Post #4186575

What we should be pursuing is undoing the harms of everything being always online, subscription-based, and hosted in someone else’s shed. We should focus on the availability of compute resources, our ownership of them, and sharing the technology and means to create and control it. Enforcing stricter defaults expectations, with minimal extraneous remote resources. We’re past the SaaS threshold, the cloud is dated. Everything will still work exactly as it has. Only safer, leaner, cleaner, and without being beholden to organisations deeply entrenched in defence contracting and resource (and human) exploitation. Only then will be guarantee our collective national security, and resilient systems. Cont.