Meanwhile the Chinese government have their own Linux variant Kylin which is developed as part of a national resilience and strategic initiative. It's wild to me that in this day and age few governments will spend even $100,000 on open source expertise but they'll throw billions at idiots like Microsoft because some politician was wined and dined by their sales people. If more people knew how broken the procurement system was and how their tax dollars were wasted on corporate welfare they would riot.
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Its way too tin-foil-hat of me to bring up how Bill Gates was in bed with the shadiest world leaders and how that might influence these sort of decisions, right? I’m definitely just being a conspiracy theorist here.
There's a scene in Space Force where a flight controller can't do something crucial because of a forced Windows update. I remember thinking "this is such a silly, cheap gag, there's no way a space organization would use Microsoft".
Well. I stand corrected.
Wait till I tell you many nuclear power stations and submarines run ancient versions of windows for their control software
I've worked in more than a couple factories and fabrication shops. Everything was on XP.
Every organization uses Windows because they can't fathom that Ubuntu is perfectly fine to use.
Meanwhile Big Tech's backbone are mostly libre software
Big tech is at a scale where it's cheap to do an in-house solution. Amazon maintains its own distribution for internal Amazon systems
why would you want to have email on a spaceship? why do they need email on a spaceship?
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just use Teams
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Microsoft Copilot now requests full access to the flight control system.
Abort? Retry? Fail?
Copilot erases whole guidance and navigation. Ejects control systems computer. Vents atmosphere
Artemis crew goes Mark Watney mode and miraculously save themselves.
Microsoft calls it a hiccup and asks people to ease with the Microslop
Pentagon invests billions into AI
They were troubleshooting a GoPro earlier too, lol. Was interesting, same problems up in space as we have down here.
There's something to be said for a computer that's as dumb as a calculator.
This is a fairly common government furnished equipment issue lmao
Guess NASA didn't want them writing SMTP rules while circling the moon.