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‘The Cloud’ Is a Terrible Metaphor (www.theatlantic.com)
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The internet isn’t what we think. It is physical, subject to the vagaries of nature and time, just as our bodies are. Like us, it will flicker and fade. The internet’s fragility crops up everywhere: in the sudden disappearance of a relied-­upon website, and in the endless thrum of posts, images, and videos.

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[–] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

The cloud is other peoples computers. Shocker. The mechanism by which we lose computational agency. Those datacenters, even if they're not being used to take all jobs (didn't fly, yet) are great at monitoring video feeds and killing home (personal) computing, can't afford RAM, here's a compute subscription forever.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago*

    I agree. Home computing has a lot to offer, but it's not for most people who never even change the application defaults. They certainly don't want to configure and maintain home services. For most people, the alternative isn't a privacy-centric service, it's no service at all.

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