• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    Senator Tom Cotton’s legislation seeks to “prevent advanced American TAIWANESE chips from falling into the hands of adversaries like Communist China.”

    FTFY

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    And how do they plan to do this? even if they add (GPS) tracking hardware the Chinese will just cut the connection to the Antenna and the GPU is gone. If they do it in software (like driver) it will just be patched out.

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      Sure, but now a new company selling Geo tracking shit for GPUs is making billions per year. Problem solved!

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    Capitalism is a system of whores. And there’s nothing wrong with whores, but a whore is a whore. Good luck. It’s going to be like trying to hold a bar of soap that’s slipping out of your hands. You can keep grabbing at it, but it’s just going to keep slipping. I just recall when America leaked nuclear secrets because soldiers were using a private private flashcard program and they forgot to check mark the box that said private. And so they ended up leaking all these secrets all over the internet. And let’s not forget. The open source information that was used from some snot-nosed person on an osint account on twitter for targeting a supposed underground base, that cost the lives of innocent civilians via the Palantir and Peter Thiel’s stupid AI. They did not get an underground base. They just wasted millions of dollars on something that wasn’t there.

    It’s like their plans are dystopic and terrifying, but they’re not going to be able to implement them in a way that’s worth a damn. And also, their actual product that they produce is so stupid that it’s even more terrifying than the original idea. It’s just straight up fucking madness. It’s like, look mom, no hands. Then you fall off the goddamn bike and you’re sitting there crying.

    This still remains. There is so much corruption and greed in this country that we can’t even function as an empire. We can’t even get a chip’s factory figured out. We don’t make shit. Everybody in this country is so goddamn lazy and stupid. I can’t even find a noble cause because I feel like I’m just enabling stupid people. I’m sure we just operate off of bare necessities. Like the need to just stay alive one more day. But it gets to the point where it’s like, what’s the fucking point? This country is nonsensical. It’s absurd. It’s laughable. It’s weak. It’s limp dicked. And this happened way before Joe Biden or Trump. This has been a continuation ever since I’ve been alive for 40 fucking dumb ass years.

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        Yeah right, a couple of my good friends used to be sex workers so

        but a whore is a whore

        just seems ignorant and misogynist to me.

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          Its just a phrase about managing expectations. You can replace whore with literally any profession and its the same message.

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    Yeah that is fun and all but I can at least guarantee you that that shit won’t fly in Europe, and likely neither in Canada. I can only imagine other countries will be penning their own laws outlawing this.

    So tech giants then have the option to either go for separate chipsets for those countries or stip selling there.

    Also, how do you want to implement this? Have the GPU request GPS data from the computer? That won’t be hard to forgr., but let’s say you ge that, then what?

    You need to send that info somewhere or it’ll be useless. How? Over the Internet? Ahw, my firewall told you to go fuck yourself. Over its own GPS line? A little bit of aluminum foil can do miracles.

    So what are you going to do then? Require an active internet connection for your GPU to work? Bwhahahahha. Have you seen gamers responses to games that require active internet connections to play? You won’t sell shit.

    This is again a law designed by absolutely.emoty headed idiots tompleae some other empty headed idiots.

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    How is this even legal? I am not even american nor living there, so how would the US be allowed to operate massive and unregulated surveillance through GPUs ?

    The US is becoming worse than those they call villain.

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      The US has very low engagement of its voters, so even things that are illegal are starting to happen regularly.

      It’s the same as so many countries, once a few rich guys get into power, as long as the guys with guns will take their money, it doesn’t really matter what want, the government gets captured and corrupted.

      There’s ways to fight it but it’s a slog. I might give up. It’s not my job to fix it, fixing things doesn’t pay.

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        Isn’t it the reason for donald? Only like 60% vote, so the “stupid 30%” of the population can be used to grab the power seat?

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          Basically yes. That’s why Fox News is such an important instrument to the movement. They get their voters primed up and angry all year. They came out and voted against trans people in bathrooms and they are okay to suffer if that is achieved

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      If you’re in Europe I’m pretty sure those chips would violate the hell out of the GDPR and as such can’t be sold there.

      Even then, as posted in a different too level comment, this is just too easy to fake, or block.

      It’s an idiot law for idiots

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    Ah yes let’s try to stifle Chinese innovation by … checks notes … expanding our surveillance state. Usually we are the ones calling China a surveillance state, but it’s fine(it’s not) once we do it.

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      You joke, but western governments regularly pull the “our surveillance is good because we aren’t an authoritarian regime” trope.

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      Yeah. All the FUD about Huawei really solidified in my mind how stupid the average internet user is these days.

      It’s like, everything they were bitching about has already been confirmed to be happening with US companies thanks to PRISM and the Snowden leaks.

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    Between this, the tarrifs and the brain drain, why would any manufacturers consider operating in the US anymore?

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      They’ll still want access to Americans coz there are profits to be had, and they can price gouge under a fascist kleptocracy many orders of magnitude harder than elsewhere.

      What they don’t understand is that the fascist leadership will backstab many/most of them eventually, especially if they possess any moral fiber whatsoever. Luckily for them, capitalism has already purged corporate leadership of morality and ethics.

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        But if we don’t have as much money due to increased prices on life essentials and assistance cuts, how are we supposed to buy all these things? Bad logic on their part, if this is their approach.

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          There is no bottom. They’ll continue crushing the working class all the way to slavery and feudalism.

          Stop expecting logic. MAGA and fascism is a severely psychotic mental illness that is empirically a dead end. A death cult.

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              Nah you pretty much established the death cult in 2020. The first hundred days of this in administration you went about doing the most harm to the world that you possibly could in order to save a couple pennies to give back to rich people. The Republican Party is a death cult. Everyone obsessed with some nuanced return to slavery, ending healthcare, and poisoning everything you can. For a smol profitorino

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      There’s no real push for that to happen. This is about crashing an economy, stealing wealth and creating a a massive almost slave labor class at the bottom.

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          Communism is exactly the opposite of that. You’re thinking of late stage capitalism.

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              Yea I’ll share some down votes. I was laughing because the president was just threatening an American company yesterday, telling it how to operate. Telling it where to operate. Like isn’t this what they screeched legendary communist Obama would do? We just switched to a centralized planned economy over night. Welcome to USSR2

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                Someone needs to learn not to blindly believe Wikipedia.

                Which communist countries/states is this not the case btw?

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                  Somebody needs to learn not to blindly believe a century of capitalist propaganda. At least Wikipedia cites sources.

                  You made the claim. You said every single time. Citation required.

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          Which other guys? The couple thousand people who voted third party because they didn’t view Harris as an acceptable compromise between fascism and humanity?

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      Why would any manufacturer want access to the biggest market in the world? Hmmm let me think about that……

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    Adversaries who are being treated to lower tarriffs than allies.

    Cooked country.

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    Oh Senator Know-Nothing…

    What are you going to do about firewalls and air-gapped networks? JFK you stupid asshole… GTFO

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      Next up GPUs require always-on connections and Nvidia requires a monthly subscription to pay for that.

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        For just $19.99 a month you can have us track your GPU*, or choose the premium ad-free upgrade for just $149.99 a months, so you can enjoy your favorite games without ad breakes.

        ^^^* ^^^failure ^^^to ^^^comply ^^^will ^^^be ^^^punished ^^^by ^^^deportation