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Re:Urbit by mkl on Sunday December 01, 2019 @03:09AM (#21674486)
Agreed (though there are some trees and abstract art too). It seems like a parody or a scam, but some people here are talking about it as if it's real? What is real? It certainly doesn't seem to be a computer like it claims to be. There is no hardware (right?).

"No one else can look at it without your permission, it can never show you ads.": These are only possible if it has no visual display or interface at all, or if it's so limited as to be useless.

"Your Urbit is a simple, durable computer ... Your Urbit isn’t a physical device: it lives in the cloud or your laptop.": Contradictory claims.

"Your Urbit is a permanent, private archive.": Until your laptop or server hard disk dies.

Re:Urbit by sincerely on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:53AM (#21674892)
>"No one else can look at it without your permission, it can never show you ads.": These are only possible if it has no visual display or interface at all, or if it's so limited as to be useless.

I think this is in contrast to Windows being the most popular OS in the world, an OS which does show you ads.