If you impose export controls on the BCM2837 (core used by Raspberry Pi 3), you’ll just get drop-in Chinese replacements like AllWinner H616 and RockChip RK3288.

It’s not that likely they’re using Pi 4 or Pi 5 SoCs because there’s a supply crunch there (28nm and 16nm respectively and both use LPDDR4) and there’s plenty of BCM2835-BCM2837 in old stock + they use a 40nm process that’s much less crowded than the current SoC silicon market.

Anything older than BCM2837 in the Pi lineup would not have enough performance for MV.

Fuck land mines. All my homies hate land mines.

I’ve just started blocking SEO slop while using ddg on my main computer. Makes my life easier if it’s just DigitalOcean blogs rather than geeksforgeeks or linuxvox. The latter being full-on ai slop. At least DO/Vultr/whatever actually bothers with content quality because it’s their PaaS.

By the time that arrives if ever, the statute statute of limitation would’ve long run.

It does seem to be a one pump chump

I find it quite hard to believe it would be able to detect innocuous, dual-use, off the shelf components spread out over a dozen prints.

Even US export controls can’t prevent that, only delay and cause irritation.

They’re slowly becoming the necessary evil in this day and age. At least they’re not Meta, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI / Microsoft, or Amazon.