• David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
    4·
    1 year 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

      • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
        5·
        1 year 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

        • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
          6·
          1 year 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

          • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            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@awful.systemsEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              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@blat.at
              4·
              1 year ago

              @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.

              • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
                5·
                1 year ago

                El Sandifer and I just could not work out what the arsing fuck Yarvin was going on about there, El worked way too hard trying to track it down, and eventually we decided he just failed to write it despite taking people’s money to. Kicking myself we didn’t work out it was Urbit.

          • Mike Knell@blat.at
            3·
            1 year 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?

    • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
      4·
      1 year 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 Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
        3·
        1 year 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.

        • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
          2·
          1 year 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