senseamidmadness

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reliable tech leaker posts a ‘360-degree render’ of Nintendo’s new console [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo cares a lot about killing off emulation and ROM hosting wherever they can, actually. They send out cease and desist letters all the time and many projects and websites have been killed because of it. Thousands, I think, from single-person projects like “Another Metroid 2 Remake” all the way up to Team Xecuter. I think one of the Switch emulators that was in progress a couple years ago got killed off by the lawyers.

  The catch is that reverse-engineered emulators being made without any Nintendo code, and made without the intention of profit, are not a violation of copyright law or Nintendo licensing and Nintendo has no grounds to sue the makers. But they’re always keeping an eye on such projects waiting for something actionable.

  This is why any given Nintendo emulator website or Github repository you can find will have zero links to any ROMs or any sources for them – because anything like that will get an immediate letter and possible lawsuit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Stacking Algorithms in Chinese Government’s Favor with Pro-China Content Originating from State-Linked Entities, Study Claims⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “TikTok does what every social media company does but this time it’s Chinese so it’s bad” is what this headline should really say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Portable gaming died because of smartphone gaming, unfortunately

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have guessed right. The US government had a massive hand in the creation of modern social media, such as a significant amount of funding for Facebook during its startup phase. The intelligence agencies are mad that they can’t pull data from TikTok or influence its algorithms, on top of the American social media companies wanting to kill off their foreign competition as much as possible.

  This bill has nothing to do with data privacy because if Congress cared about that they would’ve banned other platforms too. It’s about control and unfair competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “data privacy” argument is bullshit and the people pushing for this law know it. That’s what is being sold to people but it is not why this TikTok ban got passed. It got passed because American social media companies are pissed that TikTok is outcompeting them for the attention of young people, and because the US government has a heavy hand in what algorithms are allowed to push on Facebook and Google and others. A good portion of Facebook’s initial funding came from government sources.

  “Data privacy” is just an excuse. Lobbying from the intelligence agencies and social media companies is why it’s really being enacted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The history speaks for itself. China is less of a threat to other countries in the world than the USA is. Your idea that they’re some international boogeyman that’s going to take over the entire world and doom humanity is just you repeating “China bad and scary” State Department propaganda.

  Even with China’s human rights record being what it is, they don’t export war across the entire world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment was brought to you by the US State Department.

  Tell me, how many countries’ governments has China knocked over in the last century as compared to the US CIA?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. The PS4 and Xbone are both very close to off-the-shelf AMD APU’s as far as I remember; you could buy very similar processors for desktop use. Emulation would require a ton more power than the original chips, and the original chips are so close to desktop processors that it’s more efficient and feasible to reverse-engineer the proprietary API’s those console chips use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have seen the phrase “the Switch is a telemetry nightmare” on CFW websites