Who's packing?

There are other projects like LBRY, pretty much any crypto based alternative media platform.

I remember planning to invest in Urbit but got confused by the planet etc stuff and left it on the 'look further into' pile.

I will look more into it.

do the HNS team have any plan for getting support integrated into any major OSes or browsers

theyre in discussions with Brave. Nothing confirmed yet beyond that, but it's looking fairly likely

All I have heard about is possible Brave integration.

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So let me get this straight with Urbit. What we are buying is essentially Non fungible tokens accessed/stored through your Ethereum keys? So if I want to buy some I go here urbit.live/buy buy some with Eth through metamask and I can now move it around like any other token? I am a bit of a noobie with NFT's.

know what you're buying. a planet isn't a speculative asset.

But the stars/galaxies are? I am looking to invest in potentially game changing alternative technologies, with the intention to profit from their success. If buying these tokens its more for utility, perhaps I will be interested, but that is a different purpose.

i wouldn't call it speculative at current prices, but yes if urbit is successful star and galaxy owners will probably do well

a planet is effectively purchasing an account to participate in the network as a user.

happy to answer any questions for the next little bit

opensea.io/assets/0x6ac07b7c4601b5ce11de8dfe6335b871c7c4dd4d/29346

That's really up to the browser developers if they want to integrate it. The Handshake "team" just released a light client which is a prerequisite for secure browser support. The people behind Handshake really want it to be seen as more of a community project than a team or a company, even though to be honest the same people who launched it are still the ones working on it. I can't tell you of any concrete plans for browser support, but Brave did claim their reserved TLD
I saw it yesterday, surprised it got so many views basically overnight. Looks super cool.
Urbit was intentionally super vague about what they were doing before launched their namespace on Ethereum. It took me months of combing through Hacker News threads and other resources before I decided I was going to invest in it. The earliest publication about it to my knowledge was this one from 2010:
moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-programming-from.html?m=1
Anyone who was lucky enough to stumble upon this post back then and solve his puzzle (writing decrement in nock) got a free Urbit galaxy.

Thank you. Are you using the OS as a user at the moment? If so how is it?

Packing what? Fudge? Because that's all that happens when you buy this shitcoin that you are shilling but didn't say the name of.

it had hit the front page of hn

yeah
it's rough at the moment. definitely not ready for normies. i thought the OS 1 launch was premature. but it's really exciting, if the project ethos is something you're interested in

2010 wow! Do you think this will be able to compete with Windows etc? People are increasingly getting tired with the big monopoly tech companies. Of course we have things like Linux.

I understand that Urbit has a lot more complexities.

>moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-programming-from.html?m=1
Also take note of the top reply, sounds like people have been imagining something similar to Handshake for a long time.
>newt0311January 15, 2010 at 6:28 AM
Indeed. We need to work on access as well.
>Heck, the closest analogue to Urbit right now is probably DNS. If we increase payload size from a few bytes to a few megabytes and then add authentication on top, we would basically have what VJ was talking about in a broadcast system. The biggest problems left then would be the centralized DNS root servers.

I believe in Libertarian technologies that can provide an alternative path to the quasi Chinese monopolistic tech path we are being lead down. If this can provide an alternative to Windows that is good.

What we need is alternative DNS, alternative websites, alternative operating system and perhaps alternative hardware too. Otherwise we will be encroached upon by authoritarians.

I don't think it's fair to frame urbit as "libertarian" fwiw. It's peer to peer. If it succeeds, everything would be peer to peer. A lot of these big tech "startups" would dissolve into irrelevance. Similar functionality can be expressed in urbit in not very much code, and with an improved user experience.

As for competing with windows, I don't know if the urbit team ever intends for it to be a bare metal os. maybe some day?

To be fair Urbit has attracted a lot of criticism over the years, which might be partially due to the creator being a notorious right wing philosopher. It's been described as a cult, a multilevel marketing scheme and a digital real estate scam. All of these have some validity, but I think if Urbit has even a 1% chance of going mainstream it's worth speculating on which is why I'm invested in it. It's a longterm hold though, they're only starting to come out with basic applications for it. I'm passively watching development of it. They plan to make it a lot more user friendly over the next year or two.
Damnit i fucked up the quotes

I still need to do some more research to understand this project.

Yes peer to peer, as there is no central point it means that 1. The central authority cannot encroach upon users 2.Authoritarians cannot target/pressure the central authority. This is what is necessary to become resistant to authoritarians.

maybe start here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-third-web/id899090462

>being a notorious right wing philosopher.

Just looked it up, no way! Mencius Moldbug, I consume a lot of Libertarian/'right wing' content and have heard that name mentioned in political contexts.

Thank you.