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Ultimately this was the result of a shitty game of telephone leading to disastrous consequences. My over-reliance on backchannelling is what led to this game of telephone happening in the first place, which I will improve going forward.

Fuck around and find out, #StarTrek style… 🙃

#SeenOnTwitter

#politicalAnimal

In this case, none of this process was followed. To the best of my understanding, this is what happened:

1. Valve legal contacted Nintendo of America to ask "hey, what do you think about Dolphin?"
2. Nintendo replied to Valve "we think it's bad and also that it violates the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions" (note: nothing about violating copyright itself). Also "please take it down".
3. Valve legal takes it down and forwards NoA's reply to the Dolphin Foundation contact address.

nintendo's really having a blast telling everyone to pirate their games! so far in the past couple of months, nintendo has:

- shut down the eshop for wii u/3ds
- issued a DMCA to lockpickRCM, preventing switch owners from legally obtaining keys needed for emulation (and it caused a switch emulator to shut down due to fears they'd be DMCA'd too)
- sent a new 3DS update that blocked all free methods of homebrewing the console
- and just recently, they told steam to take down the dolphin emulator

remember: pirating nintendo games is good.
(edit: fix'd some info!)

"The hot news that nobody sane has been waiting for"--the Windows XP activation algorithm has been solved, meaning anyone can generate an authentic XP activation code. (I find it's a wonderful "sweet spot" resource for VMs, old enough to run most '90s apps and new enough for the GPU support to do it well.) https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/26/windows_xp_activation_cracked/

As I awoke this morning from uneasy dreams I found that Google had replaced my authenticator app with an anus drawn by Kurt Vonnegut

In the retro gaming community, we don't say goodbye; we say "emu later". And I think that's beautiful.

literally the only correct update Nintendo could've released for the 3DS was one which opened up the firmware at least a little more, and/or removed restrictions to playing games (I'm almost sure that there are still cross-region restrictions, and so removing them would be the correct option)

When a device is past its end of its lifecycle like that you don't lock it down more, you give people the tools to still re-use it

You're just making more E-waste otherwise

Literal Jesus fucking Christ

Nintendo: 3DS store closed, no more digital only games :)

Users: Well at least we can still mod our consoles, it's not like anyone is losing money, since we literally cannot buy these games anymo-

Nintendo: :)))

https://nintendoeverything.com/3ds-update-out-now-version-11-17-0-50-patch-notes/

The #curl graph we always get to debate over. Number of *C mistakes* vs *non-C mistakes* among the existing 145 reported vulnerabilities. Updated with the latest 4 reports, and the LOC graph added as a comparison.

The four noble truths also work as a Hollywood tetrology:

* Suffering
* Suffering: Origins
* The Path to the Doom of Suffering
* The End of Suffering

@topher @lispi314 @rysiek @mmdolbow You can see that everything listed there is Critical and High severity. There can be Moderate and Low severity patches listed, but they usually omit them from the Android Security Bulletin (ASB) to avoid making fixing them mandatory. They backport these ASB patches to older releases. There are no actual LTS releases for older Android versions. Only the latest version has actual releases. Pixels always ship the latest, and that's what is actively developed.

"I'm hearing voices, doc. They're telling me that everything is terrible and billionaires are destroying the planet."

"That's a podcast."

"Oh."