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I have to admit that I am surprised that neither the article nor any of the HN posters have mentioned Rube Goldberg, whose humorous cartoons involving improbable contraptions to solve everyday problems seems to me an obvious predecessor to Simone Giertz.

Yes, this was exactly my reaction: this work seems to be depressingly applicable to real-world warmaking, yet we are only focused on the technical successes, and not on the systemic dangers that we are heedlessly creating.

Assuming that everyone looking at this work is a friend who will not turn it to military advantage is extraordinarily naive on our part.

Hear, hear. QEMU is excellent software, and I don't find that libvirt adds any value to its use.

Instead, one of the more annoying things I have ever done was foolishly installing libvirt and having it do all kinds of whackiness to a previously excellent QEMU set-up. I still cannot figure out where it managed to change all QEMU invocations to be VNC-based.