In some ways Nintendo suing the original project was a good thing. It brought the project to the attention of a lot more people. Now there is a new version with a bunch of bugs fixed. Who knows how many new developers will be working on it now.
I have to think Nintendo knew this. They had to defend what they could and did so because the original project actually seemed to be doing some sketchy stuff. They know they can't stop everything though.
I think it's pretty clear that if they felt that they had a case against emulation as a whole, they would have brought down the Dolphin project. As it stands, the worst they've done is gotten it booted off Steam, but I can happily still download it from their website. The Dolphin project has been around in some capacity since 2003, while the GameCube was still relevant, and had more-or-less decent Wii Emulation in 2009 as well; by all accounts in 2010 Dolphin was directly competing with "real" Wiis (while offering proper HD output no less).
I'm sure Nintendo's lawyers were perfectly aware of Dolphin pretty early on, and if they felt that there was any case against them then they would have done something.
Reminds of of reddit. Man that text edit box is so dysfunctional. Sometimes you type and nothing happens. Sometimes typing will start selecting random stuff on the page, hiding comments, saving some, and other weird stuff. Cut and paste is a 100% gamble. Random keys won't work some times. Sometimes you post a comment and only half shows up or other weird things.
It's really bizarre and I think has to do with some sort of logging/spyware they run on the site.
TI-99 was my first real computer bought in 1982 for $50 from K-mart. I learned to program on it. I remember buying a few "whatever" games to get the speech synthesizer for cheap (or free?). Took forever to save enough money to buy Extended Basic so I could do sprites and stuff.
Fun times. I still have it in the original box with all the carts and speech synthesizer. I always wanted that big expansion module with the disk drives. Never could afford it.
A few years later got an excellent deal on a used C64 and moved on to it where it was a little more open platform.
My Mom got one for me when I was about 6 or 7. Oh man, that speech synthesizer was amazing. It felt so cool to make it say stuff. I also learned to program on that thing. I used it for years. I still have it in the box too :)
I run email servers and I get such a massive amount of spam on "vanity" TLD's that I just block them outright. I don't automatically block them all but any that start sending serious levels of spam get blocked. Which is most of them and that block covers the whole TLD. It's just too much work to try anything else.
Now this is just for incoming email. I still allow web browsing and links to these domains through various systems and outgoing mail to those domains works.
The incoming mail though, I just can't allow it. It's just pure spam at ridiculous levels.
It's so insane. My 5-year old GTX 1060 (320€) is still better than a new gtx 1650 for 250€. Right now there is no direction to upgrade my system except for byuing an apu, but since my 1060 is way faster this doesn't make sence unless i want to get rid of my gpu to get a smaller case (e.g. X300)
I was lucky to buy a 1080 Ti for like 500$ off a miner a few years back. Bitcoin at that moment ended up cheap enough that GPU mining became unprofitable, and everyone was liquidating their farms.
I got one of those at retail price a few years ago and it's still one of the best cards out there in terms of video memory. I'd have to upgrade to a 3080Ti or 3090 to have it beat.
I also have a GTX 1060 that I got in... 2017 I believe.
I looked up prices recently and it's worth more now than when I bought it, and the ones available that I've seen are used. Had no idea that would happen and now I'm just happy I have a graphics card at all.
(The already high) GPU prices skyrocketed from December to about May, then plateaued and even slipped a little because 1. crypto prices fell 2. supply improved (obviously connected to 1) and 3. new Nvidia cards implemented LHR to discourage mining. Recently crypto prices have risen again, and card prices have followed. What I'm saying is: You missed your chance, relatively speaking.
> Now if I could just buy a GPU for a normal price...
The best recommendation I've gotten so far is to get a gaming laptop instead, because the entire laptop costs about the same as the desktop version of the same GPU.
Maybe that's shitty advice, I'm not a PC gamer, just looking for something my kids can use. But a coworker did exactly that and he raves about the decision.
No, you don't simply "move to a new coin". ETH is currently a 420B market cap and rewards GPU miners something on the order of 13,000 ETH a day conservatively (without fees). That's nearly 50m dollars a day or 1.5B dollars a month!
The only "other coins" available to be mined with GPUs are tiny. Ethereum classic has only a 8B market cap, Ravencoin with 1B, then many sub 1B coins.
At that point the audio is unauthentic, and the point of having a public video is diminished (if not eliminated) - we’re undoubtedly Rapidly approaching this problem. As deep fakes improve, no one is going to trust video.
The point of a public video is to get clicks and influence public opinion, and neither of these are harmed by altering the audio. In court, you can play the original.
Eh, after using Linux mostly as my primary OS and 100% for servers for nearly 30 years I think Linux is only just now in the last 10 years started to come in to its own. The game isn't ending, it has just started! Linux is more than ChromeOS and Android. Everything Internet is Linux, IoT, routers, appliances, cameras, vehicles, the list is endless.
Fuchsia, being Google, will be as evil as Chrome. And it may be popular just like Chrome and Windows but that doesn't mean there isn't something better for users who care about control, security, and privacy.
There is no way in hell Fuchsia or anything else is going to run the Internet like Linux does. Even the alternate OS's like Fuchsia, Haiku, MacOS, etc don't have server versions. The mammoth Microsoft even failed at servers and they do have server versions.
Barring some unforeseen conspiracy, Linux is going to be around for a long, long time.
IoT is not Linux. Most small embedded devices cannot afford a MMU, or the monstrosity of Linux. Baremetal or FreeRTOS/ThreadX or similar are enough. They don't need that much power, architectural overkill and security nightmares. Most of them are even formally verified.
so chrome is "evil" because web developers will be able to create apps for ChromeOS in addition to web apps? Or you are claiming that web apps will only work on chrome?
This article sort of makes the case for Matrix but I find Matrix incredibly clunky and slow. Plus every time it "verifies" me it always goes back to the app on my phone like it's some sort of permanent and authoritative identifier. So in that sense it's similar to Signal and Telegram being attached to your phone in some way.
Hard to know what to trust these days. "Nobody" I guess.
Xiaomi has a history of using open-source to power their stuff like their cameras. Though I'm uncertain how often they strictly follow the rules like GPL they have published some amount of open-source. I wonder if these will be hackable and the source published. That would really make these popular I think.
Unrestricted glasses could really transform the society. Imagine looking at girl in the bar and getting her resume and other things known about her online identity without even saying a word. Imagine red rectangle around some guy in the street "was convicted for murder in 1998, released in 2018" and people avoiding him just in case.
Not sure whether it'll be good or bad in the end, but it'll really change lots of social interactions.
The damage could be controlled by proprietary API providing very limited data to the third-party code. But that wouldn't be open source.
the more likely scenario is that we get to the point when people only put up online the bullshit image of their better selves, which decensitize people to the point that they don't trust online profile anymore.
Definitely a good excuse to just allow the technology to come into existence then. "Hey bad things already exists let's just add more of it! Don't wanna be against progress right?"
I wonder if face identification is actually good enough at that without producing false positives. (Also I think there's been enough movies about that particular scenario that there'd be a ton of uproar if that came into reality.)
Regarding reliability, in China you can pay with just your face with Alipay in many convenience stores, supermarkets, and vending machines. End-to-end transaction fees are usually within 0.1%, which puts a ceiling on the failure rate.
I have to think Nintendo knew this. They had to defend what they could and did so because the original project actually seemed to be doing some sketchy stuff. They know they can't stop everything though.