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

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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 th…

Have you seen the movie My Dinner with Andre? At its core is a debate over whether or not people need to get to the top of Mount Everest (metaphorically) to have a transcendent experience, and if so, what do you do for the people who can't afford to get to the top of Everest? I've seen the movie several times and I always leave conflicted. I find these kinds of radical departures from "normal life" to be thrilling, e…

Thank you, I'll check it out.

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

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Curious? What is the actual topic?

Although I feel this is yet another disingenuous question, mostly referencing my own reference, this post is about the people behind Hundred Rabbits, what they make and how they live. This is noteworthy because it’s 180 degrees opposite from how most HN people live and what they do. I feel we should change society somewhat

Only partly disingenuous, since I think this subject is a bit more complicated than just going off grid. So yes, the subject is this rabbits group, but I think the overall question about how individuals can live without society is not obvious. These groups couldn't do what they do without society producing these goods. Even if they are living minimally, they can never fully detach.

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

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There's definitely some tension between their constraints and desires. I love that they are able to productively use hardware that is usually considered obsolete. But they also have a pretty severe power and space budget. If I were asked to advise on a small, low power computing setup, it would be hard to beat a modern phone of some type. But that choice violates so many of their stated objectives it's a non-starter.…

What do you have against the Linux Kernel?

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

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

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Urbit had a fair bit of creativity in both aesthetic and tech. But yeah I agree it was mostly a crypto scam mainly driven by a no-longer-open/loud neonazi.

If you think Curtis Yarvin is a Neo-Nazi then I’m afraid you’re so far out there and uninformed you’re probably beyond saving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

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

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Living in a boat is not hard.

Spoken like someone who has never lived on a boat before. Signed, someone who has lived on a boat before.

Spoken like someone who has never lived on a boat before.

Or whose boat came equipped with casinos, an Olympic swimming pool, Michelin-starred restaurants, and somebody else footing the bill.

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

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The boat is ~40 years old (per their website). Our sailboat is a Yamaha33, a 1982 masthead sloop fiberglass sailboat. - https://100r.co/site/pino.html

Using a diesel motor 40 year old does not sound very enviromentaly friendly.

Nice pivot

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

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i'm surprised to hear 6502s are being produced in quantity! thank you for the correction. any idea what they are used in? i've never found one ripping apart a tv, vcr, printer, dvd player, vacuum cleaner, power supply, radio, lab data recorder, washing machine, etc. i've found 8051 clones, 68000s, weird epson microcontrollers without a publicly documented instruction set, pals, z80 clones with dsp bolted on, and i've…

I've been unable to find a reference for this bit of lore, but I'm told that the typical traffic light has one, if built after the mid-90s. They were also quite widespread in LCD games, the Tamagotchi used one, Furby, later-model Tiger handhelds, that sort of thing. There are a great many product numbers and variations, because it was widely licensed. Keyboards, computer mice, lots of things. Digikey has the W65C02SX…

not sure. https://wdc65xx.com/ says

> WDC has licensed our 65xx technology to a number of companies over our long history including MOS Tech, Rockwell, GTE, CMD and many others.

rockwell, mos technologies, and cmd don't exist since 02001, gte since 02000. i suspect this page hasn't been updated in quite a while, maybe since last millennium, and possibly if they were ever making hundreds of millions per year they aren't now. https://wdc65xx.com/where-to-buy has been updated and has their current stock numbers, which total under 31000 for all their microcontrollers and microprocessors, which would be 8 hours of stock if they were making a hundred million per year. a hundred thousand seems more plausible

mouser has another 4000 or so in stock, again summing all the different skus. by comparison they have 38000 attiny13a-ssur chips https://ar.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Microchip-Technology/ATT..., 22000 atsamd20e16b-mut chips https://ar.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Microchip-Technology/ATS..., 28000 pic18f46k42-i/pt chips https://ar.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Microchip-Technology/PIC..., almost 63000 stm32f030f4p6tr chips https://ar.mouser.com/ProductDetail/STMicroelectronics/STM32...

digi-key doesn't actually have the w65c02sxb, which is an eval board. that's a 'marketplace product' meaning that digi-key just sends your order to another seller, in this case wdc. they do have 5 units of the w65c02s and 17 units of the neo6502, which are eval boards from olimex. no bare chips

as for the furby, it used the spc81a, a 6502 clone that lacks the y register. more importantly, though, the spc81a is evidently mask-programmed and lacks any apparent way to get it to use external memory. so it's probably useless as a microcontroller to scavenge. the same can be said of keyboard and mouse controllers: although conceivably they might use a 6502 instruction set, they aren't of any use if you can't reprogram them

i can't find any information on tiger electronics handheld games hardware, but given that they designed the furby, i suspect the story will be the same there: game in rom, not enough pins for a memory bus (though you can use the spc81a's i/o ports to control an external bit-serial memory; the datasheet suggests an spi ram)

as for traffic lights, the last traffic light controller i saw open was electromechanical, no visible electronics beyond diodes, so i don't think you're going to be salvaging very many microcontrollers from traffic light controllers; there are too few per population and their replacement lifetime is too long

a vision i think is a lot more appealing is self-sufficient microcontrollers. cp/m was perfectly capable of self-hosting, although dec machines gave it its initial bootstrap. a 4-megahertz z80 was perfectly adequate for assembling the bios, bdos, and command processor, despite having only something like 0.5 8-bit mips and 0.05 dhrystone mips (https://netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.data.col0.html), with 64 kibibytes of ram or even less, and only a 90-kibibyte floppy or two for mass storage. bds c provided a reasonable facsimile of a c compiler that would run on cp/m

contrast that to things like the atsamd20e16b microcontroller i mentioned above: a 32-bit cortex-m0+ running at 48 megahertz and about 60 dhrystone mips, 64 kibibytes of in-application-programmable nor flash, and 8 kibibytes of sram, whose spi interface can control a microsd card with gigabytes or even a terabyte of nonvolatile memory, accessible not at kilobytes per second but megabytes per second, with access latencies measured not in seconds but microseconds. it supposedly uses 50 microamps per megahertz; at 1.8 volts that would be 90 picojoules per clock cycle and so about 100 picojoules per instruction. running on a milliwatt it would still provide you 10 million instructions per second. mouser will sell them to you for two bucks fifty. or lcsc will sell you a cypress cy8c4045fni-ds400t for 1.5¢: https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontrollers-MCU-MPU... which is also a 48-megahertz 32-bit arm but with a tiny amount of ram

these seem like the kind of thing you'd want to be using if you're concerned about sustaining the ability to program microcontrollers in the face of societal collapse

with respect to duskos, i've been reading through their documentation and it doesn't seem like an unreasonable approach. possibly the wrong approach but it does seem like they're considering engineering tradeoffs rather than cosplaying steve wozniak

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post #232

Reading through the homepage one part stood out: they burn through quite some laptops. I wonder, perhaps it’s related to their environment? Salpeter is probably damaging the electronics. Consumer laptops were never designed to be out on sea for such extended time. Now… what could they do about this issue? Assuming this is the root cause of the failures.

I can't find the link right now but I believe they've learned to clean all the ports and keep the laptops in boxes with desiccants to keep them dry

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

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

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FYI I just installed Privacy Badger to test this out, but this feature does not seem to work on Firefox for Android (at least on this page)

You have to move the toggle for youtube.com to red first.

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