Rustmilian

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

WINE
Is
Not
(an)
Emulator

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

yesterday, there were just over 800 Linux users on League.

And how many of them were cheating? ರ⁠_⁠ರ

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

What makes you think they are referring to Wine in that particular case.

Them talking about Lutris and Wine in that same paragraph and using the phrasing “even allowing” implying it’s what they’re currently doing. But looking again, you’re right. They were referring to VMs.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Google Play has emulators too

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Objection hearsay! Some jackass on Twitter saying some crap without proof is not proof. We need screenshots of the actual incidents at the minimum.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

they didn’t reverse engineer the key they used

Stop peddling that stupid lie already. They didn’t use any key period; we literally have backups of the entire GPL source code will all of the commit history dating all the way back to August 30, 2013, stop spewing bullshit out your mouth.
You had to rip your own key from your own legally purchased switch hardware using legally protected homebrew tools and manually add it to Yuzu configs.This process is protected under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act.

Under the fair use doctrine in Section 107, modifying your own legally purchased console hardware and running homebrew software for personal, non-commercial use has been considered a lawful fair use in certain legal precedents, even if it requires circumventing the console’s technological protection measures (TPMs) as its considered non-profit, educational or transformative use, as described in the fair use doctrine of Section 107.

Section 107 of the Copyright Act establishes the fair use exception, which allows for the reproduction of copyrighted works for purposes such as “criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research”.

Clean Room design reverse engineering for the purpose of creating an Emulator falls under “research” as listed by section 107 and independent creation as protected by existing judicial precedents.

Section 107 is intended to restate the present judicial doctrine of fair use, not to change, narrow, or enlarge it in any way.

Meaning Clean Room design reverse engineering as independent creation & modifying your legally purchased hardware with homebrew tools as fair use being protected by existing judicial precedents is also in turn protected by Section 107.

And the Twitter thread had the sources

Twitter doesn’t allow us to reverse the thread, kindly link the exact source you’re referring to.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

How can you make and test an emulator without a key…? Or roms…?

By home brewing a legally purchase switch obviously.

They didn’t reverse engineer the key, that’s the issue they had their publicly ripped key in a Google folder.

Where’s the proof they were distributing a key?
You still fail to provide any proof.

So… how did they legally test their reverse engineered emulator… without their own key or roms?

Again, by home brewing a legally purchased switch. Which again, is protected by section 107.

There’s far more to this story than what yuzu and the commits say.

Then provide actual fucking evidence like you’ve been told to countless times already.
Stop with the fucking heresay already.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

If you walk into a job interview and they find your tweets of you saying the nword over and over, and you don’t get the job, that’s a you problem. Nobody wants to work with people who’ll bring negative PR.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

That’s not what’s happening here. They are barring him from participating in their project, he can still say whatever the fuck he wants on his own project. They just don’t want to work with him.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

It’s FOSS, just don’t donate to the project or promote it and keep using it anyway. That’s the beauty of FOSS, the devs dumb opinions shouldn’t effect your personal use of quality tools. Imagine if you stopped using hammers just because “communism”, it’d be a pretty stupid self inflicted inconvenience.
If the project itself goes to shit and he starts using it to push his stupid agenda, then abandon it. But until then it’s completely understandable to keep using it for your personal workflow. Everyone uses GNU utilits, that doesn’t mean we agree with everything Richard Stallmen has ever said.
Hopefully Vaxry will learn and clean up his act.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

That’s the way Vaxry spun it to try making them look bad while he downplays his own behavior and malpractice. Basically he just lied and spread misinformation, he really needs to get his act together if he ever wants to work with them again.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/…/90

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Yes, just go try and see for yourself.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

It also looks like they tried to copy the SteamDecks joysticks too, but had no fuckin clue how they actually worked.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

At first glance they might look like it, but if you look closely you’ll realize they’re nothing like the 3DS or SteamDeck’s joysticks.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/24b4056a-5add-411d-a907-7964d75478ae.jpeg

Rustmilian OP , 4 months ago

Yeah, at first I was like “oh no, sounds super serious” then I read “batch files” and was like “bruh ರ⁠_⁠ರ”.

Rustmilian OP , 4 months ago

Knowing whether software is maintained. I’m not sure that that would have actually produced a different outcome.

It wouldn’t have because XZ maintainership was given to the attacker. The attacker ran an entire abuse operation using puppet accounts to manipulate the already vulnerable owner. The attacker used high level social engineering tactics and ran a long con.

Rustmilian OP , 4 months ago

“Batch files”

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Nice.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

You can also use ffmpeg if you’re familiar with it.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

If by that you mean the flickering crap, then yes.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Tracker PR

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

It’s definitely a large leep, but it’s not going to solve everything. I’d say it brings us to ~85% completion. There’s still a lot of smaller issues in need of fixing, and some issues unique to specific problem cards. Nvidia needs to put in that last 10% and the community needs to put in that last 4%. The 1% are the tiny bugs spread across the ecosystem that’ll get fixed overtime.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Nvidia’s failure to implement the spec correctly is solely their own.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

If Nvidia had worked together on Xorg, we wouldn’t have had all of those shitty Nvidia unique x11 bugs with Nvidia’s crappy proprietary drivers in the past.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Here’s just a tiny fraction of the Nvidia specific bugs on X11 :

github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/…/380

bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=283461

forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/…/128067

bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460341

labwc

You’re using a WM bud, wtf do you expect?

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

You miss the entire point of WMs then.
You’re complaining about 7 lines of configs when the entire point of WMs is for you to literally customize everything through configs.
Shit, you probably don’t even need half of that crap. QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland is already handled by qt, you only need that when running apps across Waypipe from a headless server environment. By default QT infers your environment from $DISPLY which is always :0 in Wayland.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Cura as in this one? :

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2529393b-b3e2-4bcc-9ca1-9d8303f969c2.png

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I don’t see any graphical glitches on my hardware.
Perhaps you’re still on the qt5 version?
Maybe a bug with your Nvidia driver?
Perhaps your WM doesn’t have explicit sync yet and your card & driver needs it in this particular case? Perhaps it’s running under XWayland?

Wayland#Qt :
While it shouldn’t be necessary, to explicitly run a Qt application with the Wayland plugin, use -platform wayland or QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland environment variable.

As it says above, it should really be inferred by default. Something weird is going on here.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

It’s the car manufacturers failure when they can’t properly put their tires on to safely drive on the road or put on tires that weren’t up to code to begin with.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

they break Microsoft’s update mechanism somehow

Microsoft’s update mechanism breaks Microsoft’s update mechanism.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Check out alternativeto.net

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Definitely not. Sometimes you even have to install additional bloatware like “HP support assistant” for example to complete the update process because the built-in update system is dysfunctional af.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Linux devs would just make a patch to work with that configuration as it’d be considered a bug.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

I see you’re unaware of the number one rule of the Linux Kernel : DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE
The patch would be distributed the exact same way that we distribute every single other patch in Linux.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Which is?

Directly patching the code, then letting the distros do their thing.

I have no idea what the protocol is if I wouldn’t want to update some application.

You’d just put it in an exclude list in your specific package managers config file for example. The depends are forward compatible and will just keep updating as normal. Very very rarely is there ever a case where forward compatibility is broken, and if it ever is the devs did so for a very thought out reason.

blocking updating because you have or don’t have something else on your system seems to be basically the norm with Linux.

It is yes. Because if you don’t have a library an application depends on then it just won’t run.
Except “have”, that’s not a real scenario; it’s always a matter of not having something; there’s packages that may conflict because they provide a different implementation of the same interface, but you’ll never be blocked by an application that depends on that interface.
The dependencies are defined by the distro maintainers when they packaged the software.
It ensures that package will function properly when installed.

If you really really want a really really old version of something that depends on deprecated dependencies/libs, there’s always portable and universal package solutions that include those specific deps with it instead of relying on system libs.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Well… Technically you can, you just can’t play on servers with AntiCheat activated.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Have you considered any of the PowerPoint alternatives?

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

Valve did say that they’d be improving SteamVR on Linux quite a while ago, it’s just going to take awhile because it not their main priority atm.

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

alternatives

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

AutoCAD alternatives

Rustmilian , 4 months ago

There’s nothing quite like Photoshop, but Photopea helps bridge that gap. Soon™ Gimp 3.0 will be out which will help too. Depending on your needs, Krita is very high quality and up there with professional paint applications. Then there’s a bunch of other tools that fill in more specialized needs here and there. It’s more so a matter of combining & linking the alternatives together to cover your needs best you can than relying on one end all be all application.

Rustmilian OP , 4 months ago

fixed