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

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

But people will tell you that software cannot be expected to work reliably and cannot function without a billion dollar corporation pushing constant updates.

Even the ‘Bible’ app requires constant updates, I thought the final version was released quite some time ago

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Post by shiroiushi »

jll29 wrote: post #250
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…

>here 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.

This sounds nice in theory, but doesn't work out well in practice. You get a tragedy of the commons situation where people don't take care of the equipment and it gets broken, or dies early. Also, some people are just really bad with handling and taking care of things: some people will buy some item, and then you look at it again years later and it's in pristine condition. But look at another person's identical item after that time and it's either destroyed, or looks really beat-up. Maybe they're too rough with it, maybe they never clean it, maybe they don't maintain it, but I've noticed some people just seem to destroy everything they use.

Also, trying to share many things doesn't work out in practice because people want to use them at the same time. You can see this at places like laundromats; you can't expect people to wake up at 2AM to do their laundry. People usually like to watch TV at the same time too. So you need enough equipment to handle peak times.

And sharing a PC? What do you do when someone in your commune insists on clicking on every potentially malicious attachment on your shared Windows PC?

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Post by yawpitch »

mgaunard wrote: post #158
mikejulietbravo wrote: post #8

The start of this reads like the beginning of a cult manifesto, but then transitions to a very logical solution for an important problem. Baffling. I'm in

For me any potential technical argument and innovation is completely drowned in the needlessly pervasive anti-capitalist genderfluid digital nomad hippie talk.

Sorry? Couldn’t hear you over the unnecessarily-inserted alt-right knee-jerk anti-wokism.

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Post by mihaic »

I'm always a bit conflicted when I see these kinds of stories, due to the message they send.

I remember vising the Seychelles a few years ago, and finding it an earthly paradise, the kind that everyone should experience at least once. Yet it's a tiny nation state that can only properly handle a limited amount of tourists.

In essence, I've started believing that all these "digital nomads" that work remotely in one of these places are simply abusing their quota of earthly paradise, which really is in a fixed supply. I'm not really blaming them, but let's not glamourize this.

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

gwern wrote: post #205
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.

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…

this could honestly even be a gif if you just showed the app without the desktop background

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Post by bArray »

A "small collective" is two people in this case?

I think they are at risk of becoming exactly what they hate, with a convoluted build stack that outside people struggle to use. Why was 6502 decided on instead of Java for example, which is relatively platform agnostic?

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Post by lbotos »

mihaic wrote: post #284

I'm always a bit conflicted when I see these kinds of stories, due to the message they send. I remember vising the Seychelles a few years ago, and finding it an earthly paradise, the kind that everyone should experience at least once. Yet it's a tiny nation state that can only properly handle a limited amount of tourists. In essence, I've started believing that all these "digital nomads" that work remotely in one of…

Uh,

100R live on a boat?

Like, sure, we can call them digital nomads but they are very much different from the “startup that has no office we have a travel stipend and work from anywhere” crowd. (I’ve been that person before. That’s easy mode compared to how 100R live.)

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Post by agys »

These two precious human beings are an inspiration for me since very long. Their radical life choices are a teaching for me; the most important part being that it all happens incrementally: tooth paste can be replaced with something that has less chemicals, no packaging, cheaper (and that doesn’t clog the pipes of the boat… a “fix” that came later) and likewise many other things in our daily lives.

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Post by agys »

lomase wrote: post #257
munificent wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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....

How is this a contradiction?

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Post by j-pb »

metasyn wrote: post #58
montebicyclelo wrote: post #14

Their 2d music programming language, Orca is very cool/fun. Some examples: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MNF8SF69QvM&list=PLb1uDATFJPcEEG... https://youtube.com/watch?v=DBI8eBMGyYs https://youtube.com/watch?v=mxr8Dtw2R5w https://youtube.com/watch?v=RDZiKYSGsjg

for anyone curious about learning, i made a tutorial and playground for orca: https://metasyn.srht.site/learn-orca/

Do you use a specific browser? Looks broken-ish to me on most things but firefox, and on firefox the example play button also doesn't work for me.

Super cool in theory though!

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