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Trill is a Nostr client running inside your ship.
Your Urbit identity and your Nostr presence, same machine, same session.
Groups and Landscape (chat, channels, app management) are also included.
~polwex retweeted
Groundwire alpha is live.
It's a personal server where your identity is anchored to a Bitcoin UTXO, your wallet runs locally, and AI agents can operate your node directly through MCP.
No accounts. No cloud. No custodians.
groundwire.io
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Imagine if it was possible to setup an operating system in a stateless, declarative and infinitely reproducible way. Maybe using some sort of a functional config language even…
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One of the _better_ directives by the EU is PSD2. There is a part of it that mandates Banks must open up their payment processing systems for third parties.
It's all an effort minimize the duopoly of VISA/Mastercard
~polwex retweeted
I'm here and ready to share any and all opinions or experiences I had with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon now. It's been more than long enough and they can't hurt me anymore. Curious about anything? Ask away. I'll queue up some answers for later (stepping offline here shortly).
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Oh wow, Swiss Army is using devenv: gitlab.com/swiss-armed-force…
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We are pleased to announce the publication of the forum software by @polwex underlying the USTJ Forum.
github.com/urbit/forum
While it is currently branded for @UrbitSTJ out of the box (and thus we are not yet distributing it live over the network), it can be straightforwardly modified for any purpose. Eventually we will also prepare a white-label version.
devenv.sh is amazing and needs more love.
🎉 devenv.sh 1.1 is out: Nested Nix outputs using the module system
devenv.sh/blog/2024/09/11/de…
~polwex retweeted
The Urbit Systems Technical Journal Forum is now launched.
Featuring a custom backend designed by @polwex for @urbitfoundation, the USTJ Forum offers a place to discuss the technical merits and ramifications of USTJ articles using @urbit.
journal.urbitsystems.tech/fo…
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~polwex retweeted
The reasonable man accommodates himself to the world; the unreasonable man makes the world accommodate him. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The freedom of normal people depends on "herd immunity" from tools built for and by unreasonable people.
