Those words sound cool and mean literally nothing
potatopotato
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Yeah but the people running this seem to only be interested in pivoting between whatever the current grift is. We should come up with a word for people who do that, maybe something like "grifters".
IME those groups aren't very libertarian, they're closer to American Taliban religious fundamentalism.
I hate that it needs to be said but love that they said it so plainly
Given that home Depot pipe will function just fine as a shotgun barrel I think this ship sailed a long time ago.
Also there are much more entertaining things you can build from instructions on YouTube. One guy is detailing his quest to build anti aircraft guided missiles but scary ghost gun is scary...
That's not typically possible with forks. You can't just relicense GPL stuff under a non free license.
Does forking do anything to stop anduril?
There might be a few layers to this one. Drones are becoming a central part of strategic production and the US doesn't really have many competitive companies manufacturing small ones at volume.
They need to force the domestic market to build up local expertise and manufacturing capacity in the event that small drones are the direction warfare ends up going more broadly.
The us defense apparatus is still on the fence about this given that their volume of use in Ukraine could be more of an aberration due to the respective industrial bases and static nature of the war. That said the numbers are insane enough that they warrant some action just in case.
Because it's a prisoners dilemma. They don't have the money to suddenly buy a billion Teslas and trillion solar panels so either they burn the coal they have because everyone else is too, or they just give up trying to become an advanced economy while everyone else keeps polluting.
In either case tens of millions of people die on the subcontinent, but in one of them at least they get to improve their economy.
Now that's how you kill all the gophers
At an absolute minimum 20. We aren't seeing any useful systems that work on any scale at all yet. The iphone made smart phones pseudo mandatory but they were preceded by decades of development with several generations of usable devices. If I had to guess it's probably closer to 30 years if tech decides to go in that direction which itself isn't guaranteed.
I ran the numbers myself a while back, it's not pretty at all.
Until you hear about people traveling >200mi and getting their commercial pilots licenses entirely on conventional takeoff fixed wing electric aircraft (see pipistrel electro) it's safe to assume this vtol industry is grounded. The conventional fixed wing aircraft are wildly more efficient in terms of battery mass fraction and range but they don't get investors excited like a personal quadcopter for the (ultra wealthy) masses.