My suggestion, get as many private copies of emulators you can before they go after all the Github ones. Seems to be more and more take-downs are happening lately.
It really is too bad we dont have a federated github alternative. I know theres some projects in development, but I can see the emulator scene getting harder and harder to get into if popular repos go down. Decades of work, gone.
We do have a federated GitHub alternative. Perhaps not too mature yet, but it does indeed exist. Forgejo
I just discovered that this is Codeberg - I’ve seen a lot of projects there and I had no idea that it was an instance of Forgejo
Originally, it wasn’t. Codeberg used to run Gitea. Forgejo is a fork of that, which came later.
Not really federated. You can’t, for example, raise issues or set PR requests from another instance.
They have been working on Federation: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls?q=&type=all&sort=&state=closed&labels=79349&milestone=0&project=0&assignee=0&poster=0&archived=false
Yep its not nearly done…but I have a server and running through testing. git itself is fairly federated, but the support structures (PRs/MRs, review process, easy wiki/issue tracking, etc…) is where the real work is at.
I’m running a server as well, but have not tested federation (yet).
Nice! Them and gitea are really stable!
I thought codeberg was just a really well maintained and customized gitea instance…?
They have been doing so for a while now.
Git is a distributed version control system. There doesn’t have to be a single copy of the repo on which everything depends. It’s a choice, and an understandable one, to treat one copy as authoritative, but there’s no reason to despair if it becomes unavailable. Any copy of it will do.
What GitHub provides that’s hard to do without it is not the repository but the stuff that goes around it: issue tracking, communication tools, discoverability, etc.
So if people take the distributed nature of Git seriously and make sure they all have a local copy of the repo, we won’t lose the repo itself to Nintendo’s actions. But we may lose the tools that make it easy to coordinate work on the repo.
Before we had GitHub and issue trackers we had mailing lists and Usenet groups. Not as convenient, bit they allowed people to coordinate work on open source software without a central, corporately owned point of failure. Maybe we should be looking to the early days of FOSS for ideas about how to make these projects resilient against corporate persecution. Not for the exact tools but for decentralized ways of coordinating collaboration.
There are self hosted github alternatives, like Gitea for example. It takes 10 minutes to set up and it behaves like github/gitlab. So all to advantages can be kept.
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If you (or anyone else) has any suggestions for emulators/tools to mirror, send them my way. I already have a few on my Forgejo server https://git.ngni.us/mirrors
Don’t forget to mirror suitable versions of the scarce dependencies. Sirit, the SPIR-V assembler, for example.
Re3/revc was banned by rockstar, mirror them if theres repos left
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Emulators aren’t even grey, it’s settled law that they are legal.
Like that’s stopped the current SCOTUS
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Emulators should provide torrents for releases.
Stop making me sad sir!!!
Link for N64?
People are missing the point of this article a bit - It’s not just about Nintendo trying to remove forks/backups of yuzu/ryujinx. It’s that they are trying to subpoena Reddit as a corporation for user data. They want to pursue legal actions against anyone discussing Switch Piracy online. And then ask yourself - Do you trust Reddit as a corporation with your user data?
In addition to requesting records from Reddit, Nintendo’s filing also makes appeals for information from other companies, including domain registrars such as Namecheap and GoDaddy, along with firms such as Cloudflare, Github, Google, and Discord.
Reminder, that you do not own your social media accounts and that corporations might end up sharing whatever you post online with whomever. Privacy and anonymity are not guaranteed.
So, Lemmy is a better place?
I always wondered what data does reddit actually have? Even if they had IPs and people posting, I’m John Smith, how exactly is Nintendo going to prove anything in a court of law? IP is not a person, and talking about shit online isn’t the same as doing it.
And most of all, are they going to sue and investigate 10,000 people?
I don’t get any of this fear mongering. I think this is all just aimed at shutting down communication channels, they aren’t going to go after individuals talking on the internet
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I have several copies of Yuzu in multiple backup locations. They’re all local. Fuck Nintendo.
Source code too?
I keep some of the devs in my basement.
Let me out! Let me outtt!
Bruh, I laughed so hard. Wtf 😂
Sheiiiiit
No, just two copies of an appimage and an AUR package that I have extracted into a
.pkg.tar.zstwhere I can install it any time I do a reinstall on my system. I backed that shit up in like 4 places. Also, just found out that Suyu is still up and running. It’s being mirrored everywhere and you can still download and install it for Windows Mac and Linux. Got a copy of that, too.
The big ones:
Now Nintendo is seeking the court’s approval to actually subpoena Reddit for user records. These records, if shared, could identify additional moderators or users tied to the r/SwitchPirates subreddits. Nintendo argues that these records are critical to building their case against others in the alleged piracy …
In addition to requesting records from Reddit, Nintendo’s filing also makes appeals for information from other companies, including domain registrars such as Namecheap and GoDaddy, along with firms such as Cloudflare, Github, Google, and Discord.
Kinda weird that I’m rooting for reddit, a company I hate, against Nintendo, a company that usually brings me joy.
But here we are.
As a lifelong Nintendo fan, I’ve been rooting against them in pretty much everything for close to a decade at this point.
Subpoenaing Reddit for user records because some guy emulated a videogame made for your crappy handheld console.
I don’t think that it is illegal to talk about illegal stuff 🤔 but maybe in some countries, it is, who knows, at least not where I live
“Conspiracy to ___”
Conspiracy to blank requires at least one overt action, demonstrating that you intend to fulfill your commitment to blank.
We could talk about doing blank all day, make plans to blank. Draw up little blank maps and assign blank duties. Until someone actually does something, it’s all just talk.
So, who wants to plan the next presidential assassination?
So what? Nintendo expects us to wait for their lazy asses to release older games?
Not only that. In South America, it is impossible to legally purchase digital Nintendo games. The only options are: overpriced physical copies (like, 2 or 3 times the original value), or create a US account (so, lying in the personal data) and buy prepaid cards online (also severely overpriced).
For some people, piracy is the only option.
They’ve released like 1% of the NES library on Switch and it’s been years.
Emulators do what Nintendon’t.
Oh, that says Nintendo. I thought Viacom was up to some shit for a moment thereI’m playing the world’s smallest violin
Is there a reason why they shouldn’t do this?
