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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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Post by golergka »

> 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.

It's hard to take people with this political manifesto seriously, but I have to give credit where it's due — their work is impressive. Many artists say that they "explore" something and end up with completely bland "social critique" pieces that don't say anything new, but these guys manage to do a lot of interesting stuff, especially Orca.

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Post by eichin »

fngjdflmdflg wrote: post #103
mrandish wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brings to mind a comment I saw here the other day observing that some on HN seem to default to a rather "unkind" mode.

I don't default to unkind mode on every topic. Perhaps I phrased the comment too negatively here however. Note though that as a later comment pointed out, they claim to have "no tracking or analytics," so clearly this was a mistake on their part. A commitment to no tracking is also something I would expect from a site like this making the claims they are making. So clearly my criticism itself was well placed, even if…

compare, perhaps, the adjacent thread that had comments like "I got that complaint about my blog too, and here's how I fixed it" and a bunch of other things that seemed plausible and helpful? (I don't know if 100r will make those changes, but I'm certainly going to look at them for some of my own youtube links...)

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Post by Avshalom »

packetlost wrote: post #113
Avshalom wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

everything about it reinforces the feeling that it's all just retroactive justification for finding a toy they made more fun than expected ETA: to be clear there's nothing wrong with making a toy and then turning that toy into it's own all-consuming hobby (TTRPGs for example) and one of the best parts of programming is how easy it is to do just that. It's just kind of annoying watching people wax rhapsodic about nons…

fwiw they actually live on a sailboat and have sporadic internet access and limited electricity, so saying it's retroactive justification isn't really true and minimizes the real problems they face.

UXN/Varvava don't do anything about relieving those pain points. WRT electricity it actually adds to the pain.

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Post by photonthug »

mplewis wrote: post #118
packetlost wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fwiw they actually live on a sailboat and have sporadic internet access and limited electricity, so saying it's retroactive justification isn't really true and minimizes the real problems they face.

They could solve these problems by not living on a sailboat.

Satellite internet is expensive, let’s all move down town! Housing in the city is expensive, let’s all move to sailboats! So you see at some point you have to address difficulties with some kind of approach besides avoiding them

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

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Post by incanus77 »

If anyone is interested further, I would highly recommend one of Devine’s latest talks, from Strange Loop:

https://100r.co/site/computing_and_sustainability.html

Transcribed and video format. Among other things, they came into computing from a bit of a different direction and ended up building tools and a platform that I’m betting 90% of people in the industry would revere in awe as things beyond their understanding. Truly an inspiration.

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Post by Vegenoid »

chambored wrote: post #60
fngjdflmdflg wrote: post #39

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Have you looked at their body of work? An embedded YouTube video does not negate their ethos.

Well, it kind of negates it a little bit, because they are against trackers, and state that their website does not use them, but they are spreading Google's trackers through their website.

Of course, this is almost certainly accidental and I'd think it would be corrected if it were brought to their attention, and the meat of their work is in domains other than lightweight websites.

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Post by fitsumbelay »

incanus77 wrote: post #146

If anyone is interested further, I would highly recommend one of Devine’s latest talks, from Strange Loop: https://100r.co/site/computing_and_sustainability.html Transcribed and video format. Among other things, they came into computing from a bit of a different direction and ended up building tools and a platform that I’m betting 90% of people in the industry would revere in awe as things beyond their understanding.…

They've been around for 15+ years I think. Recently found some clones of their repos that aren't available/updatable. Very fascinating folks and collective activity. More than just software-making

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

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Post by Swizec »

codazoda wrote: post #119
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 love their work. I’ve also been working on some video to teach people how to publish their own book (the first of which I’ll make available free when it’s ready). Anyway, I’d like to NOT embed YouTube. Maybe I will anyway, but I wonder if anyone has alternatives, especially if they are scrappy, tiny alternatives like those that I imagine 100r might produce. I’m considering MP4 or WebM in HTML and wilder ideas like…

> Anyway, I’d like to NOT embed YouTube. Maybe I will anyway, but I wonder if anyone has alternatives, especially if they are scrappy, tiny alternatives like those that I imagine 100r might produce.

I use lite-youtube on my site for this reason. Instead of embedding the YT player directly, it shows a thumbnail that pulls in the embed when you click to watch the video.

That way visitors aren't tracked unless they actively click the thumbnail to watch the embedded player. Iirc it also works as just a link so visitors have the option to cmd+click or right-click-copy to avoid the embed.

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