from the abstracting-layers-leads-to-unique-possibilities dept These days, everyone hates big tech, and that’s often for very good reasons. You shouldn’t trust giant centralized companies that have collected a ridiculous amount of data on you. There are few reasonable alternatives, so they can keep you stuck in their silos. They just move more and more rapidly along the enshittification curve, extracting more and more value from you for less value given back. But, at the same time, one reason wh...