enabling unmodified CUDA applications to run on AMD GPUs at near-native performance, the ZLUDA atop AMD HIP code was made available and open-source following the end of the AMD contract

Trouble is... HIP doesn't support all of AMDs GPUs. It's only 7900s in the consumer line-up.

And you see some of those people here acting like they're immune to propaganda, that they care when they blatantly disregard sources when presented to them on controversial topics (read: against the US State department line). As principled as they think they are, you talk about anything outside the US or whatever US vassal state they're from, and it's back to the chauvinism, but with a pink coat of paint.

I think Roderic Day had it right when he said this was an issue of westerners consenting to their own misinformation because they don't want to face that they're complicit by inaction in the horrible shit their governments have done to the third world for centuries and continue on a daily basis. And Zizek does that shit all the time too, arguing for western chauvinist shit but for "leftist" reasons, like he did in Against the Double Blackmail.

The US did lie about Nelson Mandela being a bloodthirsty terrorist who would immediately genocide all the white people, but not about Hamas. Why don't you condemn terrorists?

The state department did lie about Libya's threat and was involved in the horrible dismantling of their state in favor of jihadi warlords, but not in Syria, why are you linking non credible journalists? No I will not check the leaked documents.

The CIA WAS confirmed to have instigated hundreds of coups as recently as the 2010s, but not in Ukraine. You'd have to be a bot to believe such nonsense.

The US did lie about Cuba being a brutal totalitarian baby murdering state, and did downplay how horribly exploitative and violent they were in their imperialism before the revolution, but you have to believe North Korean defectors, it's not like they're being bribed to say the biggest lie they can. Btw they had the Korean genuhhhhhh... War coming, they did invade the south of their own country and that's the part the US wanted.

Sure, the fact the US government spies on every single citizen without warrant or cause. The multiple CIA operations that overthrew various governments were conspiracy theories until they were proven.

Hell the existence of abu graihb and the idea the US military tortures and kills civilians was a conspiracy theory, until it was proven.

You want the real fucked up one... Stalin wasn't crazy nor did he overreact with his actions against 'enemies if the state', the US genuinely did invest practically unlimited resources into trying to destabilize the ussr under Stalin, as supported by now declassified CIA documents, including recruiting from populations that aided nazi occupiers.

Thanks, that's a nice askreddit thread. A lot of these have the same problem though, which is that I have trouble believing (and have no idea how to find evidence, since they were well pre-internet) that these were conspiracy theories before they were revealed.

(I note now that I didn't actually mention, in my comment, that by "was a conspiracy theory" I don't just mean "sounds crazy" but rather "sounded crazy and there were actually people saying it". I'm not interested in every insane thing secret agencies did*, I'm interested in stuff people successfully predicted.)

*well, I am, but it's not what the question is about

There are plenty of books and articles discussing these things. This comment points to an excellent one you can read lemmy.ml/post/24336378/1586521…

It's not like information from before the internet is not accessible either. You can easily search for old news papers, and so on. This is a topic that's pretty thoroughly documented.