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France successfully destroys encrypted messaging and immediately begins work on the rampant credential / financial / personal information theft. They believe that this “plain text” hacker is responsible. Who is this mastermind?

I’m not saying its going to happen quickly… But filtering in many forms has been tried in the past and they all died similarly. Some vocal group gets inconvenienced by it and then, under scrutiny, the blemishes get paraded out and the project dies a slow ugly death.

The actual reason for the push right now is meta (among others) just want to wash their hands of the responsibility… And that aligns with some tech bros wanting to hoover up peoples ids and resell that info. The whole thing will sour once there’s a significant leak that ties risk into that bottom line and nobody will want to carry it.

As someone who spent my formative days figuring out how to bypass early digital locks my school was putting in place to “protect us” … The system loses this game. Every time. You are taking kids with nothing but time, no apparent drawbacks, and everything to gain… And placing them against “good enough” implemented by people who could give two shits about it.

This will continue to lose until they twist the knobs too tight and hit false positive central… And oops now the populace hates it. Control for thee is fine until its for me.

Tale as old as technology itself.

We do not steal hats. We share them. We teach fraternity and knowledge. We are balance. We are believers in open and free markets. We remain curious, unbridled, and fly no colors.

In time: we may be the only capable navigators of a sea rife with giants and uncouth countries.

We privateers may well be stealing history back from those who would destroy it.

Yo ho my hearties.

Take what you can …

Just remember: every statement he is making isn’t to gamers or the consumer market. He’s addressing shareholders. Every new keynote and public interview just demonstrates it more clearly.

Nvidia wants you to be cool and buy whatever castoff cut down parts they couldn’t figure out how to sell to the military or datacenters. If anyone hadn’t noticed by now: generational gains aren’t anything but software generated bullshit now. Its just there to bilk users into staying “loyal” as they exit this sector.

Companies aren’t your friends.

It is good business. Shit for the consumer (unsurprising) … But really aside from Jensen’s apparent ego - I’m curious why nvidia has any interest in the gaming sector. I feel like they accomplished the perfect transition.

Dont get me wrong. Its absolutely a very novel and useful feature. It made shit look great. I’m not down on the tech: I’m just saying the push for it wasn’t for the industry. It was to kill framerates and sell cards.

Gotta let the man take a shot at the crown…

This is long winded but I firmly believe this explains a lot about the industries frenzied push into all these odd directions… All of it. Here seems as good as any place to dump this mess I’ve been stewing on:

I really think it’s important that raytracing, while novel, wasn’t created to improve visuals. It wasnt created to make a programmers life easier. It was created because it was computationally difficult and could be optimized for. It was a fantastic play by nvidia. They created a feature that functionally did very little but they could get an entire cycle ahead of the competition in that optimization. Differentiation of products, in a duopoly, is a big deal. Amd dove right into it - knowing full well that this would leave them brutally behind… But this was a fortuitous event: despite the disadvantage.

Why? Simple. GPUs have been struggling against Moore’s law. Framerates were exceeding ranges even monitors can refresh at. And worse yet there was another hard limit: our eyes. How do you sell cards that have no perceivable value?

Reality is we may well be reaching a point where additional resolutions and framerates dont matter. Badly optimized games only buy so much time.

These companies aren’t stupid. Crypto? They loved it. Computationally expensive. Always need faster… Until we didnt. What now? Demand was plummeting for overpriced high end cards.

Go back and look at when AI and nvidia got in bed. The earnings call was due to be a bloodbath after all these cards were rotting on shelves, unpurchased, and depreciating daily. It was coming ro light that they had been selling cards to miners under the table and that was going to get ugly fast. I have never, in my life, heard a company talk so much about a product on a earnings call – that wasn’t theirs. Not a word breathed about unsold cards barely any numbers discussed. ChatGPT referenced so many times that there was confusion as to whether nvidia actually owned it. The Q/A at the end was comedy gold. People were so confused.

AI was the perfect save. AI is a power virus. Want to fix the black box? Train a black box to mangage that black box. Its a computational sinkhole. They’ve extracted value from gamers to dimishing returns. Meanwhile they can sell the ultimate snake oil to investors: virtual slave labor. Unpaid workers. In floods private equity. Gamers stopped mattering immediately. All of these advances are software. From a GPU design company. Why? It shuts up the peasants while they continue rebranding the “snake oil” to get whoever is buying. Weve nearly achieved the panacea. Just a bit longer!

Behold: we have dressed our industry in the finest of the emperors newest clothes. You can either start selling them or be the only one who doesn’t.

🫧

Feels odd to say it but suddenly I’m happy Intel didn’t (completely) shit the bed.

I mostly agree. Like you already noted, both serve different purposes. One is a game and one is gamifying learning. Even without knowing proper finger placement you will, over time, build up the ability to play songs and have a passable foundation to use the instrument. I’d wager any self taught guitarist will have any number of bad habits or irregular approaches to playing… Regardless of method used.

I think (unsurprisingly) that experience [with it] may be subjective. Gamifying repitition using an instrument is a great way to blow past a lot of the hangups people have initially approaching it. Personally I think it’s a cool concept and found it sufficent to keep me interested and invested. I definitely think it has its flaws but for some it may be good enough.

I’ve heard a number of creators try talking about how this is a good thing actually and it is just misunderstood… And I’ve got to say: after it’s come out that nvidia has threatened creators in the past… I really think it starts getting obvious who’s still kissing the ring. This is some emperors new clothes shit.

If nvidia can’t just make a better card anymore cool. No worries. Want to get into bed with the industrial military complex? Great. Message recieved. Want to overwrite an artists design with filters? Stay the fuck in your lane. You design chips that draw what they are told. If you can’t do that right anymore then get out of our industry and make room for someone who can.

And here I thought that boss fight where he temporarily lifted up his protection breifly wasnt realistic.

… But really I’d keep the armor. Kent states trying to make a comeback.

… And then after that there’s ICE.

… And then …

Press response should have been:

No shit sherlock.

It was at this moment - that the knight realized a nose slot may have been a poor request.

Organized religion. Pick whichever one you want.

My [insert being here] is the ultimate being and yours isn’t and doesn’t exist. Why? Because my [insert meatbag here] wrote that down a [arbitrary time] ago.

Nevermind most of these effectively “preach the same thing.” No really. Nevermind it. Because do they follow those words? God(s) no.

Why would a Russian asset successfully weakening our ties with other countries, destroying our economy, and exposing our troops to unnecessary harm… want something that works?

He and his maggot faithful are speed running losing as if it were their explicit purpose.

Today I learned I am a cat.

That escalator could have been a national hero. A couple sudden starts and stops coulda seen the us being led by a vegetable rather than a facist rotting apricot.