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   Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 06:55:18 JST Polychrome :blabcat:
   Hold on... did Biden just restrict gaming for like half of the EU and the rest of the world? :blobcatsweat:
   
   Everyone's talking about the AI implications but all I care about is the impact on gaming.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 06:59:39 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • ‮ 🐰 innuB :bunHop:
     @bunni @efi @ben sorry, forgot to add context: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/president-joe-bidens-last-minute-163828957.html
     
     New export restriction on 'dangerously fast ICs' that can be used for encryption breaking and AI development.
     
     ... in other words, GPUs.
     
     The world is now divided to 3 tiers. Only 20 countries get away with importing as much as they want. The rest get caps.
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     ‮ 🐰 innuB :bunHop: (bunni@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 06:59:41 JST ‮ 🐰 innuB :bunHop:

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     @Polychrome what did biden do? :bunGoogly:

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 07:02:38 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Koz Ross
     @koz @efi @ben @bunni the document on the white house website have a section for dealing with that. I haven't sat down to read it tho, I'm still frazzled by the implications.
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     Koz Ross (koz@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 07:02:39 JST Koz Ross

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     • Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤
     • ‮ 🐰 innuB :bunHop:

     @Polychrome @efi @ben @bunni Wouldn't this just lead to a huge rise in parallel importing? "Sure, these GPUs are for sale to New Zealand. Yep, growing economy, lots of AI and gamers there, we definitely need 10 million GPUs a year for a population of 5 million...."

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 07:05:26 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Koz Ross
     @koz @efi @ben @bunni alternatively NVidia and AMD will leave the US :blobcatshrug:
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     Koz Ross (koz@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 07:05:27 JST Koz Ross

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     • Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤
     • ‮ 🐰 innuB :bunHop:

     @Polychrome @efi @ben @bunni I figured they would, but I'm curious exactly how they plan to detect and block it. Parallel importing is _generally_ a legal grey area, and kind of hard to track, which is why everyone does it.