Theo de Raadt

Like, even if we just stop trying to train and use just what we have, an AI that only knows things that happened up to twenty twenty-six will not be very useful in twenty twenty-eight.

twenty-eight.Cut out was a great choice of words because we're literally talking about the parable of the goose that laid the golden eggs, and Google is trying to cut those eggs out to not have to bother with the goose, and, uh, we all know how that one turns out in the end.

Duncan writes, "What sort of IT prep would you do to prepare for living in a post-apocalyptic world? How would your choice of operating systems and hardware change if the internet as we know it goes down? I assume an old ThinkPad must play some role here.

Would you run a BBS, and how would your listeners know where to dial in? What about AM radio? Can computers be networked over AM radio? What would you download while you could? Just Wikipedia or software repositories or what?"

Is this not a solved problem yet? What is the main thing getting in the way?"

Well, hardware pass-through gotchas are, are certainly an issue, but the larger issue is just it can't be clunky.

You have to remember that we're talking about supporting normal humans at scale, and normal humans at scale will not adapt well to so much as, well, after you turn on the computer, you need to double-click an icon to remote desktop from the computer into the computer because that's the real computer that you're trying to get into to do the thing.

And you also have to remember that, you know, you need to support arbitrary hardware pass-through, not just the GPU or, you know, any other specific thing, like, built onto the motherboard.