• @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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          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

          • @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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              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.

              • @gerikson
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                311 months ago

                for some reason I am reminded of noted crazy person luke-jr’s tireless advocacy of Tonal…

              • @200fifty
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                311 months ago

                import qualified Urbit.Ob.Ob as Ob (fein, fynd)

                Why

                • David GerardMA
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                  211 months ago

                  this is how we take out the Cathedral

              • @selfMA
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                211 months ago

                These links are cursèd and nobody should click on them

                so of course I immediately dove in and… what the fuck, the University of Illinois has a fucking Martian Computing (the incredibly cringe neoreactionary fictional framing Yarvin used to smuggle his ideas into nerd circles) class?

                also I am so thankful you pulled the Haskell version of that file and not the nock equivalent, cause Haskell doesn’t make me feel like I’m lucid dreaming after a head injury

              • @Evinceo
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                111 months ago

                deleted by creator

          • 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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                711 months ago

                oh also, Tlon, the company behind urbit that certainly isn’t just Yarvin and Thiel hiding behind a shrub giggling, is a cult accelerator responsible for at least one high-profile death cult (Remilia, who host a bunch of infrastructure on urbit and are extremely active in the urbit community)

                just in case you wondered if this rabbit hole led anywhere remotely sane

                • Mike Knell
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                  311 months ago

                  @self So basically it’s like a science fiction novel, except that they haven’t realised that it’s one of those novels where the author develops an entire society based on some weird totalitarian cult just so they can spend the rest of the plot demonstrating how nutso said society is?

                  • @selfMA
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                    211 months ago

                    yep! all these weird fuckers dream of pulling an L Ron and being taken seriously

                • David GerardMA
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                  Graydon Hoare pointed out on Mastodon (and more) that Urbit was in fact the Antiversity that Moldbug conspicuously failed to write up in the Unqualified Reservations days.

                  He believes Urbit will perform the social control function that he thinks universities perform.

                  You have to unpack a few zillion very dumb social assumptions there. (Or, y’know, not.)

                  • @gerikson
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                    I did not have Mr. Rust in the anti-Urbit camp (or even in the know-about-Urbit camp)

                    Also I guess Wikipedia is now part of the Cathedral

                  • Mike Knell
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                    @dgerard Oh, the Antiversity! I remember that. I think it was one of the first Lovecraftian horrors I was exposed to when I first started to take an interest in this particular rabbithole of weird.