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TehPers@beehaw.org 1 day agoGN’s last crowdfunded investigation into export-controlled GPU sales in China was a masterpiece of modern journalism. I have no doubt he would fail to deliver here.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 day ago
He blew the doors off of something we already knew was happening.
The sea of coreless and ram-less consumer GPUs is all over the second hand market in the US. We all knew those chips ended up in china. We all knew nvidia was seeking profits at any cost and chinese money is the white whale of many an MBA’s focus (before getting chased out by the party for not being chinese or owned by chinese anyway..)
It would be way more interesting to know if now after china said no more nvidia if the flow of chips is ongoing, but they probably won’t ever cover that.
You also won’t see too much critical of Google on their channel despite it being one of the biggest threats to privacy and safety, for obvious reasons. Can’t hurt the hand that feeds I guess.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
Usually when an investigation blows the doors off of something, it’s because although many people were aware of what was happening inside, not enough did. Even if the primary gain is bringing awareness to an issue, investigative journalism like this is still important. After all, the doors were closed for a reason
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Well this is a load of nonsense. You can see where they got funding for that investigation here. It was crowdfunded, after all.
As for the rest of your comment, “everyone knows something at a high level” is the dumbest reason not to do an investigative piece. It’s exactly that people only know it at a high level that investigating is important.
If you’re looking for another investigative piece as a follow-up to their previous one, then why don’t you email them directly? If you’re just complaining that there isn’t one, then can’t really help you there. The story of the GPU black market has already been told though, so the most they could probably really do is a hardware news segment if I had to guess.