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I started using Notion for The Sovereign Stack coordination in like 2022 or 2023 and two weeks into using it, my entire workspace was suddenly gone one day. I messaged support and they basically pretended to not understand what had happened.
>junior dev at a new urbit startup
>wednesday morning
>just want to push a minor bugfix to our gall agent today
>open laptop, boot up my planet
>company group in Tlon is an absolute warzone
>CTO typing in all caps about a hoon type error nobody can read
>fucking hoon
>whatever, ship hasn’t crashed yet, I just need to get my code in
>|commit %stik
>desk won’t build because of some mark conversion error
>spend 40 minutes staring at a stack trace made entirely of runes
>i can just use AI to help debug
paste it into an LLM
>it confidently invents three runes that don’t exist
>fucking LLMs
>i’ll just ask someone on the network for help
>message won’t send? peer not responding?
>check ames: packets going nowhere
>fucking ames
>cold sweat forming
>sponsor star pushes an OTA overnight
>kelvin version decremented, our desk is now incompatible
>fucking kelvin versioning
>full panic attack incoming
>figure fuck it, just restart the pier and go home
>pier won’t start
>event log is 900GB
>try |pack, then |meld
>meld runs out of memory halfway through
>fucking loom
>only option left is to breach
>need to sign an Azimuth transaction
>gas fees are $90
>fucking ethereum
>try to open our app in the browser to see if anything is even working
>“~sampel-palnet is not responding”
>stare blankly at the dojo for 10min
>random pop-up
>“new vere binary available, please update your runtime”
>fucking vere
>close laptop
>leave office
>open twitter on the train
>“urbit is the future of personal computing”
>never come back
>junior dev at a mid startup
>wednesday morning
>just want to push a minor bugfix to our php app today
>open laptop, check slack
>company group chat is an absolute warzone
>CTO typing in all caps about php2shell
>fucking php
>whatever, server hasn't blown up yet, I just need to get my code in
>open gitlab to merge the PR
>forced emergency logout because of a critical gitlab security patch release
>fucking gitlab
>pipeline fails because of some weird regex compiler bug
>spend 40 minutes fighting CI/CD
>i can just use AI to help debug
>fire up opencode
>api keys nuked because they were breached
>fucking opencode
>i’ll just get fresh LLM api keys from our corp proxy, LiteLLM
>it won’t connect? It’s down?
>look up LiteLLM news: supply chain compromise
>fucking litellm
>cold sweat forming
>slack alert: db connection error
>check our database connection
>we host on TiDB Cloud
>they just announced a security breach, unauthorized access via stolen service account credentials, data copied
>fucking tidb cloud
>full panic attack incoming
>figure fuck it, just ship the container to Railway and go home
>open Railway dashboard
>bright red banner: "Security Disclosure: Rotate all environment variables immediately. All builds paused."
>fucking railway
>try to open the app URL in browser to see if anything is even working
>NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
>eMudhra intermediate certificates compromised
>4
>instantly untrusted by every major browser
>fucking emudhra
>stare blankly at mac screen for 10min
>random pop-up
>restarting in 10min to fix a critical vulnerability
>fucking macos
>close laptop
>leave office
>never come back
You are going to fucking love Urbit.
This story shows how hilariously broken online identity verification is from all relevant angles.
1. Your SSN, DOB, address history, etc. are sitting in countless data breaches and data-broker dumps. They’re cheap and widely available to basically anyone who looks.
2. KYC/AML mostly just checks that the data exists and matches a real person. It doesn’t confirm the person signing up is actually the real person behind that identity.
Result: Amanda Smith spent three nights in jail and now faces up to six years in prison over a $1,000 CashApp scam account opened with her SSN and DOB. It wasn't necessarily opened by her, and the phone, IP, device, address, and other details don’t match.
The funniest (and yes, saddest) part is CashApp wouldn't give her information about the account because she can’t prove she’s the owner. Her personal info was good enough to open the account, but not good enough to access it in the future, apparently. To be clear, CashApp is likely just following the law here.
Anyway, we need to burn it all down and start fresh.
The Sovereign Stack retweeted
we live in such a feminine reality of busywork, switching focus, responding to "pings", hopping on "quick calls", "catching up".... total eradication of deep focus, total eradication of any sort of life actualization, fuck this gay earth
The product of Facebook Marketplace is not buying and selling, but the sharing of the petty buy/sell drama.
The Sovereign Stack retweeted
Private GitHub repositories are a terrible dependency. Use urbit.
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This is 100% the move.
A centralized, up to date knowledge base that all your agents can access so you're never locked in to one platform.
Here's how we built ours:
1. The whole thing is 2 private Github repos of plain markdown files. One company brain, one personal.
2. We numbered each folder by function. Company has brand, customers, products, sales, ops, finance. Personal has health, investments, family.
3. One AGENTS. md file that every agent reads first.
4. At the end of each day our agents run a "knowledge base audit" skill that compares the day's work to both brains and suggests edits.
What I love about this system is that it allows us to test all the new agent platforms without starting from scratch.
Zero agent lock-in.