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

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Post by USiBqidmOOkAqRb »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #285
gwern wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

GIFs are warts. There's no way to stop them, so they endlessly demand your attention.

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Post by ropejumper »

mazdayasna wrote: post #235
mgaunard wrote: post #147

"a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech" really just means "a couple living on a boat".

"they/them x iel/ielle" really just means "a heterosexual couple"

I wonder why this bothers you so much as to go on the internet and tell everyone what you personally think about who those two people actually are.

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Post by pxmpxm »

mazdayasna wrote: post #235
mgaunard wrote: post #147

"a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech" really just means "a couple living on a boat".

"they/them x iel/ielle" really just means "a heterosexual couple"

Need to in group signal, especially if you're a normie.

I wonder if this actually is a meta-art project of upmarketing a high-net-worth lifestyle (look at me, I live on a boat!) to a far left wing audience. Just need a vague manifesto ala https://xkcd.com/451/ and you're halfway there.

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

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Post by gazby »

USiBqidmOOkAqRb wrote: post #331
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

GIFs are warts. There's no way to stop them, so they endlessly demand your attention.

I've often wondered why Discord is the only major platform client that provides an option to play gifs only on mouseover. It's incredibly effective at solving for the problem you describe.

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Post by freethejazz »

acedio wrote: post #239
freethejazz wrote: post #230

Similar cross of art, low power/resilient tech, and sailing I saw at strange loop last year. Non-standard tech talk for sure, but fit right in at that conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3u7bGgVspM

The presenter, Devine, is one of the folks behind 100r :)

:facepalm: no wonder it rang a bell… I thought, “I wonder if these are the same folks” and even looked at their route map but somehow missed that key detail. Appreciate the graceful response :)

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Post by alexpotato »

sdenton4 wrote: post #131
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

Orca's great! Here's a blog post I wrote after spending a long weekend figuring out how to use it to make some procedurally generated music: https://inventingsituations.net/2021/12/26/procedural-music-... and the screen-cap of some of the generated music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF-DD43sk2E

> The Orca language is much more like a spreadsheet than python. I

Such a great line.

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Post by FrustratedMonky »

louwrentius wrote: post #300
Animats wrote: post #55

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It makes me sad that this is the top comment for this link to Hundred Rabbits. I feel it’s such a “I am very smart gotcha” comment that isn’t helpful in any way. It distracts from the actual topic.

Curious? What is the actual topic?

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

shiroiushi wrote: post #282
jll29 wrote: post #250

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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 wit…

There's a way to fix this, it's called an "extended family".

But that's, like, the Patriarchy. That would really harsh our buzz, so we need to reinvent, in a broken and stupid way, what previously worked fine for tens of thousands years.

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

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Post by FrustratedMonky »

I want to get on board with these groups, would really want to be in one. Can't all society be cool and live like this?

But. I keep coming back around to, where are they getting all this stuff. Everything that keeps them going has to be made somewhere, by working stiffs with day jobs.

There is no escaping Moloch. These groups are the odd random cast off, and I really want to be them, but everyone can't be them, or their wouldn't be any of the things that keep them going. They are living on the cast offs of the rest of us still in the machine.

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