this is why you can't have videogame cards anymore.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2026
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Ukraine-Russia war is in the interest of the USA
Sure, Russia just has to stop and the US won't have that advantage anymore. Deal?
İmperialist USA keeps provoke Russia . But it doesnt not mean Russia is not imperialist and expansionist
Don't ask me, I told you what happens! USA is an imperialist and capitalist country.
so much so it's in fact a us proxy war with russia.
Then why are they not supporting Ukraine?
because they can't fight both russia and iran at the same time.
They made games like war and war like a game.
By all means consider Nvidia a valid military target
But then there'll be a shortage and the prices will start to rise an then nobody will be able to affo-😂😂😂
jk eat shit nvidia
Does this mean it can play Doom?
It can cause it
ai gives me faith that those rockets will miss more than they hit
The US bombed a girl's school in the opening salvos against Iran because their AI fucked up.
Missiles that miss their target still hit something.
Rocket missing a military target sometimes means a rocket incidentally hitting a civilian object, so not good. All kinds of rockets and drones are used to hit targets in all major cities. They're not only used for some standalone objects in the middle of nowhere.
Where did you get the idea Russia is aiming at military targets?
to paraphrase an old american air force saying, russian missiles have 100% accuracy, they always hit something
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Global Capitalism > Discrete Imperialism
remember when A ps3 was considered militarily significant....
good old days
Well the airforce did build a PS3 supercomputer
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It's the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16 GB. From the Ampere family, 3.5 years old. Small Tegra SoC.
I guess something like this is a typical dual use good, and doesn't fall under the AI Chip export restriction either because it's too weak. Seems like it would be trivial for Russians to import them from China or India or whomever really.
That's actually a lot more recent than I expected. Was guessing something fairly ancient and pre-sanctions, like 2018. Interesting.
As the other commenter said, likely from China. The US banned exports of the super high-end chips to China IIRC, but not low-end stuff. And India is known to sell anything to anyone as well.
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This is a big deal, no?
Not really. If confirmed, it means someone somewhere was smart enough to do something like drive across a border in a truck with fake papers. It's very, very unlikely that Nvidia directly sold to anyone in a way that would get them in trouble.
No.
First, need to verify.
Second, need to investigate how they got it. Might be not Nvidia's fault.
Third, capitalism will be the end of most of us.
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Odd to consider that Nvidia is now an arms dealer.
Apple once advertised their new PowerMac G4 was so powerful it was classified as a munition and hence illegal to export. (this was stretching the truth a bit as the regulation allowing export of over 1 gigaflops machines had already passed)
The fucktard who made the Oculus Rift likes to use my preferred operating system to kill people. Tech is a wild world.
Edit: actually not just tech. Capitalism is just evil in general and polutes everything both literally and metaphorically
We live in a world where it's sorta just widely understood that the bottled-water chocolate-bar company murders people for profit on the regular
It's all fucked at every level
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Encryption used to be considered a controlled munition by the US.
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As someone with previous defense connections, I'd been wondering when we'd see this.
ITAR has severely restricted access to nav system tech export, but there was always this open question about reckoning position by visual cues rather than GPS + dead reckoning. We all knew it was technically feasible, but we assumed that having "visual" cues was further out because AI at the time wasn't up to the task.
The answer is the same, though. Nvidia, willing or not, is now a defendant in an unjust war, and must be subpoena'd by the ICC. At a minimum, they should be immediately sanctioned by foundry specialists (like ASML) until they are prepared to account for how, exactly, this tech ended up in a Russian missile.
we assumed that having “visual” cues was further out because AI at the time wasn’t up to the task.
For just terrain recognition, the US has had that since before there was GPS. Since the 1950s even.
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