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Cryptomining angers me on a deep level far more than the nascent attempts of Nvidia to segment it. I think they're doing an incompetent job of diminishing the v

Cryptomining angers me on a deep level far more than the nascent attempts of Nvidia to segment it. I think they're doing an incompetent job of diminishing the value of it, but at least they're making an effort to do so. Cryptominers are a far greater threat to general purpose computing than Nvidia. They ought to be compelled by law to purchase carbon credits for their mining, to offset the environmental destruction their petty "get rich quick" efforts have inflicted on the planet, enforced through Coinbase et al. and with noncompliant (offshore) exchange/wash platforms blocked and their users prosecuted through national laws and international agreements. Cryptominers and the malware they've created makes a very strong argument for walled gardens with enforcement and review of applications, simply because the vast majority of PC users are worse than useless at preventing misuse of general purpose Windows. I also think this proves Apple right on integrating the GPU on-die with the CPU, and not selling the CPU standalone at all, because Apple — unlike Nvidia and AMD — is having no such trouble with miners on their general computing platform. This issue is for whatever reason restricted to DIY PCs, and cryptomining will be the end of DIY PCs if this keeps up. (Perhaps you meant "DIY computing" rather than "general purpose computing"? I definitely see Nvidia's steps as interfering in the build-your-own computing market, but if it keeps the DIY computing market from dying off in favor of Apple, isn't that a desirable outcome?)

prestigeoctopus 5y ago
If you use any of the services of Amazon, Netflix, Google or any of the other hundreds of services that are running off of data-centres then you are being a hypocrite. If you have a PC of any sort. You are being a hypocrite. If you use any modern technology at all you are being a hypocrite. The logic you operating under can be extended from crypto currency mining to any other generally in the IT space. Lunatics such as yourself anger me (I've looked through enough posts in your history to know that you believe that employment is "wage theft" and are likely to be some sort of quasi communist). Not only will you argue that things need to be restricted because you don't approve of an activity, but then you argue for government intervention (which won't have the intended result btw) which is both invasive, costly and draconian because you don't approve of how someone else is using their hardware which they have purchased legally. However when you approve of the activity/product there is no complaint. If you were consistent you would also call our any of the cloud computing platforms, the internet as a whole, social media or any HFC trading. Simply put you are speaking outside of both sides of your mouth. As an side. You will call for governments to incentivise/restrict usages of PC hardware and data, ignoring the fact that governments routinely get it wrong. Back in the mid-2000 Diesel cars were promoted all over Europe as "green" as they were more efficient than Petrol vehicles. Anyone that has ever owned a diesel will tell you this is a nonsense, you can literally see the soot on the rear of the vehicle build up over time from the exhaust. CO2 emissions would be lower (at the time Diesels had higher MPG than Petrol vehicles) but particulates are obviously higher. If you get what you want because restricting people's freedom is what people seem to want to demand these days and the majority of politicians are spineless.

prestigeoctopus 5y ago

If you use any of the services of Amazon, Netflix, Google or any of the other hundreds of services that are running off of data-centres then you are being a hypocrite. If you have a PC of any sort. You are being a hypocrite. If you use any modern technology at all you are being a hypocrite. The logic you operating under can be extended from crypto currency mining to any other generally in the IT space. Lunatics such as yourself anger me (I've looked through enough posts in your history to know that you believe that employment is "wage theft" and are likely to be some sort of quasi communist). Not only will you argue that things need to be restricted because you don't approve of an activity, but then you argue for government intervention (which won't have the intended result btw) which is both invasive, costly and draconian because you don't approve of how someone else is using their hardware which they have purchased legally. However when you approve of the activity/product there is no complaint. If you were consistent you would also call our any of the cloud computing platforms, the internet as a whole, social media or any HFC trading. Simply put you are speaking outside of both sides of your mouth. As an side. You will call for governments to incentivise/restrict usages of PC hardware and data, ignoring the fact that governments routinely get it wrong. Back in the mid-2000 Diesel cars were promoted all over Europe as "green" as they were more efficient than Petrol vehicles. Anyone that has ever owned a diesel will tell you this is a nonsense, you can literally see the soot on the rear of the vehicle build up over time from the exhaust. CO2 emissions would be lower (at the time Diesels had higher MPG than Petrol vehicles) but particulates are obviously higher. If you get what you want because restricting people's freedom is what people seem to want to demand these days and the majority of politicians are spineless.