“Does nobody think of the people?” they asked while putin sends his citizens into a certain death.

We are entering the era of cyber-warfare, nation-state counter hacking, software and hardware sabotage, underground black and grey markets for both hardware and software.

Sanctions now include software and access to networks, not just hardware imports and generic VPN region locks.

Nations are taking more control over their national network infrastructure, China has shown it’s possible to almost completely isolate a modern technological nation of a billion people in their own intra-net with near full visibility and control into everything their citizens say and do.

Other nations are following, and big tech will always play into whatever is the most profitable, which is why companies like Google and Apple will turn a blind eye to the authoritarian governments and comply with their controls in order to gain more market share.

Now let me be clear; fuck the Russian war machine, fuck it hard and fast, and fuck Putin and his pathetic removed bois that support him. But I feel for the Russian people who are oppressed, there is a deep hacker and FOSS culture that has been there since the 80’s, shame that they are getting screwed by their shitty regime, much like the citizens of China, especially gen-Z having terms like “lying down” banned because it opposes their oppressive and abusive work culture.

Open software and hardware is under attack more and more lately. From the capitalist corpos who hate anything they can’t generate insane profits from and that gives workers and end users control over their data and privacy. It’s also under attack from the government neo-liberals and right-wingers because it allows people to be private and safely express their opposition, and also allows easy organizing of mass protests against their abuses of power.

What a precious thing we have in the world of FOSS. The spirit of human collaboration and free expression, across cultures, races, genders, and ages is so incredible, but we must defend and support it.

Fuck Capitalism, fuck copyright, and FUCK war.

wow you really owned them. Good job, Nvidia.

My heart goes out to those Russians who have been patiently waiting for S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 to release and now they face the very real scenario that S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 just won’t run. After years of delays this will hit hard. Putin himself has been posting regularly about S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2, begrudged by so many delays and his mother bought him the version with all future DLC’s included.

I hope Nvidia feel real fucking good about them selves knowing they’ve taken away a dictators dream.

they gonna stop the mirror operators that reside outside those areas yet serve them?

Some of you may rejoice in unison because of this but this creates a dangerous precedence for other countries. At any time Nvidia can just brick computers at whichever country they decide to. This situation shouldn’t be taken lightly.

Why now? Does it actually do something?

How to do nothing while appearing to.

That sounds good and all, but the ones aho are really affected are the powerless people.

Feel bad for the average Joe over there.

Am I going crazy or is that the framework ceo in that stock photo?

Weird timing

They should give access to one last update that displays “Fuck Putin” on your screen at all times

The smart ones will be unaffected as nouveau, as distributed through package managers, remains unaffected.

And the really smart ones don’t even have nvidia hardware to begin with.

Oh nyoo, they’ll have to use the open source ones!!
Haven’t the common folk been through enough?

/s
(And the open sauce nVidia drivers got actually completely viable, great effort & results)