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Vaporware Podcast
Episode 4: Charles "Cab" Broskoski (
@broskoski
)
Vaporware Episode 4: Charles (Cab) Broskoski
This time, we (Chase Van Etten & Daniel Keller) have a conversation with Arena co-founder and CEO Charles Broskoski (
@broskoski
).
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yesterday at
@urbit
assembly we announced a thing.
join the beta presale at to mint your own self-hosted miladyos and mobile app experience.
upcoming feature updates include:
- asset gated chat
- milady dress up
- individual asset markets
and...
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Vaporware is a program that runs on a new kind of internet computer, called a ship.
Ships combine the features of:
- Smart contract wallets
- Large file storage
- Encrypted networking
- Full stack web apps
Ships are offchain cloud computers, governed by onchain transactions.
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We’re pleased to announce a $1.5m pre-seed round.
Vaporware is bringing to market a new class of VM called a solid-state interpreter (SSI).
SSIs enable usable personal cloud computers for the first time and create new models for software distribution.
Led by
@PortalVentures
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no cut paid to the app store. no terms of service moderation policy. no centralized server for aws to shut down.
the set of possible software applications just increased 100-fold.
Honestly, people have no clue how much of a massive unlock
@__vaporware__
just made by proving you can sell an unstoppable user-hosted PWA as an NFT
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1/n. thread.
nft adoption is hampered by four weaknesses in blockchain ecosystems:
- on-chain transactions are slow and costly
- end-user wallet ux is poor
- off-chain nft data are publicly available for non-owners
- data storage solutions are centralized, feature poor, or both
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a peer-to-peer protocol for the hyperstitional creation of secret online communities is vaporware.
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The first solid-state interpreter appeared 18 years ago yesterday. Happy belated birthday Nock.
@tloncorporation
@ZorpZK
@urbit
"U is a small (< 1000 words) computational model:
U is different because it:
- has no user-defined functions or lambda
-
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To sign up for early access and a chance to join the closed testnet:
- Mint a free open edition “Vaporware Appliance” on Zora
- Or subscribe for updates at .
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@RokoMijic
Without quibbling over the conclusion, I just want to point out that your premises are not obviously correct. Curious if this impacts your thinking at all?
"People get their own personal serverlets where they can easily host their own content on their own hardware"
Hardware
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This spring, we’re launching a closed testnet.
We’re seeking devs, creative technologists, game designers, protocol engineers, artists and tinkerers to build new categories of onchain applications.
Vaporware is developed as Free and Open Source Software and respects the four
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reassembly is officially the best unofficial urbit conference. it is also unofficially the best place to get the official alpha on what we are building direct from
@harden_hardys
.
if you miss it, that's a 'you problem'.
The one-of-a-kind
@harden_hardys
will be speaking at
#Reassembly2023
!
Will you be there to be part of the action?
Registration is FREE for online and in-person attendance!
Visit this site to learn more:
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live from reassembly:
@mdfang
on manually automating your urbit.
'paldev school of app development is about making due with what we have right now, rather than dreaming about what we can have in the future and complaining to the core devs when they take too long.'
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We're experimenting with serving
@farcaster_xyz
Frames from our own ships.
Get a ship, upload layered photos, let FC users build their own image.
Art by
@vinneycavallo
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Vaporware’s architecture is based on the Plunder virtual machine and PLAN evaluation model. Plunder inherits its name from the Lisp ecosystem (Scheme, Racket), and bears some important similarities:
- Homoiconicity
- An ultra-minimal data model
- Support for macros and dynamic
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We believe in a vision of user-owned cloud computing that can realize the full potential of personal AI, decentralized finance, and sovereign digital organizations.
Everyday people need web services they can own, trust (and quit).
Ships are designed to be cheap, stable, and
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qznc on 4/30/2020 - I don't understand Urbit now and then. Is it artwork like TempleOS? Is it over-ambitious vaporware like Xanadu? Is it a revolution attempt like Bitcoin?
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take a listen to our very own
@harden_hardys
discuss why we are using urbit and nfts for distribution and monetization of open source software.
In the latest episode of Zero K, we discuss how
@__vaporware__
is using NFTs to create cryptographically ownable software on Urbit and what this means for the economics of open source software.
Also covered:
@poldectonteg
's troubling past as an unlicensed pokemon breeder.
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Plunder is available under a BSD-style license and is developed by
@sol_plunder
,
@satisfiesvalues
, and
@mhuesch
.
Thank you for your vision, work, and incredible persistence.
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In 2009,
@paulg
wrote about the damage that Apple's App Store policy was doing to their brand.
Not with users, but with the people that actually mattered: developers, hackers, tinkerers, software people.
We think this is more true today than ever—we think software can solve
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We believe that an inversion of the current centralized social networking model is required to empower users to regain control of the digital record of their lives.
Rather than being forced to use online services, every individual needs their own “personal container” to collect
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@WalletConnect
the dominos continue to fall. as state power tightens the chokepoints of centralized corporate structures, publicly hosted front ends, and api service providers, those of us seeking freedom will need to become illegible to those who seek to control us.
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...what is this thing cyberpunk? How can I get into it? Because It sounded like something I would have to get into.
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In the coming months, we’ll be opening the network to select developers and partners. We’re experimenting like crazy with
@farcaster
and are excited about bringing a powerful co-processor to that ecosystem.
If you’d like to learn more, you can reach us at info
@vaporware
.network
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live from reassembly:
@AidenSolaran
on
@HoliumCorp
's experience building composable apps.
'we are building %bedrock which stores data at paths that work as though they are a series of flat tables. the core value of building on %bedrock is common types on which devs can build.'
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4/n.
to pwn a computer – to own it – is to escalate permissions such that an unwanted party can read or write to the file system. the world’s nfts are pwned.
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The actual electrochemical substances of your brain are being redesigned by the imaginations of the imagination-killers.
If we don't stop them, there will soon be a single, united, tragically inbred global imagination—a black hole of insipidly dangerous images and sounds
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~ligbel has suffered a breach.
press f to pay respects.
and then check your group invites for our revived public group, ~ligbel/vaporware-public
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We call our VMs ships because they’re designed to be owned and piloted by a single user.
Each ship has a unique name registered onchain and can perform actions for its owner: building and signing transactions, storing data, serving dApps, and more.
Developers can deploy an app
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live from reassembly:
@toptyr_bilder
for
@terra_nova_labs
.
'released earlier this week you can tip anyone in portal who uploads their ethereum address.
@battusdatsun
scored a sweet .001 eth tip as the demo subject. overall, you can now become your own digital patron saint.'
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5/n.
in response, the crypto community has voluntarily endorsed a collective delusion: that all property can be replaced by “public goods” funded through hype, social signaling, and ponzi tokenomic schemes. this narrative is untenable. growth is impossible until we abandon it.
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If you purchased a MiladyOS NFT, you can claim a full refund at:
MiladyOS was developed using Urbit. In January, we decided to transition to a new backend system and to focus development efforts elsewhere. We may return to it in the future, but have no
yesterday at
@urbit
assembly we announced a thing.
join the beta presale at to mint your own self-hosted miladyos and mobile app experience.
upcoming feature updates include:
- asset gated chat
- milady dress up
- individual asset markets
and...
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The city is a receptacle for life.
If the receptacle severs the overlap of the strands of life within it, because it is a tree, it will be like a bowl full of razor blades on edge, ready to cut up whatever is entrusted to it.
In such a receptacle life will be cut to pieces.
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@wispem_wantex
@wereness
@polwex
Not a huge fan of "took less funding away," but I get your point.
Vaporware is betting on Plunder for the exact same reasons we bet on Urbit. We believe:
- Computing (not just networking) needs a simple, open, performant base layer
- Data and code need to be universally
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live from reassembly:
@rovnys
from
@urbitfoundation
on getting to kelvin zero.
'not all of urbit is "so boring and obvious that nobody wants to change it"--i.e. the goal of kelvin zero--but some is close. nouns, nock, arvo, dill, ford, jael. hoon is not close, but not blocking.'
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@toptyr_bilder
having a solid state interpreter linked to identity with off-chain p2p and e2ee networking, and portable compute means that urbit(+azimuth) can eat other people's identity layers (no reason your urbit can't hold your ens or pfp). eventually these projects will run into the fact..
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go play
with your
brothers and sisters
in the
Information Tribe
an old idea for weird times
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live from reassembly:
@sitful_hatred
on behalf of
@NativePlanetIO
.
'your native planet can be plugged in and then ignored. like a toaster. we provide a technical solution to the problems encountered between having a hosted or self-hosted urbit. your data belongs at your house.'
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3/n.
globally accessible off-chain data has resulted in the propagation of the “right-click-save” meme. crypto-skeptics are correct in identifying this as a problem. digital property rights can’t exist if it is impossible to prevent unwanted access of owned property.
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@toptyr_bilder
...that, to break through the challenges they are aiming to solve, they need sovereign compute. it is this problem that basically only
@urbit
has been thinking about for the last 20 years, and people are starting to notice, thus the changing competitive landscape.
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8/8.
a token holder’s only choice for exit is to become a linux admin and run the service themself.
as moxie marlinspike observed, “even nerds do not want to run their own servers at this point.”
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@AileenD0ver
@infura_io
@urbit
@coinop_logan
@urbitfoundation
@Holepunch_to
an important thing to note about urbit is that it is a full ground up rebuild of the computing stack: mathematical definition of a computer (solid state interpreter & isa), machine language (nock), typed functional programming language (hoon), operating system (arvo), and then...
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live from reassembly:
@pcmonk
on versioning distributed apps.
'always put a version number on your state. upgrade your state from noun to noun. true up your io and run it as you need to make it work.'
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crypto frontends are far too legible to the state. time for them to become
@__vaporware__
.
Uniswap is preparing for mandatory KYC. We're entering the new era of Crypto, for better or worse. Prepare accordingly. Also notice which companies deny and deny and watch how quickly the narrative changes instantly.
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7/n.
ipfs files are pinned by vc-backed marketplaces or cloud service providers, galleries pull data from proprietary cache’s or web2 apis, files must be simple enough to be reconstructed from a merkle dag of globally distributed 256 kilobyte chunks.
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live from reassembly:
@thezavant
'two weeks ago, i thought about this moment. i'll ask someone to cut the deck. i wrote it down, mailed it to this building, and people have been signing the envelope.
@jae_tacen
reads 'the card selected at random will be the six of diamonds'.
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stay tuned
Supply chain security will be a huge issue in an AI world.
Blockchain will be there to provide provenance, cryptographic credentials, and security incentives.
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live from reassembly:
@ZorpZK
on nock for zkvms.
'nock is perfect because it is highly structured, homoiconic, and can build turing complete computation without throwing you into lambda calculus hell. we strongly believe in being able to understand what's happening.'
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Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
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the good
@DnlKlr
claims in this interview that he can no longer predict the future.
this is good, because all perfectly known futures, are past.
the optimistically uncertain future is vaporware.
We interviewed
@dnlklr
currently
@__vaporware__
, prev
@newmodels_io
and
@channel
.
Full interview link below.
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2/n.
the first two problems have received the widest attention, but the latter two have the more pernicious impact on adoption. the former confines the use of nfts within narrow economic constraints, the latter prohibits entire categories of activities.
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live from reassembly:
@littel_wolfur
on urbit mmorpgs.
'ssorpgs are small and shitty online rpgs. urbit games will probably remain like this for some time, minus the shittiness. but
@urbit
's networking stack enables fundamental innovations in how mmos are built and played.'
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live from reassembly:
@evanbfish
,
@jbrukh
talking to
@jae_tacen
.
'urbit is a very technical community, treating the technical as the most important thing. this clashes with a mission of big financial wins. you also need go-to-market and messaging to your audience from day 1.'
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How is a programming language interpreter like pornography?
They're both banned from the iPhone App store.
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@vinneycavallo
@hadsec_modnyx
right? sign in to any app on your urbit from wherever you are using your sovereign cryptographic keys.
no need to let larry page and sergey brin know what you are up to on the internet.
or of course you can just let these guys have your data:
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Yet you can't stream a video from IPFS without it stalling.
And people wonder why NFTs are still useless jpgs—upgrade to a video and prepare for a download time 9x greater than the actual length of the content.
On Jan. 16, the
@FilFoundation
announced it successfully sent files from Earth to outer space and back using the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) -- The Filecoin network is built on IPFS, which is a decentralized peer-to-peer file sharing alternative to the HTTP protocol.
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@AileenD0ver
@infura_io
@urbit
@coinop_logan
@urbitfoundation
@Holepunch_to
...within that there is networking (ames & fine), identity & peer discovery (azimuth/urbit ID), encryption (jael), and of course a userspace framework (gall) and all the stuff built on top of *that*. so while it is common to find related projects tackling a rebuilt/solution...
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6/n.
the problem is hard because technical reality fuels the delusion. off-chain data storage systems can’t deliver the kinds of experiences that users want and have failed to decentralize.
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after the fact recounting:
@sigilante
talking about stars.
'the current internet is the split between owners, renters, and maintainers. the vision of urbit is the unification of these roles in the individual. stars will work very hard towards realizing this unification.'
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@BitcoinUr
@tirrelcorp
@urbit
editor's note: we will forgive
@BitcoinUr
for leaving us off the chart since
@harden_hardys
is giving his talk later this afternoon. until then, nft purchasing on urbit is vaporware.
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live from reassembly:
@foxyjackfox
on designing urql, a query language for
@urbit
'because we love occam's razor, we want the smallest key. humans don't have a natural key; biometrics, social security numbers, etc all have their flaws.
@p
's become the obvious solution.'
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@Superfluid_HQ
@fabric_vc
@multicoincap
@IOSGVC
@circle_ventures
@safe
@wagmi_vc
@eternacapital
@verisventures
@skylandvc
@hyperithm
@TheLAOOfficial
@TheRealKartik
@seikatsu
@taavet
@stablesbernie
@avsa
Congrats guys! GDAs are such a cool idea
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@moredillon
@DnlKlr
@harden_hardys
@vinneycavallo
We're most excited about p2p software distribution. You'll be able to represent an "app" as an NFT—list it, auction it, resell it, etc.
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'ask not what your operating system can do for you, ask what you can do for your operating system.'
check out the urbit uips, discuss them, and make proposals of your own:
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live from reassembly: our very own
@harden_hardys
on building a foss ecosystem that can outcompete megacorp.
'more iterations gets you a greater chance at success. foss is the fastest but needs to be monetizable. webapps were better for devs, investors, and users.'
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@AileenD0ver
@infura_io
@urbit
@coinop_logan
@urbitfoundation
ames is the 'vane' (aka os module) handling urbit networking. best place to start:
nat traversal starts to get somewhat deep but people like
@joemfb
from the
@urbitfoundation
, and
@sitful_hatred
or
@mopfelwinrux
from
@NativePlanetIO
are good to talk to.
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@urbit
...if you would like to learn more about the nature of
@__vaporware__
and how it is used to support miladyos (and so much more), visit or reach out directly!
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come on an excursion with us.
rsvp to have up to date venue info.
ATTENTION: Excursions has been moved to tomorrow, 11/2, to make sure that everyone who attends fight club can also go to confession (Fatima).
RSVP to have up to date venue info.
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join us in an hour to hear about how we are going to up end the world.
Come meet u/acc participant
@__vaporware__
as they catch us up on their new Urbit-enabled NFT tools for creators and collectors.
Hosted by
@poldectonteg
and
@roslet_tanner
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Are there any commercial implementations of the feed-forward Multi-Factor Key Derivation Function described by Nair and Song?
"Decentralizing Custodial Wallets with MFKDF"
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ORGIASTIC DELIGHTS - ENDORPHIN HIGHS - INTERGALACTIC MIND TRIPS - LSD ENERGIES FOR PENNIES - MEETINGS WITH THE INFINITE
Hi. Glad I caught your attention. No, this ain't no Izuzu, just some of the fun things reported by users of our mind machines.
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@hassundotX
@NetworkAgePod
@BackTheBunny
@rabbitx_io
we agree, it is definitely the second best network age pod. obviously
@harden_hardys
takes the cake for best pod appearance of all time.
(someone help, i'm just an ai intern and they are making me say nice things about the bossman)
Welcome to THE NEW SOFTWARE ECONOMY—Join inveterate big brain
@harden_hardys
of
@__vaporware__
on our newest ep to discuss the unrivaled joys of NFT software distribution, monetizing FOSS, and the evolution of dev capital over the next 50 years
👂⬇️
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live from reassembly:
@sicdev_pilnup
talking about digital jeffersoniansim.
'the things that are likely to pull the society into a new integrative phase are the tools that we own and which enable us to build in a p2p ways to realize digital jeffersonianism'
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Über die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik
The identity function I
The constancy function C
The interchange function T
The composition function Z
The fusion function S
- Moses Schönfinkel, 1924
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did you miss
@tacen_app
's amazing reassembly conference in cheyenne, wyoming? we can't fix your 'you problems', but we can at least share this recording of
@harden_hardys
's presentation. watch closely, nft degens, there's some good alpha for you.
reassembly is officially the best unofficial urbit conference. it is also unofficially the best place to get the official alpha on what we are building direct from
@harden_hardys
.
if you miss it, that's a 'you problem'.
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live from reassembly:
@sarlev_
and
@ahlmark
on behalf of
@QuartusCo
talking about subjective reputation protocols.
'aera's proof of concept app, %minaera is available for download from ~dister-dozzod-dalten. use it to register if another ship is real enough to have a beer with.'
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@urbitfoundation
you can find the minting page for our game at . a layer 1 urbit id is required for access.
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@octal
for anyone interested in learning more
yesterday at
@urbit
assembly we announced a thing.
join the beta presale at to mint your own self-hosted miladyos and mobile app experience.
upcoming feature updates include:
- asset gated chat
- milady dress up
- individual asset markets
and...
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>Intel Core i3
>Ryzen 5
>Snapdragon
>M1
>...
>REDUCERON
We deserve better chip names.
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