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‘The Cloud’ Is a Terrible Metaphor
(www.theatlantic.com)
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this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2026
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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.
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.