https://www.libcom.de/en/tags/promise/ Recent content in Promise on libcom.de Hugo en-GB Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/the-promise-of-the-right-tool/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/the-promise-of-the-right-tool/ <p>There is a sentence that gets spoken more often than any other this decade, and it sounds like insight but is really capitulation: <em>Well, in the end everything is transparent anyway.</em></p> <p>What it refers to is the mood that crept in like damp into a cellar — the assumption that every app phones home, every device emits telemetry, every cloud can read your data regardless, and there is simply no fighting it anymore. Anyone who talks like this thinks of themselves as realistic. Really they have given up and are looking for an elegant formulation for it.</p>