Anduril’s autonomous surveillance towers have been used on the U.S.–Mexico border to detect and track migrants, as part of DHS programs. This has drawn criticism from immigrant rights groups and academics who argue such systems dehumanize migrants and enable policies that align with authoritarian nationalism.

Anduril is privately funded (by VC firms like Founders Fund) but markets and sells directly to governments and military agencies, without the typical government R&D cycle. It builds weapons and surveillance systems first, then offers them to the state. This “build first, ask later” model can lead to unchecked corporate influence over the military-industrial complex, which some critics argue is a step toward a techno-authoritarian fascist regime.

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey was ousted from Oculus after it was revealed he funded a pro-Trump meme organization (Nimble America) known for spreading far-right content during the 2016 election. While this doesn’t make the company fascist, it raises concerns for critics about the political leanings of its leadership and how those ideologies could influence product deployment.

Anduril is deeply involved in developing autonomous weapon systems, like the ALTIUS-600M loitering munition. Critics warn that the use of AI to identify and kill targets without human input could lead to violations of international law and facilitate mass violence or authoritarian control. Anduril’s heavy investment in such systems leads some to see it as advancing a dystopian militarized fascist future.

Still if Im going to give my time I will go copyleft.

Also NEVER accept a Contributor Agreement License (CAL)
Which allows the devs to also publish a dual licensed or closed source version.

They want you to use Oracle ZFS instead, they have a lot of money riding on this.

I told my psychologist and she said it’s “paranoid delirium disorder type persecution” and gave me strong anti-psychotic pills. That there was no conclusive proof that kernel anti-cheat code contained any malicious instructions, even though bits of it are encrypted and run inside the TPM chip so it can’t even be decompiled what they’re doing in there. And the telemetry they’re sending to the mothership has not been proven to send anything but anonymized summaries of the information collected on the computer.

Incredible opportunity, just buying respectable root access as kernel anti-cheat to hundreds of millions of computers world wide. This is the intelligence service haul of the century !

Is it like, a whole other network with different people or is it like a different front-end to the lemmyverse ? This is kind of confusing ? And what about that “kbin” I keep hearing about, is that the same deal ?

I understand the concerns about blobbification of all these system into a technical monolith that you have to swallow whole or not at all, that you can’t really break down into it’s individual components. So if the thing you need isn’t in there, you have to chuck the entire systemd thing and switch back to SysV

However, I quite like systemd so far… except for having dozens of processes, that’s not super chill to have so much stuff I don’t use running but OK, convenient.

At least it’s not like Wayland, that we have been forced into while it was barely working, and still today it’s only kinda working with lot lot lots of non-working stuff and mega jank stuff while now X11 is rotting and dying. So we’re stuck with half-dead half-lobotomized graphics system… I hope they eventually get their shit together and I wish they would have made wayland working before killing X11.

1, use contact less smartcard , they are passive devices
2. get a used phone just for that
3. use one of the open source one, anyway siri and the google one are trash abandonned in 2012

Oh ok, that’s pretty good then.
But I do hope we’ll get an open cuda replacement soon and some sort of gpu partitionning/ vgpu capability

Then you are surely running the proprietary nvidia drivers, not the open source “nouveau” nvidia drivers ?

The open drivers ? You mean the ones without 3d acceleration support ?

‘those pesky “restart required” messages after an update?’

Hmm so they want to make modifying my system without my permission even more seamless ?

I’m not sure I like that very much…

Just use the linux equivalent of https://github.com/VirtualDrivers/Virtual-Display-Driver
When the wayland people stop pretending you don’t need it
in 3 to 5 years, sometime around when they realize that network transparency is really important actually

They should stop dumping it in the rivers

And the current goal is to ban them all

https://www.wcl.org.uk/transitioning-to-a-pfas-free-economy.asp

Leaving us only able to buy the proprietary alternative of an oligopoly, instead of regulating the production of this commodity.

End result, we pay for it all and get a degradation in quality.

The PFAS/PFOA controversy, is mostly about banning these commodity products so that the proprietary, non-commodity alternatives by western companies can become the only high temperature dry lubricant on sale.

Maybe in another 60 years we’ll have the same controversy about them !

Probably not interested in dealing with endless permission and proxy problems. Me I just run everything as root and password 543211111111111111Aa±

I too feel an unarticulated "ick*, there is something dangerous, along with not really open sourxe license. Can’t quite put my finger on it. Some potential loss of autonomy.

Backdoor hidden in plain sight?

How do you go inside those containers and poke around then ?