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

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Post by tzs » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 2:06 PM UTC

culi wrote: post #173

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.

That doesn't happen until you actually attempt to play the video though, right?

No, it happens when you load the page. As a test I made a simple web page that just said "This is a test" and included the Google embed and visited it in an incognito window in Chrome and looked at what happened in the inspector. I used an incognito window to ensure that I wasn't starting with any cookies already saved for Google.

Just displaying the page with the embed hits those sites. All in all there were around 20 successful network requests made to load the site. There were another 7 or so requests the Ublock Origin blocked, to play.google.com/log, and then after the page loaded it continues trying those every second or so, although it seems to have slowed down after around 19 but is still ongoing.

It leaves 5 cookies (4 persistent, 1 session) and also looks like it has something in IndexedDB.

Similar with Firefox in a private window except it stores one fewer persistent cookies.

On Safari in a private window it has similar network access, but no cookies.

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

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Post by sgu999 » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 2:06 PM UTC

mihaaly wrote: post #276

sgu999 wrote: post #244

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> financial selection is the way how society work on top of finite resources since ancient times I don't know where you get that from, but if anything it looks like there has never been a single society but many forms of organisation. I'd be even more careful with any reference to finance in that context. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

> there has never been a single society but many forms of organisation Single society? ... where that came from and who brought it here, apart from you of course? Collaborative large human groups where division of labour is an intrinsic matter is referred simplisticly as society. No elaborated and complete study was the goal here to give complete picture of the matter but a short referral to the inherent competitive…

> Single society? ... where that came from and who brought it here, apart from you of course?

The sentence I quoted from you implied that there is some universal form of society that retained the same traits throughout history, which seems false. If that's not what you meant, I'm sorry for misunderstanding.

> [0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-FUCK-are-talking-about/dp/B08X... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money

Really?

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

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Post by hooverd » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 2:07 PM UTC

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…

Serious question, have you lived on a commute or community living environment that wasn't a college dorm?

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

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Post by fk-corporation » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 2:09 PM UTC

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

Nice.

I may not (correction: almost definitely don't on 80% of stuff) agree with them politically, but I have to admire their creativity and product execution.

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

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Post by ghostwords » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 2:11 PM UTC

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.

(I develop Privacy Badger.)

Privacy Badger can replace YouTube embeds with "click to activate" placeholders. Faster browsing, better privacy, easy-to-use controls, at least when the replacement works properly.

See "Pro tip #1" in https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/privacy-badger-puts-yo...

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

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Post by anthk » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 2:15 PM UTC

kragen wrote: post #355

anthk wrote: post #311

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SDL2 has been built as a fast whole/partial screen refreshing platform for textures/images, no wonder if it's that slow mimicking XFT/Cairo's job on fonts/text. Just look at the Emacs editor for Common Lisp vs the SDL build of Lem.

but the varvara interface doesn't really provide a way for left to use xft or cairo or even partial screen refreshes i think

I mean, SDL2 was built for multimedia, such as games, videos and music. There's SDL2_TTF but useless for Varvara/UXN as it's just a bitmapped array.

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

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Post by detourdog » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 2:25 PM UTC

saulpw wrote: post #160

jrvieira wrote: post #155

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

Streaming is important, especially for longer videos. I don't believe any static hosting site supports video streaming.

Right but if you have your own ip address and fiber connection that should be enough for narrow-casting.

I'm surprised to see my inexpressible urges documented by others. I'm with these people 100% right down to why a sailboat.

I tried to do this with an apartment building. The building is too large to focus on a the detail I need. A 43' sailboat is actually a great size to prototype on.

I have a signed P&S and hope to be hard core boat living sometime in September. The idea will be the studio time I get while on land will be much sweeter if I spend a lot of time on a boat.

The boat is self-contained so my aspirations won't effect people paying rent.

The building has everything I need to host my own streaming. I don't know that I will ever publish content, but if I do it will be entirely self-hosted. If the audience is so vast that brings everything to a halt, things will start functioning again once the hordes get bored.

Think of all the wasted brain power content-creators go through to keep YouTube at bay.

I believe content should be the residue of the work. I think once publishing is the funding source it may distort the work.

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

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Post by littlestymaar » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 2:30 PM UTC

saulpw wrote: post #160

jrvieira wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Streaming is important, especially for longer videos. I don't believe any static hosting site supports video streaming.

You can just turn your video file into a bunch of HSL or MPEG Dash segments and store then as static file with a playlist/manifest file next to them, and tada! you now have video streaming in your static hosting site.

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Post by consteval » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 2:34 PM UTC

otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #301

Sabinus wrote: post #210

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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.

No that's not what they mean. They mean you'd kind of assume someone who identifies as queer, or is at least knowledgeable enough on the community to participate in some ways, wouldn't be homophobic.

In practice this isn't the case, because you can use this as a shield. So for homophobic people it might be advantageous to enter the community in a way that causes the least amount of personal friction. Like, simply putting pronouns in your bio and doing literally nothing else is trivial - but the social benefit is not.

It's a big problem, because people who ARE non-binary or ARE bisexual or whatever then get a ton of backlash. Because those identities are the most common to be commandeered, so to speak. At least online.

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Post by ropejumper » Fri, Aug 02, 2024, 2:35 PM UTC

mgaunard wrote: post #369

ropejumper wrote: post #332

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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.

I believe clear and succinct writing is the key to effective communication.

A very good way to make writing clearer is to replace the words that you don't care to know with other words that are completely inaccurate.

Question: how is it helpful for you to label them as a straight couple? Why would it matter to you? Why is adding the "straight" qualifier better than just leaving it as "they're a couple"?