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Comment GOG is for poaching more than launching (Score 1) 49

And like I said I don't see anyone talking about GOG.

How much of that is related to GOG's reputation for being selective about what games and genres they accept? I get the impression that GOG is a bit more "curated" than some other PC game stores. The curators don't really want visual novels (a style of menu-driven adventure game). And apart from new releases by CD Projekt (which owned GOG before the end of 2025), I suspect that GOG seeks to poach "catalog" games that have already been successful on the competing store Steam as opposed to having a game at day one.

Sources include GOG forums (thread; thread)

Comment Emulators on GitHub (Score 1) 45

GitHub has deleted projects because it didn't like them too or considered them too much of a hot potato. Try safely hosting an emulator on there for an older games console or something similar.

My own NES emulator is on Codeberg, but there are well over a dozen emulators on GitHub. Start here:

- LIJI32/SameBoy (Game Boy)
- TASEmulators/fceux (NES)
- mgba-emu/mgba (Game Boy, Game Boy Advance)
- nesdev-org/MesenCE (NES, Super NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, PC Engine, Master System/Game Gear, WonderSwan)
- jsgroth/jgenesis (Mega Drive/Mega CD, Super NES, Master System/Game Gear)
- dolphin-emu/dolphin (GameCube, Wii)
- stenzek/duckstation (PlayStation)
- ares-emulator/ares (numerous)
- Dwedit/PocketNES (PocketNES on Game Boy Advance)
- FluBBaOfWard/NitroSwan (WonderSwan on Nintendo DS)
- FluBBaOfWard/NGPDS (Neo Geo Pocket on Nintendo DS)
- FluBBaOfWard/NitroGrafx (PC Engine on Nintendo DS)

Which emulator of a 20+-year-old console did you see deleted from GitHub, unless it included ROMs or system software copied without permission?

port forwarding your residential cable Internet service to a Pi

The problem is that a lot of home ISPs don't let their customers port forward because there just aren't enough IPv4 addresses to go around, and I'd bet a lot of your audience are behind ISPs that don't provide IPv6 (such as Frontier fiber). When an ISP is using carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) to put an entire neighborhood behind a single IPv4 address, how would the ISP's router know to which customer to direct a TCP SYN packet received at that address? I guess each Forgejo instance operator could pay per month for some sort of proxy service using a reverse SSH tunnel.

Comment Re:Yeah, no (Score 1) 160

If I were Elon Musk's Evil Empire, I'd offer StarLink subscriptions with internet and similar support to crush OnStar and beat them on price, then I'd jack up the price once I was a Monopoly. Sam Walton, your model is perfect. Long live the Trillionaire! (not Trillionairs, they will all get destroyed by Musk's Monopolies).

So is Capitalism bad without trustbusting? Rhetorical.

Comment Consider a static site generator (Score 1) 24

I'd like to see Wordpress broken in half so the admin and clever bits are in one place and the actual hosted stuff is somewhere else. The server part of it needs to be as dumb as possible, and definitely not allow any sort of logins.

If you want "as dumb as possible", the search keyword for that is "static site generator". Then you can redirect /wp-admin/ to Automattic's front page.

Comment Master System, Genesis, Game Boy (Score 1) 42

People still develop new games for the Master System (which uses a Z80), the Genesis (which uses a Z80 as a sound coprocessor), and especially the Game Boy (whose Sharp SM83 CPU isn't exactly a Z80 but is similar). And they're selling these games both as ROM filess on itch.io and as cartridges.

Comment Re:Rip to a M-DISC for posterity (Score 0) 96

Not 100% sure about other countries, but in the US technically you don't have to ever play it or rip it from any disc. Owning the CD is proof you own a license to listen to the music on it. You can literally download or copy anyone else's copy.

This is because when you buy physical media, you are NOT purchasing the music, you are purchasing a license to listen to use the music for yourself. There doesn't have to be any music on the disc, but you do need a way to get it (you see this far more in software, like when buying Office at Best Buy gives you a license key and no software). If you want to play the music in public, you still need to get public performance license from the publisher (venues that pipe in music do this). There is a minor exception called fair use, but how many people you can play if under that before you violate copyright is a judges call. If you're just playing it for a few friends at home, you're probably in the clear.

Comment Re: Context? (Score 1) 134

The advertising clause wasn't "non-free" as much as a practical problem that was incompatible with the GPL's ban on additional restrictions. It was largely removed when much popular software switched from the 4-clause original BSD license to the 3-clause or 2-clause version.

The appropriate copyright notice clause remained in 3-clause and 2-clause BSD licenses. This clause is also present in GPLv2 and GPLv3.

Comment Re: How will this help? (Score 1) 83

It will bring about the perfect world! I can't wait for this Brave New World!

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Jeffery Epstein Memorial Island dedicated a national landmark.
New Zealand liberated as the 53 state after Canada and Greenland
Trump ascends, he will now be addressed as God, not just "King of the World."
All people not at least 75% white will be deported. Obama sent to Antarctica after chief ethnic officer Robert F Kennedy Jr. declares him half pengin.

Comment Re:Maybe... (Score 1) 81

Now that most people have a fast internet connection

In the case of BitTorrent, even the fastest Internet connection won't get you a lot of successful peer connections if your ISP blocks all inbound TCP connections.

If youtube goes away, streaming video won't disappear, some new ecosystem will grow in its place.

Such a new ecosystem already has grown, as I understand it. It's called getting Netflix, HBO Max, Paramount+, Disney+/Hulu, Peacock, Prime Video, or Apple TV to accept your pitch and fund it. These take the place of cable television channels in the pre-broadband economy. And there are still a lot more pilot screenplays than budget to produce all of them.

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