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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Starts writing.... So Anyway, yesterday we had a big haul of hay and hit a large boulder with the Tr...kill switch activated!

I picked up my guitar and started str...activation!

On other news criminal and now dictator tr...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, that’s not a potential for abuse… both by the “good guys” 🙄 and everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

Once every GPU hacker in the world starts dumping their free time on a challenge like this, you can expect that a vulnerability will be discovered and exploited. Imagine, there’s a virus just waiting for the order to brick your GPU? How about you use that virus to attack a specific country, city or even an individual politician whose proposals you don’t agree with. The possibilities are endless!

Everything is hackable. It’s just a matter of knowing how to do it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

I was just thinking that we should hand over the ability to brick our technology to US politicians. Seeing as how they aren't all horrible pieces of shit.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kill switch. Didn’t I hear that wasn’t a thing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It's called the power connector.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you think China or the Internet in general can’t crack whatever stupid DRM you have planned, you’ll be really disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Or just develop their version.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

This is a surveillance state and this man should be run out of town or stoned for suggesting such authoritarian nonsense. Such deranged overreach is disgusting the the duty of everyone to fight against.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think Nvidia is kind of company that would consider this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nvidia make shit-tonne from selling to China, so long as they can still sell to China, they will make whatever is allowed to be sent there. New restrictions? New cards get created to fit.

[–] onlinepersona 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I bet this will be out into a military plane and it'll brick while flying over China or close to it. The genius of these people cannot be understated. Imagine, if they're saying this publicly, I bet you they have this in existing military equipment they are selling to partners. Anybody buying military equipment from the US is asking for trouble.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Who's asking for this? Is it a billionaire antichrist