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[–] 169 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Odd to consider that Nvidia is now an arms dealer.

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  • [–] 128 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    much more money to be made making tech for dystopian authoritarian governments

    Like the US/western Oligarch Regimes for instance..

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    nvidia fuck you

    That said, Linux is not exempt from being used in weapons.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Linux devs usually don’t make a business out of it though.

    Horrible to imagine, finding Russian missile software on Gitlab.

    That’s the thing about FOSS: you do not have much control over what people do with it.

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    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)

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