this is why you can't have videogame cards anymore.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2026
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Ukraine-Russia war is in the interest of the USA
Sure, Russia just has to stop and the US won't have that advantage anymore. Deal?
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so much so it's in fact a us proxy war with russia.
Then why are they not supporting Ukraine?
because they can't fight both russia and iran at the same time.
they stopped long before starting that war in Iran. Besides Drump has no issues doing multiple idiotic things at the same time ;-)
their intention was always to drop war with russia and pivot to china.
they have been saying this openly for a while.
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.
marco rubio isn't though, or any of the fascist leaders for that matter. analysts like mearsheimer called it even before that
They made games like war and war like a game.
By all means consider Nvidia a valid military target
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
Odd to consider that Nvidia is now an arms dealer.
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
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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Shall we mention also The Banana Company and, well, South America?
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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)
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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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.
That's actually a lot more recent than I expected. Was guessing something fairly ancient and pre-sanctions, like 2018. Interesting.
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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remember when A ps3 was considered militarily significant....
good old days
Well the airforce did build a PS3 supercomputer
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Does this mean it can play Doom?
It can cause it
ai gives me faith that those rockets will miss more than they hit
The US bombed a girl's school in the opening salvos against Iran because their AI fucked up.
Missiles that miss their target still hit something.
Rocket missing a military target sometimes means a rocket incidentally hitting a civilian object, so not good. All kinds of rockets and drones are used to hit targets in all major cities. They're not only used for some standalone objects in the middle of nowhere.
Where did you get the idea Russia is aiming at military targets?
to paraphrase an old american air force saying, russian missiles have 100% accuracy, they always hit something
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Global Capitalism > Discrete Imperialism
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.
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.
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"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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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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