Yeah

I gotta ask, would you consider humans intelligent?

I mean the entire scientific method depends on the deterministic nature of the universe, arguably making everything ever to follow manually coded instructions.

Just break it down logically,

Would you consider something capable of playing minesweeper intelligent? (ie do you think it has a higher level of understanding than pure random chance?)

Do you consider software running on a manufactured silicon chip natural or artificial?

It was actually the 50s, commonly attributed to John McCarthy.

Crazy its been around almost a century at this point

The term is probably older than you.

Heres the biggest and most active I could quickly find, but I believe the XKCD in that repo inspired a handful of similar projects

Its cool to see this xkcd in action.

That being said theres a couple options out here attempting the same thing, but due to the required level of trust youre fighting a bit of an uphill battle for widespread adoption.

Not that this changes how cool of a tool it is and valuable for you use case!

SIMD Might be the term youre looking for (Single Input Multiple Data)

JK Rowling🤢

The mentioned guix or more popular nixos arguably handle this better than traditional distros

From a comment on the article

I love compression, I love ffmpeg and I love more performance, but… FFV1 is ffmpegs own, old lossless compression format for archival purposes. It is not particularly bad, but it is also not particularly good or modern.

You looked into flatpaks?

They work using namespaces and cgroups like containers, but have a much more unified system than podman/docker

Engineers love moving parts, known for their reliability and vigor

I thought the same, looks like AMD is trying to introduce something to limit that access (ie allow potentially compromised hosts run trusted VMs).

Probably to make VPS’ more attractive to security focused divisions.

Pretty sure it means the equivalent of root on baremetal (ie ring 0 in a vm is still safe).

Pretty sure on top of that anyone with that access can essentially rewrite your CPU’s brain, allowing ring 0 access even after (for example) selling the CPU.

So your threat model is state level hackers?

On desktop PC’s?

Any malicious actor in the universe would love to be able to make a bot net out of 90% of the worlds computers, doesn’t make it any less plausible out of movies

Root access on any of these platforms would still result in persistent low level system access

Jesus H Christ youre running your browser as root?

Unless you mean an oceans 11-esque double zero-day exploit that jacks the userspace browser, stacked on a root-level privilege escalation zero-day on arguably the most secure OS in the world.

I think we have insanely different threat models

“Improve user experience” tends to mean if you’re poor, the lowest level of hell isn’t gonna compare to how shitty of an experience they’ll give you

Man that’s a lot of weed