Change address on every DHCP renewal

Posted Aug 29, 2025 9:28 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Change address on every DHCP renewal by farnz
Parent article: Linux's missing CRL infrastructure

At a certain point, you just have to teach humans how to work with the system as it is - while waiting for the AGI that will anticipate your every need, before you even know them.

Change address on every DHCP renewal

Posted Aug 29, 2025 10:06 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

Sure, and we know that the best way to ensure that humans actually learn that lesson is to not let things appear to work for a long period before breaking due to a human error. Humans need feedback fairly close in time to the mistake in order to learn from their errors. Humans are also guaranteed to have a non-zero undetected error rate - from 0.009% for trivial tasks, to 30% for very difficult tasks - and we need feedback to get us to detect the errors.

That's been a very hard lesson for the commercial aviation and nuclear industries to learn - but we don't have to relearn it from scratch, we can learn from their mistakes.