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Posted Oct 25, 2024 1:39 UTC (Fri) by Kamilion (subscriber, #42576)
In reply to: Related links by paulj
Parent article: Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

Ah, yes, so because I worked at a Knife Company, I'm ethically responsible for every bladed murder suicide on the planet.
Because I owned a whetstone, I'm culpable for every Hellfire R9X strike.
Due to buying a leather strop, I contributed to the deaths of millions of individuals.

We'll just... conveniently ignore all those other statistics like starvation, right?

Because I wasn't a farmer, I'm ethically responsible for every starving child, right?
Due to not tending a garden, I'm culpable for all the evils of economics and automations and profiteering, right?

Because I owned a screwdriver, someone somewhere was stabbed with an icepick and it's my fault for having a similarly shaped tool, right?

*because I have hands that could strangle someone, I should be imprisoned, or have them removed, right?*

Where does the madness end?

Tools work at the behest of their holder. We do not blame our tools. We blame ourselves.

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Posted Oct 25, 2024 2:14 UTC (Fri) by Kamilion (subscriber, #42576) [Link]

Ah, sorry, just realized that my dripping sarcasm may not have come across properly in text.
Paul, not really directing that at you; just elucidating in general. I also feel like I share some responsibility; like pizza, my contributions to ROS may have harmed, helped, and forced progress. But the question is, how much of that lays on my shoulders? Do my contributions to SLAM *actually* make me culpable for 'new things' heading out to the battlefield?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1QRqu3Cocw

"How Do Military Drones Fly Without GPS? | Ian Laffey, Thesus"

It's very clear to me that what I developed ten years ago is "being independently rediscovered" at a very rapid rate. This "kid" (and I use the term loosely, due to his youth, and verbal tic of 'Like', every three words as the cogs are turning in the background and he needs a moment for text to speech to finish exporting the current symbols before the next queued can be delivered) has pushed forward optical techniques that are older than I am, and mixed them up with modern tools. Those tools are intended for the battlefield, and it's clear he lacks the kind of life experience to apply a moral compass to the results. He likely knows they're going to harm people but has no context in his life to understand what that actually means.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4mc5mHksl8

This sort of scene is absolutely unheard of in american life, and nowhere in childhood or matriculation would he have encountered it.

"You see brief clips of it on the news." Except when you don't because even the news censors things to "buildings falling" and property damage. I can't recall the last time I've seen a *real pool of blood* -- it's something that's "only in fiction".

So yeah.

I don't deny that we can be very disassociated with life today.

Projectile Weapons are no longer seen as hunting tools for food gathering, because the general public now shops at walmart.

People have grown complacent, expecting the results of a process without bothering to look into the meat packing industry themselves.
What they might find there may be surprising. "The children yearn for the mines" is a pertinent meme to review in this case.