Urbit Redux

Time to take another look at this folks. It's starting to become functional, and there's enough people using it that there's a community breaking off from the rest of the web.

http://urbit.org/docs/

The fundamental idea is to replace the web technology stack with a distributed LISP/Scheme-like language.

Your urbit is your own general-purpose server. It holds your data; runs your apps; wrangles your connected devices; and defines your secure identity. If you still need your old services, it drives them with APIs.

Oh no, I'm not falling for the same trick twice. First there was cloud computing and it was sold as the next big thing by Jewish corporations in order to control and monitor goyim computing activities. And now there's this―an Orwellian supercloud that combines all clouds in a monitored control grid.

Thanks but I don't need your brave new world. Call me a Luddite if you want, but my files will be stored on my hard drives, where I own them and I control them. And as a free man endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights, I will continue to oppose all forms of tyranny, especially sneaky stealth-tyranny like this.