Comment on Nvidia offices raided by French competition authority

Tibert@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• thorcik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Were they looking for the latest Linux drivers?

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  • magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re gonna need bigger guns then.

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  • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Still didn’t found that piece of software

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• Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You just described a raid…

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  • Tibert@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some people may see it in some other way.

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    • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think it’s only in French that we associate raid with “all guns blazing” because we use the English word for cool action movies and the French one for boring news segments.

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      • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        it’s not only in French. The word raid is quite connotated with an armed police raid, at least in non native speakers.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe I’m too American raised in too much cop movies but a raid always comes off like body armor, armor piercing rounds of ammo, and flash bangs.

    So I kinda need it explained like this.

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think it mostly has that connotation but a bunch of feds showing up unexpectedly at an office to confiscate the books and computers before they can shred/delete data I’d still call a raid.

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  • Discoslugs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Raids in america involve guns swat teams and often phantom warrants.

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• Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is a problem with the US news in general because it uses the words “raid” and “execute search warrant on” as synonyms, when the former conjures up images of guys in body-armor with carbines and the latter a couple of cops and a bunch of specialized investigators. Like, various layers of US government have “raided” many of Trump’s properties, and obviously it was the latter and not the former, it’s not like Trump is gonna get the Breonna Taylor service.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also, just to be absolutely clear, no neighbours were shot, or anything of the sort.

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  • Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People are more likely to click on exciting headlines that play up drama, its like clickbait 101. “Nvidia office was searched” may be a more accurate realistic description but not super exciting. When I see ‘raid’ I think of SWAT teams busting up drug cartel homebases.

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• ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But that's exactly what I assumed happened when reading the headline. Almost no native English speaker would assume it meant there was a shootout, or violence, or whatever. What you described is a typical "raid" executed against a company.

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  • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think for a lot of people the word raid has a connotation with an armed police raid.

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    • rishado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah a lot of idiots

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      • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        it’s not about idiocity. It is because of for many non native speakers, this word has almost always been seen in that context.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Raided” is one of those bombastic headline words, like “slammed” or whatever. Unless it was actually a SWAT team busting down the door, what they should be saying is “executed a search warrant.”

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    • rishado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isn’t this the same as when they raid wall st offices? They don’t take a swat team there afaik

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, in the sense that those aren’t deserving of the word “raid” either.

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