Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Once, "the cloud" was just a white-board glyph, a way to show that some part of a ...
Once, "the cloud" was just a white-board glyph, a way to show that some part of a software's logic would touch some commodified, fungible, interchangeable appendage of the internet. Today, "The Cloud" is a flashing warning sign, the harbinger of enshittification.
When your image-editing tools live on your computer, your files are *yours*.
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