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Was this about some PC nonsense? This post doesn't really point to any concrete problems, but seem to be about someone trying to gain control over the project?
by rijoja 2y ago
Was this about some PC nonsense? This post doesn't really point to any concrete problems, but seem to be about someone trying to gain control over the project?
- bananapub 2y agoit is mostly used on personal-computers yes, but that's not really the crux of the issue.
- rijoja 2y agoThe acronym I was referring to was Political Correctness...
- Kiro 2y agoThey are well aware. What's more interesting is that you responded so seriously to an obvious joke.
- rijoja 2y agoYeah no I thought of that, and consider saying something funny back, but then I remembered what HN's policy was on the subject, and thought that in the case someone fails to see the sarcasm, they'll not be confused.
- saagarjha 2y agoHacker News has no official policy on being funny. It just penalizes you if you’re bad at it
- constantcrying 2y agoApparently it is about Nix, for the first time, seeing real world usage by a serious corporation, but that usage turning out to be autonomous drones aiding the US in killing random civilians on the other side of the world.
- rijoja 2y agoRight, that explains it. The post is really lacking when it comes to concrete examples of what is going on. "The ad-hoc structure of maintainers here better represent the goals of Nix users and their methods of success. Yet, these contributors are beginning to flee." It also makes the claim above, is there any truth to that? Is there evidence of contributors fleeing, and if so where? What is stopping them from forking the project?
- Cacti 2y agoAnduril specializes in counter-drone warfare and collaborative intelligence. They are not bombing civilians on the other side of the world.
- mtndew4brkfst 2y agoIt's relatively easy to find articles from the horse's mouth about this. If you read through the euphemisms you can see that besides drone/counter-drone stuff, they also participate in building and deploying tech that are not purely "defensive", not focused solely on drones, but capable of and built for violence against people, infrastructure and other (manned) vehicles too. Suggest clicking through since the URLs are not nearly as clear as the content: https://www.anduril.com/article/altius-700m-live-fire-test/ https://www.anduril.com/article/altius-700m-live-fire-test/ ALTIUS-700M brings unmatched payload capacity to the loitering munitions market, combining multi-domain launch, proven collaborative autonomy, and category-leading range with a larger, penetrating warhead to kill or disable armored targets and infrastructure. https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-s-lattice-a-trusted-dual-use-commercial-and-military-platform-for-public-safety-security/ https://www.anduril.com/article/anduril-s-lattice-a-trusted-... U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, for example, uses Lattice for land and maritime border security to autonomously identify, track, and detect people https://www.anduril.com/article/army-selects-anduril-and-palantir-to-deliver-titan/ https://www.anduril.com/article/army-selects-anduril-and-pal... TITAN is a vehicle-mounted expeditionary ground station that will accelerate and simplify the Army’s ability to access and process massive volumes of Space, High Altitude, Aerial, and Terrestrial sensors to provide actionable targeting information for enhanced mission command and long range precision fires. TITAN will reduce sensor-to-shooter timelines by enhancing the automation of target recognition and geolocation from multiple sensors [...] "and long range precision fires"