Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. : technology

[–] psycho_driver 1 points 3 months ago

Hacker sanctions are finally real.

[–] Mistic 1 points 2 months ago

UPD: as of right now, the access isn't blocked in any way.

It is still unclear whether or not the block was intentional, Nvidia gave no comments.

[–] TriflingToad 1 points 3 months ago

wow you really owned them. Good job, Nvidia.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 3 months ago

This has no sense

[+] werefreeatlast -7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They will just come up with a new Runix OS with Ruvidia drivers. It might be like the time the Germans invented modern rocketry, the pulse engine and the turbine engine.

It's relatively bad news maybe. Same in China.

[–] InverseParallax 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure they'll try, just like they tried to copy IBM mainframes, the IBM pc, the Apollo program, and nuclear power.

They're too stupid to do it, you see, all the smart soviets who were capable of thinking were from Ukraine, which is why they're designing Hunter killer drones in a cave with a box of scraps.

Russians without Ukrainians can't invent anything, which is why the t14 and su57 aren't in Ukraine, the semhat exploded on the pad (which would be hilarious if it had a payload), and they're just generally pathetic failures at everything else.

[–] werefreeatlast 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I sure hope this is the case. I know for sure that China will try very hard to develop technology as the world sort of closes access to high tech. I assume Russia will try too. Unfortunately that's how innovation happens sometimes. Extreme limitations lead to extreme efficiency if the other option is total failure.

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That will show BRICS countries what not to buy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Cus they can't access SWIFT, ofc they can't buy.

Besides, China is working on their own GPU/NPU/ASIC production line.

Russia (vassal state) x China (dommy mommy state).

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Damn, that's fucked.

[–] InverseParallax 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but so are Russians, so it works out.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Why bother when these blocks are so easily circumvented with VPN?

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[+] [email protected] -16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

There aren't many uses where discrete v-cards are needed now and where integrated won't be enough. Machine learning, content editing, engineering and science, mostly. So besides making purchased v-cards less effective or useless, it aims at top consumers, industry, may it be media or production facilities, including MIC. Ah, and gamers, the most opressed minority.

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