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if it's Nvidia and has GT instead of GTX in front of it it's e-waste if you're interested in gaming,
 
and even then for office work it's still better to use iGPU....
 
(excluding very light games and specific e-sport titles)

So effectively this is their version of the Patriot Act. The biggest difference being the US has the FISA courts that hear classified and national secretly matters. So at least we have a judge who can do a bit of checks and balances. But reading the reasonings for this law is for the Children and Terrorism. Two big issues that they feel can justify such a law. 
 
Personally I see this as government over reach and I guarantee this will be abused. It would be different if the judicial system was involved in the process. 

... it's a game console. and this would be a "hack" that doesn't affect computers outside of the local console. it's not an enterprise data center.

So what exactly do you mean? How can there be anything wrong with this?

Yes, just like the MASSSSSIVE security flaw of Sony supporting non-factory storage devices since the PS3 and it not resulting in a kernel-level exploit allowing for jailbreaking, hacking, etc.

Just a word of advice. If you find a 1TB SD card selling for 40 dollars, then it's a scam.
Real 1TB SD cards are 3-4 times that price.

Are they trying to achieve negative latency?
 
C'mon, we had enough brands shooting themselves in the foot because of ridiculous claims.

OEM's. Short of Intel releasing better IGP parts (they never will), there's a gap in price/performance due to the scalping/bitcoin mining and various shipping/production shortages.
 
VRAM is much smaller dies, so the yield is always higher for stuff like RAM and Flash, and the process node memory is on doesn't matter quite as much. It's still GDDR6.
 
It would not surprise me when the 40xx parts come out that they continue to produce 3060/60Ti parts as well, and discontinue the higher end 30xx parts so they don't cannibalize the higher end parts price points of the next series. If there's even anything to discontinue. Some AIB's may have weeks or months of chips.
 
But there's also the Ethereum crash around the corner, so 4GB cards aren't going to cut it, and it would not surprise me if the rumor was misread and this is actually another mining card.
 
That said, the two ML applications I've been experimenting on need an 8GB and a 4GB VRAM amount respectively, and a 12GB card would work fine for that.
 

Out of curiosity, what would Mutually Assured Destruction look like in the event corporations refuse to cooperate, and criminals harden their security further?
 
Ultimately, in regards to illicit materials (in particular, CSAM), I don’t believe this is a problem that can be resolved via legal means, instead requiring technical methods. 
 
If I was looking to be doing something I probably don’t want a government to be privy to, the last thing I’d do is to place my trust in third parties, especially well-known corporations (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, etc). This means relying on those services as little as possible for illicit activity, and when I absolutely have to, utilize a multi-prong approach to conceal my identity. This means a combination of VPNs, TOR, and open wifi points (device MAC addresses are spoofed by default nowadays, providing a means to dead-end an investigation) to obfuscate physical location, and encrypting illicit data before it touches a third party. Obviously, aliases are a given as well. 
 
Utilizing an encrypted peer-to-peer means of information transfer sidesteps any restrictions placed upon corporations, meaning that illicit material may not have to reach said corporations at all, rather information needed to facilitate a peer-to-peer connection. The array of tools available is pretty extensive. You can even rent fully anonymous servers (paid via bitcoin no less) to do the job to minimize or eliminate exposure on both ends. Given the ability to code and distribute literally anything, the possibilities to evade the law are limited only to ingenuity. 
 
Ultimately, while the lazier criminals will be caught, I don’t believe the laws imposed by Australia will have a meaningful overall impact in mitigating CSAM. 

Why don't you, since you're the one for changing our current system.
 
You: Hey we should change this.
Me: Sorry but I can't think of a way of doing that without making things worse.
You: Then you should think harder, or else we go with this horrible change I have thought of.
 
Why don't you come up with a system that can not be abused or have any other serious issues that could jeopardize the security and privacy of innocent people?
 
 
The user did not authorize the access of their data, so therefore it is unauthorized. You're basically saying "I gave authorization to myself so therefore I am authorized to do what I want.
You're using a very strange definition of a backdoor, and is interpreting it in a very weird way. You might as well say no backdoors exist because even a security hole isn't a backdoor because "the exploit causes the hacker to be authorized, therefore it isn't a backdoor it's just a normal operation".
Your line of thinking is literally a joke in Parks and Rec:

 
 
Even if it isn't handed over it can leak. The point is that as soon as you create a way in, that way can be exposed. It doesn't matter if it is handed over to the government or not. Just take Apple's new scan for child abuse images as an example. Once this tool is created and implemented, governments don't need access to the source code to exploit it. All they have to do is demand that Apple tweaks it to their liking. Russia might force Apple to scan for homosexual content and report it to them. China might demand Apple tweak it to scan for anti-government messages and report to them.
 
Also, what Australia wants can never be monitored. They want to be able to spy on users. Even if we buy the argument that they will only ever use it for good purposes, that they will never abuse it etc, no matter what they say or how they implement it, it will always require that it is done in secrecy because otherwise it defeats the purpose of spying. And if it's done in secret, then nobody but the people doing the spying will be able to gauge how much spying is happening, or that the spying is only being done against the group of people the government says is spied on.
 
 
You keep saying it can be done but never propose a solution. If it can be done then please describe such a system to me and I will try and find holes in it. Stop just saying it can be done without actually explaining how you think it is possible. It's like talking to someone who keeps saying "we just need to design guns that can't shoot good people" and when I try to explain it can be done you just keep saying "yes it can. You just have to think harder to solve it".
 
 
 
"Wow, it sure was bad when the government had a way to manipulate a system. We better force companies to implement similar security issues into all products!"
Yeah, that surely won't make the situation worse.
 
Explain how. Stop saying it can be done without explaining how. If you think it can be done then surely you must be able to explain how you think it could be done.
 
 
 
Explain how. Also, having it logged means jack shit if those logs are kept a secret.
 
 
 
Okay, explain in detail how that would work and if I can't find any issues, potential loopholes or privacy violations then you win.
How do you think for example Signal or WhatsApp should implement what you described?
 
 
  
Okay, now give me a way to verify that you only gave out the info that was necessary, as well as a way for me to verify that you have not looked up any other information than what you needed to.
I don't want security to be based on trusting that some individual does the right thing. I want things to be verifiable. In the system you describe, I don't think there is a way for me to verify that you only provided the data necessary or that the transaction even happened. If I can't verify it, I have to just try your word. Encryption should not be based on trusting someone else.
 
Would you be okay with these laws and systems being proposed in Russia, China, India, or some other countries that you personally don't trust? If you answer no, then you shouldn't be for it in the country you trust either, because your trust might fade one day and when it does it will be too late.

The problem is that you can not compromise with mathematics.
Either something is backdoored, or it isn't. If you have it backdoored then it can be used and abused however the one with access wants, with zero oversight.
 
Encryption is not something you can compromise with.

Just because Australia is a "privacy nightmare" does not mean other countries aren't as well.
"others do it too" does not make what Australia does alright in my eyes.
 
As for why Australia is a privacy nightmare, I just used that as one example. There are plenty more, including you know, the news article posted in the first post of this thread. As for why I "singled out Australia", it's because this thread is about Australia and the person I responded to was talking about Australia.
 
Here is how the conversation went.
 
Someone: Wow, Australia did something really bad regarding privacy.
Someone else: Australia is turning into a privacy nightmare.
Me: Not turning into, it already is.
You: No, stop singling out Australia! Look at how bad other countries are as well! Let's all discuss how bad the US and Canada are instead. Let's completely change the subject of the thread and talk about how bad other countries are. We should all stop talking about the bad things Australia does!
 
I was being on-topic in a response to someone else, and you got mad that I said something bad about Australia and now wants to talk about the bad things other countries does. Stop it. Stick to the topic.
 
 
So the other links I posted where it explicitly states people have been forced to unlock their devices (not sure why you think it matters so much if they have to unlock the device or hand over their passwords, when the end result is exactly the same), aren't enough either? I can give you more sources if you want.
Seems to me like you're more interested in nitpicking stuff for no reason however, like trying to downplay how horrible it is that you may be forced to unlock your device and hand it over because in your mind that is less of a privacy violation that having to hand over your password, for some reason. 
 
 
Again, I don't see why you think that matters.
A safe is far more serious to bring into a country because a safe can contain things way more harmful than some data. This is such a ridiculous false equivalency I honestly think you're trolling. 
Also, I think you are interesting the law and thinking it is fine, when we have evidence of other people (the ones enforcing the law) interpreting it in a far worse way.

Which makes those who oppose said laws odd bed fellows.  Protecting people form having to hand over incriminating data only means that you become the victim of those who would abuse that freedom.   You don't become any freer when your 5yo daughter goes missing from the mall and the only thing that stands in the way of her safe return is lack of compelled access to private data.
 
The only concern I have is that we don't have good due process,  I would not have any issues with government having more power int he digital world so long as we have good honest due process for everyone accused of anything.  
 
 

What do you mean by "a proper source"? Are you asking me to provide a proper source? The news article wasn't enough?
Here is the specific law that has been cited to justify these actions:
http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1901124/s186.html
 
As you can see, the law does not explicitly state "you must hand over your password if we ask you", obviously, but here is a word for word quote on how the authorities in Australia interprets the law:
 
This article is a fairly good overview of the situation:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-21/what-are-your-rights-when-being-searched-at-an-airport/11020392
 
 
Whataboutism isn't an argument.
 
 
 What is your point? That in most cases it's only horrible and not absolutely atrocious? 
 
 
And that makes it okay in your mind?
Giving up your password or having to disable your password are essentially the same thing. Both are equally bad.
 
 
 
  
Yeah, the US border control is also awful. Doesn't excuse the behavior of Australia though.
I was mostly aware of Australia because one of my colleagues went on holiday there once. Since he sometimes work for the Swedish military, he had to wipe his laptop before he left just to make sure no potentially confidential data could be forcefully seized by the Australian border control.

Yeah, right. Considering our electoral tribunal got hacked, the voting machine codes and databases got modified and the logs were misteriously deleted due to a misconfiguration... I don't trust any government for that kind of stuff.
 
Seeing the data is ok. Deletion during investigation is evidence destruction. Modification, at any time, is criminal by itself.

It already is. 
Did you know that Australian border control can demand that you hand over your devices (like laptops and smartphones) and passwords to them? Refusing to hand over your password can cost up to 5000 dollars, as well as other punishment. 
No warrant or even reasonable suspicion required. No info about why they want it or what they do with your device either. They can just go "hey, you need to give us your phone and passwords. We'll be in this other room for a while with your phone. You sit here and wait and we'll give it back to you sometime later". 
 
Australia is and has been a privacy nightmare for ages. 
 
 
Seems like this law is just aimed at making occurances like this one legal:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/legal-action-after-border-force-officer-secretly-texted-on-passengers-phone-20160219-gmy8c3.html
 

To be fair, i think people have grounds to be concerned, the authorities swore black and blue that the covid contact tracing app/data would only ever be used for health purposes but they have actually been using it to solve crimes, i think i read that there were maybe a dozen cases where they accessed or attempted to access the contact tracing data in order to arrest people, sometimes they were successful and other times a judge stopped them but it demonstrates that you can't just trust them to do the right thing. 

Maybe you shouldn't watercool if you can't afford a $120 insurance
 
$120 in a $3000+ system that can potentially prevent $1000 in damages? Idk, sounds good to me

The issue isn't the existence of other sites, it's the adoption by creators and how it's managed.
 
IMO that list is pretty useless, Twitch is already well known and it's pretty big, but it has similar problems and is NOT an alternative to YT ... also, did they really put a TV / Movie streaming service in that list ??? Crackle is certainly not a YT alternative, if it is, then so is Netflix and Prime Video 😛
 
I was already aware of these other sites (except for Dtube) and until they're monetized and creators move to them, none are real alternatives unfortunately 😞 (Facebook comes close I guess, but it's a platform that's as problematic as YT, and as such, not a real alternative IMO).

Aye, I have one of the 6GB EVGA 780 SC+ ACX 2.0 cards under an EXWB block, had it since like 2012 with my i7-3770K rig before the Z77 mobo there fragged itself and (along with external factors) forced me to build my current Monsuta build back in 2016.
I need to figure out a build that I can toss that card in to with the block (paste change of course) along with the 3770K if I can't source another Z77 board at non-scalped prices that isn't a China Brand on AliExpress.

League viability != Casual viability.
Too many folks focus on "oh, can this game be a big contender in the Pro eSports scene?" without considering for a second how the game plays and is balanced for the casuals who keep the game alive as the mass of the player base while "talent" rolls in and rolls out from the small fraction of the overall player base the "pros" compose.

Not sure I understand your point there. I call BS on it because depending on the TYPE of game you're playing going max settings can either have a substantial effect or very little effect. For frame rate sensitive games that means no slideshow. But for games that aren't frame rate targeted it will most likely mean a boost in image quality and detail.
 
I mention my setup purely because it still plays those other non-high-frame-rate focused games particularly well.and I can still enjoy a relatively high resolution 3440x1440 and even 4K60 if I enable 4-way SLI. The 980Ti was perhaps the ONLY GPU to scale linearly across 1-2-3-4 cards in more than one game tested at the time, but picking the right driver for that to work was key.
 
I agree a 3090 won't help you if you are struggling with 1080P. Similarly, for a lot of people going up just one generation of GPU isn't worth it. But for some on older hardware who don't want to completely hose their setup and replace everything just that simple GPU upgrade is all it takes to keep their gaming rig online and play the games they want, especially if they don't have the money to buy a complete new PC. It's a whole other question after that if you are buying new/used, msrp/scalper or just need a particular GPU that's matched with the other hardware you're using.

I'm gonna have to call BS on this piece, simply because there is a massive difference between games and their settings. When I got into PC gaming it was FPS all day all the way (Far Cry, HL2, Doom 3). Today I find myself playing games that are NOT high frame rate and first-person shooters (golf sim, truck sim, cities skylines, WoW, snooker, pinball, casino, car design, etc...) The drastic difference in frame rate on these games is barely noticeable, yet cranking up the quality settings has very noticeable improvements. My monitor is a 3440x1440 panel running off a 980Ti.
 
Yeah, I would love to upgrade that 980Ti to a 3080Ti... if I could even get my hands on one let alone FOUR. But while I paid $800 for my EK blocked 980Ti, that newer EK blocked 3080Ti now runs over $1400 - that's a considerable markup, and questionable given the manufacturing cost of the card. So that 6 year old GPU I have will need to keep grinding well into NEXT YEAR before I get any realistic chance to swap it out. It's definitely lived a long life.
 
Quality settings impacting frame rate can be trivial. I got into GTA V fairly late and played through a major chunk of the campaign on medium settings, only to see later that I could get better image quality on higher details without affecting game play or frame rate. Did I feel cheated out of a better game experience? Perhaps, except that I can always play it again or reset my progress. I was definitely happy though playing through the remainder of the game being able to enjoy the new eye candy.
 
Changing and upgrading monitors can also play into this. Just bumping up resolution can make an acceptable game play chug along and make your GPU feel inadequate. The same can happen when you push refresh rate. Then it's the chase to upgrade your GPU to go along with the monitor swap, then your CPU isn't quick enough, then the mobo needs to go... At that rate we are replacing the entire PC - do you even call it an "upgrade" at that point?
 
All that said, my setup doesn't at all feel slow, despite the fact that at 6 years old now many would have thrown out the hardware I still run. Again, it just depends on the type of game that you play. Even with demanding titles like X-Plane so much can be done by tweaking the finer details and sliders to nail in that frame rate target you want without impacting image quality. At the end of the day it's always better to run a game even at lower settings than not be able to run that game at all.

DigitalFoundry often tests various quality settings for performance impact and what level(s) actually noticeably improve or reduce quality for the PC games they review. That's been really helpful to me for squeezing out every last bit of performance while still being a quality snob. I like eye candy, but the 3060 Ti I got for $500 is just about as much as I'm willing to part with for the privilege.

So it's just a live Linux USB. Like I used to use on my old schools shitty macbooks. Man. I built mine for like, 10 bucks. Plus it doesn't even do anything to your computer, like deleting bloatware or something. What a sham.
 
Also those "was" prices are a sham too. It's a marketing ploy to make you think you're getting a deal, when you're really not. It's been a thing since the dawn of the first retail stores.

I knew this day had to come eventually but even so it does bum me out a little bit. If I was still regularly gaming on PC, it would be time to start saving for an upgrade.
 
It was surprising though that in the video Linus talked about VRAM limitations, yet he didn't mention the 6GB cards that exist. He said something like "the 780 Ti only ever shipped with 3GB of VRAM" and that may be true, but my EVGA GTX 780 SC (non-Ti) has 6GB of VRAM on it. Thing is, I've never had a 4K or even 1440p display to test it on which is why for a moment my ears perked up and I was really hoping he would talk about 4K performance for a card like mine.