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Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus.
(www.pravda.com.ua)
Why now? Does it actually do something?
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
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Some tech scantions from when the war started went into effect. Allowing access to Russians is now a complicated legal risk. Even Linux was forced to block devs.
Must prevent them from training drone operators on PC's with Nvidia. Of course there's no other way they can get those drivers. The program is operated by 10yo sim players. They won't be able to use Tor or VPNs or proxies. This is a very smart plan to optimize manpower, but Nvidia is smarter. Smarrrrt!
If, I have learned anything from YouTube it’s that if a multi trillion dollar international mega conglomerate doesn’t want you to have it, no matter how impossible it may seem they can stop you from getting it they just need enough market incentives.
This could just be one small step in a much larger plan or it could be placating the United States government whose to say.
How to do nothing while appearing to.
That sounds good and all, but the ones aho are really affected are the powerless people.
Most sanctions, aside from ones aimed at individuals, are going to have indirect effect. That is, they will produce pressure on Russia in aggregate, and that means that they'll impact the typical citizen.
But that being said, there have been a lot of sanctions applied, and...the impact on Nvidia drivers isn't, I think, really a huge one relative to those. Like, things like cutting off access to all kinds of electronics parts and payment system access and stuff are going to be, I'd say, a lot more impactful to a typical person in Russia, even if the impact is secondary.
Am I going crazy or is that the framework ceo in that stock photo?
Nirav Patel
He used to work at nVidia, so this is very possible it's him. They do look very similar.
The smart ones will be unaffected as nouveau, as distributed through package managers, remains unaffected.
And the really smart ones don't even have nvidia hardware to begin with.
Pretty much for form I suppose, there are other ways to get those drivers.
I've been in a few online games with RU players and it struck me as so weird to be playing a game with someone from a nation we are basically at war with. Major WWI Xmas football vibes.
I feel that many Russians are against Putler's regime, but are (rightfully so) too afraid to speak up.
You are wrong. More than half are in favor of the war in Ukraine.
How would that number change if all those people had access to independent reporting?
There's an old joke about agents from the CIA and KGB sharing a drink at a pub in Berlin.
"I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.
"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."
The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused... There's no propaganda in America."
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The Trumpublicans in the U.S. have access to independent reporting, yet they choose instead to limit themselves to lies that make them feel like they're better than everyone else.
I don't have access to it, but allegedly on VK which is the Russian knockoff of Facebook, they also have similar numbers of a majority in favor of destroying Ukraine.
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In favor of what? They aren't being told the truth about anything. They're in favor of an imaginary war for imaginary reasons.
That may be true. But I tend to believe factual journalism over a random internet person's conjecture that you seem to be sure of for some reason.
I mean given that you get arrested for a showing a blank piece of paper and sent to prison/gulag... Do you really think that de-annonymised people would put their opinions forward?
But also in the west where we don't have quite such a police state, we still do have many people who vote against their interests until their own interests are being affected...
Moral of the story... Humans suck
Humans suck
Conservatives suck. The normal people are actually pretty cool.
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It’s not that they’re for or against. They don’t care.
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They should give access to one last update that displays "Fuck Putin" on your screen at all times
Feel bad for the average Joe over there.
Be that as it may, this is very much part of the intent of the sanctions. Creating popular dissent and dissatisfaction within Russia due to Putin’s insistence on carrying out a war of aggression is very much by design. This is the Second Cold War. We’re in it.
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Sucks to suck.
Weird timing
Yes, especially in light of the Linux thing this morning
Yeah... weird how sanctions work... it's like they're broad and affect many people and entities...
We should ask Deepcool about their experience with non-compliance.
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Yeah, along with this I am suspecting there's been a "suggested interpretation" from western governments to large orgs.
That’s a very good way to put it !
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