bronzejaguar

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by bronzejaguar 7y ago
It’s a personal server OS. MS-DOS was emulated on mainframes before it was run directly on hardware. Urbit wants to do the same, starting by being emulated on traditional computer OSes, and eventually moving to bare metal.
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by bronzejaguar 7y ago
Funny, because Urbit’s address space has been around for longer than ENS, and makes different design tradeoffs than DNS. https://urbit.org/blog/pki-maze/
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by bronzejaguar 7y ago
Yes! You get it
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by bronzejaguar 7y ago
It’s software that you run on your computer on macOS or Linux. It provides a VM that only does IO to the underlying system through a typed kernel interface. That’s it. There are blog posts showing the software running on it. I think you’re
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by bronzejaguar 7y ago
Urbit is an overlay OS, a functional VM you can run that does strictly typed p2p networking with other urbits. So, it’s software you run on your computer or on a VPS. The thing you’re looking at buying is the Urbit equivalent of a domain na
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by bronzejaguar 7y ago
It’s way faster than it used to be (about 10x). I’m interested in knowing the progress of their new JIT interpreter, because they claim that’s giving them another 10x in internal tests
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by bronzejaguar 7y ago
Founder isn’t associated with project anymore. Worth taking another look
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by bronzejaguar 7y ago
It’s an overlay OS, a VM made to allow anyone to run their own server easily
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by bronzejaguar 7y ago
I’ve really been enjoying the recent blog posts. The one about the idea maze / design space of building out a PKI was especially good.
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by bronzejaguar 7y ago
first couple of paragraphs A public key infrastructure (PKI) is a system for binding a set of keys to a name. Sometimes a small amount of metadata is included. Existing PKIs include PGP-style "web of trust", SSL certificates, Zero
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Designing a Permanent Personal Identity – Urbit(urbit.org)
3 points by bronzejaguar 7y ago|3 comments
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by bronzejaguar 7y ago
Love it!