GabrielTFS

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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
What's the distinction, then ? I can't imagine a company can set precedent to their liking on basically any issue by suing someone who has a vague relation to that issue and doesn't have to money to fight back to get them to
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
People have a license under the GPL to redistribute Yuzu, and the devs know this - I don't think a settlement can compel them to commit perjury (which is what they would be doing if they knowingly lied in a DMCA takedown)
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
I don't see how it could establish legal precedent in a way that would be meaningfully useful to Nintendo in other court cases (well, I guess the fact the Yuzu devs settled could scare others into also doing so, but I mean in a legal s
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
I don't think a random settlement where no judge never decided much of anything can serve as useful precedent in a meaningful way...
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
I don't really see any measures that they could feasibly put in place that wouldn't be one of: - Incredibly easy to get around - Extremely cumbersome for legitimate users (especially given I would bet it would get workarounds that
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
Legally it doesn't matter - in fact you could say the courts practically endorse making emulators to compete with existing platforms, given quotes like this from Sony v. Connectix (where Sony attempted to sue Connectix for making a com
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
Yuzu certainly doesn't seem like a project that promotes piracy. They've made it very clear that they do not endorse piracy in any capacity, and in fact anyone found to be pirating games on e.g. their Discord server gets an insta-
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
I have not heard of anything indicating they themselves released patches fixing issues with ToTK - only that other people made patches for that which the Yuzu team refused to accept until ToTK release. I don't see how random people mak
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
Legally it doesn't really matter at all whether or not the console is currently commercialized, at least from precedents like Sony v. Connectix (Connectix was selling a commercial (literally in shelves) emulator directly competing with
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
Nintendo might try to get an injunction to stop the Patreon (or just DMCA Patreon) to prevent them from getting funds...
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
Yuzu is open source though ?? I don't get what you're saying. I should also add the previous commercial (as in, sold in shelves) emulators competing with current-gen consoles have been previously declared legal and fair competitio
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
It doesn't change much legally to my knowledge, given that Sony v. Connectix was about a commercial, for-profit emulator (literally sold in stores) that directly competed with a console being commercialized at the same time (the PlaySt
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
What exactly do you mean by "patches were created before the game got officially released" ? It was my impression that some patches had been going around, but that they certainly weren't created by or endorsed by the Yuzu pro
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
I would expect "untrusted code" to mean "code in a sandbox" or "code I'm not gonna run at all anytime soon", so running code from thousands of dependencies in node is effectively trusting all of that code,
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
This is true in one sense (that the jury doesn't always have the final word) but does not seem to actually argue against the point made in loaph's comment. I think what loaph is saying is that a jury, when making a decision, can m
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
It seems normal to me that if someone implements the same thing twice in a row they're gonna do it faster the second time. Though I don't know the specifics of your case (maybe they did copy-paste the original, who knows), it seem
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
A single 4-0 decision would imply the bylaws allow any group of members to oust all the other members by making a single proposal to oust everyone but their group, thus automatically forcing everyone else to recuse themselves :p
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
I agree - that's why I use the git package in MSYS2, which afaik is just as capable (and makes it much easier to use git with the full array of UNIX tools I might want to use that don't necessarily ship with Git for Windows).
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
> I know no one who is using git switch and git restore instead of the overloaded and confusing git checkout. Welp, I guess there's me, but it does indeed seem like adoption of the new commands hasn't been very forthcoming - I
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
> they still called Linux a Unix (which it's not) Uhhhhhhh, on what basis ? The only arguments I can see for this would be either of: - Pedantry, as technically the Linux kernel itself isn't UNIX certified by the Open Group, wh
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
I would assume it's for the same reason I've seen many instances of this in similar cases: because it's funny. (e.g. https://unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#149-A93 )
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
> I wasn't asking for languages that don't run on UNIX. That sure is quite a useful precision to make - personally I found what you were asking for confounding given I can't really think of much of any language that doesn&
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
> Specifically I am asking for examples that are not C compilers, do not compile languages derived from or related to C, and which do not run on Unix-like OSes, because what we are talking about here is what came after Unix. Plan 9 is ef
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
I actually would find it quite unlikely that this is LLM output, if only because I bet it would have instantly been censored the moment it uttered something alike to "Heil Hitler"
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
Examples of what ? Also, what exactly do you mean by "outside of the Unix and C family" ? (note: if you want examples of compilers that have `#pragma once` then I don't know what to say because I'd be hard-pressed to nam
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
What is a "cowbot" ?
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
Are you including UTF-8 in "those things" that are "objectively bad and a tumor" ?
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
Isn't the kernel API banned from usage by userspace applications that aren't kernel32.dll (plus deliberately breaks ABI all the time) ? I can appreciate the strengths of the NT kernel, but if nobody is allowed to use it... (I supp
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
> No includes that contain other includes is obvious and sensible and takes orders of magnitude off compilation times. That rarely gets mentioned. That seems like an insane concept. I honestly can't see how it can be justified in a
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by GabrielTFS 3y ago
See https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2023-May/241264.html for why this might not be the case anymore soon - although I suppose that adding in -fpermissive or -Wno-error=conversion or something like that isn&

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