Fuck Github, let's switch to Radicle
this post was submitted on 06 May 2024
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I wish y'all could've heard the laugh I let out when I saw this post. Fuck GitHub & fuck Nintendo.
Okay, one thing for me to do then..
rad seed rad:z3SNcAzHydhWtfaFTiq9S643GQjYU
Done! :)
BRB, getting this tattooed and visiting the Nintendo headquarters
I hope I won't need a lawyer after you do 😂
I didn't even know this was a thing, but now I suddenly want to pirate Nintendo games
Congratulations, Nintendo, you forced us to find a way to distribute illegal source code. I hope it was worth it.
I've long since been boycotting Nintendo and plan to continue doing so for the foreseeable future. Tux Kart is better than Mario Kart anyway.
Not to "um, actually", but I'm gonna "um actually" - technically, using git to host code in a decentralized fashion has been a standard capability of git since it's inception. So it's not really a new idea, just a new iteration
All I hear is “I don’t understand git remotes and what radicle does”
Feel free to enlighten me
The Radicle protocol leverages cryptographic identities for code and social artifacts, utilizes Git for efficient data transfer between peers, and employs a custom gossip protocol for exchanging repository metadata.
So it has a gossip protocol to spread the repo, and a common format for artifacts (issues, PRs, etc) to act more like GitHub.
I don’t know too much more because I just started looking into it a month or two ago and haven’t done a deep dive. But it’s a layer on top of git to spread repositories peer to peer instead of manually having people add remotes.
Nice, thanks for the info!
Thanks for politely asking for more info. I find myself a bit brash sometimes as I live on crypto twitter as my day job. So sorry if the initial message was harsh; I deal with a lot of shit posters.
Holy shit this looks awesome. Thanks. Lol
Its not illegal, Nintendo just doesnt like it.
Legal source code
Beside the code being hosted in many places, is there any of the forks moving forward / worth upgrading to?
Suyu is the most popular + actively developed afaik.
https://suyu.dev/
They host their code on their own Forgejo instance:
https://git.suyu.dev/explore/repos
Which is more DMCA proof then Github/Gitlab.
I hope ForgeFed will go into production soon,
then we can synchronize the code in between multiple Forgejo instances in a federated fashion.
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59
Amazing. The first medium project on radicle. If this node stops syncing this repo, it should be easy enough to have another node sync it.
However, I'm not sure if radicle has discoverability built in. With torrents, a magnet link allows finding it, and IPFS just has a hash allowing you to find it. If radicle just needs a hash to find a node with it, that would make it easy for nintendo to list all the nodes and send them a take down notice (which would or would not be heeded, depending on the operator). Regardless, radicle might support anonymous hosting with I2P, which would make nintendo or any other party powerless and unable to send takedown notices to the anonymous servers.
Additionally, it isn't clear to me how to contribute to radicle projects yet. Developers will have to learn how to contribute to P2P hosted projects now, but that's probably not a big learning curve.
Has any company ever sent a DMCA for content that wasn't accessible via http(s) or torrent?
This would be the identifier: rad:z3SNcAzHydhWtfaFTiq9S643GQjYU
Does that enable some kind search throughout the radicle network for a project with that ID in order to pull/clone it?
Yep, you can gossip the list of peers with that identifier.
Why not codeberg or sourcehut?
You can find a backup of Yuzu (and other stuff like Ryujinx or Dolphin in case it gets taken down at some point) on Suyu's Forgejo (the same software that's used by Codeberg) instance: https://git.suyu.dev/yuzu-emu/yuzu
It’s also available via Tor as an onion site: http://suyudev2qxj5x7mroamgwf4hqunz4pups27z2kl77x4ioqhh5yhpshad.onion/
The onion option makes more sense (standard solution, battle-tested). Not sure about POW resilience, compared to distributed hosting though.
So I guess that would make it more resilient agains Nintendos efforts to destroy all emulators?
Hosting is part of it, but didn't they legally restrict Yuzu's developers from working on the emulator? That seems to be a far greater obstacle to me.
Can't they work on it now as its hosted via p2p? How would they know
I would think the devs wouldn't want to risk it. Assuming they are barred from working on it, if they slip up & reveal something about themselves while working or committing, they may be targeted even harder.
They convinced the yuzu team to officially not work on yuzu anymore, but I guess the devs could still work on it using their private account or in form of another another team. The major problem was thir patreon locked pre-releases
But I’m not a legal expert
Also, I think it's safe to assume what you have provided is not legal advice.