Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-2.dca.netnews.com!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=VEm^OW2BFZQ=P]QnYU5[F2hIijD_7J470dMQQ7[AUDUcSnb?@YYc1gZ:k^?G^PN]4=KWcMQTGP7M7_lFD2PEP?S5IYaD:]n_i[Z4@N@IV X-Complaints-To: support@frugalusenet.com Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:36:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi goes to war Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design References: <69791e7a$0$24$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <10lde2g$l145$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US From: bitrex In-Reply-To: <10lde2g$l145$1@dont-email.me> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 Message-ID: <697a8f56$0$5686$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1769639766 reader.netnews.com 5686 127.0.0.1:40963 X-Received-Bytes: 2310 Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.design:739827 On 1/28/2026 11:38 AM, Lasse Langwadt wrote: > On 1/27/26 21:22, bitrex wrote: >> On 1/27/2026 1:43 PM, john larkin wrote: >>> >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drones-war- >>> russia.html >>> >>> >>> John Larkin >>> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center >>> Lunatic Fringe Electronics >> >> "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.. > > or they are helping Ukraine defend their homeland against an invade, > while making a profit, however you want to look at it .. Incidentally leftists as a rule tend to not be big into all that God & Country bullshit. A lot of Americans are, many seem to really enjoy waving the Ukraine flag and playing armchair general while they sit home safe & sound on their fat ass. A general disinterest in heavily investing into Eurasia's seemingly perpetual genocidal conflicts over who-the-fuck-knows-what is one of the few things the Trump people get right