> Layer 2 VPN is where it’s at anyway. I want to be on my LAN not managing one device or app at a time, I never got the wireguard hype.

You can do that though? Tailscale can as well. A device can advertise subnets, and can route them through tailscale, so you just need a single node in a LAN.

> A device can advertise subnets, and can route them through tailscale

This is still L3 layer though. One the main use case of L2 is proper DHCP propagation and avoid subnet collisions. I do not think that this matters in practices though. Only a limited amount of user facing service require proper L2 emulation (apple TVs ?)

Or anything that uses multicast. The idea is you want homoiconic networking behavior and portability between local and remote. Hacking in special routing and subnets in L3 doesn’t give you that.

I find Passkeys are amazing once you accept they are not your only path in, just a much more convenient one. Have your accounts and totp with an authenticator set up, but add on every device you like a passkey to create a fast path.

Removes the need for syncing any passkeys, the risk of getting locked out, and the terrible support of 3rd party password managers providing passkeys

This is dope. Love to see any efforts to get Linux on the desktop more ready to use.

I used to think this but once you treat them as another path to get in they become really useful.

Yes, you still have your 2fa and password, but you create a fast path in addition to it when you get in.

It became even more useful once I stopped insisting they have to go into 1password

I'm pretty impressed how openai is both extremly verticalized but also building products across the whole depth of that stack.

Not sure if they're just trying to find what the abstractions are worth focusing, or if it will stay that way, but certainly cool to see how much they're trying out.

It certainly feels like they are throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.

Makes sense to me. The cost of shipping products is lower than ever and they have lots of talented folks who want to ship things. No one knows what could be the next killer app.

They have everyone's attention. They have access to newest AI stuff. They can say, "we need ideas to make money, don't make mistakes, generate the code, make a marketing post".

However, reality is different and unpredictable.

They probably have a “low hanging fruit” agent that makes pitches to them during weekly update meetings based on potential ROI

How many PM's have they got? Each one justifies his or her existence.

Why does it have to be ad revenue though? A forecast of ad revenue alone being below expectations really doesn't say much about a company like openAi

So what's being proposed here? Why bother and just use US clouds?

Don't let 'perfect' be the enemy of 'progress'.

Exactly. Why bother and own yourself?

I always snarked at clueless CEOs bent on forcing me to sign NDAs while the entire infra _and_ data was living in US from the get go. Like, what's so sensitive I'm going to disclose that wasn't voluntarily disclosed by yourself already?

People are at least as concerned with who data is disclosed to as they are with what data is disclosed.

I am sure the US government has everything from my banking records to my biometrics to my medical history.

That does not mean I would be ok with all of those things being posted on the open web (yes, some / all may already be).

Employers are generally more concerned with disclosure to competitors than they are with possible collection by US intelligence.

Had a pixelbook and it was hands down one of the best laptops I ever had. Sure, ChromeOS is fairly boxed in but the Linux VM was reasonably good and the built quality was just something else.

I wish they'd just make ~ pixelbook with ubuntu... it'd be such a powermove, and they if anyone could pull it off

I was excited at first by this, but the "designed for gemini intelligence"... like what does that even mean