The post-personal cloudified system has so many nice advantages, but undeath it all the sad naked truth that you control nor see nothing; everything about you is far off artifice produced in some data center where you cannot see it, you cannot experimemt with it, you cannot adapt or control it.

The cloud is the new mainframe & it robs us of what made the PC era before it distinctly better & neat; it had been a semi fair shake, albeit one that required us also to operate & orchestrate our own small string of machines. But as we got more devices & had so little mini-administratoe wins, moving to centralized cloud was such an easy out.

Alas for us all. Humanity gave up so much for the convenience we won, from accepting other people's neo-mainframes into our pockets.

This article is long AF but has some real gems to it. I really really struggle to disagree with the article's synopsis that Pluton is, alas, little more than a way that other people can have control & dominion over you when you use you computer. It has legit safeties it enables, but it also looks a lot like a not so veiled way to let the cloud/neomainframe do what it wants on your personal computer that you have no say over. There's enormously veiled enormously large forces at play in the computing universe, & as harsh as it is, this article is good base context setting for where, I dunno, say, 2013-2023 have been at.