I wonder how much more surveillance they can feasibly justify to prevent remote access to new secure phones from old, insecure, non-compliant devices used by Elucalidavah and other un-American activists.
It would be frustrating, but the group that is excluded from online services today tends to be low status and may benefit greatly when a tech elite with connections, status and special interest groups finds itself excluded.
Which has been the business model for a big chunk of the software industry for a while now.
If you watch videos from the 1980s about computers, it's all the same unfulfilled promises as "AI" now: we will work less, everything will be more plentiful, easier, autonomous robots, natural language perfected, computer vision perfected.
The demand for hardware and programmers has grown exponentially and we're still being promised the same breakthroughs 45 years later. We could probably have the same productivity and the same civilization with maybe a tenth of the data centers.
The demand exploded as so many business cases for computing and automation arose partly because the application of them helped suppress job growth in other areas while also attracting investor capital during heavy deregulation / liberalization trends so it's difficult to attribute any change to an effect in isolation. Let's not forget the old myopic sounding quote where someone thought the global market for computers was maybe $50 million or some other laughably small number.
The issue that hasn't been addressed with the latest wave of computing hype is whether enough new jobs for displaced workers can arise during a time when people are experiencing such economic turmoil and political strife where new jobs or other means of letting people find a way to have gainful employment in society when institutions are so weak now and everyone across professions is being worked to an early grave from sheer stress alone. This resembles Japan or Korea although the US and Canada I can't imagine having the same kind of social drivers although many trends from them are showing up in youth demographic trends. And frankly as I see it a large number of current social problems are from the past 50+ years of the decline of blue collar jobs in developed economies being accessible to as many people and the lack of a competition-driven economy as much as an extractive one in most OECD countries.
Your example is not complete, you have to show how it will run claude/codex, you have to do extra things to install run and mount folders there, this one does that with less config, also with this agents can run docker, lxd doesn't allow you to do that
packer init ubuntu-claude.hcl
packer build ubuntu-claude.hcl
incus launch ubuntu-claude my-claude-vm
incus exec my-claude-vm -- claude -p "solve the EC discrete logarithm problem, if it doesn't work keep going" --dangerously-skip-permissions
The reality of these things are that eventually you will want to do something useful or different with them and the flexibility simply isn't there compared to a real vm, if you desperately need boot times then there's plenty of other options here, especially with packer. Some of my prompts are often hitting 60+ minutes so it's not really something I think about.
An other intesting use for this data is OSNIT about war, like recent conflicts it's used to confirm hits on specific places and sort validation for state-media reports
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