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

Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by gwern on Thursday August 01, 2024 @09:55PM (#41135480)

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 about the size of the full weight of the YT embed container based on the last post I saw here whining about YT embeds...?)

This is a perfect candidate to host yourself and just slap it in some <video> tags.

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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by slim on Friday August 02, 2024 @01:00AM (#41136220)

also with <video> it does not get preloaded before you press play (in Firefox and chrome at least?

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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by deificx on Friday August 02, 2024 @04:41AM (#41137126)

Depends on what you set the preload attribute to

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/vi...

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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by whywhywhywhy on Friday August 02, 2024 @05:26AM (#41137300)

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

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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by USiBqidmOOkAqRb on Friday August 02, 2024 @07:38AM (#41137976)

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

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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by gazby on Friday August 02, 2024 @07:46AM (#41138031)

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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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Friday August 02, 2024 @09:56AM (#41138832)

They're probably not GIFs, and I have to say this because it bugs the hell out of me.

Half the """GIFs""" you see online are webm. Just put a webm. They work great.

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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by lupire on Friday August 02, 2024 @08:15AM (#41138203)

You can tell your browser to stop them.

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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by USiBqidmOOkAqRb on Friday August 02, 2024 @08:38AM (#41138352)

Unconditionally, for all websites. I suppose nothing of value is lost.

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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by bboygravity on Friday August 02, 2024 @09:44AM (#41138761)

I beg to differ: hamster dance.

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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by klvino on Friday August 02, 2024 @12:46PM (#41140405)

It's possible to stop gifs if the domain framed them with the proper code. Unfortunately many people believe gif = png,jpg and exert zero effort to handle them differently.

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Re:Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the faila... by eru on Saturday August 10, 2024 @09:30PM (#41213394)

Depends on your browser, I guess?

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