Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML
by MereInterest on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:55PM
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> Ship an entire physical PC to the user pre-loaded with the application?
I'm going to guess that there will be a few intermediate steps, with the additional goal of removing rights to your own computer.
After Docker and containers, an image for a virtual machine, to provide a kernel and not just the libraries.
After virtual machines, a connection to a remote machine, to avoid downloading the entire image and reduce your first-use bandwidth.
After connections to remote machines, a "co-located server", with an abstraction layer between using the remote machine to reduce first-use bandwidth and using the machine in your house to reduce latency.
Which is all to say that I wouldn't be surprised if it happened that way over the next 10-20 years, resulting in you renting the computer that sits in your own house.
I'm going to guess that there will be a few intermediate steps, with the additional goal of removing rights to your own computer.
After Docker and containers, an image for a virtual machine, to provide a kernel and not just the libraries.
After virtual machines, a connection to a remote machine, to avoid downloading the entire image and reduce your first-use bandwidth.
After connections to remote machines, a "co-located server", with an abstraction layer between using the remote machine to reduce first-use bandwidth and using the machine in your house to reduce latency.
Which is all to say that I wouldn't be surprised if it happened that way over the next 10-20 years, resulting in you renting the computer that sits in your own house.