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  • No, I didn’t confuse Japan with China. The US has been restricting China’s access to high-end AI hardware, research, and talent for years.

    NVIDIA’s A100 and H100 chips were banned from export to China in 2022. When NVIDIA made weaker versions (A800 and H800), the US banned those too in 2023. The goal? Prevent China from developing competitive AI.

    It’s not just hardware. Since 2018, the US has been limiting Chinese nationals in AI and robotics programs. In 2020, over a thousand Chinese researchers had their visas revoked because of “military ties.” US tech companies have also been pulling out of China—IBM, for example, slashed its R&D operations in 2024.

    This has been a slow but deliberate strategy to control computational power. The fact that people are only just realizing it now says a lot.


  • Nope. Not the fanciest ones, anyways. The US has been cutting China off from high-end tech for years. In 2022, the government banned exports of NVIDIA’s A100 and H100 AI chips. When NVIDIA tried making toned-down versions (A800 and H800), the US banned those too in 2023. The goal was to stop China from developing advanced AI.

    It’s not just hardware. Since 2018, the US has been restricting Chinese nationals from studying AI and robotics. In 2020, over a thousand visas were revoked to block researchers with ties to China’s military. On top of that, major US tech companies have been pulling R&D out of China, with IBM cutting a huge chunk of its operations in 2024.

    People think China’s tech dominance is just happening on its own, but the US has been actively trying to choke it out.


  • Nvidia has grown astronomically because they produce the big bad super GPUs that the big bad super LLMs allegedly need to be so big and bad and super.

    Except we explicitly do not allow Nvidia to sell those products to CHINA. Because we’ve been trying to gain computational intelligence supremacy since like 1999, and we’re coming to a tipping point.

    However some small company just released a competitor (generally better) to the best big bad super LLMs out there. As a side project. And it is open source. Their budget was like .1% of any of the big bad super LLMs out there and they didn’t use any of the big bad super GPUs (allegedly).

    This makes Nvidias speculative astronomical growth over the last two years look hugely inflated.

    Edit: China












  • Oh man where to start.

    No tertiary devices. No GPS or iPod in my car. Just my phone. For so many useless gadgets. Cameras, video cameras…CALCULATORS, All in one place. That’s number 1.

    2 would be that these devices are all a part of an ecosystem that grew so fast… Not only did our phones suddenly all have GPS, but it’d tell us about traffic. That used to be someone’s news beat. Gone, overnight

    1. Mobile browser. What?! You mean every time that annoying know it all friend starts confidently talking about something they know nothing about You can just Google it right in front of them instead if having it be some annoying thing.

    2. For better or worse, I am never bored.

    That’s just the first few that come to mind…



  • You’re straight up embarrassing yourself on a forum full of highly technical people. I won’t be surprised when you delete your comments.

    You’re confidently conflating two very different things: basic IP spoofing that breaks TCP connections and the use of a reverse proxy to mask an IP address during communication. Let me explain why you’re wrong and how the process actually works.

    1. IP Spoofing for One-Way Traffic:

    When you “spoof” an IP, you modify the source address in a packet to make it appear as if it came from somewhere else.

    You’re right that for a full TCP connection, the three-way handshake (SYN → SYN-ACK → ACK) won’t complete because the response (SYN-ACK) goes to the spoofed IP, not to the actual sender. This is basic networking, and no one is arguing that.

    1. Reverse Proxy Basics:

    Here’s where you get it wrong: a reverse proxy or intermediary server is not IP spoofing in the raw packet sense.

    The reverse proxy establishes the connection with the target server on your behalf. It completes the handshake, relays data to/from the target, and forwards the responses back to you.

    Your actual IP never touches the target because all the traffic appears to come from the proxy.

    Simplified Flow:

    VM (Google Voice) → VPN (Mullvad, paid with cash) → Reverse Proxy → Target Hotline

    The target sees the reverse proxy’s IP, not yours. The reverse proxy handles the replies and sends them back to your system.

    1. Why This Works:

    You only need to maintain a stable connection with the reverse proxy. The proxy takes care of everything else, including interacting with the target server or hotline.

    This is not spoofing mid-connection traffic; this is using a relay to abstract your origin. It’s a fundamental networking concept used for load balancing, anonymity, and even services like Cloudflare.

    1. Google Voice Context:

    The call originates from a VM, using Mullvad to mask your real IP. If you route the call through a reverse proxy, the target hotline only interacts with the proxy’s IP.

    You maintain full two-way communication because the proxy handles and relays replies, ensuring nothing breaks.

    TL;DR: You’re incorrectly applying the concept of raw IP spoofing (which doesn’t work for full communication) to a process that involves a reverse proxy or VPN, where the proxy legitimately completes the connection and forwards traffic. If you’re a “network specialist,” you should know this. The fact that you don’t is what’s truly embarrassing.

    And now, I block you. I won’t waste my time talking to morons who are so confidently incorrect.