Yes, maybe the seller dumped the cart and is still using it via emulation. Now, the buyer used the same cart with the same crypto key and Nintendo detected two uses at the same time.

Probably BigBlueButton, or maybe Jitsi. Or, they’re still using Teams but didn’t want it mentioned in the article.

I’m pretty happy with Downie (and Permute to directly convert media to whatever format I like). So far it downloads everything I throw at it. And you can create custom download handlers (using JavaScript) to make it work (without interaction) with sites that are currently not supported and would spawn the user-interactive downloader.

If you just want to download and don’t care about a nice GUI, yt-dlp probably has similar features.

A quick search says it’s an NZB site: https://usenetreviews.org/nzbsites/tabula-rasa/

EDIT: And here’s a Reddit discussion about it.

Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace

I loved that book!

Not sure whether Cmacked still works…

Same with audiobooks. The “classic” way is to have several MP3 files - 1 for each chapter. This allows them to be played even on dumb MP3 players.

However, the M4B format allows for more modern AAC and HE-AAC encoding and adds metadata such as chapters directly into the file. This results in the whole audiobook being contained in just one single file and with much better compression than MP3. But you’ll need a compatible player to listen to them.

(I’ve transcoded most of my audiobooks to M4B as a collection of 320kbps Stereo MP3s doesn’t make sense for just spoken content.)

To add to that: The “sharing” part is what’s prohibited in German law. (Remember: when torrenting you also upload chunks of the data to others.) The pure download is kind of a grey area and won’t be prosecuted.

It seems there is a way to unlock the classic games using PPSSPP’s cheat feature: https://old.reddit.com/r/Roms/comments/ozz4mu/looking_for_castlevania_the_dracula_x_chronicles/h838yfm/

If you’ve got a slow-ish SD card and a game that compresses very well, then this might be the case. But with a modern card from e.g. SanDisk or Samsung with U3 and A2 certifications, this probably won’t do that much.

And BTRFS with compression and deduplication are great to save space.

I’m not sure I’d go as far as replacing the file system. There’s a plethora of tools to do deduplication on ext4 as well. Albeit manually (or via cronjob).

Also, btrfs seems to be slower for random reads than ext4. At least that was the case back in 2019.

https://terminaltrove.com/new.xml

This gives basically no headaches at all. I am running this schema on all my Linux devices. And swap is done using a swapfile instead of a partition. This way, you can easily increase it later on.

This is because they own the gameplay

Do they, though? They create the world, but the player is the one controlling the action.

someone reading a book out loud publicly

If I publicly read a book, I replay the contents verbatim. Basically an exact copy. But playing a game IMHO is more like fan-fiction. I’m making my own story and thus there should be no way to get any legal case against showing/publishing this to others.

That being said, if you monetise your videos and make money from them, it becomes a whole different story.

Wait, until they find out about Supermarionation…

I’ve recently watched this video on YT about some guy that replaced all his social interactions with AI models for for a while. And he, too, said that his ChatGPT “best friend” was too friendly and later in the test preferred some Character.AI “dominatrix” model instead.

But how is it deemed illegal when Nintendo “loses” pre-release games in the wild and somebody “finds” it and shows it off on YouTube? Game reviewers are bound by NDAs and have contracts with Ninty - but these “criminals” don’t. So what’s the crime here? Publishing something Ninty didn’t want to get out yet? And how is this copyright infringement when he never stated that he’s made a Mario game? Or is trying to sell Mario-themed stuff? It’s an official game from Ninty, so what does this have to do with copyright? Where did he copy it?

Same with the “circumvention” … if you can easily make a copy of the key from your own device - which you’ve legally bought and where you only need a paper clip to do it - what are you circumventing then? If you buy a lock, it usually comes with the keys on a keyring that’s “locked” to the loop. Is removing a key from that keyring also “circumventing” then?

The big problem here is that most people doing law have no idea about the technical stuff. And until that changes we’ll see lots of these ridiculous claims going through.

http://www.bofharchive.com/

https://bofh.bjash.com/

😉

Got my Steam Deck a month ago, got Citron working yesterday and might put my (unpatched) Switch into storage soon…

Yeah, but if your dream second hand laptop has everything but USB-C charging, you can easily get such adapter and basically make it USB-C charging capable. 😉