• @saucerwizard
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    611 months ago

    Did you know brent dill is back on twitter?

    • @GorillasAreForEatingOP
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      11 months ago

      I did not. Got any details?

      Also FWIW I discovered this yesterday: https://archive.ph/SFCwS

      No idea if it’s true, but even if so I don’t think it would exonerate him (though it would put Aella in a worse light)

      • David GerardMA
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        611 months ago

        first of us to give in and get an Urbit account clearly gets the best dirt

        • @selfMA
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          411 months ago

          I made one out of morbid curiosity years ago but this was way before they decided to start crypto grifting for cash, so I’ve got no doubt my blah blah self-sovereign something something decentralized mumble mumble digital property has been liquidated by the king for not paying taxes

          • David GerardMA
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            411 months ago

            but @self, HOT ABYSSES IN YOUR AREA

            • @selfMA
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              211 months ago

              it is the garbage I crave at a price far too grave for humanity

              god, how much does a garbage scow or whatever’s the smallest non-transient address allocation cost these days?

              • David GerardMA
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                11 months ago

                i believe the “comets” are free and you don’t need to become a shitcoiner

                also i believe the 64-bit addresses are called “peasant’s filthy hovel” and have names like ~sodomy-dumass-cmpsci-ilitrt

                • Mike Knell
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                  511 months ago

                  @dgerard me: what is an urbit
                  wikipedia: look, you really don’t want to know, but if you insist…
                  me: 🙀

                  • @selfMA
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                    511 months ago

                    David wrote the better parts of that article! we’ve also got a few threads on urbit here on awful.systems (for example) — we dig into Yarvin’s original spec and find where he flat out says the namespace is meant to be an implementation of neoreactionary (technofascist) ideas, and I find some light but damning evidence that all of the supposedly interesting ideas in urbit are poorly implemented, plagiarized versions of ideas that Eelco Dolstra wrote about when describing the mathematics behind the then-obscure NixOS, for a master’s thesis whose publishing date was right before when Yarvin claims to have started on urbit

                • @selfMA
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                  511 months ago

                  the worst part is I’m pretty sure the address ~sodomy-dumass-cmpsci-ilitrt would cost a lot more cause it’s both memorable and accurate

                  • David GerardMA
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                    11 months ago

                    sadly not a legal urbit address. It was slightly more disgusting effort than I was expecting to find the actual list of syllables - which are different as prefixes and suffixes - but it’s in this file.

                    Here’s how the names work.

                    These links are cursèd and nobody should click on them, but if you’re going out seeking this level of psychic damage it’s the merest pixie breath.