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@ David
2025-06-14 06:04:55
companies founded and supported to do work for military have infinity money to do whatever they like. apple, google, microsoft, boeing, airbus, mcdonald-douglas, etc etc. they have their market dominance because they get all the money they need to pay all the lawyers to lobby the government and basically outlaw competition.
if you look closely at the history of tech companies that got big and then disappeared, there is always funny little strange things happening, like Commodore, for example, was infiltrated and they basically took the company apart. their tech was too far advanced, i mean, any amiga fan would be able to relate to this - the computer had graphics acceleration coprocessors that would not see wide use in the rest of the industry until about year 2000, flickerless sprites, bulk memery copy and splicing processors... until about 2000 windows mouse cursor flickered. apple's didn't because they used a simple technique involving bitmasking, which i figured out how to do on a TRS-80 CoCo back in like 1987 just by reading Byte magazine descriptions of things and other programming oriented magazines at the time. even now we still don't have vblank sync that works effectively for 3d graphics but most 2d graphics apps now do actually have vblank sync (stopping tearing and flicker)
these military backed companies basically have slowed down progress of tech, and combined with the endless ways in which they prevent people entering the industry, mainly copyright laws and EULAs we have seen tech slow down massively since the inception of the microcomputer in the 80s.
even now, here on nostr, i can almost guarantee you that primal and maybe other major nostr projects have got links to people in VC who are actually working for military. primal especially, you look at the vibe and style of them they smell like spooks.