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Odd to consider that Nvidia is now an arms dealer.
The fucktard who made the Oculus Rift likes to use my preferred operating system to kill people. Tech is a wild world.
Edit: actually not just tech. Capitalism is just evil in general and polutes everything both literally and metaphorically
We live in a world where it's sorta just widely understood that the bottled-water chocolate-bar company murders people for profit on the regular
It's all fucked at every level
Shall we mention also The Banana Company and, well, South America?
Palmer Luckey is the goofiest looking cunt out hey. Imagine looking at yourself in the mirror with that stupid goatee and thinking you know what would go well with this, a hawaian shirt. Imagine having so much but being worth so little. What a fucken loser.
Not to mention the mullet! He's certainly made some choices.
Palmer Luckey
You can tell who is evil by their company being named after Lord of the Rings lore.
But but shareholder value of artificial money funneling system which has totally fair rules we made up and misuse.
Always have been. Orin nano/nx SoMs are in all sorts of weapons systems. NixOS had a whole community civil war because Anduril heavily adopted NixOS and integrated it with Jetpack, the BSP that these run. They're kind of a PITA to use (fuck you WayneWWW...IYKYK) but they're easily the highest performance SoM of that size and the power consumption is workable for these kinds of...short lived systems. I think they started out targeting automotive applications and never really took off in the commercial world despite being comparable to Apple silicon in performance because they have no power saving modes. They ended up being perfect for doing real time object detection from a MIPI camera though so now they're the gold standard for bleeding edge slaughterbots.
Before the Orin, a lot of more experimental systems were using the TX2i and Xavier modules, but they had much less computing power and the image recognition models weren't as capable anyway.
This guy tegras
Interesting, thanks. I've seen NixOS requirements in german military projects. And it is very interesting looking at western downed drone teardowns in the Ukraine. I kept looking for NVidia logo there.
Nvidia doesn't really put a big logo on anything, but if you know the shape of the modules they're easy to spot.
All of the tech giants discovered that there is much more money to be made making tech for dystopian authoritarian governments than gamers. It was inevitable I guess.
Just look at the long, long, LONG list of American and European companies helping Israel murder little children...
Like the US/western Oligarch Regimes for instance..
Yeah, and also Russian/Chinese oligarch regimes. What's your point?
I think the point is oligarch bad.
That said, Linux is not exempt from being used in weapons.
Linux devs usually don't make a business out of it though. That's the thing about FOSS: you do not have much control over what people do with it.
Horrible to imagine, finding Russian missile software on Gitlab.
That's the thing about FOSS licensing, at least legally. Depending on which one you choose it controls what people do with it quite a lot.
About licensing:
Yes and no. Plenty of people or companies just don't care and it can be hard to prove otherwise. And in the context of military software, well... I doubt russian software devs are even allowed to publish anything related, despite the respective FOSS possibly requiring it.
Hence
Apple once advertised their new PowerMac G4 was so powerful it was classified as a munition and hence illegal to export. (this was stretching the truth a bit as the regulation allowing export of over 1 gigaflops machines had already passed)
Encryption used to be considered a controlled munition by the US.
It's a more efficient, direct, and profitable method for destroying the planet.
See also almost all "technology" under capitalism.
Pepsi once had a sizeable army, iirc
Air force and navy.
Yeah, didn’t they buy it from Russia?