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| tomman |
Posted on 20-09-19, 22:57 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #781 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Posted by kode54 I don't even use WiFi on my phone, thanks to A Certain National Telco That Will Never Fix My Goddamned Service™. Also: why in the FUCK a WEB BROWSER has to have UPnP support!?!?!?!? Not that I care what security researchers say nowadays, as my cellphone (which is running an ancient Android version for which Alcatel/TCL/AT&T will never release security patches) has oh so many flaws you would actually make me a favor if you ever breached into it. Which is not happening because right now I'm actually using said phone as a MODEM to post this answer, instead of leeching from a DANGER MINES "compromised WiFi". Anyway, for those actually concerned you can either downgrade to Fenix, or set "browser.casting.enabled" to false - this supposedly kills SSDP and won't let you "cast video to a supported device", something noone has ever asked for. Not me, at least! UPDATE: Tested the PoC on my Internet-less WiFi. It works (by default it tries to dial 101 on your dialer). Now disable "browser.casting.enabled", then try again. Exploit no longer works. Nice try, but I'm not downgrading, thanks :P Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-09-20, 01:49 in (Mis)adventures on Debian ((old)stable|testing|aghmyballs) (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #782 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
I'll take COVID over a free F3-arch Suckgate, thanks. Still, suck manages to follow suck, so... (Incidentally, said final backup was stored on a slightly newer Suckgate Laptop Thin with several relocations and only 14K hours. Not that the server drive is actually better, as it is one of those WD Bleughs that I love to refurbish over and over and over... welcome to the Soviet Venezuelan Public Administration, where you get no pay, just broken drives and no backup facilities beyond "make a second copy on the same drive, hoping for someone to take a backup home twice a year". And no extra RAM because POLITICS! But as long as slaves get paid their monthly dollar and politicians at the top still figure out how to --- Decided to experiment a bit with the Radeon R600 2D issue on my IBM box, because boredom. - Everything works fine with kernels up to 5.3 (you have to turn off DPM to get UVD working, but that's a separate issue for R600). Console delivers my pretty bootsplash as soon as KMS kicks in, desktop renders like usual, videos play without issues, glxgears gets glorious HW rendering. - Starting with kernel 5.4, X11 2D is fucked. Wallpapers are OK, but every single UI widget (icons, buttons, window frames, etc.) render with graphics corruption (that somehow can be screenshoted!). But 3D/video overlays are OK! (tvtime, VLC et al are crystal clear) - Tried fiddling with Radeon X.org driver settings: * Switching from GLAMOR to EXA accel only worsens the 2D corruption, to the point that I can see a heavily corrupted bootsplash right at X startup for a split second! * Staying with GLAMOR but enabling ShadowPrimary actually fixes 2D... but as the manual page clearly explains, it severely nerfs 3D/video performance (i.e.: tvtime turns my TV card input into a pathetic slideshow) Option "ShadowPrimary" "boolean" - Turning off KMS (radeon.modeset=0) is the nuclear option. So nuclear it actually nukes video acceleration completely, to the point Mesa falls back to llvmpipe, and tvtime refuses to run due to no video overlay available! This is because the Radeon kernel module bails out since UMS is no longer available: Oh, and my hi-rez console also goes back to 1981 and stays at 80x25. But on the flip side (ha!), X11 2D works fine... because my CPU is now doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes. Suck! One more thing: disabling KMS also brings in some IRQ woes: I've never seen THIS happening to date, until now. - Other possible options I'm not going to try: * Upgrade my GPU, maybe to a R700-based HD4x50. Yeah, right... * Switch to noVideo. Dude, the very reason I bought this HD2600 was because I actually wanted a GPU that could do something beyond rendering a desktop and SD video! No, that GeForce 6200 is not leaving storage. It's a shame that Debian 11 is going to ship with broken video drivers, because otherwise those IBM boxes really shine with it, as long as you stuff them with plenty of RAM and refrain from ever running a web browser on these. For video playback and retrogaming (old games, 8/16-bit emulation), these old Northwoods are not bad picks if you're well aware of its limits. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-09-22, 00:47 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #783 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Super Mario 64 - native Android port It's official: good ol' SM64 has reached the Doom status: being able to be ported to nearly every device under the sun. Coming Soon™ to your nearest (printer|ATM|Tesla|calculator|anything with a CPU and something that can render polygons) ...damn it, I want to play SM64 on a pregnancy test! "PLEASE PEE TO START" Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-09-22, 01:16 in Upcoming game announcements/news (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #784 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
In this year of "megacorp purchases that might hurt you", Micro-Soft just bought the guys that makes a few games you might have player on all sorts of devices... including those ones NOT made by Micro-Soft: https://bethesda.net/en/article/1iLtcvwY6Nb1GeKADyDUEX/why-microsoft-is-the-perfect-fit $7.5B, holy shit. Barely worth more than some Instagranola! Needless to say, the community is divided: for people on Windows PCs, it's business as usual. For Xboxers, these are great times to own a Xbox in any of its flavors. For Sonyers, it's the Apocalypse Now indeed. And for the few guys buying Nintendo consoles for playing non-Nintendo games, all I've heard so far is a big, collective "meh". Where are the antimonopoly regulators!? Ah yeah, staying at home until the China Pest™ goes away... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-09-22, 12:41 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #785 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
When I first heard about the decompilation, I thought that the difficult part would be porting the unique SGI 3D microcode stuff to modern OpenGL/DX/whatever, and that it would take some long time. ...it only took a few weeks for some guys to instead develop wrappers which implement a nearly exact emulation of the RDP/RSP stuff. I find even more ironic that a lot of those ports are for 32-bit platforms! Contrast with Nintendo, whose latest Mario-related deal is selling $60 worth of N64 ROMs and GC/Wii ISOs canned in emulators YET AGAIN, but this time on the Switch. They have the original source code, yet they don't even bother.... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-09-23, 11:17 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #786 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Posted by kode54 These were the partial sources from iQue. Nintendo only released to them enough code to port and localize the games - there is even a description of the BroadOn/iQue localization process in English in some of the leaked docs - this is referred as "asset responsibility separation" or something like that (Nintendo still gave them full sourcecode for Dr. Mario and a couple NBA games which weren't even considered for release!). You got a bunch of headers for most stuff, but barely enough C for doing the actual work (text display routines, OS/libultra interactions, etc.). Oh, and the course data, which is mostly tool-generated definitions (just in case you had to come up with last-minute hacks to please the The actual juicy bits? (engine, game behaviors, level script parsers, etc.) Nope, that's off-limits and all you get is a bunch of precompiled object files. Which thanks to the fact the iQue was nothing but a shrinked-down N64, there is no need to recompile anything. The leak really only gets you some symbols (mainly constants), but it's otherwise useless and you're far better with the dissasembly (which is also in a more gray legal area, instead of a flat-out illegal leak) Still doesn't explain why Nintendo also had to include all that pre-release material on the sources! Oops... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-09-29, 22:14 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #787 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Why Fujitsu exited the desktop HDD market in 2001 A rather unfortunate incident thanks to Mind you, the incident didn't only hit Fujitsu but also other electronic firms of the era, yet why the MPG-series (internal codename: Picobird 16) was on the same place of many Maxtors, the Barracuda 7200.14, any JTS or Kalok drive on the Hard Disk Drive Hall of Shame turned out to be the most notorious casualty of another case of chemistry gone wild. There was nothing wrong with the mechanicals - it just happened that the faulty Sumitomo chemicals on that fancy Cirrus Logic MCU hated humid environments (that is, everywhere around the world), causing the internal wire bonds to short and the whole drive to die in less than a year. Still, the failure rate wasn't THAT bad (0.8%, compare that to ~4% from the doomed ST3000DM001, aka the Barracuda of Doom... yet Suckgate is still making those to date... and even worse drives than that one!). But the beancounters had to cut losses and told engineering to stick with their higher-margin laptop and SCSI server drives, so that was the end of the road for Picobirds :/ ... eight years later, Fujitsu would dump HDDs for good, selling the division to Toshiba, which in a incredible turn of fate had found themselves three years later making desktop HDDs using not only the designs the EU forced them to get from Hitachi/WD, but also the long-gone Picobirds are back somehow, now with Toshiba brains and Fujitsu server-class mechanicals. Almost interesting tidbit: the Fujitsu HDD engineering folks were a bit lazy when figuring out codenames for their products, so they just reused the same ones over and over and over for their three product lines: - Mobile: Hornet (MHx - the final Hornet had a "MJA" model prefix) - Desktop: Picobird (MPx) - Server: Allegro (MAx - late Allegros had "MBx" prefixes, up to "MBF" before the Toshiba takeover, IIRC) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-06, 14:10 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Dinosaur
Post: #788 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Honest question: Do Not only the Linux ones. At least I'm glad to know that they no longer restrict the installation on mobile GPUs. --- I've been playing lately more SM64 romhacks. Protip: if you're thinking about adding Koopa the Quick to any star, STOP. Most ROMhackers believe that coming up with impossible routes and a turtle with more steroids than your average sportsball player is their idea of "fun" and "challenge". This is why I had to drop BroDute's Star Revenge 7, an otherwise fine, well-balanced hack: to get the final special cap switch (which you need for the final Bowser battle or something), you have to beat a (IMHO) ridiculously hard race against Koopa The Seriously, fuck KtQ. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-07, 18:00 in Upcoming game announcements/news (revision 3)
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Dinosaur
Post: #789 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Official PS5 teardown Oh my, that thing is HUGE! It's the Texas Pick-up Truck of consoles... yet all that size is basically 70% fancooler, 30% console. Yes, Sony overengineered to hell and back the cooling system, but if this means less RMAs, and dead silent, ice-cold gaming sessions, who cares if this thing is bigger than your... head? Apparently overheating was a common problem with PS4s (and certain non-Sony consoles *cough*RRoD*cough*), so Sony is trying to play it safe with this one. Also: liquid metal, AND they want YOU, dear gamer, to clean your fancooler regularly (warranty NOT voided!), just like your aircon filters - you DO clean them, riiiiiight? Unfortunately, all I've heard are nerds complaining that this console is bigger than their waifus, it won't fit, and even some Hackernews iDiot™ moaning because it isn't THIIIIIIIIIIIIIN so he can hang it behind his THIIIIIIIIIIIIIN TV. If you really hate first-gen hardware that much, wait 2-3 years for the Slim version then. The ultrafast SSD is soldered, which means that if any of those Flash memory ICs dies, so does your console. You still get a M.2 expansion slot, but you need to ensure that the SSD you're going to purchase is as good or better than the already high-tier PS5 built-in (which as of this post date means that you don't have many expansion options currently in the market, and you're fishing at the upper end of the product spectrum if numbers are to believe). Still, it beats the Xbox Sex proprietary SSDs (because MS had to screw up user-friendly storage expansion options, AGAIN). For those keeping the score at home, Sony already did an official PS4 teardown near launch. Still, nothing it's really official until iFixit does theirs :) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-09, 23:31 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #790 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Remember when Intel bought Altera five years ago, and my initial answer on the old bBoard was "AMD, Xilinx, your move"? And then some of you guys said that AMD couldn't afford to add some FPGAs to their product lineups, blah blah blah... Well, we're in Weirdest 2020 Ever, and AMD finally thought that buying Xilinx is actually a good idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24725689 Nope, they can't still afford it (Zen and Navi are hot, but while those Ryzens are money printers, their finances are still a bit on the "careful!" side), so this $30 BILLION purchase will be funded with So the $30 billion question would then be: "Why!?" Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-10, 14:40 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #791 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Apparently this purchase has been in the works for years, but the negotiations have stalled more times than certain aircrafts. In fact, this latest try is all but confirmed yet. But then, apparently AMD recently hired former Altera's CEO (which led the Intel transition), so... In the meanwhile, remember IBM? For IBMers, it now means "I've Been Moved", as they're hellbent on becoming a cloudy cloud, with blockchains but no booze or hookers. They kept divesting division over division: - Printers went to Ricoh - PCs (and later, low/mid-tier x86 servers) went to Lenovo - Displays went (mostly) to Lenovo (some of their later post-Lenovo stuff was outsourced to AOC) - PoS terminals went to Toshiba - ATMs went to Diebold (initially the "InterBold" joint venture, now Diebold-Nixdorf) - HDDs went to Hitachi GST (now WD) - Basically, it isn't POWER Big Iron, it has been (or is being) sold (or stripped for parts, THEN sold) - Nobody really wants to know who owns Token Ring nowadays! Now they're doing the same crap to their former big-money divisions ("nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"), their services arm: https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/08/ibm_splits_off_services_division/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24720556 Think something like HP (shitty printers and consumer PCs) / HPE (servers and other big iron), except that the "former" IBM still gets to keep their mainframes. But then, the new cloudy IBM really doesn't want you to physically rent whatever is the latest iteration of "IBM Big Mama" big iron for doing your payroll or handling all those zeroes on your bank accounts. No, instead they want to pretend they're AWS/Azure (or their smaller and somewhat irrelevant rivals, Alphabet's GCE / Orrible® Cloud) and have you instead to lease time on computers Not In Your Premises™. The people that really wants cloudy clouds are too happy with AWS/Azure anyway, now that hipsters (and not old men in very expensive suits) rule the roost. In the meanwhile, my Mexican-built 2003-vintage IBM ThinkCentre still refuses to die, despite all the warranty-voiding abuse, like a Ford Ranger or Toyota Corolla from the same generation. I've read that recent Think hardware fully embraced the "soldered/glued-everything" way of Mac :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-14, 11:04 in Sales and giveaways
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Dinosaur
Post: #792 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Sega is giving away a ROM, for free: https://store.steampowered.com/app/71163/Sonic_The_Hedgehog_2/ Chances are that either you don't care because your And old. I can't believe Sega already turned 60 years old! It's almost as old as most of our mothers! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-15, 00:29 in Sales and giveaways (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #793 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Also: if you go here and ...wait, didn't I already had that game from some random bundle years ago? Too bad the Dreamcast Mini was nothing but some baseless rumor (for starters: Dreamcast emulation is painful even today, and while you can still buy SH4 cores and PowerVR IGPs, I seriously doubt Sega is going to pull an iQue), and even some SoJ guy had to clarify that this was a load of BS "exaggerated by Western media, then reverse-imported by 'serious' JP gaming rags as Word of God" Anyway, GO SEGA. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-17, 01:05 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #794 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24806089 The ultimate solution for your shitty Electron crapps: HTML/JS silicon. "Hardware is cheap, making efficient software is not!" (Disclaimer: not an actual product... but then, that would be an "interesting" application for FPGAs in CPUs? Suddenly Intel+Altera/AMD+Xilinx starts making sense, if only in a extremely wretched, twisted evil way) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-17, 11:35 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #795 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Also relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle I have memories of the latter: nearly every single half-decent Qualcomm cellphone SoC has Jazelle, but back in the Dark Ages of Cellphones, since almost all Qualcomm SoCs were for CDMA phones, and Java was last-class citizen among CDMA carriers not named "Sprint"/$CANADA_TELCO and OEMs not named "Nokia", the feature went largely unused. Only Sprint phones took advantage of Jazelle since they were using QCOM's reference JVM (which was ironically optimized by people that actually didn't hated Java!) - Canadian telcos instead used a shitty JVM (which was a shoehorned BREW application), Esmertec JBed, which was clearly not taking advantage of Jazelle... or any kind of acceleration at all. Or at least that was the story back in my Motorola crossflashing quests... If you wanted a good Java phone back then, and your telco actually allowed you to use SIM cards, your best bet was Sony Ericsson: their JVMs were FAST bar none (except actual PCs) - you could run GameBoy emulators at full speed WITH SOUND AND NO FRAMESKIP on SE phones... too bad you got Memory Stick as a punishment :( And now people dare to complain that "Java is SSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW" while posting from their Electron/React abominations :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-18, 13:24 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #796 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
...wait, WHAT!?!??! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chips-have-an-instruction-with-javascript-in-the-name-fjcvtzs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24808207 So it looks that our friendly chaps at Acorn RISC Machines, Inc. (soon to be a noVideo subsidiary) have been slowly building that JavaScript CPU nobody should be wanting. Gotta love how Hackernews got so excited from a 2yo SO post, but then considering that their motto is "One Javascript A Day", "C++ must die!", and "Apple does no wrong™"... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-20, 12:29 in Computer Hardware News
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Dinosaur
Post: #797 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
The saga of "WHYYYYYY!?!?!?" sales, mergers and acquisitions in this forgettable 2020 don't seem to have brakes: today, at the chopping board we got Intel's flash memory division, which has now been sold to SK Hynix: https://news.skhynix.com/sk-hynix-to-acquire-intel-nand-memory-business/ $9 BILLION, which for a component so vital to our modern computerizers seem to be a firesale, an absolute steal for the Korean chaebol SK Group (which already owns one of the Big 3 in flash memory), and a complete fuckup by Intel management, which is too busy trying to not implode after lagging behind the competition in nearly everything but marketshare. Go 'murica! Prior to this disaster, things weren't going that great with Intel flash: they used to had a joint-venture with Micron (the second one from the Big 3; the other one is another chaebol, the always-lovely Samsung), but they parted ways two years ago for reasons I still don't really understand. Intel does get to keep Optane (their fancy brand name for "totally not-RAM not-Flash" 3D XPoint), a technology unlikely to become mass-market anytime soon :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-21, 00:49 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #798 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
So, apparently Firefox 82 is now the latest release version. They claim some performance gains here and there, but the usual excuse I read on the comments (which aren't "too little,t oo late!") is "butbutbut Chrome is faster!". Look, if your excuse to defect from Mozilla to the Blink/Webkit monoculture is "performance", you're a lost cause and one of the many reasons Google is the new Microsoft. Sorry but you and me can't be friends, EVER. If I visit a website that slows down my browser, I know that I've just step into a minefield, and such a kind of site is most likely is: 1) A proof-of-concept of CSS ridiculousness (which aren't serious at all, and are a quite rare scenario) 2) A bloatfest of "Web 3.0" appy webshit, complete with all the slowest Javascripts they could stash on their hipster framework-of-the-week™, combined with 30 tons of ads and tracking shit (most likely scenario) 3) Some demoscene production If 1), I know you're here for lulz. If 2), that's a website I'm not coming back, EVER, no matter how hard the marketdroids and brainwashed masses are trying to convince me to adopt the latest shiny hotness (social networks, chat applications, imageboards, other "what's a computer, Mom?"/"PLEEEEEZ INSTALL OUR CRAPP!!!" webshit). If 3), I HOPE your work comes with a relevant Bugzilla ticket (which is going to be ignored for the next 15 years, as routine in Mozilla) If your website has a "BEST VIEWED IN GOOGLE CHROME" label/tag/button, ROT IN HELL, YOU ASSHOLE. We fought hard to break the monoculture when Microsoft pulled the same shit over us, yet... people is giving everything but their underwear to Google, voluntarily. GAH! --- Seamonkey is still alive, guys. 2.53.4 was released nearly a month ago. 2.57 is "barely useable", but unofficial FOR TESTING ONLY DANGER MINES builds are available, and browser/Chatzilla bugreports are welcome: https://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2020-10-18 Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-21, 11:35 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #799 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Remember: they're trying to pull the same "PC vocabulary" BS on other larger projects, like the Linux kernel. I guess SJWs have no influence in the Big Iron market, where master/slave terminology is deeply ingrained, and I've yet to hear about any of the large/mid-of-the-pack enterprise vendors to raise this non-problem. On the consumer side, PATA drives were discontinued nearly a decade ago, which was the last well known application of those "nasty" words. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 20-10-24, 14:10 in Misc. software (revision 3)
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Dinosaur
Post: #800 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 12 hours |
Speaking of youtube-dl... The 'murican MAFIAA, always afraid of technology (because "OHNOEZ PIRACY!!!!", aka https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911 Of course since MAFIAA refuses to acknowledge that the Streissand effect is still a thing, people is mirroring the hell out of the original Git repo elsewhere (this is what you get when you let lawyers mess with computerizers: total and complete ignorance about how software really works). Not even freakin' Nintendo is going ballistic despite having their equivalent of their soiled underwear spread around the Internet. Downloads are still active at their homepage: https://youtube-dl.org/ Time to tear apart the MAFIAA? Nah, nobody cares because lazyness / not communist enough :/ Also: the DMCA is a really bad law that everybody is abusing it for whatever purpose they see fit (even if there are no actual copyright infringements happening!) As for youtube-dl, I guess it's time for a much-needed rebrand since the application can actualy download stuff from waaaaaaaay more places than just YouTube (it can even serve as a generic download manager in a pinch). Just like XBMC became Kodi because noone is using it on Xboxes anymore. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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