Distributed resilience is the new design principle

The Ukraine story (49951881) says distributed renewables protect against Russian strikes, because when buildings power themselves there's no central substation to hit. One commenter called it greenwashing for lack of a comparison, but the core logic drew agreement. The same logic shows up in the Cloudflare Git thread (49947051), where people asked for a Git platform with no single entity controlling its lifecycle, and in the home-automation bin tracker (49947472), where the hobbyist stack is local-first.

The pattern: whether it's a power grid, a Git host or a trash can, builders increasingly design so that no single point can be hit, censored or priced up. It links back to today's billing and platform stories as the same fear, expressed as design.

The tradeoff nobody fully answered: distribution costs more up front and pushes operations work onto the user.