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You're right, it does make sense. This is how the internet was designed but not how it was implemented.

Originally, every machine was a directly reachable peer, but a finite supply of addresses (IPv4) forced most devices behind translation boxes (NAT) that let them dial out without ever being dialable. Once traffic had to route through the few hosts that stayed reachable, those hosts became toll booths, which is partially where the more centralized internet we actually got came from.

iroh basically patches the internet

HomeAssistant is probably doing too much for what you need. Imo it's not a good piece of software. https://nodered.org/ is maybe a better fit. Or just some plain old scripts.

The phrasing. "It's not just X, it's Y," overuse of "quotes"

A lot of people really need to be reminded of this.

I originally came to this critique via Heidegger, who argues that enlightenment thinking essentially forgets / obscures Being itself, a specific mode of which you experience at this very moment as you read this comment, which is really the basis of everything that we know, including science, technology, and rationality. It seems important to recover and deepen this understanding if we are to have any hope of managing science and technology in a way that is actually beneficial to humans.