It's not Linux, it's Ubuntu. Which is developed by Canonical. Which is a military contractor that has a permanent DoD team and works with the USAF. Which is bombing their country.

All these comments saying it's just a salient target are making it up. Canonical is a military contractor. They literally have an entire DoD team. That's why they're being targeted. They're far from the only military contractor to be targeted by Iranian hackers this year

Is this written down anywhere? All I can find is an announcement from the group and a follow-up message threatening Canonical if they do not negotiate.

What does a DDoS accomplish if the contracts are signed and a team embedded?

Why take down security.ubuntu.com? Surely even cyber jihadis need security updates?

Canonical literally has a DOD team. They are a military contractor

Canonical partners with organizations like the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and Platform One to provide secure software and AI/ML capabilities. They have an entire DOD team.

I can't find much info about that (especially with their website down). Is Canonical's work with the DOD more like Raytheon or Pizza Hut?

Raytheon: providing products specifically for the DOD

Pizza Hut: selling their usual product to the DOD

Pizza Hut does not have a permanent DoD team. Canonical has actual contracts. You'll have to wait till their site is back up to read about it

https://canonical.com/blog/meet-the-canonical-federal-and-do...

Pizza Hut has plenty of locations on military bases, each with a team dedicated to selling their product to the military.

I see your point. To answer your original question, yes Canonical's military relationship is fundamentally different from Pizza Hut. More comparable to something like Palantir that sells SaaS or IaaS

So more like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, and most big tech companies than either Pizza Hut or Raytheon? Perhaps most like Red Hat (who also sell to the DoD)?

I think it would be unusual to call them all military contractors (as you called Canonical in another comment).

Kimi is open source. They could easily just straight up copy it

Every copy is better than the original, true story.

Mistral is trash rn but plenty of OSS models are on the Pareto destribution of performance vs price

https://arena.ai/leaderboard/code?viewBy=plot

  model                     ELO   price
  claude-opus-4-7-thinking  1571  $20/M
  glm-5.1                   1534    3.65
  kimi-k2.6                 1529    3.24
  mimo-v2.5-pro             1479    2.50
  qwen3.6-plus              1470    1.54
  deepseek-v4-pro-thinking  1455    0.76
  deepseek-v3.2-thinking    1368    0.35

In fact it seems the pareto distribution is actually all open source Chinese models except for one spot

It's being biased on purpose. Musk has intervened multiple times when he believed Grok's responses were too "woke" or "leftist".

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok...

In response to Grok saying that the "woke mind virus is often exaggerated" the prompt was tweaked so that Grok now says "The woke mind virus 'poses significant risks'"

If you truly believed in what your comment states then you would oppose this sort of editorializing. But somehow I doubt this is a sincere argument.

Have you ever written a comment about how any of the other LLMs are editorializing in favor of the left, and how that's a problem? Because if you have, I'd love to see the evidence of your intellectual consistency.

But something tells me you're just doing the same thing that you're calling out

> about how any of the other LLMs are editorializing in favor of the left

I’m sorry come again now. Would you possibly have some examples of this

We don't have any proof of LLMs being editorialized in favor of the left.

We have clear proof of Grok and we also literally have a White House Executive Order mandating LLMs be editorialized to fight "woke"

Your version of reality is exactly skewed to what's actually going on.

The new response works for me, because in my mind I’ve always defined “woke mind virus” as a a mental virus which causes people to become absolutely pathologically obsessed with fighting an imaginary enemy they call “wokeness”. It’s the only definition which makes sense. “Woke” itself was never that viral.

Call it woke derangement syndrome.

People obsessed with fighting whatever they perceive as "woke" which remains ill-defined on purpose so they never have to actually formulate a rational take down beyond their emotional response

This has already happened. Mostly to Russia

> In late 2025, hundreds of Porsche vehicles in Russia became "bricked" (immobilized) because the cars’ satellite-based security systems (VTS) required continuous connectivity to European servers. Following the suspension of Porsche's operations in Russia, the cars could not "phone home" and automatically activated anti-theft immobilizers, preventing engines from starting.

> Tesla has remotely disabled Full Self-Driving (FSD) capabilities on vehicles in multiple countries—including Europe, South Korea, China, and Turkey—after detecting unauthorized "jailbreak" devices used to enable FSD in regions where it was not authorized.

> Reports from July 2024 indicate that Chinese brands have planned to or have blocked multimedia systems and other features in cars that were imported into Russia through non-authorized channels rather than through official dealers.

> American manufacturer John Deere remotely disabled advanced agricultural equipment looted by Russian forces from Ukraine, rendering the high-tech machinery useless after it was moved to Chechnya.

Makes it all the more shocking that Tesla placed last in the review. How do you even beat that?

Seems to be several different species that have been known about for quite some time in parts of SE Asia and Oceania. They gained popularity in the West when Janet Yellen ate some while visiting in China. But she ate them cooked as part of a meal. When cooked, they don't have hallucinogenic effects