Oh, hey, Local-First software has been written up ...
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Peter van Hardenberg
12/06/2019, 5:37 PMOh, hey, Local-First software has been written up in WIRED today: https://www.wired.com/story/collaborative-software-wary-cloud/
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Brandon Hudgeons
12/06/2019, 5:57 PMIsn't this related to the urbit model?
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Peter van Hardenberg
12/06/2019, 6:03 PMNo.
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Brandon Hudgeons
12/06/2019, 7:50 PM(in motivation, not implementation, of course)
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Ivan Reese
12/06/2019, 9:48 PM
Congrats to the Ink & Switch folks. (They're here, right?)
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Peter van Hardenberg
12/06/2019, 10:15 PMSome of us, yes.
Peter van Hardenberg
12/06/2019, 10:16 PM@Brandon Hudgeons my understanding of urbit is rather out of date, but broadly I see it as attempting to generalize computation in a decentralized but fundamentally owned way -- some individual owns every piece of data or computation
Peter van Hardenberg
12/06/2019, 10:16 PMthe work we've been doing on automerge, hypermerge, and pushpin is pretty decisively orthogonal to all of that
Peter van Hardenberg
12/06/2019, 10:17 PMyou have a computer. compute there.
Peter van Hardenberg
12/06/2019, 10:17 PMthe problem we've been trying to solve is 1) how can you collaborate without a central system and 2) what will that mean as a user experience?
Peter van Hardenberg
12/06/2019, 10:17 PMsimilar to other decentralized systems are questions of longevity of software, distribution of computation, and so on.
Peter van Hardenberg
12/06/2019, 10:18 PMbut this work is mostly not a deep philosophical rumination about the nature of computing, it is an attempt to write real, useful software that humans can work within every day to solve ordinary problems.
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Brandon Hudgeons
12/06/2019, 11:09 PMawesome. Thanks. I'll definitely check it out. I've been thinking about how the next wave of the centralization/decentralization cycle will play out.
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