Smart home alliance from Apple, Amazon, and Google called Matter

Two other[1][2] posts on this so far.

Still the scariest part, via the awesome great fantastic in-depth with-great-links-to-previous-stories staceyoniot coverage[1] on Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA, the alliance behind this Matter specification):

> The CSA is also focused on releasing as much as it can as open-source code, which strikes me as somewhat incongruous with the fact that to see or vote on the developing standard, companies had to pay to join the CSA and the Matter working group. However, the code is all available on Github, and anyone will be able to see it and download it for their applications and devices.

It's just so depressing thinking that there's this industrial standard for the most ubiquitous & pervasive devices on the planet, the things that fill our home, AND THAT WE CANT KNOW OF IT. We don't get to know how our devices work, even though there's a common language. It's miserable, anti-Enlightenment, and it enforces a cruel & brutal consumerism & keeps mankind from grappling with the role of technology in our lives. It makes me think of Steve Talbott's great write up, The Deceiving Virtues of Technology[3]:

> This odd association between technology and deceit occurs not only in our own language, but even more so in Homer’s Greek, where it is much harder to separate the inner and outer meanings, and the deceit often reads like an admired virtue.

I want honest, genuine technology, that gives me a fair shake, that says what it is. CSA builds upon the unreasonable, deceitful Thread standard to build another new web of control & manipulation, that similarly releases some source, but refuses to share understanding, refuses to illuminate what is happening here. We should not accept this dark technology into our homes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27121525

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27122604

[3] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/devices-of-the/97805965...