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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 sulandor »

jrvieira wrote: post #155
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…

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

most ppl probably fall into the category where self-hosting their content is viable, though most also don't know anything about it, hence the outsourcing

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Post by doovd »

lomase wrote: post #254
doovd wrote: post #252

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.

Ahh right so this is not a 365days per year thing, but they have relatively normal jobs in the industry?

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Post by nkrisc »

buyreddit wrote: post #166
devjab wrote: post #136

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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.

In my personal experience it mostly has to do with how much fiber you get, whether you eat meat or not. Lots of meat and no fiber is not recommended.

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Post by bcraven »

autoexec wrote: post #174
throwup238 wrote: post #152

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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

You might, but the UX of that process for a 57s video is... below standard expectation.

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Post by sulandor »

theendisney4 wrote: post #224
shermantanktop wrote: post #218

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Not everyone wants to be a man, you know.

I find it hilarious how despite endless bad press the giant data pump that is bittorrent just keeps on grinding without anyone behind the wheel, no updates, no bug fixes, and no interruption. People can scream, ball their fists and stomp their foot on the ground but daddy's money cant shut it down. We should all feel very embarresed such a thing is possible. You can apparently write software and/or create protocols t…

maybe because bittorrent is genuinely useful and far from abandoned as most shops that regularly distribute large blobs use it.

the political kerfuffle because drm/dmca really has nothing to do with it but i can't shake the feeling that you are involved at this level. god bless

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Post by lomase »

doovd wrote: post #262
lomase wrote: post #254

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

Ahh right so this is not a 365days per year thing, but they have relatively normal jobs in the industry?

I doubt it. In my experience most people who have this kind of lifestyle is people who dont need to work.

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Post by deificx »

slim wrote: post #229
gwern wrote: post #205

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It's an unfortunate use of Youtube embeds. Aside from letting people uncharitably dunk on them, the Youtube here isn't even doing anything. The YT video in question is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Y8PwD5XDs , which is 57s long, has 2 worthless comments, no description/metadata/playlist/closed-captions/categories, and a yt-dlp takes literally 5s for me to download the 1.5MB MP4. (Which I think may actually be abo…

also with it does not get preloaded before you press play (in Firefox and chrome at least?

Depends on what you set the preload attribute to

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/vi...

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Post by Bluestein »

theendisney4 wrote: post #224
shermantanktop wrote: post #218

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Not everyone wants to be a man, you know.

I find it hilarious how despite endless bad press the giant data pump that is bittorrent just keeps on grinding without anyone behind the wheel, no updates, no bug fixes, and no interruption. People can scream, ball their fists and stomp their foot on the ground but daddy's money cant shut it down. We should all feel very embarresed such a thing is possible. You can apparently write software and/or create protocols t…

> protocols that measure their success in moaning about revenue loss.

Yeah. The so-called "Net Vicarious Loss" (NVL) protocols :)

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