It will be the end of Nintendo. …Eventually. Of course these things take time; and people in general are slow on the uptake; especially uninterested masses.

Eventually though; they will grow too bold; brick a larger number of systems than is absolutely necessary to intimidate people away from piracy and basically piss off the gaming userbase; at which point the Steam Deck and related hardware will likely draw all casuals in.

I disagree wholly; but I understand what I see to be the underlying concern; which is a cat and mouse game of ‘who can generate a harder hash to fake?’ versus ‘who can sling the best fake hashes?’.

The change in EULA was the hint; I have not; and will not be buying any Switch 2 games, consoles or related merchandise. Nor will I be paying any further into my Switch beyond NSO as I have or buying any games for the Switch that are not explicitly on a physical cart.

I don’t buy games often anyways and would rather support Pocketpair and Palworld and Valve. So that’s where my discretionary spend and gift requests will go henceforth.

In general Nintendo is having it’s villainous arc; and I don’t believe they will survive it…given that they’ve run out or demoted their creatives and visionaries to workers. Nintendo is dead; what’s left is a greedy and soulless shell that behaves more like a gang or mafia. Given their History; that doesn’t surprise me.

This seems like a potentially clever defense against scrapers…which probably spoof the referrer field to be the base domain anyways.

I also think it’s important to point out separately that this software can be modified down into an easy to use software package that allows one to input relevant taxable financial data into it; and then when it comes time to file your taxes; you print out a long report; take it to your tax professional, who is now easily able to read that report, and use the information to appropriately file taxes.

Heck; that report might even make it drop dead simple to fill out your own tax forms; should you decide that’s what you’d like to do; and you could feed the software the relevant tax forms in and it would fill them out to the best of it’s ability using the data provided to it.

I don’t see the problem. This can be forked, enhanced, updated, and modified and that version released with an appropriate copyleft license.

Sure; some companies will do the same with utterly horrific copyright licenses. That’s fine; as it’s in the public domain. We just need some group to work to provide an appropriate copyleft licensed version.

Ideally we should be getting on this fast; but we all know FOSS work isn’t going to be fast if it’s done by volunteers. Some funds might need raising.

In essence; CC0 is an ultimate copyleft license; as it does not even preclude the use of copyrighting improvements on variant works.

It doesn’t have to be sinister to be wrong, or, to violate the ethos standards that the FOSS community at large is supposed to stand for.

When it’s explained simply; it seems to make more sense to emotive thinking.

An example:

“[Manufacturer] is [telling you that/acting like] you cannot choose apps outside of their [store/collection/catalog]; even if you, as an adult, would trust that app or need it to save your own sanity, health or life.”

When I tell an Apple user that; they suck their teeth and try to make [noises/excuses] but in the end they do relent and admit that does suck. Not only can they not refute it logically, they cannot refute it emotionally.

When I show them how I’ve riced out the experience of my Android Smartphone and how I can use my phone rapidly without encumbrance because I have everything at my fingertips in a workflow that comes native to me…they get jealous!

Sadly where I lose them, is where I tell them all the work I put in to achieve it. I have to break the news to them that going to the store and buying a phone with freedoms just like mine isn’t possible. Perhaps that’s where we need to attack these things.

Basically; we need to make freedom look sexy. There will invariably be things we can do with our freed devices and software systems that they cannot hope to achieve. We have to endeavor to make that difference as pronounced and noticeable as possible. When we do; that’s when FLOSS communities swell and grow. When Linux got good at gaming with Proton; the numbers swelled. Linux became “sexy” because it could game. If we give users something they can have over their peers who don’t seek freedom respecting software, they will flock to it in droves…and the companies will be driven into the poorhouse for failing to meet the user demands.

When comparing it to X11; it absolutely isn’t. That isn’t me being unfair; just objectively comparing the two to each other. Literally nothing else exists that are quite like X11 and Wayland…so it makes sense to grade one against the other.

That isn’t saying it does not work as well or even better than X11 does; it just hasn’t existed for long enough yet to be nearly as widely adopted as X11 is. Gnome’s decision to adopt a Wayland only stance is fairly new and I’m waiting to see how that goes for them. With luck it will go well and increase the adoption of Wayland. I’m aware that plenty of Distros do include Wayland; and plenty have taken the plunge similar to Gnome; which is why they probably felt it was wise to follow suit, after observing Wayland succeeding in those Distros fairly well.

I don’t really have a horse in the argument per-se; I think both X11 and Wayland are both great; if you’re using them like the developers intended you to use them.

I do think the video makes a pretty good point about how people who attack others for continuing X11 is very much violating the ethos of FOSS communities in general; and I have no doubts that if the claims made in the video are true; I think folks like Stallman would be kind of upset with people behaving that way because it only harms the FOSS community as a whole.

You may not agree with people who want to use X11 for their very niche use cases. That’s fine. But I do question any motives behind any kind of behavior that is not only ceasing all development on X11, but actively blocking and sabotaging others who want to work on X11 from doing so.

This is some strange stuff.

I thought it was odd that there were distros pushing forth into Wayland-Only territory; given that Wayland isn’t yet mature.

Now it seems like something more odd and sinister is going on…

Feel free to discuss and reply civilly.

Nintendo is clearly hiding something; they clearly are highly afraid of critical reviews and this is clearly a strategy that is not unlike what Nvidia, led by Jensen Huang, does.

What they are hiding will remain to be seen. I’m sure that the bad reviews will not go away…only be delayed by a week or so.

If you are wise; you will avoid buying the Switch 2 for at least a month. If you can’t wait a month to see what Nintendo is hiding; just be advised; you bought into it blind and have no right to complain about the bad reviews later, nor should you take it personally when people start talking poorly about the Switch 2.

I genuinely hope this works out and can be replicated across the world. Diabetes is quite a problem for some; and most importantly; it’s something you can’t really easily prevent from occurring if you’re moderately predisposed to it.

Whoof. The burn.

Glad to see some people understand how much more problematic Trump is than anything that Harris would be doing.

No.

It is hard to have both; but not impossible. You can still be privacy friendly without sacrificing necessary functionality.

It will require that the “provider” of such a dataset constantly scrub, sanitize and remove data that would cause privacy hazards as quickly as reasonably possible however. That in and of itself is a technical challenge; though not impossible.

Most anti-cheat software can’t do much on the client side. Really all it can do is look around at it’s environment where it’s allowed to look and see what’s going on.

Most Cheat Software will run on a higher privilege level than the game; whether that’s as an “Administrative” user or as “root” or “SYSTEM” in a context where it’s running as an important driver.

In any case, the only thing the Anti-Cheat can reliably do on the client side is watch. If it’s cleverly designed enough, it will simply log snippets of events and ship them off for later analysis on a server side system. This will probably be a different server than the one you’re playing on, and it won’t be sending that data until after the match has ended properly.

Sometimes it might not even send data unless the AC server asks it to do so; which it might frequently do as a part of it’s authorization granting routine. Even when it has the data there may not be immediate processing.

Others have also mentioned that visible action may be delayed for random time periods as well; in order to prevent players from catching on to what behaviors they need to avoid to get caught, or to prevent cheats from getting more sophisticated before deeper analysis could reveal a way to patch the flaw or check to ensure cheating isn’t happening.

Since cheat software can often be privileged, it also has the luxury of lying to the server. So clever ways to ensure that a lying client will be caught will probably be implemented and responses checked to ensure they fit within some reasonable bounds of sanity.

yeah no, you’re missing the point.

What Trump did was a gross abuse of power.

To be fair; this ruling is a result of Trump packing the SCOTUS, not something Biden himself did.

Not saying this wasn’t a Democratic party failing; they let Trump win in the first place during all that kerfuffle about Hillary.

But I do think we have to consider the context.

Do you play Star Trek Fleet Command?

I don’t agree with the assessment of the OP or the original blog article. Grayjay is Open Source software.

It is, however, NOT FREE SOFTWARE and I do know that organizations like the FSF and OSI do not consider it to be free.

The free status of this software was never misrepresented by Louis Rossman. He blatantly explains that there is a cost to this software and that the license is how he plans to enforce his means of collecting this fee on the honor system.

He also outlines how he cannot; and will not…stop anyone from forking this software and basically removing the payment bits of the code and just redistributing it under a different name. I strongly recommend someone does that…and maybe license that work under a much more unrestrictive free license that FLOSS-Only users might find more palatable.

I get that nobody wants or needs to trust Louis to keep his word. He’s gotta run a business at some point…and distributing this software this way on the honor system might not pan out quite the same way he hopes it will. I do hope that at the point where he and his compatriots choose to stop maintaining the application; that they do immediately retcon this restrictive license; and re-release it under a new, free, and unrestrictive Open Source Software license.

If this is true; this is probably going to be a very shocking revelation to some people.

I don’t know how much treason this man needs to commit to get convicted; but I hope he does get punished for something.