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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

Sabinus wrote: post #210
fao_ wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> , so saying it's retroactive justification isn't really true and minimizes the real problems they face. I wouldn't call any of the listed problems "real problems" in the context of my long winded disability and homelessness lmao. I used to be in their community, the mods, and indirectly, them, were abusive as hell. Their community is, last I heard, hemorrhaging queer folk (or maybe it's bled dry and queer folk just…

I'm very surprised to read this, considering both authors of the linked article use they/them pronouns.

Shieet, glad to know all it takes to be a doubleplus good person in Current Year is using an approved pronoun. Makes everything much easier.

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Post by Bluestein »

ForHackernews wrote: post #293
lannisterstark wrote: post #241

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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

No, they really do live on a sailboat with intermittent power and internet access. Unless you take "made up" to mean "as a result of their choices" these are real problems, and ironically enough not problems faced by most people in the first world. https://checkpointgaming.net/features/2020/05/making-games-a...

One of the (many) fascinating things here is that - even if by virtue of their 'self-imposed' stringencies - their output showcases production values that are very applicable throughout.-

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Post by Bluestein »

jldugger wrote: post #243
mplewis wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!"

Nice JFK you pulled there.-

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Post by Bluestein »

fluoridation wrote: post #221
samatman wrote: post #201

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Just because I was there (I agree with your general point) I wanted to say that I made my first PGP key in 1995 and it was a 4096 byte one, which is just as uncrackable now as it was then. I even remember being vaguely confused, because it gave you options, and I was thinking to myself "wut. Who wants the weaker-than-necessary key. I'll take the big one, thx"

Interesting. How long did it take to sign? Also, though I wasn't sure (which is why I didn't mention it), I thought one of the reasons keys were so short back then was due to the US classifying encryption algorithms as munitions, which made working with actually secure encryption standards difficult for developers. I would have expected the longest key would be 1024 bits, at a stretch. Even that is barely crackable t…

(I always thought the smaller keys options were there to accommodate much lower-end hardware or limited resources - ie. embedded systems ...)

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Post by Bluestein »

polairscience wrote: post #236
nathanfig wrote: post #51

At WHOI we frequently run into some of these issues. Ocean-going projects often have long periods of disconnect, or have just a tiny bandwidth-capped connections that are meant for sending home critical data and not for automated software updates... So much software also just takes for granted that it should be allowed on the Internet.

You're telling me. Being on HN and working on remote autonomous systems is such a dichotomy. We measure transmission rates in Kb still and costs in thousands of dollars. Not to mention power consumption. Sometimes I wish there was a conference for people working on these kinds of projects. "The union of Luddite scientists annual meeting" or something.

> "The union of Luddite scientists ...

Somebody really ought to set that up, assuming it doesn't already exist in some fashion ...

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Post by mihaic »

lbotos wrote: post #287
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.)

You're right, it's a totally different thing that they're doing. That's why I'm conflicted, since I'm openly against digital nomads. It's still glamourizing a lifestyle that I can't see working on a larger scale, and which doesn't contribute to the infrastructure that enables it.

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Post by Bluestein »

hoosieree wrote: post #182
j3s wrote: post #64

Rek drew the pufferfish on my website & i love it to death https://j3s.sh

Nice site. This and 100r are an antidote to the soulless corporate AI slop that's slathered over everything these days. And a webring too? Don't mind if I do...

Goodness gracious. Webrings! Discoverability pre-search engines.-

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Post by gvicino »

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…

Hello,

Thank you for the link you've shared. I read it with great interest. While I can conceive that the aforementioned areas might survive in a post-industrial civilization, it is unclear to me how the technology that 100rabbits is researching could do the same. They might use Raspberry Pis or old PCs donated by others, but:

- these are impossible to manufacture without industries, and they are limited in number

- the only means of communication they're using to share their work, the Internet, inherently requires an industrial society to exist

This seems somewhat akin to the naive reaction to the financial crises we experienced a few years ago: "Oh dear, banks and finance can be evil, let's decentralize with Bitcoin."

I believe that we cannot address the problems that technology has brought us (nuclear weapons, global warming) without resorting once again to technology and science. This technology and science must necessarily be funded by the market.

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Post by Bluestein »

mihaic wrote: post #306
lbotos wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

You're right, it's a totally different thing that they're doing. That's why I'm conflicted, since I'm openly against digital nomads. It's still glamourizing a lifestyle that I can't see working on a larger scale, and which doesn't contribute to the infrastructure that enables it.

> that I can't see working on a larger scale, and which doesn't contribute to the infrastructure that enables it.

You put your finger on an objection I had but couldn't quite place.-

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simpaticoder wrote: post #219
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Yeah, or as a META tag
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