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  • explodicle@local106.comEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    IMHO it’s cyclical.

    • Computers started out client server because of limited computing capacity
    • Then everybody got a PC and for a while, physical media were faster than downloads
    • Then we got oodles of bandwidth, so servers seemed practical again
    • Now servers are taking advantage of the trust we’ve placed in them
    • Next, we’ll all enjoy a brief P2P revolution. Hooray!
    • After that, homomorphic encryption will make servers seem appealing again
    • Even farther into the future, the attacks against that encryption will no longer be tolerable

    It will be decades more before humanity accepts the teachings of Richard Stallman.