Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.

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    Why the F we’re still hosting grey market on github I’ll never know.

    Should just take all that shit over to RNSgit and host it on the dark side

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      The only reason like projects like that have a following and is doscovered is because they are on GitHub

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        Highly doubt this. If you build something as interesting as this people will find it through means other than Github search. And as people pointed out elsewhere in this thread, lots of projects put their code on Github but only use it as a mirror. That gives you most of the benefits of being on there.

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    For anyone who self hosts as opposed to using a provider, how do you manage the danger of all the zero days from the software that your are using? To me the biggest reason that I would use github is because they have a dedicated reaponae team for managing patches, whereas I might be on vacation when my server is getting hacked to shit

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      I used to self host externally but keeping up with all the security just became exhausting after awhile. I pulled it all back behind a VPN, been so much nicer after. my containers still patch nightly, which up until now hasn’t been an issue. Then i patch and reboot the actual servers quarterly. not so bad. So i would suggest if you are self hosting to not expose to the internet at all.

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      Don’t expose your stuff publicly and it’s pretty much a non-issue. There’s no reason your private git server needs to be accessible from the web. If you need to access it when you’re away from home, you can just connect back to your network with a VPN or SSH tunnel and then access your services like normal.

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      You put layers Like an onion

      So you put cloudflare or tailscale or netbird or whatever infront of your thing. So you need at least two zero days for different products to be immediately fucked

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    its very easy to use forgejo or radical to host your code. Fuck corpos piracy ftw

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    They are slow. I expected that to happen way faster. But yeah, pretty much what everyone knew would happen actually happened. I don’t get what it is with people hosting that stuff on GitHub. By now it’s safe to assume they know that it’s taken down.

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        None of their games would be hard to fast-follow with AI. You’d lose the actual IP, but it would irritate the hell out of them

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      FYI, Eden is a fork of yuzu that adds quite a lot of features and is fully compatible with yuzu saves/mods/configs.

      My favorite new feature is loading updates and DLC from a folder instead of having to install them.

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    Emulators are legal as long as you don’t ship keys or weird shit, if GitHub takes them down even when no law was broken, then use another provider, GitHub is Microsoft and runs like shit.

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    There is such news article every few months and yet no relevant emulators are down.

    I bet it’s a PR stunt but I have no idea who it could be aimed at.

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      The PR stunt is aimed at the news cycle that’s been gobbling up engagement-baited comments from absolutely everyone by showing off OOT Remake on PC (via emulators or the recomp). Seriously, it’s catnip for clickbait. You get all of the following Very Engaged:

      • Nintendo fanboys (this is why nintendo is justified to do takedowns!)

      • PC Master Race / Sony fanboys (lol nintendo got owned!)

      • Anti-AI guys (all the current OOT stuff is vibe coded and that’s terrible)

      • Pro-AI guys (all the current OOT stuff is vibe coded and that’s awesome)

      All for the headline that implies you can play the shiniest new nostalgia bait Nintendo game on PC as easily and well as on the shiny new Nintendo console, which isn’t even the case the way it was the last time a Zelda emulation fiasco overtook the games news sphere.

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    As a general reminder, self hosting your own git repo or hosting it on a private VPS is incredibly cheap. You can then have it cloned to new github/bitbucket whenever these sweeps happen. Using a fork as a ‘backup’ is pointless if it’s still hosted on Github no matter how many thousand copies are made. Microsoft will throw you and everyone in your commit history under a bus at the whims of Nintendo’s lawyers.

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      19 hours ago

      You self host gitlab-ce to avoid dmca’s from mega corps.

      I self host gitlab-ce so that no one can see all of my shitty commits.

      We are not the same.

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      I set up my own Forgejo instance a few days ago, it took me longer to upload my repositories than to set it up, although I went with docker so one could say I cheated by taking the easy way. In any case, if you have some old hardware laying around or already rent a server anyway, give it a try.