Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.
Yuzu? Wasn’t Yuzu already dead, and the main fork is Eden?
Eden moved their project from GitHub to something else, I think, because Nintendo already tried screwing with them.
Why the F we’re still hosting grey market on github I’ll never know.
Should just take all that shit over to RNSgit and host it on the dark side
I wasn’t familiar with this, and apparently neither was duckduckgo. Is this what you were referring to? https://reticulum.network/manual/git.html
It looks interesting, thanks for putting me on to it!
That is exactly it.
Reticulum is a decentralized, mostly anonymous, encrypted network.
rnsgit let’s you host git repos on it.
nomadnet let’s you make 1990’s style webpages on it.
There are proxies and vpns and messaging (LXMF) and telephony (LXST)
Neat! Thanks!
Stop hosting this stuff on GitHub people!
The only reason like projects like that have a following and is doscovered is because they are on GitHub
Idk. I can’t speak for everyone, but I’ve never searched specifically on GitHub for a something. It’s always from a Google search first which doesn’t seem to have issues finding other platforms projects are on.
Highly doubt this. If you build something as interesting as this people will find it through means other than Github search. And as people pointed out elsewhere in this thread, lots of projects put their code on Github but only use it as a mirror. That gives you most of the benefits of being on there.
They are slow. I expected that to happen way faster. But yeah, pretty much what everyone knew would happen actually happened. I don’t get what it is with people hosting that stuff on GitHub. By now it’s safe to assume they know that it’s taken down.
Too bad I’m still using my copy of Yuzu that they “took down “ two years ago
FYI, Eden is a fork of yuzu that adds quite a lot of features and is fully compatible with yuzu saves/mods/configs.
My favorite new feature is loading updates and DLC from a folder instead of having to install them.
Coool I’ll have to check it out
its very easy to use forgejo or radical to host your code. Fuck corpos piracy ftw
For anyone who self hosts as opposed to using a provider, how do you manage the danger of all the zero days from the software that your are using? To me the biggest reason that I would use github is because they have a dedicated reaponae team for managing patches, whereas I might be on vacation when my server is getting hacked to shit
Don’t expose your stuff publicly and it’s pretty much a non-issue. There’s no reason your private git server needs to be accessible from the web. If you need to access it when you’re away from home, you can just connect back to your network with a VPN or SSH tunnel and then access your services like normal.
You put layers Like an onion
So you put cloudflare or tailscale or netbird or whatever infront of your thing. So you need at least two zero days for different products to be immediately fucked
I used to self host externally but keeping up with all the security just became exhausting after awhile. I pulled it all back behind a VPN, been so much nicer after. my containers still patch nightly, which up until now hasn’t been an issue. Then i patch and reboot the actual servers quarterly. not so bad. So i would suggest if you are self hosting to not expose to the internet at all.
Nintendo is open season btw
Open season to “steal” their shit.
None of their games would be hard to fast-follow with AI. You’d lose the actual IP, but it would irritate the hell out of them
Nintendo: Part time game company Full time law firm
Emulators are legal as long as you don’t ship keys or weird shit, if GitHub takes them down even when no law was broken, then use another provider, GitHub is Microsoft and runs like shit.
It also uses 220 MB of memory per tab. A laggy manga reader site with tons of pictures uses 80 MB. How do they even do this? My line isn’t that fast!
100k div soup and 200k npm libraries would do it
Div soup tables should be illegal. 😡
That the community still uses Github for anything but a mirror?
And/or
As a general reminder, self hosting your own git repo or hosting it on a private VPS is incredibly cheap. You can then have it cloned to new github/bitbucket whenever these sweeps happen. Using a fork as a ‘backup’ is pointless if it’s still hosted on Github no matter how many thousand copies are made. Microsoft will throw you and everyone in your commit history under a bus at the whims of Nintendo’s lawyers.
You may not want to do that for the same reason Microsoft doesn’t wasn’t to do that.
Capitulating to Nintendo’s lawyers only serves to silence individual rights to reverse engineer, repair, or modify devices consumers have legal ownership of, which Microsoft also has a commercial interest in abusing. Keep in mind that a DMCA request is not evidence of wrong doing, however few have the legal resources to contest it.
You self host gitlab-ce to avoid dmca’s from mega corps.
I self host gitlab-ce so that no one can see all of my shitty commits.
We are not the same.
I set up my own Forgejo instance a few days ago, it took me longer to upload my repositories than to set it up, although I went with docker so one could say I cheated by taking the easy way. In any case, if you have some old hardware laying around or already rent a server anyway, give it a try.
There is such news article every few months and yet no relevant emulators are down.
I bet it’s a PR stunt but I have no idea who it could be aimed at.
The PR stunt is aimed at the news cycle that’s been gobbling up engagement-baited comments from absolutely everyone by showing off OOT Remake on PC (via emulators or the recomp). Seriously, it’s catnip for clickbait. You get all of the following Very Engaged:
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Nintendo fanboys (this is why nintendo is justified to do takedowns!)
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PC Master Race / Sony fanboys (lol nintendo got owned!)
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Anti-AI guys (all the current OOT stuff is vibe coded and that’s terrible)
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Pro-AI guys (all the current OOT stuff is vibe coded and that’s awesome)
All for the headline that implies you can play the shiniest new nostalgia bait Nintendo game on PC as easily and well as on the shiny new Nintendo console, which isn’t even the case the way it was the last time a Zelda emulation fiasco overtook the games news sphere.
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And even if they were, a new repository for it would pop up in a month tops.
They never learn not to use GitHub.
Serious question for the seriously uninformed: what’s the alternative?
Read too fast and saw “self-loathing” which took me a second because self-hosting sort of feels that way sometimes.
But in all seriousness, I highly suggest taking a weekend to learn how to run docker. For the most part, if you’re using a compose file, getting something working takes about as much time as installing a program on an old PC.
Most of these should have a compose and documentation on what variables you need to set (like passwords and file paths and such).
Personally, I run Forgejo and set up mirrors that will sync every 8-12 hours off the repos that I feel shows promise, but also may be targeted.
When you see DCMAs hit, they go ahead and submit them for forks as well since GitHub tracks them. But they can’t target me since I’m mirroring off-site.
…Unfortunately I find many of these post DCMA, but usually the community fights back and you’ll find clones/forks floating around… but I do what I can to try and help decentralize. Hopefully one day the network effect may reverse and pull people elsewhere than GitHub…
Running docked sounds like the easy bit. The hard bit would be getting a static IP for external access, or paying for a host that allows you an entire VM.
I pay about $9 a month for a shitty shared PHP host, in spite of much discussion I haven’t found much out there that’s better than that.
Just a random tangent but I love Docker compose. Set it up once, and it works on every machine forever. Change distro? No problem. Move to VPS? No problem. It’s just so neat.
The only downside is you have to learn the arcane ways. It’s not intuitive or easy to understand at all, especially once you get into advanced networking, volumes, etc
There are countless git sites.
They never learn
notto use Git
