• @[email protected]OP
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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 GerardM
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      511 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]M
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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

          • @[email protected]M
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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 GerardM
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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: 🙀

                • @[email protected]M
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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

                  • @[email protected]M
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                    611 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

              • @[email protected]M
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                411 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 GerardM
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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.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    311 months ago

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

                  • @[email protected]M
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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