shit i accidentally posted
i fucking hate how every cs/crypto/math/whatever paper is distributed as a pdf. pdf is the biggest pile of shit ever. even your standard web2.0 website with 10mib minified js dependencies is better.
Does Holla Forums still feel optimistic about urbit? They're auctioning off stars for a hefty sum...
Jeremiah Long
Adrian Moore
archive.is
it's a scam
Joshua Campbell
This little quote couldn't be further from the truth. The whole Urbit structure is designed hierarchically to avoid the problems of democratic consensus issues and encourage responsible stewardship of one's "property" in the Urbit universe.
Kayden Ramirez
While I like many of the concepts, the "anti-anonymization" kills it for me. The whole reason I use internet is because I can say shit without it affecting me in real life, and if Urbit kills anonymity then I'm against it and hope that it doesn't take off. The "trolling" part in is especially of concern to me. If I want to shitpost as both sides of an argument on $forum I should be able to.
Sebastian Ross
There is nothing stopping you from spinning up an anonymous comet and shitposting in a place that allows it, the system allows for places of trust to only allow trustworthy systems.
Urbit posted that pdf and said it was "good enough" if liberals get on this by some stupid democracy feels game then I don't care, as long as people use it.
Adam James
Urbit is neo-usenet, once you realise this you understand a lot more
if you search through old usenet archives you'll find Curtis' name (the CTO) about
Zachary Russell
Urbit scares the shit out of me and I hope that it never takes off. A lack of burnable anonymity online means that the Internet becomes a place where people interact with each other. I don't come online to interact with other people. The Internet is supposed to be a free market of ideas, completely separated from the meaty humans that create them. By tying ideas to the people that make them, we end up modifying the value of the ideas based on the previous ideas of that person.
The perfect example of this is, of course, the Yarvin fellow. He wrote reactionary articles under a fake name, and now even the SJWs don't want Urbit (which would greatly help their cause if implemented worldwide, due to the centralization of all online identities) because of his previous ideas. They hate what he said in the past so much that they won't even acknowledge how useful his new work would be for them. If Urbit became huge, we would see the same on a world-wide scale. A lack of easy anonymity (putting up a barrier to be anonymous) makes for a community like reddit. I don't want an internet-wide reddit where everyone else in the world can see everything that I do.
Even more concerning is how they would even go about managing this from a logistical standpoint. You get your own personal server? That's neat that you're provisioning me a VM that you definitely don't have root access to. Are you going to actually build a server and bring it to my home so that I have absolute control over it? Who's going to maintain it when it breaks? I know that a $20 one-time fee isn't enough to replace a single broken component, so there's absolutely no way that this shit is running on bare metal. Unless they're using a super cheap SBC for everyone's system, in which case you aren't going to be getting much performance out of your system.
Another problem that they have to contend with is the fact that they are essentially becoming a single point of failure.
If there's a security hole anywhere in the system described in this video, the whole thing is fucked.
4 Billion planets isn't enough to accomodate the human race for the rest of our existence, assuming that we make it to the stars. If it's supposed to be 4 billion admins getting a planet, and each comet/moon/whatever being a normalfag user uses, then we're just ending up with the same exact problem we currently have with Facebook and Twitter owning all the data. The paper here says that there will be 4 billion moons for each planet, so we will definitely end up with the same problem again.
If it appears on my screen, I can have it. Nothing you do will stop me.
normalfags can go fuck themselves. The Internet isn't for them and they need to leave.
Juan Mitchell
dont worry. it will never take off.
Adrian Walker
Stopped caring after this shit: urbit.org
>How Urbit can fix Twitter's troll problem
Brody Wilson
But that's a user-made post, not an official vision for the system.