jonhohle

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by jonhohle 2y ago
It may it matter to you, but it certainly matters to competitive, speed run, and enthusiast communities around different games. I mentioned Sonic 3 because it’s not the same music after the initial release. Depending on the version, Symphon
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Licensing is different from fair use and copyright. The games the original article is describing had no license and were only protected by copyright (no different than a book or movie). Licenses can both permit and restrict things that copy
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by jonhohle 2y ago
As others have mentioned, some of that software is become very rare and collectible. Would a library lend a copy of “Indiana Jones in Revenge of the Ancients”?
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Distinguishing work for hire vs personal work would help, as well. Most commercial copyrighted works are created using a work-for-hire model (similar to textbooks). This isn’t what copyright was meant to protect.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
The big deal is that it can’t be over the Internet, even if restrictions are in place to ensure only one user can access one copy at a time. Zediva and Aereo had the same issue, albeit in a commercial application. I was hoping libraries wou
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by jonhohle 2y ago
As long as there is creative expression involved in the translation, that may be accurate. That’s effectively what the decomp community is doing. Instead of PDF and interpreter it’s git and compilers. (Though music and visual artwork must b
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Video games are particularly egregious because even if an old game is currently sold under the same name, it often is not the same game: * it’s running via emulation or has been recompiled for a different architecture with noticeable chang
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by jonhohle 2y ago
There’s a bunch of legal precedent - Zediva, Redd Horne, Aereo, Professional Real Estate Investors, etc. http://laboratorium.net/archive/2011/03/16/that_zediva_thing... I’m in the middle of writing to th
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by jonhohle 2y ago
NetMD or Hi-MD deviceces even let you “record” over USB (Hi-MD even can expose a block device). Not that long ago I would use scripts to dump CDs to MD using linux-minidisc. Much more convenient to Cary around than CDs, geat audio quality.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
On the PS1 side, Splat, m2c, decomp.me and a lot of custom tooling are used.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
When was it disconnected? AFAIK it still is working and workarounds even lets you buy games (of you have funds in your PSN account). It’s been a while, but I’ve downloaded previous purchases recently. (I really need to backup everything bef
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by jonhohle 2y ago
It’s a great indie machine. LRG and Playasia did a great job of keeping smaller games on carts throughout the Vita’s life.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
I had no idea the Vita had PSP hardware. I figured backwards compatibility was software based, but I suppose they already had a long history of shipping backwards compatible hardware on consoles. However, by that time they also had a softwa
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by jonhohle 2y ago
I usually find the opposite (personally). Get rid of all the exceptional cases and error handling up front like you have in the first example and then spend the remaining body of the function doing the main work of that function. It’s not s
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by jonhohle 2y ago
It’s not only that, but also the semantics of the language. Is, for example, integer comparison guaranteed to be constant time? What about integer comparison with constants that require multiple load instructions (like on MIPS where all ins
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Literally millions of people use it (whether they know it or not). Societies should criminalize behavior and then (shocker!) enforce the laws! Let tools be tools.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
I’ve found that it’s not uncommon for an interested individual to find details that have not been documented or “found” by others. I collect video games and have found variants of popular games that have been otherwise undocumented on any l
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by jonhohle 2y ago
There was a startup called Space Monkey that sold NAS drives where you got a portion of the space and the rest was used for copies of other people’s content (encrypted). The idea was you could lose your device, plug in a new one and restore
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by jonhohle 2y ago
In what way? Torrents are used all over for content delivery. Battle.net uses a proprietary version of BitTorrent. It’s now owned by Microsoft. There’s many more legitimate uses as commented by many others. Criminals using tools does not ma
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by jonhohle 2y ago
The article was written in 1996.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
I’m. It sure why no one is producing a commodity “skateboard” platform for other companies to build their vehicles on. When Tesla showed off this design prior to the Model X (iirc), the idea of a company that could optimize batteries and mo
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by jonhohle 2y ago
It was interesting to see the prejudices of the naturalists impeding earned benefits and ostracizing their of one of their own with slightly different opinions. That, soon followed by being duped themselves. I’m not sure what may have been
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by jonhohle 2y ago
> And being Apple, they wouldn't care about people needing to use anyone else's devices. Did you RTFA? >> To make these passwords easier to type on suboptimal keyboard layouts like my colleague’s game controller, where th
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Isn’t this how heatmaps were generated as far back as the late 2000s?
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by jonhohle 2y ago
When the public is told to “trust the science”, it is no longer science and is now religion.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Username checks out.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Convince (lobby) a politician that your research will save the trees/whales/global warming/end starvation/any other fear inducing thing and get funding to bribe (lobby) more politicians to further your “research” until a
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by jonhohle 2y ago
And you probably weren’t even listening to Rhythm Nation![0] 0 - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=10...
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by jonhohle 2y ago
You bought one license to the game which should be resellable exactly once by the purchaser.
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by jonhohle 2y ago
Agree. I’ve tried to remove it from any suggestion I give. I’ll use it when referring to what I plan to do, but never “can’t you just ”.

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