[aviatorspoon]

> Although I like the spirit of this idea, I don't know that I could trust it in practice as it will be companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft that own the actual hardware.

This is the point that the author makes in the second part of their post. Quote:

"The dutifully critical part of me wants to shout: you shouldn’t trust these slabs! Their operators, G — and A — and M — and the rest, will surely betray you. The very signature of the corporate internet is the way it slips from your grasp. The leviathans swim off in pursuit new markets, and what do they leave you with? Deprecation notices."

[toss1]

Yup, it's kind of the analogue of: "Not your keys, not your coin"

So, something like: "not your chips, not your code"?

This also really reminds me of the absolute squandering of resources by "modern" systems - old x86 DOS systems with 1/16,000 the memory and processing power were literally more responsive for everyday use than the mountians of framework junk we run on today. There is a lot of headroom left to downsize and create very useful machines.

[infogulch]

"not your chips, not your data" & "not your software, not your data"

[toss1]

definite improvement!

[drdeca]

I misread this as “the operators G, A, and M” rather than “their”, and thought that this was going to be about some like, combinators of some kind allowing for expressing something about what computation (on what data) you want to outsource the running of run, in terms of 3 operators.

Like, some sort of verifiable computing kind of deal.

Because I hadn’t read the quotation carefully (as otherwise I would have caught the part about depreciation notices before reading the article).