hobby project of a movie I liked. See here: http://lelandbatey.com/projects/REDLINE-intro/ Use your network…

always wondered how this handles prebuffering. (i.e. max-prebuffer = chunk-size) ?

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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.

Apparently there's http://youtube-nocookie.com/ that doesn't do that, but of course that's not the default. Someone just pointed out I have the same problem on my blog and I'm very pissed. It's not enough that their embeds break every Lighthouse metric and recommendation. It's all this, too

Offtopic: that website is hosted on a webserver/proxy/LB that appears to have a wildcard certificate for dozens of Google domains. Don't they use SNI and separate certs? This wouldn't fly where I work and the security team is asleep half the time.

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

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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.

Indeed. And even within a group that shares some core identity across one axis (e.g., queer people), the usual fraught hierarchies have a way of establishing themselves—unless you really make a point of preventing that from happening.

The ones who are wealthy will hold relative power over the ones who aren't. The ones in good health may neglect or actively exclude the ones who aren't. Racism and xenophobia rear their ugly heads. And so on.

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