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Unfortunately grandiose ideas like Urbit only seem to come from and get executed by minds like Curtis'. You can't have one without the other. If people want t
by lhnz 10y ago
Unfortunately grandiose ideas like Urbit only seem to come from and get executed by minds like Curtis'.
You can't have one without the other.
If people want to a clean state restart of the world of computing without an infestation of corporations they'll be against attempts to shun him.
- zardgiv 10y ago[Citation needed]
- lhnz 10y agoClassic example is Linux and Torvalds. But I was referring to the fact that nobody else is solving this specific problem. You either stay happy with your collection of walled gardens or you wait to see if he can unbreak the internet. In fact in this case, the work goes ahead anyway. Perhaps you end up using it in ten years, or perhaps you don't. But neither of us gain anything from this argument at the present time.
- Rusky 10y agoThere are plenty of people working on this problem who aren't self-inflated racists. For example, https://sandstorm.io/ https://sandstorm.io/ tackles a lot of the same questions without any of the deliberate obfuscation or insular community of Urbit (and, I might add, without a completely insane and un-optimizable VM underneath).
- lhnz 10y agoThey recommended it themselves but are solving more: > If you're interested in that approach, I'd encourage you to check out sandstorm.io. This solves the problem for applications like a blog, email, or gitlab. What it doesn't do is make decentralized applications easier to build.