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Nintendo will be sending a cease and desist letter to each of us for looking at fanart of their characters.

Inb4 it’s the same logo but red, and with the same description but with the added line, “Now anti-woke.”

At least it will be easy to tell which devs support human rights and which ones are pieces of shit.

No, um you see…uh…shit…

As far as I can tell, it’s what you suggested. I don’t really care about a fork because of a rogue community manager. Their Foundation apologized, and I suspect they’ll try to do better.

A single instance does not a pattern make.

ETA: and by “rogue,” I mean someone who acts on their own apart from discussing with the team, but still represents them as if they did. I think she was justified to block some of those trolls, but she was a bit overzealous, blocking LGBTQ folks in the process.

Either way, trans rights are human rights. Fuck this fork.

Quick! It’s spreading! We need the Rocky Horror Containment Protocol!

This is my plan. If I ever see a showing locally, I’ma try to make sure it’s the “immersive experience” everyone promises

I have to wonder how long they can run on community goodwill. With handhelds like the Steam Deck and similar, surely it’s gotta be only a matter of time until they have to change or die.

You could, but there’s no official control scheme. My experience wasn’t great, but maybe yours will be better. I just think that since there’s so many buttons (multiple toolbars, multiple menus and build modes, etc.), it’s hard to make it all work.

Maybe I’ll try my hand at a new control scheme, but it just seems built for a M+Kb. It plays well, though, so the limitation really is only the controls.

I hope these get litigated to death or else people feel peer pressure at being an asshole for buying them.

The fun thing is that with novel cases, the law can change. There’s currently no precedent for AI Camera Glasses, and the law(s) I cited were created before anything like this was even a real possibility for the average person.

And re: phones—you can see that’s a camera. Also, they have a bright LED that indicates recording. These glasses do not.

I get your cynicism, but we do not yet live in the dystopian plutocracy where companies get to do whatever they want with impunity (just a lot of it). Unless you’re a lawyer, I’m not inclined towards your opinion.

Untitled Goose Game. Silly fun.

I tried Satisfactory, but the controls just aren’t (yet) made for a controller.

https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-conversations

The info on that page is a little dated but mostly accurate (there’s still 11 states that require two-party consent for recording a conversation, for example). There’s other sources you can find.

I’m not saying it’s a slam dunk case against devices like this, but it’s not like it’s especially common for people to walk around with what are essentially covert cameras on their faces. It’s something for future courts to decide, and I could see an argument against them on these grounds.

Again, I’m NAL.

Several states have anti-spying laws that require disclosure that you’re recording them. I expect we’ll see an uptick in lawsuits about this issue, which will force Meta to revise their device or will cause a chilling effect on their sales.

I have never seen the movie, but I absolutely would play this game.

There are some hardware keys that have PINs, like OnlyKey, but you’re always going to have trade-offs (OnlyKey has some as well). You are correct that someone could steal the key and know your password, but the likelihood that someone could do both is likely low for most people, and if it’s high for you, you’re probably a state actor or big cybercriminal engaging in some crazy shit anyway.

The core tenets of good security are something you know and something you have. For example, my work uses an RFID badge and a personal code to get into the building. Neither works alone. If somebody steals my badge, they can’t get into the building without my access code. If somebody steals a database of access codes, they can’t get in without the badge that pairs with the code.

A TOTP is something you have, sure, but it’s only secure if someone is unable to extract the secret key (or the code at runtime, which is possible via screen-reading techniques); as long as it exists digitally, secrecy is not guaranteed, and the attack surface is larger—for any device connected to the internet—to have that key stolen.

A physical key is harder to steal over the internet, and an attacker would have to know you have one in the first place to even go about beginning to search for it (I don’t think a court could force you to divulge that you have one or where it is, since you have a right to remain silent, but I’m NAL).

Ultimately, there is no panacea of security, or else everybody would use that one thing. In the end, it comes down to your threat model and the kinds of attacks that are likely to be thrown at you.

Naturally. I can hope for it, but I would never expect them to counter-sue. They’re the person harmed, so they get to decide what justice looks like for them, and sometimes people just want to go back to normal.

Sanctions are really the only thing the judge has at their disposal, and I doubt Nintendo’s lawyers are dumb enough to get sanctioned.

Go for it, Nintendo. Emulation has already been proven in courts to not be sufficient evidence for wrongdoing. Also:

However, its latest move feels particularly heavy-handed, as it has issued a copyright strike against a YouTube channel that reviews emulation handhelds.

Go fuck yourself. I hope you get hit with an anti-SLAPP across your litigious faces.

program that lets you watch youtube videos privately

Another one called FluxTube and one called magic-tape were posted recently, too.

The fact that winamp still exists is just silly fun.