echo64

echo64 , 3 months ago to news in EU fines Apple €1.8bn for breaking streaming rules

The key difference you’re dancing around, is that you can use any online store on your device. But on Apple you can only use the apple app store.

If you could only use Amazon on your device, they would be subject to the same rules too.

echo64 , 3 months ago to technology in I worked exclusively in Vision Pro for a week—here’s how it went

People will fire lasers into their eyes just so they don’t have to wear super light glasses. Vr/ar tech are not going mainstream. Only tech bros think that.

echo64 , 3 months ago to technology in Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]".

Every few years, more things are added as exceptions to the DMCAs circumvention clause. There’s a whole host of exceptions, and they are all exceptions in favor of people over companies. Those exceptions came about because people who care fought for them.

echo64 , 3 months ago to technology in Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]".

It doesn’t need to set any kind of precedent. That was set decades ago in this case.

echo64 , 3 months ago to technology in Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]".

If you circumvent the copyright protection systems to do so, then under American law yes. If you don’t like this, you have to campaign for change.

echo64 , 3 months ago to technology in Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]".

Game preservation is explicitly exclusided from the dmca true, but only only when the game needs online servers which have now been shut down.

So it would not work in this case at all.

echo64 , 3 months ago to technology in Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]".

Okay, so no, it’s not hacking. It doesn’t fall under hacking laws. It’s not illegal to sell hacking tools. Basically, everything you said is wrong.

In this case, it’s all about copyright and the DMCA, which made it illegal to break the copyright protection systems companies put in place or to make or distribute tools to break copyright protection systems.

So, nothing to do will selling things or hacking. Everything to do with copyright and draconian dot come era laws.

echo64 , 3 months ago to android in Minimal Phone: Low-priced smartphone with E Ink display and complete keyboard

Yeah, licensing fees are super high. Who knows what kind of battery life and displays we might have on our personal devices today if eink wasn’t so encumbered.

echo64 , 3 months ago to games in Yuzu developers agreed to pay $2.4 million in damages to Nintendo to settle their lawsuit

Nintendo had a clear path to victory in this case, it wasn’t a new idea that needed to be tested in court.

The yuzu devs really fucked up by adding in decryption to it. Without that, the emulator was totally safe, and likely why nintendo didn’t try and do this years ago.

If you’re making an emulator, or anything dealing with copywritten work. Don’t add things that break the copyright protection, nintendo can come for you then. It’s that simple.

echo64 , 4 months ago to retrogaming in 8bitdo Pro 2 controller with multiple Android devices

are you sure that the pro 2 has a 4-way connection?

i read it as just a simple way of changing what mode the controller runs in, normally you have to select those different modes by holding down button combinations when enabling pairing mode. to me it looks like they just made those button combinations a switch. so it’s a switch, and only pairs to a single device.

i might be wrong, i don’t have one

echo64 , 4 months ago to games in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Director Naoki Hamaguchi Claims Patch to Fix Performance Mode Visuals on the Way

sounds like the patch is going to adjust things like lighting but not do anything about the resolution, so don’t get too excited

game looks too good in graphics mode to drop for performance

echo64 , 4 months ago to piracy in Switch emulator Yuzu responds to Nintendo's lawsuit

I’m gonna just preface this by saying Nintendo suck and I don’t agree with what they are doing.

But it’s worth understanding what is happening here, nintendo isn’t just throwing random legalize against the wall to find something that sticks. They are specifically going after yuzu via a fairly well tested part of the DMCA.

The DMCA allows them this, and if you don’t feel like nintendo or anyone else should get to dictate what device you play the games you own on, you should be looking into whatever you can do to pressure your representatives to add to the many exceptions of that dmca clause for this purpose.

echo64 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to games in Sweet Baby Inc. employees harass steam group admin for listing their games to avoid them

Fwiw, this is bigots harassing developers and then posting articles like this, avoiding all the details about their bigotry

echo64 , 4 months ago to technology in User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke”

They mean a lot of downloads were happening for a period of time.

echo64 , 4 months ago to technology in User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke”

They are saying that it wasn’t a ddos at all but organic use. The user was notified but did nothing. So they think their notifying stuff isn’t good enough.