Tag: Platform Incentives

• The Quiet Shift: When Everyone’s OS Stopped Being Infrastructure

  

  Photo by J.M Read on Unsplash My first computer didn’t have windows, just a blinking green cursor, a keyboard, and the ‘soft’ whir of a hard drive spinning to life under MS-DOS. Commands mattered. Cause and effect were immediate. You typed something, and the system responded, honestly, and without agenda. A few years later, I…

  Dom

  December 28, 2025

  Philosophy, Security, technology

  Digital Autonomy, Human-Centered Technology, infrastructure, Linux, Modern Computing, open source, Operating Systems, Platform Incentives, Privacy, Software Design, system architecture, Technology Ethics, Telemetry, User Agency, Vendor Lock-In, Windows 11