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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

this is why you can't have videogame cards anymore.

[-] interesting@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Ukraine-Russia war is in the interest of the USA

[-] Leomas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Sure, Russia just has to stop and the US won't have that advantage anymore. Deal?

[-] lithiumground@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

İmperialist USA keeps provoke Russia . But it doesnt mean Russia is not imperialist and expansionist

[-] Leomas@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I'm not sure what you're saying with the multiple negatives, but I believe both are imperialist.

[-] lithiumground@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I meant both are imperialist 😅 . I fixed.

[-] interesting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Don't ask me, I told you what happens! USA is an imperialist and capitalist country.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

so much so it's in fact a us proxy war with russia.

[-] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Then why are they not supporting Ukraine?

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

because they can't fight both russia and iran at the same time.

[-] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

they stopped long before starting that war in Iran. Besides Drump has no issues doing multiple idiotic things at the same time ;-)

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

their intention was always to drop war with russia and pivot to china.

they have been saying this openly for a while.

[-] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Trump has, but that does not say much. That's just a madman's insane rambling. I mean, it's serious and dangerous, but you cannot take him at face value is what I mean.

Reading actual thought, strategy and politics into it is certainly giving it way too much credit.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

marco rubio isn't though, or any of the fascist leaders for that matter. analysts like mearsheimer called it even before that.

[-] RonPearlManCat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

They made games like war and war like a game.

[-] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

By all means consider Nvidia a valid military target

[-] Eh_I@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] FluidBeef@quokk.au 12 points 1 day ago

Does this mean it can play Doom?

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 day ago

It can cause it

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 68 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

That's actually a lot more recent than I expected. Was guessing something fairly ancient and pre-sanctions, like 2018. Interesting.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

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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[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 102 points 2 days ago

Odd to consider that Nvidia is now an arms dealer.

[-] kalleboo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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)

[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 69 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] mcheva@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

Palmer Luckey is the goofiest looking cunt out hey. Imagine looking at yourself in the mirror with that stupid goatee and thinking you know what would go well with this, a hawaian shirt. Imagine having so much but being worth so little. What a fucken loser.

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[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Encryption used to be considered a controlled munition by the US.

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 12 points 2 days ago

nvidia fuck you

That said, Linux is not exempt from being used in weapons.

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Linux devs usually don't make a business out of it though. That's the thing about FOSS: you do not have much control over what people do with it.

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[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Always have been. Orin nano/nx SoMs are in all sorts of weapons systems. NixOS had a whole community civil war because Anduril heavily adopted NixOS and integrated it with Jetpack, the BSP that these run. They're kind of a PITA to use (fuck you WayneWWW...IYKYK) but they're easily the highest performance SoM of that size and the power consumption is workable for these kinds of...short lived systems. I think they started out targeting automotive applications and never really took off in the commercial world despite being comparable to Apple silicon in performance because they have no power saving modes. They ended up being perfect for doing real time object detection from a MIPI camera though so now they're the gold standard for bleeding edge slaughterbots.

Before the Orin, a lot of more experimental systems were using the TX2i and Xavier modules, but they had much less computing power and the image recognition models weren't as capable anyway.

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[-] Rothe@piefed.social 16 points 2 days ago

All of the tech giants discovered that there is much more money to be made making tech for dystopian authoritarian governments than gamers. It was inevitable I guess.

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 days ago

Global Capitalism > Discrete Imperialism

[-] disorderly@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

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[-] dummyboymc23@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago
[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 16 points 1 day ago

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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[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Vhen rockets go up, who cares vhere zey come down? Zat's not my department!"

Sarcasm aside, you can buy these in dev kits on MicroCenter:

https://www.microcenter.com/product/691058/nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-super-developer-kit

Which means the components are pretty widely available. I'm not sure how you'd prevent someone from ordering a bunch to an in-between country and then shipping them on to Russia after.

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[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

It makes sense to use Machine Learning technology (not the Generative crap, the actual pattern recognition stuff) for terminal target recognition.

The surprise would be if Russia did not use AI in their newest cruise missile design - just because their society is fucked up and their leadership is a socipathic, disconnected autocrat surrounded by yes men that put his own personal pride above the lives of millions of his countrymen, doesn't mean Russia doesn't have the people with the technical knowledge to design systems with AI (though certainly far fewer of those than they had before they tried to invade Ukraine, since a ton of the Russians with the highest qualifications left).

I mean, given them another 50 years or so in their current trajectory, but for now they're probably still capable of creating their own high-tech solutions in focused applications.

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