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

Post by scoot » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 9:51 AM UTC

Animats wrote: post #55

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Post by ForHackernews » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 10:06 AM UTC

lannisterstark wrote: post #241

packetlost wrote: post #113

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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

Post by networked » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 10:16 AM UTC

Vegenoid wrote: post #134

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…

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.

Post by Bluestein » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 10:19 AM UTC

vinnyvichy wrote: post #225

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…

In this respect, their page for hacking baguettes by sun&sea is my personal favourite https://100r.co/site/solar_cooking_experiment.html 100Rabbits is like the coming true of Grothendieck's 1972 permatech lecture given at CERN* https://github.com/Lapin0t/grothendieck-cern >"I think that agriculture, stockbreeding, decentralized energy production, medicine of a certain kind, very different from the medicine that preva…

Post by fmbb » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 10:21 AM UTC

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.