Never give Nintendo money.
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2025
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Oh I made that decision decades ago
https://github.com/Ryubing/Ryujinx is still there as well as https://git.citron-emu.org/Citron/Citron (formerly Yuzu), the 2 main repositories for these 2 emulators.
So yeah, "easily killed" 4238 unimportant repos, not even getting the main ones, lol.
My repo is fine, because its not online. Keeping them online is just silly.
I host my own gitlab instance.
Same. Super easy to do, easy to mirror repos, easy to keep offline...
Even if its online (gitlab.melroy.org), I own my data. And GitHub or any other company can't decide for me when to remove content.
I can't wait for federated git prs/issues.
Do you know about Radicle ? It's not federated but distributed and darknet based
I want to give it a shot at some point! It just looks complicated
I t has imporved a lot lately you should :)
How does that change Nintendo's legal proceedings?
You can ignore a DMCA request. It's not "do this or go to jail." It's a finger-wag that gives you a free out, where they can't sue you if you do the thing. You can just... not... and then they'd have to go to the trouble of suing you. Which you can make difficult by being somewhere besides America and not giving a shit.
Federation doesn't allow you to ignore DMCAs, not hosting in the US does. Federation has absolutely no impact on DMCA's functioning.
Federation allows redundancy.
It doesn't. But code becomes p2p with no one organizer.
I hacked my Switch right after Nintendo pulled that Yuzu BS, so it's been jailbroken for one year now and the last time I gave any money to Nintendo was in May 2023 for Tears of the Kingdom. I recently updated it to the newest firmware in preparation for Xenoblade Chronicles X this month. No updated emulators? No problem!
Just stop feeding them. Nintendo is bad, mkay? And their games are mediocre at best.
Kinda hard to say when they're some of the most pirated games ever... But okay.
Downloads ≠ good
People are choosing to pirate them instead of pay for them and support the developer/publisher. 'Good enough to play for free' is also a statement.
Ahh yes. The ol' "we downloaded it because it was BAD lol" move. Classic. /s
It amazes me that you don't see how stupid what you just said was. It's entirely possible to have a good game where people don't want to support the developer/platform that it's been released for. It's totally fine. You can have two things at once. You can admit they make some good games. That doesn't lessen the argument that they're fuckin' evil.
I'd play a mediocre game for free that I wouldn't pay for, what is your point exactly?
I feel that I was very clear. If you can't derive the meaning of something despite being led directly to the end of the puzzle, then there's nothing I'm gonna be able to do for you. Search your feelings, Luke.
You haven't, but okay, you do you.
Ahh yes, the ol' complete lack of nuance. A game isn't good so it has to be bad.
Seems the stupidity is contagious around these parts considering you go on to showcase situations of nuance. Engage brain please.
P2P code repo when? Git needs to die in 2025
Git is significantly better than the alternatives. Don't conflate git and GitHub, they're entirely different.
do you mean github or do you actually mean git?
Isn't git technically already P2P? Everyone has the complete repo, and everyone can pull from everyone else, as long as a connection can be established. The networking/organization of this is just not automatic.
https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/Bittorrent-like_features/ -- Use IPFS as a special git-annex remote, and it will be nearly impossible to execute a take-down.
If you have other "decentralized filesystems" that have "better" behavior than IPFS, you might see if joeyh or yourself can add them as other special remotes.
There is also Radicle that is building a darkgit with p2p distributed design
I'm not sure how I like at protocol being the thing that makes this happen, but I'm glad others are working on the issue! Maybe I'll change my mind later but it's still to close to a million dollar company for my taste