My wife has been laughing at this campaign for a whole year. Never ask authoritarians for consent. Mirror your games, kill your oppressors.
Just don’t buy killable games. I learnt that one the hard way. Never again.
Mirroring doesn’t work when you aren’t given the data. This isn’t something piracy alone can fix. It’s not a matter of what you aren’t allowed to do - it’s a problem of what publishers shouldn’t be allowed to do.
piracy
Stop using tyrannical diction.
Publishers are capitalists.
Capitalists want your rent for copies of a game.
Studios choose to behold themselves to capitalists, or freely publish.Read more theory.
I published a FOSS NES game that opens with the Yuzu logo and “Never give Nintendo money.”
Piracy is still a thing. I’m not playing stupid word games. Even open-source games can be pirated, if they’re only free as in speech.
Piracy is a real thing, if you praxis property.
I am not physically robbing your FOSS NES game if I make a digital copy I share with comrades.free as in speech.
I’m not playing stupid word games.Then what is press to you?
That’s why piracy isn’t theft, not why piracy isn’t… piracy. It’s illicit copying as a failure to reward labor. I am personally responsible for nearly every byte in the games I’ve made. Taking that without permission is not expressing anything besides “yoink.”
Then what is press to you?
“Free as in speech” is perpendicular to “free as in beer.” Libre versus gratis. This is central to the free software movement. Irfanview is proprietary freeware. Doom II is commercial FOSS.
It’s illicit copying as a failure to reward labor.
Under what jurisdiction?
I am personally responsible for nearly every byte in the games I’ve made.
You are responsible for numbers‽
Taking that without permission is not expressing anything besides “yoink.”
Whose permission?
Then what is press to you?
“Free as in speech” is perpendicular to “free as in beer.” Libre versus gratis. This is central to the free software movement.
So a journalist writing a story about your FOSS NES game would cost you?
Respectively: failure of object permanence, total fucking nonsense, non sequitur, and making shit up.
Shoo.
Calling digital copy-pasting piracy is akin to calling breathing displacing the air, data centers be damned.
the tyrants🧵 want me to compensate them for being the ❝first person❞ to count upto a number that makes their stupid FAMICOM run ❝just the way they like it❞
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Anti piracy
No it fucking isn’t.
It very explicitly isn’t. What the hell, mods?
Did you really came back to reply to project your procapitalist-ganda on a reply about counting my breathing? Why haven’t you syndicated yet and libre-published your theoretical ❝FOSS NES❞? Did Nintendo license you, or you’re using their computer voided of warranty?
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I mean, it was worth a try 🤷
But will it lead to the gaming revolution🤔?
idk, probably not
Well what else should we do?
Raid the company headquarters that have the server code?
Mirror your games, kill your oppressors .
Are the company oppressing you? If so, you know what else to do. Otherwise, they are neutral capitalists.
Neutral capitalist … lol
Why the downvote then? If you comprehend that last punch?
We can say in the future that we wanted to solve the matter by coming to an mutual agreement. Now just wait.
Reverse engineers just got fantastic tool in the form of LLM models. They do exactly what they are the best at - translation from one token space to another, assembler to code :)
Fuck them, decompile the game, write your own server. Use their AI to do it for free. Hoist the colors high.
write your own server
I’m not sure you understand what this can mean.
use their ai to
Is this a joke, or are you?
As long as the capitalists rule if you aren’t gaming the system you’re a slave to it. Yes, writing your own server for a game wasn’t meant as a joke. But thats literally never stopped anyone before. Not all private servers have been given or leaked by the devs. Some, like Team Clementine, reverse engineer it by decompiling the game and literally fucken rebuilding the server. There is no lack of way nowadays, only wills.
But to the second question…
They are a joke, yes. I worked on some server side code back in the day when a game server could be a nice self-contained executable on an EC2 instance. Even back then, I think it would’ve been a formidable task.
Now that game mechanics often necessitate more complex cloud infra, there’s a lot more going on that you can’t just Charles/mitmproxy your way through because it’s invisible to the client.
At the very least, you’ll need more than one dev, and that means coordination. For a ragtag group of hobbyists, AI is more likely to be a poison pill that kills the project before MVP.
Like the other person who replied exemplified, lack of wills. You could do it. Destiny recently ending development is a great example. It would be hard but its not impossible. One person probably couldn’t finish it, but they could start it.
By stealing a copy of the back end code base then getting a team to figure it out and get the different client and server software versions to talk. Yes.
You’re a joke, and one that disrespects everyone who’s ever made anything.
Please leave your toxicity at the door. If you dont want to believe its possible to reverse engineer “modern cloud based game servers” then step aside for the people who do instead of calling people a disgrace.
Interesting! And how do you feel about this ‘leaving your toxicity by the door’?
TIL db0 still believes mathematics can be stolen.
Next you’re going to say that numbers can be illegal.TIL db0 still believes mathematics can be stolen.
Nooo what part of illegul do you not understand???!!!??
Better would be to use our AI, but last time I mucked around with local LLMs (about three months ago), my hardware wasn’t good enough to run a powerful enough model for reasoning 😕. I truly hope that we can get some serious advances in vector quantization so we don’t have to store as many bytes for useful systems.
“AI” does not reason, so you were on a goose chase anyways.
Correct, “AI” does not reason like animals do. And that reasoning that we humans do is not what I mean when I say “reasoning” in regards to “AI”. I neither need nor want truly intelligent machines. But what “AI” can do is stochastically recall relevant information and stochastically string it together to spit out useful programs. Despite the inherent randomness and indeterminacy of these systems, a good background in probability theory, specifically the theories of statistical learning and empirical processes, allows us to analyze machine learning systems, although the theory needs to be brought up to speed with the development of large language models.
In the meantime, we know that they can solve some practical, technical problems. (Emphasis on technical; I have no interest in “AI”-generated images, sounds, culture, etc. I am artistically, historically, philosophically, culturally interested in the goings-on of sentient beings, not nonliving things like rocks and computer algorithms.) In particular, I use it as a LaTeX assistant. (LaTeX is a document typesetting programming language aimed at mathematics documents. It is practically like Word for math people, but you write it like a program, since LaTeX is also a Turing-complete programming language). I already knew LaTeX well enough to do my homework in it before the LLM craze, but still, “AI” has saved me countless hours of unenlightening LaTeX debugging. It is not much of a stretch to imagine that other programming languages may someday be “understood” by the “AI”, whatever that means mathematically. And of course, there have been some discoveries in medicine that have been enabled by “AI”, although medicine is not my research area.
It is the cardinal sin of the statisticians who invented the field that “artificial intelligence” uses and abuses concepts from psychology, philosophy, and pedagogy as names for their mathematical concepts. For the time being, I believe it is fair to use the words (like “reasoning”, “learning”, “memory”, etc.) with the caveat that in this context, each of these words mean to encode an ill-defined concept applied specifically to machine learning algorithms. Or to use computer science terminology: we overload the meaning of some of these words specifically for “AI” systems. But in the future, we really need to unfuck the vocabulary of this field…and take the math and the hardware back from the capitalist scum who are using this useful math to destroy the world.
rofl AI is absolutely not capable of stochastic reasoning, either… Yes, ‘stochastic’ implies reasoning as well. They DO NOT REASON, PERIOD.
rofl AI is absolutely not capable of stochastic reasoning, either…
I didn’t say stochastic reasoning. I said that AI can “stochastically recall relevant information and stochastically string it together to spit out useful programs”. Nothing about this implies that the AI is reasoning like we do.
Yes, ‘stochastic’ implies reasoning as well.
What? No it doesn’t.
They DO NOT REASON, PERIOD.
Correct, that was the first thing I said. Did you even read what I wrote?
It was mostly a joke about using their own tools to fuck them. ChipotlAI obviously isnt cut for this job. But its funny imagining someone hunkered down at star bucks with a phone signed into an online help desk thats been subsumed by ChatGPT trying to get it to program a game server for them. New Hackerman.
The capitalists have joined the thread😔
I’m fuckin tired of all this doomerism. SKG isn’t dead, people are more aware than ever of how scummy companies are, and if this movement didn’t start then people wouldn’t probably care about PlayStations physical media debacle.
Me happy the world is a slightly better, more aware place now. The violent revolution won’t magically solve all of your problems
I think you misread the meme if think this is dooming your campaign. But thank goodness you’re are now aware capitalists want to violently kill you. It’ll definitively solve their problem of you not paying rents to them.
Awarenesses is indeed the first step!
How is that self-defense coming?
> “flippanarchy”
> look inside
> marxist meme🧐
(btw this is not an issue lol. i just find it funny)
