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		calvinmorrison on April 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Urbit OS 1 So it's a slack like chat that runs in a VM in my browser? Sorry I read thier homepage and dont get it

jdhopeunique on April 30, 2020 [–]

Except this chat seems has a unique(feudalistic maybe?) update system:

https://urbit.org/using/operations/stars-and-galaxies/

Updates are passed down from galaxy to star to planet. Star owners can modify those updates to push custom software to planet VMs.

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