https://retroarchleaks.wordpress.com/
also almost every /vg/emugen thread is full of "danny drama"
refalo
joined 2 years ago
For good privacy (from fingerprinting) it is undoubtedly a bad choice.
I'm really surprised servers have not started by default limiting and/or vetting who can federate with them. I know many Lemmy instances block many other instances from federating with them, but only after learning about what a lot of their content is. To me this practice kinda creates a very fragmented "which wind would you like to piss into" problem.
People don’t know about what they don’t hear about
Some people take the initiative to learn things on their own though. I suppose we're not their target audience however.
I tried OpenSnitch but it would always randomly crash while interacting with the GUI, and it would reset all my tcp connections every time you start it back up.
Yes there is a risk of bugs being exploited just like any other feature in a browser. Another example is WebRTC being used to de-cloak VPN users. I think WebGPU and/or WebGL also had exploits that allowed remote code execution or escaping the browser sandbox.
we’re carving a space for companies to safely share
To be fair, it's no safer than being GPL etc. in that any license is only as useful as your ability to enforce it in court. For a bad actor, whether they violate a fair source license vs a GPL likely isn't much of a concern at all.
What is a "shared unique similarity"? Sounds a lot like something that isn't unique to me...
Just because someone chooses not to be a privacy advocate, I don't think that means it is universally accepted that they are "freeloading".
Usually the people who I see make these kinds of arguments are the ones that don't participate in normal society and live in a bubble, and pretend capitalism isn't necessary for most people to live their lives.
for some reason a lot of emudevs are very hostile to the whole idea of forking. mame also famously hates retroarch for it, as well as inolen from redream and skmp from reicast/nullcast, probably more.
this isn't even the first project that an emudev has directly relicensed or even shut down their entire emulator for over a retroarch fork, which is usually done in the first place due to maintenance problems with the original emudev.
as others have said, the whole scene just seems to attract the kind of genius that too often steps over that fine line. out of the probably couple dozen emudevs I know, the vast majority have explicitly stated themselves that they suffer from severe mental health issues.