DacoTaco

@DacoTaco@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What is defined as copy here? Cartridge data (game data, not firmware etc) is encrypted and can only be accessed by a protocol that is like spi, but is proprietary, by a specific chip running nintendo code. Or is a copy a full backup of everything on the chip?
  Is the copy a raw copy? Has the data been modified/decrypted/or any algorithm processed it?
  These things define wether a copy falls under this or not. Check what the fineprint or laws defines what ’ a copy’ is exactly in this case.
  If it doesnt, what i mentioned are important to see if what yoy said apply here or not.

  Like @DarkMetatron@feddit.org said, its only legal if nothing is done with the data. Any decryption using a nintendo key is infact, illegal, and falls under piracy.

  This is why dolphin was removed from steam, because they do exactly that. Decrypt the data to use it.

  If the process of dumping does any encryption or decryption, you also get in trouble in what they said.

  These are the laws, and the lawyer you asked this too must not have been specialised in ip law, copyright and games, or doesnt know the technical details to decide on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting writeup with some interesting techniques. I should read these some more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if that isnt legal (it is), but it will be circumvention of encryption at worst and recreation of protected algorithms, code and keys in a non-nintendo product at best ( and thats before talking about game cartridge content ).
  Last i checked that is still illegal hehe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I agree that people are too stupid to know what apps they should use. But that also includes those using some of apples closed down, limited apps and features haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo 2 on Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And diablo 1 has devilution ( or whatever the name was ), which is cross platform and works fiiiine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo 2 on Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, that works now? Ive seen the project few years ago but it wasnt good enough then. Awesome! I have to build that at home ^^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Bluetooth Controller Lag in Retroarch Can Be Fixed With Game Mode on TV and a Few Settings in Retroarch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even today i find it important as the knowledge of how things work is vanishing and many just accept it works. But how will we build upon an idea if everyone forgets how it works?
  There is also the idea within software that layers of bodgework upon one another creates overcomplex and unstable software. Thats everything but software you want to ship.
  I understand you dont want all hobby work to reach professional levels, specially if youre trying something new! Thats ok!

  Its just once you reach a certain level things have to change to make it not suck, dont build on that :')
  Also one of the reasons i dont like retroarch.
  But i will accept they fill a need that is very much wanted and needed by people and there isnt really anything like it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Bluetooth Controller Lag in Retroarch Can Be Fixed With Game Mode on TV and a Few Settings in Retroarch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that, but imo thats dangerous. I will admit i live for tech and i get the basics of it all but understanding it is imo important when changing such settings because it can create other issues too.

  But maybe im not the correct person to remark on this because i have a distaste for retroarch :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Bluetooth Controller Lag in Retroarch Can Be Fixed With Game Mode on TV and a Few Settings in Retroarch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find this kinda… Bullshit.
  Bluetooth controller’s lag does not get lowered by by turning on game mode on your tv. All you did was lower the response time of your tv to display the image quicker ( by turning off some image processing ). Your bluetooth controller will still lag lol.

  As for the settings in retroarch, that could change when it’ll process the input and can lower the lag, but without a list of the settings, im calling bs there too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've got something special for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh im not saying its perfect or any good, just saying what the logic was :p

  I personally use both azerty and qwerty lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've got something special for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, because in french you need the special characters more often than numbers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've got something special for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not french and we still use this piece of shit. Thanks belgium.

  Also, us/international qwerty isnt that great either imo. Uk qwerty is better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, it was always bad :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what i did to the ps3, and i know what needs to be done. I barely use the ps3 so its fine for my case. The real fix can also be to redo the ihs so the solder doesnt crack or get damaged again because of heat. Also, ps3 also got a lot easier to debug with syscon, which was also only (relatively) recently descovered. Sure made debugging the ps3 easier haha. Ive left the connection available on my ps3 for future usage hehe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ye no, ive have a ps3 that ylod which i reflowed back to life. After it was working again i started digging and the temps the core was reporting wasnt even close to the ihs that i measured with thermal couple. Also the thermal paste is on top of the ihs, not under it and it wasnt soldered in place. Early ps3’s did cook themselves. Less than 360 by a long shot, but they still did!
  Also, side note, its funny how some 360’s rrod was not due to the heat issue but can also be caused by power supply failure or the plug being faulty. Thats how i got and fixed my 360 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok so, let me set this all straight.
  The wii had nothing to do with the gpu but with the die of the gpu that nintendo had designed and kept secret.
  Inside the gpu die is both the gpu (hollywood) but also an arm core called starlet. It runs the security software and thats where (rarely but happened) things went wrong, as it was always running code, even in standby. This had nothing to do with ati.

  And the ps3 was not what you said. The ps3’s problem was that the ihs wasnt making a good enough contact to the core so the heat of the cpu didnt transfer well into the cooler. You can fix this, but is very tricky and is easy to permanently damage the ps3 in doing so ( you have to cut the silicon under the ihs without touching the die or the pcb, remove the silicon and do reattach it with less glue ). This could be contributed to the manufacturer i suppose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You basically summed up why i didnt find the reboot and its dlc any good haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I like Angelo, Palmer, Sandro, and Rico⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Game. Unreal 1 was an actual game and was before they sold the unreal engine. Where do you think the unreal comes from in unreal engine??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I like Angelo, Palmer, Sandro, and Rico⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, gta. Unreal is a dead game franchise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ye, and cygwin, mingw and msys are terrible compared to wsl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is 21? No skin?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ding ding ding ding xD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok so, i might be late to all this as i was helping with the damage control. But let me get some facts straight out in the open. Yes this is part of the damage control im doing, but its to battle a lot of misinformation out there. So, lets get into it.

  First things first, marcan is wrong. Libogc ( the library homebrew is built upon )'s threading is not rtems. As youll see later, it was inspired by it, but not even close as to a copy paste or plagiarised when it was first made. Shagkur (the one who made lwp) is known to have created some stuff by looking at other stuff and writing code from the ideas. This was asked to shagkur when we were first made aware of the allegations 2 years ago Image

  Dkp didnt make this public as they did not feel like it was necessary.
  Its only now that marcan made a fuss about it and it blew up that we have to battle this.

  There is also the fact that libogc is 23 fucking years old. It was made by shagkur in 2003, before git or svn existed and before forums and social media was a thing. So you shouldnt put it up to todays standards either. On top of it, that was made for gamecube, not wii. Marcan was part of the migration to wii so he was part of it too.

  I also want to point out that he shouldnt be making a fuss as his mini code, a code base what their bootmii and installer is build upon, contains code that looks very similar to ios, the nintendo code running on the security processor.

  Anyway, there is more. Yes people have found similarities, but thats because of how things work, not because of copy pasta. I would like to redirect your attention to this blogpost and investigation by mardy : mardy.it/…/no-libogc-did-not-steal-rtems-code.htm…

  Im not going to deny that parts of libogc are semi decompilations of the gamecube sdk. devkitPro didnt know this untill years after it had integrated libogc into its systems. But by then it was wildly used so there was no going back. Rewriting it would also not have been feasible to do alone. Hence the state it is in now. But as far as the new lwp allegations, its all false.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France drops sharp bombs in Sweden in show of force to Russia, strengthening defence ties⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always wondered if he wasnt too busy trying to fix the dumpster fire left by trump in 2020. Like, the next president will need at least 8 years to fix this dumpster fire…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parkour!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … Why am i hearing this in harry dresden’s voice (james marsters)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If only brexit ended that way haha…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utah lawmakers unanimously approve German-style balcony solar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There ade still ways around it. Ive installed mine but didnt put it over the railing of the apartment. From the outside you dont see it unless you look for it, and from my perspective you loose some space. Yes it doesnt run as effectively because of shadows ( ~280W instead of the 400W ) but that still offsets my pc from my bill haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the products are manufactured and assbled in Taiwan and shipped to local warehouses across the world. They can easily decide to make, ship and sell the product across the globe but in the us. The ceo explained that they forsaw things like this when they started in 2019/2020 and therefore decided, back then, that they would take on this model to not fuck themselves incase trump would go haywire back then.

  That has now saved their arses tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not saying i disagree, im saying its more complex than “just a few cents”.