• NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Very James Bond, I like it.

    And then the cool twist where the bad guys figure out how to exploit it and uno reverse all the good guys computers. Man, that would be a fun movie. I’m glad we’re not talking about real life or whatever.

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    23 days ago

    I wouldn’t trust any administration with this ability, but especially not the current one.

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    22 days ago

    Even if they did that, there’s a lot of talented engineers in China. It would take them no time to bypass that I’m sure.

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    23 days ago

    How would something like that even work? Create a driver that phones home is somehow able to figure out the location of the computer by some method that is not easily defeated with a VPN? Even a GPS chip on the cards won’t work in a datacenter rack

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      23 days ago

      It’s perfectly simple really. They’ll add a small AI module designed to detect Chinese language being spoken, levels of air pollution, and the scent of Chinese food, which will detonate an appropriately-sized self-destruct charge when a certain threshold is reached.

      Nvidia products are just the start. Cars, sneakers, Coca-Cola — eventually every consumer product made in the USA will come with one. They’re just working out how to stop them accidentally detonating in certain parts of San Francisco and New York.

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    23 days ago

    US approves of Israeli operation to turn electronics into bombs, so even with the golden pager gift, this politician just hasn’t gotten the ultimate inspiration for manifest destiny thinking.

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    18 days ago

    I have a couple consoles still in the box, unopened, that ive been holding for other reasons, but Im about to add another reason for acquiring them…

    a fallback point incase PC gaming goes completely to shit, ratfucked by corpos. JFC