• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    These companies are wielding way too much power if they are not afraid to act like this in the open. Bring back making the board of executives and C Suites lives hell when a company so much as inconveniences you.

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      8 months ago

      I want to see fines that have real teeth. No flat rates. Some defined amount per violation, in addition to forfeiture of all revenue derived from or connected to the violation(s). It might be complex to figure out what revenue that applies to inside a large corporation, so to help with the assessment you get a group of government auditors attached to your company for as long as the assessment takes. You pay their wages and provide them with whatever office space &etc they require, and they have a position on your executive board and full oversight of company operations until your debt to society is fully paid.

      Regulatory violations should risk ending the company. If you can’t run a profitable business legally then you shouldn’t be running a business.

  • Destide@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    I give it about 10 years before the EU is invaded by the US after corporate lobbying

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      8 months ago

      Who said anything about heroes? Villains sometimes want to stop other villains, too. In fact, probably often.

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          8 months ago

          You took my comment too seriously, it was just a joke.
          But you also singled out Intel. Corporations aren’t heroes in general and AMD is also there. And EU is depicted as the villain, although it’s implied it’s the hero in the context of the meme.

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    8 months ago

    They can prohibit whatever they want, but how enforceable is it? Does Nvidia intend to play whack a mole by checking for translation layers?

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      8 months ago

      Got a Windows app you want to run on Linux? Wine and Proton are well known translation layers.

      I guess Graphics Cards are similar. CUDA is basically the NVIDIA equivalent of .exe I think.

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        Cuda is an Nvidia specific method for using a graphics card to do computation (not just graphics), like physics simulations.

        Translation layers would let you use software designed for other graphics cards to work with Cuda, or to let Cuda software work on other graphics cards

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            CUDA was there first and has established itself as the standard for GPGPU (“general purpose GPU” aka calculating non-graphics stuff on a graphics card). There are many software packages out there that only support CUDA, especially in the lucrative high-performance computing market.

            Most software vendors have no intention of supporting more than one API since CUDA works and the market isn’t competitive enough for someone to need to distinguish themselves though better API support.

            Thus Nvidia have a lock on a market that regularly needs to buy expensive high-margin hardware and they don’t want to share. So they made up a rule that nobody else is allowed to write out use something that makes CUDA software work with non-Nvidia GPUs.

            That’s anticompetitive but it remains to be seen if it’s anticompetitive enough for the EU to step in.

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    8 months ago

    Nvidia: bans platform translation layers for CUDA

    Meanwhile AMD: is forbidden from releasing an open source HDMI 2.1 driver supporting 4K@120hz because of HDMI Forums requirements.