refalo @ refalo @programming.dev

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licenses are only as useful as your ability to enforce them in court

it's not really "open source" anymore per OSI, specifically #6: https://opensource.org/osd

He claims to have gotten permission from the contributors... not sure where you heard that they didn't.

for some reason a lot of emudevs are very hostile to the whole idea of forking. mame also famously hates retroarch for it, as well as inolen from redream and skmp from reicast/nullcast, probably more.

this isn't even the first project that an emudev has directly relicensed or even shut down their entire emulator for over a retroarch fork, which is usually done in the first place due to maintenance problems with the original emudev.

as others have said, the whole scene just seems to attract the kind of genius that too often steps over that fine line. out of the probably couple dozen emudevs I know, the vast majority have explicitly stated themselves that they suffer from severe mental health issues.

https://retroarchleaks.wordpress.com/

also almost every /vg/emugen thread is full of "danny drama"

technically correct, the best kind of correct

For good privacy (from fingerprinting) it is undoubtedly a bad choice.

I have. You just don't hang out in the "right" places

Nobody mentioned number of speakers though

I think you answered your own question :)

Alternate plot line for the movie Contact

I'm really surprised servers have not started by default limiting and/or vetting who can federate with them. I know many Lemmy instances block many other instances from federating with them, but only after learning about what a lot of their content is. To me this practice kinda creates a very fragmented "which wind would you like to piss into" problem.

People don’t know about what they don’t hear about

Some people take the initiative to learn things on their own though. I suppose we're not their target audience however.

It was already on github 10 months and 3 months ago.

Everyone has a different opinion on what that means, some people get really angry when you don't use their (or some other group's) explicit definition of the term "open source" that nobody actually owns. If they want it to mean something really specific, they should use a registered trade name with a defined meaning. But that usually implies some kind of capitalism at work, which most FOSS zealots are very much against.

In the end, nobody wins...

I tried OpenSnitch but it would always randomly crash while interacting with the GUI, and it would reset all my tcp connections every time you start it back up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQPsKvG6WMI&t=2m22s

For those who actually think I said clock instead of cloak :)

https://voidsec.com/vpn-leak/

Yes there is a risk of bugs being exploited just like any other feature in a browser. Another example is WebRTC being used to de-cloak VPN users. I think WebGPU and/or WebGL also had exploits that allowed remote code execution or escaping the browser sandbox.

What is a "shared unique similarity"? Sounds a lot like something that isn't unique to me...