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chucky commented on Dolphin Progress Release 2407 and 2409 dolphin-emu.org/blog/2024... · Posted by u/max-m

umvi · a year ago

Why doesn't Nintendo's lawyer army go after Dolphin when it went so aggressively after Yuzu? Is it just because Gamecube/Wii are EoL'd so they don't care as much (vs. Switch which is still actively supported and selling games)

chucky · a year ago

As I understand it, Yuzu was backed by an actual company that they setup to process their "donations", and by getting donations you could get privileged access to new builds.

So for Yuzu there was an legal entity making money off (Nintendo argued) selling access to playing pirated games.

Dolphin doesn't accept donations, so there's no good way of arguing anyone is making any money off it. Sure, Nintendo could go after individual contributors to Dolphin (if they can find out exactly who they are - presumably many of them are aware of the risks and try to stay anonymous) but it would be costly and it's unlikely to yield any positive results.

chucky commented on Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS discuss.haiku-os.org/t/pr... · Posted by u/return_0e

rvnx · a year ago

Beautiful to see such passion and great execution, especially for 20 years in a row.

It's like a piece of art.

I suspect the company that created BeOS actually lost the source-code and that's potentially the real reason they don't want to share, because from an economic perspective there does not seem anything of value there.

chucky · a year ago

I think it's more likely the original BeOS source code contains proprietary code licensed from third-parties, which means someone would have to spend significant effort on figuring out what can and cannot be released.

chucky commented on Show HN: Openpanel – An open-source alternative to Mixpanel github.com/Openpanel-dev/... · Posted by u/lindesvard

chucky · 2 years ago

This looks great! As an engineer who has used Mixpanel at multiple companies it has always annoyed me that what you get for what you pay seems quite poor, so I'm very happy to see some alternatives.

I'm also happy to note that you are from (the wrong part of ;)) Sweden.

chucky commented on Dell leak details next-gen Windows on Arm chips theverge.com/2024/5/15/24... · Posted by u/gripfx

pmx · 2 years ago

I wonder if maybe they have implemented the touch bar in a much more useful way? The mac one was pointless and only served to reduce utility but with the right software it could have been fantastic. Some 3rd party software hacks even gave it haptic feedback (by activating the trackpads haptics) and that alone made it a million times better. Interested to see what Dell have done with it.

chucky · 2 years ago

I have an XPS 13 (the current Intel version, not the ARM version obviously) and they definitely have not. In fact, I've had the touchbar replaced 3 times and the whole computer replaced once because when the touchbar gets too hot, it starts "phantom pressing" the keys on it.

The replacement machine still has the issue, but it has a newer generation CPU which generally runs a bit less hot, so it's not as big an issue as it was on the previous machine.

chucky commented on Open Sourcing DOS 4 hanselman.com/blog/open-s... · Posted by u/ndiddy

skissane · 2 years ago

For DOS, I believe the core was only ever Microsoft or IBM. Some DOS versions bundled add-ons by third parties, but they are hardly essential for operation - e.g. MS-DOS 6 included DEFRAG and MSBACKUP (both licensed from Symantec) and MSAV (licensed from Central Point Software)

Similarly, with Windows, the third-party components are generally inessentials such as certain device drivers, games, some optional system components like the ZIP file support in Windows Explorer-you would still have a usable OS with these bits ripped out. Parts of NTVDM are third-party licensed, although I believe that’s mainly the software CPU emulator used on RISC platforms, I think x86 was mostly Microsoft’s own code

chucky · 2 years ago

Yeah, but it's the "mostly" and "I think" that will cause lawyers to start sweating and force someone to do a bigger and more expensive investigation.

chucky commented on Open Sourcing DOS 4 hanselman.com/blog/open-s... · Posted by u/ndiddy

moody__ · 2 years ago

I appreciate the work in getting this open sourced but I find it telling that this had to be done through an outside motivator. There seems to be no internal "ticking clock" to get some of these things out in to the open. That's fine no one is owed the source code for this stuff or anything, but it would be nice if there was more interest on the side of the companies to get some of their formative history out so people can learn from it.

chucky · 2 years ago

It might not be a problem for DOS 4, but often the source code of software that was only ever meant to be published as closed source contains source code that was licensed from 3rd parties. This license may not allow publishing the source code.

Doing an investigation of what licensed software was used and possibly trying to get permission from the relevant rights holders (if you can even figure out who owns the rights so many years later) can be a big and expensive task, unfortunately. I understand why companies might not want to take that on (even though it sucks).

chucky commented on I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own bold-edit.com/wrote-my-ow... · Posted by u/redman25

chucky · 2 years ago

What is that even supposed to mean?

chucky commented on Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app theregister.com/2024/04/1... · Posted by u/LorenDB

bongodongobob · 2 years ago

Cool, now apply this scrutiny to Facebook, Instagram, video games, board games, card games, sports, my job, and capitalism in general.

Every day I'm asked to do tasks for rewards. It's gotten to the point that if I don't, I can't survive.

chucky · 2 years ago

The EU is applying similar scrutiny to other social networks as well.

Your comment reeks of whataboutism. If we need to apply the same scrutiny to everything at the same time we wouldn't be able to do anything at all.

chucky commented on Learn OAuth by building a client with Node.js annotate.dev/p/hello-worl... · Posted by u/tip_of_the_hat

beanjuiceII · 2 years ago

Certified by the person who wrote the library? I guess I also certify it

chucky · 2 years ago

AFAIK there's no "certifying body" that would be able to provide an external "certification".

In any case Filip Skokan has essentially made a career out of building open source OAuth stuff, so even if it's a bit humorous that he certifies his own stuff, it's likely that this implementation is one of the most compliant out there.