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A single DMCA anti-circumvention notice, sent by Nintendo on the one-year anniversary of its 2024 lawsuit against Yuzu, showed just how much things can change in a year. Targeting nine repos linked to Switch emulator Ryujinx, the domino effect led to the removal of 4,238 repos. Elsewhere, the distilled components of Yuzu's demise can be found in recent takedown notices

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My repo is fine, because its not online. Keeping them online is just silly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I host my own gitlab instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same. Super easy to do, easy to mirror repos, easy to keep offline...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Even if its online (gitlab.melroy.org), I own my data. And GitHub or any other company can't decide for me when to remove content.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Never give Nintendo money.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Oh I made that decision decades ago

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I can't wait for federated git prs/issues.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How does that change Nintendo's legal proceedings?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can ignore a DMCA request. It's not "do this or go to jail." It's a finger-wag that gives you a free out, where they can't sue you if you do the thing. You can just... not... and then they'd have to go to the trouble of suing you. Which you can make difficult by being somewhere besides America and not giving a shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Federation doesn't allow you to ignore DMCAs, not hosting in the US does. Federation has absolutely no impact on DMCA's functioning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Federation allows redundancy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

It doesn't. But code becomes p2p with no one organizer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you know about Radicle ? It's not federated but distributed and darknet based

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I want to give it a shot at some point! It just looks complicated

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I t has imporved a lot lately you should :)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

The AUR page for ryujinx is still up and the upstream repo still works.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I hacked my Switch right after Nintendo pulled that Yuzu BS, so it's been jailbroken for one year now and the last time I gave any money to Nintendo was in May 2023 for Tears of the Kingdom. I recently updated it to the newest firmware in preparation for Xenoblade Chronicles X this month. No updated emulators? No problem!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

https://github.com/Ryubing/Ryujinx is still there as well as https://git.citron-emu.org/Citron/Citron (formerly Yuzu), the 2 main repositories for these 2 emulators.

So yeah, "easily killed" 4238 unimportant repos, not even getting the main ones, lol.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

P2P code repo when? Git needs to die in 2025

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago

Git is significantly better than the alternatives. Don't conflate git and GitHub, they're entirely different.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

do you mean github or do you actually mean git?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isn't git technically already P2P? Everyone has the complete repo, and everyone can pull from everyone else, as long as a connection can be established. The networking/organization of this is just not automatic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yes, this maximal decentralized usage where everybody has their own copy but can collaborate and pick and choose from other copies was a central idea in the creation of git. Ultimately it was made for Linux Kernel development and that is how that works over there.

You do not even need to use git specific protocols. One can simply import patch sets and mail them to each other.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/Bittorrent-like_features/ -- Use IPFS as a special git-annex remote, and it will be nearly impossible to execute a take-down.

If you have other "decentralized filesystems" that have "better" behavior than IPFS, you might see if joeyh or yourself can add them as other special remotes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

There is also Radicle that is building a darkgit with p2p distributed design

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm not sure how I like at protocol being the thing that makes this happen, but I'm glad others are working on the issue! Maybe I'll change my mind later but it's still to close to a million dollar company for my taste

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Git was made to work decentralized and repositories are trivial to mirror.