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by chc4 10y ago
The classes were renamed shortly before leaving "unlaunch" status. They felt that having everyone own military class vessels instead of neutral celestial bodies gave the wrong impression. Also, saying "destroyers" a bill
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by chc4 10y ago
The email announcing it from the mailing list said not to talk about it publicly until today; it was supposed to be an early backer pre-sale type deal yesterday, with a price of $205 instead of $256. Instead, it sold out entirely hours in,
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by chc4 10y ago
There are plenty of hand-built CPU projects built by enthusiasts, made out of wire-wrapped integrated circuits[0]. There was even a Zuse homage I saw that was built entirely out of magnetic relays[1]. It's...insane, tbh. 0: http:&#x2F
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by chc4 10y ago
urbit.org[0] has new Hoon tutorial docs, and it's really helpful to ask questions in :talk if you get stuck. The people there are friendly and will try to answer any questions you have. You don't need an invite to be able to play
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by chc4 10y ago
Sure! I like a lot of the ideas, both on the merit of being weird and fun and genuinely being better. The view of having an operating system that has: * a built-in identity system and PKI * a typed and versioned file system * a typed comm
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by chc4 10y ago
Urbit's network is federated, not decentralized (although it could be). Currently, you get a planet under a star under a galaxy. Galaxies are all discoverable under galaxy.urbit.org, and have a hard-coded public key in the kernel. If I
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by chc4 10y ago
He defends what he posted under Mencius Moldbug in a Medium blogpost here[0], which is nominally level-headed. There are in fact genetic differences across ethnic groups (sickle cell anemia comes to mind immediately), and it would be silly
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by chc4 10y ago
1. I'm really not sure how that happened to you. I'm interested in Urbit and play around with it (and actually own a galaxy), but am not an employee, and I've been more than happy answering questions from people via :talk who
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by chc4 10y ago
They just presented at LambdaConf, and posted a (bootleg) video of the talk, too. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I94qbWBGsDs Slides: http://media.urbit.org/lambda-conf_2016.pdf
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by chc4 10y ago
I got sucked into this a couple months ago, and it was a blast. I had experience with reverse engineering and creating exploits before, though, and it ramps up way too quickly with no introduction. If I didn't already know what to do,
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by chc4 11y ago
I honestly don't get this. I've been using IRC for a few years, but I don't think nearly enough for blind eye nostalgia to take hold. It's not like you're stuck with ugly terminal only clients anymore. There is Kiwi
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by chc4 11y ago
This reminds me of wmutils, a set of standalone programs for x11 manipulation. A couple people I know use it, and it's pretty popular at /r/unixporn. It lets you essentially create your own WM with bash scripts or any other p
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by chc4 11y ago
There is, naturally, a relevant XKCD about this: https://xkcd.com/1095/
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by chc4 11y ago
There's OStatus and ActivityStreams, which are implemented by Diaspora and GNU Social along with several other decentralized networks. Hell, OStatus is even an (extremely vague, actually horrible but whatever) W3C spec. edit: Ok, I was
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by chc4 11y ago
Mozilla's research render engine Servo sounds like the best bet, rather than redesigning all of Gecko's API space. It already implements the CEF, and was built specifically for embedding. The fact that it's an order of magnit
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by chc4 11y ago
I don't actually have any idea about how group chats are implemented in Tox, but I don't see why you can't send messages to the people in the group to redistribute when people get back. It sounds like it might have history co
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by chc4 11y ago
Asynchronous messaging depends on a server to hold your messages for delivery when you go offline. That implies some company being behind the service to host that server, along with centralization and the ability of deanonymization. I'
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by chc4 11y ago
Of course the NSA can read your stuff. The question is, will NSA be able to read your stuff /without you being specifically targeted/. There is a MASSIVE difference between getting caught in the global dragnet and being specifical
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by chc4 11y ago
Tox does all of that. XMPP does all of that. WebRTC does all of that. There are tons of shitty proprietary clones of Skype that also do all of that, too. There are plenty of options, people just don't use them because all their friends
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by chc4 11y ago
You are missing the forest for the trees. Grandparent is saying "replace all C with Rust" and you replied with "but look, Rust programs rely on glibc! It's unsafe!" Yes, Rust programs can be affected by this. But on
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by chc4 11y ago
Silly question: Do people not use Click-to-play? I thought it was enabled in browsers by default now, or at least Firefox.
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by chc4 11y ago
Did you just completely ignore the other half of my post? GNU Social is free speech. It is federated across servers. No one of the instances can ban you from the network completely. quitter.se /is not unmoderated and does not advertise
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by chc4 11y ago
People should check out GNU Social. Lots of people have migrated over to it (quitter.se being the biggest instance) with the whole #RIPTwitter controversy. It's entirely open source, has a twitter-like frontend you can install, and is
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by chc4 11y ago
The grandparent said GPU simulation, for the extreme parallel benefits, not making it 3D. Encoding the simulation in a GPU shader, for example.
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by chc4 11y ago
I already use GitLab for my personal projects, since I don't care about the networking effects and it's open-source. Since it's still just git, there's nothing stopping people from switching: it has inheritably less lock
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by chc4 11y ago
GNU Social isn't P2P, but federated. You don't have to host your own node to be able to use it, which massively raises the barrier to entry, but instead lets you register on any server in the federation as an entry point into the
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by chc4 11y ago
It's also a little bit hard to "join and access your data in seconds" when signup is still essentially by invite only...
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by chc4 11y ago
I'm not sure about that either. The weakest link seems to be a national security letter to Keybase where they distribute a backdoored version of the FS driver to Alice, and adds the key of Eve to all messages also encrypted to Bob. How
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by chc4 11y ago
I'm all for IPFS, but I think you're missing the forest for the trees. Crypto is hard, especially PKI. KeybaseFS is crypto first, global FS second, while IPFS just says "do crypto yourself" - which, as we've seen wi
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by chc4 11y ago
"it's great if you can come up with engaging apps" ...and the Amazon app marketplace has a miraculous recovery and somehow because a legitimate revenue source. It probably speaks volumes how badly their device sales are on ho

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