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why can I not install it?

first time i just get the share button on droid-ify

/e: installig directly from github was no issue


I wonder how you ever could “upload” a consciousness without Ship-of-Theseusing a Brain.

Cyberpunk2077 also has this “upload vs copy” issue, but doesn’t actually make you think about it too hard.


It’s possible but is a lot more complicated with later switches.
First gen was super easy. I think current one needs a mod-chip installed to Boot custom Firmware (which you need for ROMs)


But they also showed with what they will come for you.
If you outsource decryption from emulation, they can’t do it (this way) again


I don’t think so.
But maybe Emulators need to change how they work.
Externalize a small, relatively simple tool to decrypt the ROM.
and a complicated, actively developed Emulator, that can only read decrypted ROMs.

With that, the Emulator shouldn’t be attackable the same way yuzu was.


Oh, I mean there’s nothing there.

A Court Document shows that Yuzu got a lawyer and will answer within 60 days of 2024-02-27.

The Answer will be the interesting bit. It may indicate if they wish to fight, or if they deem it not worth the effort.


Curious if this will fix my one issue I have with Finamp.

I have some quite large playlists I’d like to listen on shuffle. Finamp doesn’t do that well at all. (It seems it only shuffles what it has cached or something, as it seems to shuffle “only” the first 100 or so songs. of 3000+)


Emulation itself is legal, which is why the complaint is about circumvention of protections under the DMCA.
Nintendo alleges that Yuzu does that, and while it needs the help of prod.keys for it, yuzu does give instruction on how to obtain that. Nintendo argues that this shows how Yuzu is there (primarily) to break their protections.

Now, Yuzu has some defenses.

  1. It may argue that the point “limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected” may be moot, as yuzu has no commercially significant purpose. The 30k they get per month in donations won’t help that case much, but a nice calculation about 212 contributors to the project over 10 years may soften that counter argument.
  2. It may argue that Yuzu allows disabled people better access to games, as their controller configurations are way more open than Nintendos.
  3. It may argue that they (or more specifically the prod.keys issue) is covered by Interoperability. I.e. they are making an Emulator for Homebrew (100% legal). Now that they have this work, for interoperabilities sake (of Yuzu with official switch games), they include instructions on prod.keys stuff on their homepage.

Most realistic outcome (as I expect):
Yuzu is taken down, the open source project continues, but at a much slower rate. The Case is dropped.

The outcome that I’d love to see (but seems way less realistic):
Yuzu gets a significant bump in donations from people angry about this, decide to go to trial and wins.
Result: Yuzu gets more money, Nintendo has cemented more protections for Emulation.


goddamn it, I really hope that Nintendo will get laughed out of court, but it seems to me (IANAL) that they may have a case. Although Yuzu will have some defenses as well.

Ars Technica has a writeup about this, that seems decent.

They expect that this won’t go to trial, because yuzu won’t be able to pay for it.
Maybe the community should think about changing that.


I mean, this is the first implementation in qbittorrent.

Imagine if at some points it ships a complete implementation by default, and everyone using qbittorrent could be reached via i2p. We’re not there, and not terribly close, but implementing i2p was an important step to get there.


I2P, the invisible internet protocol allows for anonymous torrenting (getting movies, games, etc. without paying). It’s fairly old and robust, but lacks actual people using it. Now a program that many people already use has included the option to use this.
This alone may increase the usage of this system, and make it more useful.


They do not implement the format standard correctly.

I think it’s also important to mention, that they wrote the standard themselves (after being forced to)


it can fuck up microsoft office formatted documents

everything can.
That is because Microsoft doesn’t follow the 1000 page docx standards they wrote themselves.

And I will defend the decent UI against modern words ribbon-trash to my death.
libreoffice ui can certainly be improved a lot, but microsoft office is definitely worse.




I’ve seen it recently, when it was still known as crackpipe.

Unfortunately it’s not (yet?) available on Linux/Docker.
When it becomes so, I’ll want another look at it.


I would expect that to be true as well.
For some reason I can’t really explain anymore, I was thinking of a situation where the confession is made, and reiterated at every step in the prosecutorial process, without any other evidence (for or against) being available for the process.


I… don’t think that’s true.

I’d expect to get convicted if I make a (reasonable) confession of murdering someone who vanished, even if there is no single other bit of evidence.