Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feed-3.dca.netnews.com!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!dca.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=V18i82BLU5[F2hIijDO7J470dMQQ7K^dBJd4@>=oD5c07F X-Complaints-To: support@frugalusenet.com Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:44:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design References: <69791e7a$0$24$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <10lbedv$3upbu$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US From: bitrex In-Reply-To: <10lbedv$3upbu$1@dont-email.me> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 25 Message-ID: <69793fc5$0$25$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1769553861 reader.netnews.com 25 127.0.0.1:37925 Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:739783 On 1/27/2026 5:32 PM, Don Y wrote: >> "Ukraine has become a fast-feedback, live-fire test range in which >> arms manufacturers, governments, venture capitalists, frontline units >> and coders and engineers from around the West collaborate to produce >> weapons that automate parts of the conventional military kill chain." >> >> Coders and engineers falling all over themselves to sell their souls >> out to the war machine and the State like the filthiest of $2 >> prostitutes, sad stuff indeed.. > > I think this represents a potentially huge paradigm shift for the > arms industry.  Instead of million dollar, radiation hardened bombs, > built by a select few "qualified" contractors, "sticks and stones" > seem to be effective! > > Suddenly, "players" without deep pockets can become significant > adversaries! Players without deep pockets have proved significant adversaries (of the US at least) for 70 damn years! Maybe the US military should've hired a qualified contractor like Vo Nguyen Giap as a consultant instead of hanging a POW/MIA flag on every post office and pretending the Rambo movies were actual history..