• viking@infosec.pub
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    3 months ago

    Github probably didn’t receive a cease and desist yet, but I doubt they’ll put up a fight against Nintendo.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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      3 months ago

      I highly suggest starting to familiarize ourselves with federated git repos. I‘m testing forgejo atm hoping to be able to host it publicly at some point. That way, once something is out there, its pretty much everywhere.

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        3 months ago

        Federated git repos doesn’t mean that the source code will be replicated across instances. It just means you can do things like create tickets and pull requests across instances.

        • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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          3 months ago

          Not sure I understand. I should be able to fork a public repo across instances, no? Why bother otherwise?

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            3 months ago

            Federation has nothing to do with that capability. git clone exists since the beginning of git.

            • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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              3 months ago

              hmmmm… I see your point. Maybe I wasnt explaining my point clear enough. Right now, I cant see someones fork of some software if I’m on some gitlab which is not federated afaik. I should have said discoverability I guess. Does that make more sense?

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                3 months ago

                I mean, not saying anyone should, because evading copyright is bad. But technically, you could run say forgejo as an onion service. Connecting git to clone from it would take some extra steps but, if hidden well it’d make it somewhat harder to take down.

                • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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                  3 months ago

                  Evading oppressive mechanics is always a great idea imho but I digress.

                  I’m not really talking about making it unable to be taken down, which is already what happens when you put it in a non public repo. I’m talking about exhausting the corpo and damaging their image for going after people using software to play their bought games on their pc. It could kick off a trend of peeps shaming corpos (especially nintendo) for going after legit players who want control of their devices and property. (whoever feels like pointing out that “technically you just own a license”, just dont).

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                    3 months ago

                    I’m talking about exhausting the corpo and damaging their imag

                    All you’ll be exhausting is an AI. They’re using AIs now to write the DMCA requests, which actually does lead me to wonder if such takedown requests are even legal (an AI can’t, to my knowledge, legally represent the interests of a legal person). But the point is, if you’re thinking of “exhausting a corpo” you’re thinking it wrong.