I’ve got this really ambivalent feeling, it’s not at all comfortable. Living in a rural and highly forested area subject to various natural environmental hazards, I’m very interested in resilient local infrastructure. But there’s another group in the Venn diagram of people interested in resilient local infrastructure, and they use terms like “sovereign” and “surveillance”. And let me just say, there are some positions there to which I’m very sympathetic, but there are others which make me distinctly uncomfortable. When philosophy meets the cutting edge of mathematics and technology, it requires a *lot* of disciplined and focused thought to do the right thing. This is hard, and I worry that the implementers aren’t doing enough of the philosophy.

Note to future me: it does not matter how cool or attractive the next version looks. DO NOT INSTALL BETA OPERATING SYSTEM ON YOUR ACTUAL PHONE.

Well, my phone seems to have given up being a telephone. The WiFi radio still works, but cellular is just out. This couldn’t wait another couple of months?

Reading Apple’s documentation feels kind of like listening to a pitch man. “In order to do the thing, perform a ritual (link to another document), then decorate (link to another document) the place (link to another document).” Any given document has the same structure, with every specific term of art being a link to a document. There is no way to *learn* from this stuff; the examples are useful only if you already know what everything means and just need a reminder for specific syntax or procedural order. There’s only so much tautology I can handle in a morning.