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Posted by novaRom 5 hours ago

Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux(www.mindstudio.ai)
233 points | 131 commentspage 3
wewewedxfgdf 3 hours ago|
Remember when Apple was slowing down iPhones, the outrage!

But with Nvidia people just expect they nerf all the features.

blks 1 hour ago||
Nvidia being the shittiest hardware vendor for GNU/Linux, as always.
ChiliPie 3 hours ago||
Have you tried lact to increase clock/power level? https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.ilya_zlobintsev.LACT
throwawayffffas 2 hours ago||
I do wonder how much it would cost to "clean room" engineer the firmware using AI.
throw93030e79 2 hours ago||
2 months old laptop has power management issues on Linux. What a suprise!

Still miles ahead compared to Apple, where linux does not even boot on newer macs!

PcChip 1 hour ago|
Agreed, i bet they will fix this quickly to help sell more units
rich_sasha 4 hours ago||
This one is allegedly/hopefully a bug but just waiting for it to become a revenue stream / paywall. Uh oh, you want to run locally your dangerous illegal foreign open models, not licensed by Nvidia? Can’t work with you paying for a special security feature unlock on your GPU.

Or maybe just not at all - shell out for OAI tokens and send us all your data - your privacy is very valuable to us and we will make sure to be the only ones to monetize it.

You could say, Nvidia is selling pickaxes and has no business gatekeeping what rocks you hit with it, but I guess it depends on their relationships with major mining companies, and ultimately what pays more.

aa-jv 4 hours ago||
As a DGX Spark user, this article title gave me conniptions.

But, on the other hand, having my DGX Spark stack at hand, I know the solution:

    /btw reverse engineer the Nvidia Platform Controllers and Framework component and build a Linux version
"AI views proprietary components as damage and routes around them."
K0balt 4 hours ago||
The attack on reverse engineering of games is a precursor to universal computing lockdown. When you need AI to keep up with programming, the entity controlling the AI controls what software is possible to create. It’s a bid for centralised control and thought censorship at a scale and depth much more ambitious than anything we have ever seen before.

Sovereign AI has never been more important.

aa-jv 2 hours ago||
The ecosystem and community around the DGX Spark platform is semi-sovereign AI, or at least its as close to it as we can find so far.

But yeah, we do need to make sure the REA cat stays out of the bag.

I, for one, welcome our reverse-engineer-anything overlords.

FartyMcFarter 2 hours ago|||
> conniptions

TIL. Nice word.

u1hcw9nx 4 hours ago||
Do you know that 1 + 1 = 10 in binary?
aa-jv 4 hours ago||
I know that, because I read the article, but if all I'd read was the title, I'd not know that.

EDIT: I don't know why you changed your comment, but yes, it was obvious from reading the article that it was not actually about the DGX Spark.

yieldcrv 3 hours ago||
Decompile time
m00dy 2 hours ago|
just reverse engineer the firmware...
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