"The Great Abstraction Robbery" is a narrative reflection on the thirty-year erosion of user autonomy within the Microsoft ecosystem. Tracing a line from the failed "agentic" promises of Clippy and Cortana to the modern defensive posture of LinkedIn and GitHub, the article frames the move to Debian 13 as a heroic rescue of high-performance hardware—specifically the 28-thread "Daphne-3030"—from a labyrinth of proprietary bloat and corporate FUD. It concludes that true technical independence is the "Independent Variable" necessary for deep, focused research in the age of AI.
An AI discussion of the article https://williamlweaver.substack.com/p/the-great-abstraction-robbery
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