• WhiplashPost@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    This is, 100%, without a doubt, just a way for him to avoid legal liability for doing things of his own free will. He wasn’t complicit in smuggling! He was taken advantage of by that irresistible Chinese succubus! It’s her fault!

    Now, I don’t really care. I think it’s great that he’s bypassing US sanctions. Altho I would prefer China have its own domestic chip manufacturing and not buy from companies like this, but until that is fully developed they need to get by somehow. But yeah this is the most obvious scapegoating I’ve ever seen.

    In fact, I’d like NOBODY to buy from companies like this. NVIDIA should crash and fucking burn.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day ago

      Yeah a real honey pot would have been steeling the next gen chip plans so the Chinese could move ahead and fab their own stuff.