Seriously? *This* Again?

Right, so listen up, because I’m only saying this once. Twenty “national security experts” – and I use that term loosely, probably a bunch of desk jockeys who haven’t touched actual hardware in decades – are whining to the Trump administration (still going, huh?) about selling Nvidia H20 chips to China. Apparently, these chips are powerful enough for…wait for it…AI development. Shocking. Absolutely *shocking*.

The gist? They’re terrified China will use these things to build better surveillance systems, military tech, and generally be a pain in our collective ass. They want restrictions, tighter controls, the whole nine yards. Because, you know, preventing progress is always the best solution. It’s not like China isn’t already working on their own chips, this just slows them down a little – or maybe it doesn’t and we’re just screwing over Nvidia shareholders for absolutely no reason.

The letter points out that previous restrictions on other chips *worked great* (heavy sarcasm intended), so naturally more restrictions are the answer. They’re worried about “diversion” routes too, meaning China will find ways around it anyway. Brilliant strategizing, people. Absolutely brilliant. It’s a whole lot of hand-wringing over something that’s probably already happening and will continue to happen regardless.

Honestly, the whole thing smells like someone realized they were late to the party and are now trying to look important by flapping their gums about it. Just…fantastic. Another day, another pointless bureaucratic clusterfuck.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of pointless restrictions, I once had to spend three days reconfiguring a firewall because some idiot in accounting decided we needed to block all traffic from the IP range of a perfectly legitimate vendor. Three *days*. And you know what? They were using a VPN anyway. The level of incompetence is astounding.

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