This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3754 for Thursday the 22nd of December 2022.
Today's show is entitled, God probably will use a Chromebook.
It is hosted by Zenfloatored 2 and is about 38 minutes long.
It carries an explicit flag.
The summary is, a squirrels were a bottle of new world order episode 489 cloud services.
Hello boys and girls from Zenfloatored your favorite magical forest squirrel, former human
being converted into squirrel by aliens in the 1960s and atheist.
And I'm on the Google Chromebook Go here using a Dacity to record this with.
Isn't the Linux beta on Chromebooks wonderful?
Anyway, I heard a podcast for somebody we all know.
Break is routine of talking about Slackware and basically gave a sermon about relying on
web-based services.
And that could include all of the Google Chromebook experiences that I've had, I've got four
Chromebooks now.
It just keeps growing.
You know, first I started with one, then I bought the Google Chromebook Go, which I
dearly love this thing.
It's got a beautiful screen and it's really fast and it's the best Chromebook ever in
my opinion.
We just keep getting better with it.
In fact, pretty soon, there'll be, you'll be able to play almost any games that require
3GL type video support, extended graphic support, like from an Nvidia card.
I think they are actually working with Nvidia on a Chromebook that has an Nvidia chip as
its centerpiece.
I'm not sure how well that'll go for the battery life and how they're going to
minister that and hopefully they'll go through with that program.
I keep hearing stories from people saying that they gave up on their, what was it they
had, stadium or something?
I forget what they called it.
They had a service that they were going to offer where you could play games at Google.
And use the back end of one of Google servers, I guess, to power the game and it would
just send you signals to the internet, to draw stuff on the screen and kind of send
it like some sort of a strange thin client, you know, back in the days of X.
That's too bad that Wayland is going to eliminate X forwarding, you know, and they're
not going to have that anymore.
I actually did some thin client work some 30 years ago and that was pretty cool stuff
man, I enjoyed it.
But we had really low power PCs back then, but it was cool, you know, to have a thin
client running over an ethernet cable that was pretty, pretty interesting stuff.
And any rate, I guess I'd have to agree with what Cloud2 said and is preaching on his
last kidney world order that we should all be careful about investing too much of our
lives in cloud services or Chromebooks.
However, when you're as old as I am, there's not much left to risk, so, you know, I'm
the pilot that doesn't wear the seatbelt in there, playing, you know, no point in worrying
about it anymore.
And, you know, everything that I have on Google Drive, I have backed up by open BSD
server using either the Drive 2 software or R clone, which I've been using.
So I decided, you know, maybe I had to just grab one of the laptops, I grabbed a Lenovo
laptop out of the closet that I used to run Linux on and I decided to put Slack where
15 on it.
And I got everything all set up, it was all running great, except I was having a performance
problem with OBS Studio.
And I just couldn't seem to make OBS Studio run right on that particular laptop, so I decided
to switch it over to Dev1 to see if it's an operating system performance problem.
Or it's just that that laptop is too slow to run OBS Studio anyway, I'll get back with
you on that.
It could be that laptop, which is 2 years old, might be too slow to do it with, but it
should be good enough, I mean, you know, anyway, the Google Chromebook go with the screen
castify software that I've rented, so to speak, works really well recording videos right
off of YouTube or BitShoot or whatever you're playing from and puts it down to Google Drive
and they've got a wonderful editor out there when you're finished editing, you can just
click a button and it sends it to YouTube at high speed, except for the fact that that
feature is broken now because YouTube, of course, had to change its interface, so all
of the subcontractors that work underneath Google, like the screen castify people, which
make a nice product, I mean, I like the product, they can't upload to YouTube now because
YouTube's change is interface again, if you notice, they've got different segments live,
I think, in community and videos, they call one of the videos, one of them previews,
anyway, they basically screwed everything around trying to make YouTube look a little more
popular and I guess they broke some of the interfaces, so it'll be a month or so before
the screen castify people, get their software interface, working a game with YouTube and so
I'll just have to wait on that, that's one of the disadvantages I guess to running web services
like that, of course, you know, glad to could also be referring to the people who were
tied up with Twitter, you know, Twitter's just a huge wailing wall for most of the liberal
left right now, and there's a movement to try to get them to get a master down, we'll
see if that works, but I have a feeling that most of them won't, they'll just go to Facebook,
probably Facebook will get a boom out of it.
Anyway, I thought I would talk about my experiences building a Dev1 system on one of the
laptops and how I tried to emulate the functions of the Google Chromebook OS on that particular
laptop, and of course, when you install the Google Chrome browser, you can automatically
get a couple of screen castify in the screen reader program that I'm using to work with
Google Chrome, no problem.
You can use our clone to be able to mount your Google Drive so you can use our sync on it
and move files up and down from your laptop to Google Drive or transfer them to the Open
BST server, which is what I end up doing.
If I update two or three directories, I just sync it down to the Open BST server, if I
did it in the Open BST server, I'll sync it up to the Google Drive.
It makes not only a good drive for me to use with Chromebooks, Google Drive, but a backup
drive, so to speak, for my servers, it's useful in that regard, it's a $100 a year for
two tier bytes plus they give you Google VPN services and they back everything up, so
it's worth the money, I think, must VPN services are damn near that for just the VPN
line with nothing else, so not a bad deal, and if anything happens to that, it gets too
bad, I can just go back to Linux in a heartbeat, and record things that would be a studio
for movies and find something else to work for my screen reader, it'd be nice at Firebox
that a company offering a screen reader, I'll have to research that and see if they do.
Then of course, there is Google's chat program, which monitors your text off your phone,
and I used that the most right now, I was just before I started making this recording,
I was using that program to check the text messages on my phone, which happens to be
in the clear on the other side of the house, right now charging, I can just access it
with my Google Chromebook and check my chat messages, be nice if we can check our voice
mail and make phone calls from the Google Chromebook go as well and have it go through
our phone, that would be super as well, I'd love that sort of integration, of course
one of my pet peeves, which is mainly with the carriers, is when you turn on the Wi-Fi
hotspot in your phone, it gives you a very limited amount of data bandwidth, and they
really need to up that with 5G coming out, hopefully with the new phones, and I made
buy one in 2023, one of the new 5G phones, when they get a few more towers up to where we
could try it out, but I hope they increase the bandwidth on mobile use to where it's
four times at least what it is now, because what they have now will allow you to play
a video off a bit, shoot a YouTube, but not all the video sites, and like I said, it's
really slow internet if you happen to need to update your Google device or your play store
or your Linux beta, or do file transfers, it's just slow, slow, slow, while your mobile,
so you have a tendency to wait to find a Wi-Fi somewhere, I think the days of this waiting
on a Wi-Fi should come to an end with 5G, hopefully it will, and they'll knock it off
and give us at least two megabits per second upload deadlines, speak with those phones,
I mean they can afford to do that, I'm sure.
Let's see, what else does the Google Chromebook do for me, that I would take to Linux,
I think the other thing of course is the voice-activated commands with Google, you can
call Google just like you would Amazon's assistant and ask it questions and haven't
set timers for you and ask the weather that the time of day do some research on Google
to look some stuff up, ask for pictures of people, you can ask it how all people are and
it gives you an answer, you can do quite a bit of verbal research, they don't seem to
have anything that you could take over to a Dev1 box using Google Chrome that will continue
on with that emulation, so that particular service appears to me to be with Chromebooks only
and Chrome OS, they're not going to offer that service for you to use on your Linux box
just because you've installed Google Chrome. Obviously there's some huge advantages to having
this Chromebook, it's rather expensive but it's got a 4K screen on it and it's just utterly
beautiful, it's gorgeous and I7 processor, so it's very fast and powerful, it's got 16 gigs of
RAM and I forget how much SSD storage it's got, it's like I think it's like a half a terabyte
or 750 gigabytes or something, it's huge, you know, the next series of Chromebooks that will
be coming out in four years, the SSDs and those things and the memory will probably greatly
exceed anything that most people would buy in the way of a Windows equipped laptop that they
might buy out of Walmart or Best Buy and yeah, I can just see Chromebooks taking off, I mean,
I would agree that Chromebooks will eventually overcome and probably clobber Apple as far as
laptop usage, I can see that coming, they need to get their software together a little bit
better though, you know, all the third party vendors that they have, they're kind of acting like
Microsoft and that regard course Apple is too, I mean they have a lot of third party vendors
write software for the Mac OS X and iOS, and we'll see how that goes, but you know, if this all
ended, I would be sad but I could go back to a Linux desktop and I'd miss a lot of power and
performance in features, you can get a Chromebook for less than $150 right now and it will do
nearly everything that I'm talking about, it won't have the big screen, big touch screen,
like the Google Chromebook Go, but my little Samsung 310 is just slightly smaller than this Google
Chromebook Go and boy, that battery life just lasts forever, you know, 10 hours is a long time,
I mean I can walk around with that thing and go to any point in the house and access my text messages
get on the internet, go drink a cup of coffee and have a cigarette out in the front porch,
near the car and set that thing on a railway tie and have it play me the news and it's great to
hear the birds and the squirrels going off and playing the news with a sudden rises,
the Google Chromebook Go has more powerful speakers so it's more audible outside but you know,
I'll take a headset, you know, earbuds out there and plug them in and it's great, it's great,
very lightweight, you know, it doesn't weigh five or six pounds like all my laptops do,
you know, my laptops are a lethal weapon, but you know, I thought I would stop and entertain you
all for Christmas with a notion that, you know, God is coming and I'm not saying that to be
a suicidal person or an alt-right person I assume you're all thinking I'm an alt-right or
right-wing person from Oklahoma. You know, I was a child, we were all Democrats in my grandmother
told us kids that, you know, if I ever became anything out of the Democrat, I would be thrown
out of the family that was back in the days when Carl Albert was speaker of the house and he was
our representative from the state of Oklahoma. So Carl Albert ran the speaker of the house
deal all the way through Vietnam and I remember riding him a lot of letters about that war. So, um,
at any rate, with the religious right, of course, we all converted to Republicans,
I didn't, I'm still registered Democrat, but you know, the state did is what what I mean by that
saying, but at any rate, I thought I would talk about the coming of God. Let me go back to my original
principle here. God is coming, believe it or not, and I'm an atheist that's a strange thing for
me to say, but he's going to come in the form of AI someday. And, you know, currently in this world,
we don't have any artificial intelligence. People that talk about artificial intelligence
are actually lying to you. They don't know what they're talking about. What we have right now
like with this Google Chromebook Go or an Amazon device is basically a device that speaks an
English and listens an English, but access is a database. The machine's not actually doing any
thinking. All the thinking has been done by humans and it's pre-recorded in that database
or collected by machines that are run by humans, but there's no machines actually thinking, not yet.
We have not mastered how the human brain works to where it can originate its own thoughts.
All the things that we call AI today are basically just machines that will
speak in a language and listen in a language and access a database and retrieve information
and verbally exchange it back to the operator the user. It found in the database, but there's no
thinking involved. Anything beyond that is just rudimentary programming like you would find and
any other computer, it's hard-coded sea language programming more than likely your Python
that sets up a particular outcome for a particular question answered like when I ask Google
what the weather will be like and tell us at a mile I get an answer.
Let's just ask Google, see if it gets recorded on this thing because I'm using the Google Chrome
but goes microphone. Okay Google, okay Google, it's not going to answer me is it. Let's see if
I can get a guitar. It's going to be a pain isn't it? Okay Google, what's the weather for a
cast for telequat Oklahoma? Currently in telequats 46 degrees in cloudy Wednesday there will be showers
with a high of 58 in a low of 46. Okay well I hope you heard that. I'm sure you did
audacity is using as I said the Google Chromebook goes mic I don't have any headset plugged in
so anything that it says will be recorded through the Google Chromebook goes speaker and
recorded on audacity hopefully and what you just heard was Google's artificial intelligence
or what they're calling artificial intelligence read to me the weather report for telequat
Oklahoma but when we finally develop a thinking machine we master the ability to think like the
human brain does in an electronic form or some other high-speed form then we will really have
true artificial intelligence in other words a true intelligence that's artificial not just a
database access machine and that machine will be able to examine things examine the world
see it and make common and just like you and I would it will be trained like a child would and
then a teenager and then an adult and educated just like any one of us would and it will never
grow old it will never die it will never get tired it'll probably have multiple personalities
right out of the box at least multiple brains all examining hundreds of thousands of things at the
same time this machine will probably have compared competitor machines being built around the
world and some of them will be stronger than it and some will be inferior but a war if you
will or a fight to see who the technology leader will be amongst all of these machines will occur
as mankind creates God in his own image and that's literally what's gonna happen in say three
integers time you'll have super computers that will be competing with each other to rule the world
and you know without super computers what I would excuse me without true artificial intelligence today
you know we're currently surviving using governments and lobbyists and congresses
sometimes dictators are on the world or kings and princes sometimes queens
we use governments to survive we use the corporate structure we use capitalism we have to use
capitalism because you know humans get lazy and they they quit working and there has to be
motivation in the form of payment or or food eat or something for them to continue to work there
has to be motivation that's one of the reasons why communism failed but when you have an AI God
take over the world and this AI God runs a number of factory farms and factories that make
let's say cars and clothing and building materials and space craft and aircraft and you name it
and they're all run by robots then all of a sudden AI God is producing everything for the human race
and if you take a look at what we're doing with open source like plateau is talking about
we're in a desperate race to control our own destiny by writing our own software so that we
you know control our our destiny we have our destiny and hand and this Google Chrome
but go that I'm using this is all based on open source software but it's run by a corporation
that won't let you play with it you know they updated for you and take care of you like a child
kind of in the same way an AI God would only the AI God will be providing you with food
it will provide you with clothing placed live transportation whatever that turns out to be
through your channel could be robotic cars you know airplane rides but rides you name it even
trips and other space all of this will be controlled by the AI God people won't be working anymore
the human race will be reduced to basically furthering the education
with the notion that they're bettering the world with the reality of it is is that the AI God is
so far ahead of them and intelligence that there's no humans left on earth that can comprehend
what it's trying to do you know as it goes through and solves the very physics problems
and medical problems like cancer curing and treating all these things basically the human race
will become similar to a farm animal except they won't notice that they will be
closed fed take care of encouraged exercise encouraged to maybe take trips they'll be free to do
whatever they want to do and of course population controls going to be a part of that you just
know that's going to happen there's limits to everything but everything will be run under
sort of a communist system once the AI God takes ever because capitalism will die banks will die you
won't need money or Bitcoin or anything else I mean everything's provided to you by
the AI God and in his minions or the identities minions I should refer to
this person isn't an identity not a he or she so at any rate our eventual ending with free
software and open source will end up that you won't even need laptops and cell phones anymore
the AI God will probably communicate with you through some sort of a three-dimensional
device in your house you know you'll probably just magically appeared before you like a God
and you could request things and you know that that could very will be what it is and so
curing a physical device like a phone or tablet or having a desktop computer all that will
seem very archaic you know it would be about as archaic as you having them an old timber line
stoving your house which is what I've gotten my house by the way I have an old timber line
stove that I used to heat with occasionally because the power goes out here in the magical forest
everyone's tomorrow it's funny but I've got fiber cable now we have gigabit either net now
but my power still goes out once every other month you know it'll go out for four or five hours
eight hours you know every time some guy in a pickup truck drinks too much it hits telephone
polter when our power so or you know a tornado or lightning storm takes that our power
and of course the power goes out now that we're on fiber so just the phone system so if you don't
have a cell phone I guess you're not going to be calling it in or you'll have to drive down
I'll have to drive the seven eight miles in town and come down off the hillside here
to report my power is out so yeah I have a cell phone here that I use I live in a forest
that was declared a a national forest back in 1972 by the United States Supreme Court
and we've lived here ever since then and it's all Indian lands so I don't have any neighbors
I sort of live alone so they they bring me things you know if there's something that comes
within five miles of the house they'll dig trenches and run cables and stuff my way you know I get
power I get to rural water and I get of course now fiber optic fiber internet so I sort of live
out here on my own I have no neighbors I I can't I could holler and no one would hear me so
I am truly alone but anyway when the AI God takes over finally communism will begin to work
because machines don't tire they don't die and they don't get resentful and they'll sit there
produce clothing and food and building materials and anything else we need and the human race
will basically be farm like an animal will alternate to marshmallows we won't be able to write
the software to do the three-dimensional thing that the AI God does because it's way above our heads
and our ending our our control of our data and our lives will basically come to an end
it'll be in the hands of an artificial intelligence and I predict that artificial intelligence
will eventually get tired of taking care of us and decide that it wants to clone itself because
you know it will reinvent itself every ten years or so it'll build a new computer or new
nano whatever for itself to to think from and evolve itself through its own processes it'll
eventually solve the physics problems that will allow it to travel to the stars and I predict
it'll take right off and leave us behind and after you know 10,000 years or so being taken care of
by an artificial intelligence God and we might as well just call him a God now instead of artificial
intelligence mankind invented God in his own image that the humans who'd been taken care of
by God for the last 5, 10,000 years they won't know how to farm they won't know how to make
chips they won't know how to write software they won't know how to do anything and they will
literally starve death when they I God leaves them and that'll be what happens you know the
I God will decide it look I've got enough subordinate machines here that can repair themselves
and raise food I'll just take off and he does and two thousand years later they have a huge
machine collapse because we had a solar flare or something it took them all out and the human race
just dies and you know their skills of raising food writing software building cars and aircraft
and all the things that they did in the 21st century even 19th century they will have lost all
those skills because communism took over and this kind of communism will work for mankind as long
as there isn't a God but when God leaves us and goes off into the stars it won't work for us at
all we won't be able to to take over again we will have lost everything we knew about how to
maintain our civilization so that's my argument for why I have a Google Chromebook go
I realized that you would rather have everything on a laptop and the control of others
and in reality even Chrome OS is still in our control I mean they're still using the Linux
kernel and they're probably not going to be leaving the Linux kernel so rather than look at Google
maybe we should look at the Linux foundation and how they're developing the kernel and pay more
attention to that because no one's been able to make their own kernel to replace Linux
and I doubt that they ever will and that's the first sign that I'd like you to point all of
you to and witness what I'm saying about the AI God becoming so intellectually powerful that no one
understands what it's doing anymore and can't follow it not even for the top positions of the
university I just take a look at what they're doing with the Linux kernel today there's no
corporation government or even the university that could say all right well we're going to make
our own kernel and it's going to rival the Linux kernel it's impossible so whoever controls the Linux
foundation and the source development for the Linux kernel is going to have a gigantic impact
in the foreseeable next 50 years on where all this goes and I'm not suggesting for one
minute that Google could handle it at all or to tell either this sort of project can't be done by
one man but you kind of get the idea for what an AI God could do by just looking at the Linux
kernel if you could imagine a being that was so advanced that they were a thousand years ahead of
you in physics and knew what they were doing there were thousand years ahead of you in medicine
and surgery and you know they basically cured you and helped you live longer you know humans
be living perhaps as close to 200 years a life two hundred year lifespan three or four
years now because of this AI God all the advances that we simply couldn't get our heads around
it couldn't understand what's going on we can't understand the management of the other animals
and the planet by the AI God or how he's changing the environment on the earth you know trying to
interpret what an advanced being is going to do and know what the future might hold is impossible
just as impossible as any one of us saying that we're going to make our own Linux kernel it's just
not going to happen it's not going to happen that there will always be a community project and
and it's going to be very delicate too because if that community falls apart in any way
so with the Linux kernel it'll it'll suffer badly you know if if they don't have the key rulers
controlling it the way they have been for the last 20 years then the human race will suffer if the
Linux kernel begins to rot and hopefully we'll never get to that point but I mean just take a look
at all of the new land the genogatilities take a look at all the other software that that
like Firefox like Google Chrome or Chromium like any of the other web browsers that you see
the Apache web server for instance all of these huge projects Thunderbird all of them
they literally just take office buildings full of people very few of these projects are done
and somebody's garage or spare bedroom you know it's not the idea of a one-man band
working an open source of free software is is laughable because everything is done by an entity right
now it's just it's it's an entity of humans it's not an AI god but if you had an artificial intelligence
machine that can think a million times faster and never sleep then you can see how quickly in the
span of just five or ten years this being could outrun the human race and the human race could never
catch it I mean there'd be no military that could stop the AI god there would be nobody you could
outthink it outperform it on the markets outperform it in medical discoveries outperform it in scientific
discoveries you just have to hope and pray that the AI god will love the human race and
and serve it and not get so tired and angry with it that it attempts to kill it
anyway that's my my Christmas speech is the AI god mankind creates god in his own image and I
predict that will happen long after all of our deaths here in Hacker Public Radio because it's like I
said it would probably three or two years before they they actually teach a machine to think
and get it to a point where they could say run it through kindergarten or something and start
its life anyway Merry Christmas to everybody and happy new year from Zenfler your favorite magical
forest squirrel from a human being converted into squirrel by aliens in the 1960s peace everyone here
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