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Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

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Re: Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

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Post by qqqwerty »

throwaway328 wrote: post #9
jvanderbot wrote: post #5

I love the contrast in "Low tech/bootstrapped tech" this way vs, say, duskos.org. I call this "rabbits vs forth" tech bootstrappers. [1]. It's somewhat strange to me that their tech journey is so narrative and ends up with a VM stack, rather than any kind of salvaged / repurposed hard tech. But then again, I'm probably on the forth side of the spectrum. https://jodavaho.io/posts/rabbits-or-forth.html

Nice post. I hadn't noticed the "subtle suggestions" of donations myself, to be honest, but maybe I hadn't browsed around their pages enough. Anyway, if they do mention it, is it not a very far cry from the situation everywhere else? Youtubers begging, screaming, shouting, seducing, murmuring, doing the bug-eyes, repeating, cloying, getting emotionally heavy and forceful, for subscriptions, likes, and comments? Inter…

Perhaps OP can clarify, because I too read that as a snarky dig. Perhaps that wasn't their intention, but it felt off. The only place I saw a "subtle suggestion" for a donation was by clicking the "Support" link all the way at the bottom of the page. The site has probably the least intrusive monetization scheme one could implement without forgoing it entirely.

Re: Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

#42

Post by gyomu »

xrd wrote: post #24

A friend asked me whether I was concerned about energy usage of AI. I didn't have a good answer. It feels inevitable. But, I love the write-up here on why the sailboat, and why UXN, because those two things are complementary when you are living in a sailboat and are thinking intimately about your power consumption. https://100r.co/site/why_a_boat.html https://100r.co/site/uxn.html Seeing Devine at StrangeLoop last ye…

> Seeing Devine at StrangeLoop last year […] took a lot of mental energy!

Why?

Re: Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

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Post by rwhaling »

RickS wrote: post #36
rwhaling wrote: post #14

Love 100r! There aren't a ton of examples online, but their livecoding music software/language, ORCA, is a remarkable instrument. https://100r.co/site/orca.html I posted a clip to bsky a few weeks back: https://bsky.app/profile/r.whal.ing/post/3lpyrm4vrqs2d And Allieway Audio made some great Youtube videos about ORCA too if people would like to learn how it works in more of a tutorial format: https://www.youtube.com/…

Love orca, and that's a really nice example. Messed with it a bit when it came out, and one toy project I'll share in the hopes that someone does it before me: an orca GUI that uses a larger grid with representative images in place of single char glyphs. I found that writing orca is fairly straightforward — you look up the sheet, find a thing and do it. It's reading that's the hurdle. An 8 char chunk that made perfec…

Yep absolutely! It reminds me of writing cryptic perl one-liners or something.

Re: Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

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Post by xrd »

gyomu wrote: post #42
xrd wrote: post #24

A friend asked me whether I was concerned about energy usage of AI. I didn't have a good answer. It feels inevitable. But, I love the write-up here on why the sailboat, and why UXN, because those two things are complementary when you are living in a sailboat and are thinking intimately about your power consumption. https://100r.co/site/why_a_boat.html https://100r.co/site/uxn.html Seeing Devine at StrangeLoop last ye…

> Seeing Devine at StrangeLoop last year […] took a lot of mental energy! Why?

He's a non-linear thinker. He's brilliant. And, probably like a sailboat, you don't exactly know where he is going. Life is better that way.

Re: Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

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Post by 0xCaponte »

qqqwerty wrote: post #41
throwaway328 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice post. I hadn't noticed the "subtle suggestions" of donations myself, to be honest, but maybe I hadn't browsed around their pages enough. Anyway, if they do mention it, is it not a very far cry from the situation everywhere else? Youtubers begging, screaming, shouting, seducing, murmuring, doing the bug-eyes, repeating, cloying, getting emotionally heavy and forceful, for subscriptions, likes, and comments? Inter…

Perhaps OP can clarify, because I too read that as a snarky dig. Perhaps that wasn't their intention, but it felt off. The only place I saw a "subtle suggestion" for a donation was by clicking the "Support" link all the way at the bottom of the page. The site has probably the least intrusive monetization scheme one could implement without forgoing it entirely.

Same here, after reading this I looked into multiple sites and articles and I only find that "Support" link in the footer. Maybe they changed things recently?

Re: Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

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Post by periodjet »

> Collapse won't be addressed by buying a Prius, signing a treaty, or turning off the air-conditioning. The biggest problem we face is a philosophical one: understanding that this civilization is already dead. The sooner we confront this problem, and the sooner we realize there's nothing we can do to save ourselves, the sooner we can get down to the hard work of adapting, with mortal humility, to our new reality.

> This is why we are committed to fighting normative violence, fascism, colonialism, and white supremacy in all of its forms. To undermine the capitalist structure and its abusive scripts about human worth in relation to work, productivity, and ownership. To subvert oppressive gender norms and put in question the binary. To actively unlearn biased and colonial thinking. To look inside and face these parts of our darkness, personal and collective, and come out of it with more kindness and compassion.

Re: Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

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Post by 0xCaponte »

kilpikaarna wrote: post #8
themk wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I highly recommend reading their north pacific crossing log book. https://100r.co/site/north_pacific_logbook.html

They used to do a monthly vlog too, I think it's still on YouTube.

Thank you, I will look into both of those. I eyed one of the logs, not sure which one, but more to see how it was shared and how extensive it was than for the content. Will give it a 2nd look.

Re: Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

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Post by SlowTao »

periodjet wrote: post #48

> Collapse won't be addressed by buying a Prius, signing a treaty, or turning off the air-conditioning. The biggest problem we face is a philosophical one: understanding that this civilization is already dead. The sooner we confront this problem, and the sooner we realize there's nothing we can do to save ourselves, the sooner we can get down to the hard work of adapting, with mortal humility, to our new reality. > T…

The first act of revolution is contemplation.
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