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   Snowshadow (snowshadow@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 07:12:50 JST Snowshadow

   👀 ⚠️ A reminder and request:

   Please use alt text on images, text screenshots, graphs, and photos.

   There are many blind and vision-impaired accounts on fediverse who are missing out on much of the content posted here.

   Also those who have very slow internet are seeing only blurred images-not everyone has access to high speed internet.

   In today's troubled world could we please try to be inclusive.

   Thank you for reading my request.

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 09:30:06 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   @nixCraft What do you mean "before cloud repositories"... like before there was the internet at all? The cloud is just a word for "something on the internet", you have to go back quite a ways before repos were hosted on the internet.

   In general its GIT now, before that it was SVN, before that it was CVS. Around the CVS time and a little before you had stuff like "Visual source safe" which is likely the only source code repository people really used without the internet getting involved, that was local and i think remote was an option too. Before that we really didnt do versioned repos, it was just plain old files.

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   :meru_mewwuluv: b e a r d (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 19:17:52 JST :meru_mewwuluv: b e a r d

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   From what I understand, Empress demanded donations if people wanted specific games cracked that she didn't want to crack. I can't remember what game it was, but she had said there was a game she wouldn't crack because she thought it sucked, and that if people wanted her to crack it they'd have to pay her to do it. I can't honestly say I disagree with that. Cracking Denuvo has got to be a process that takes a lot of time and if you don't want to crack a game, asking for money in exchange for your time is fine. Of course, piracy is supposed to be "free" or whatever, but that doesn't change the fact that it takes time. Time that could be spent working somewhere else to make money so you can live. Maybe if some other cracking groups would join in on the Denuvo fray we'd have a bigger spread of people working on it, cracking different games and/or working in tandem.

   Charging money for any work you do is fine in my book. Especially if you're the only one who can do it. It reminds me of when people get pissed off at an artist for not drawing something they want, that they HAVE to pay money for the artist's work/time. Well, either find a different artist that will fulfill your free request, or pay up. There's a lot of entitlement that comes with thinking that a single person will be able to crack every Denuvo game out there by themselves even if they don't feel like it. When that entitlement escalates to doxxing people and getting them in trouble with the law, well... I guess that's how you know you're on the modern internet.

   In my opinion, what Empress does is different from just providing free games and racing to be the first one to crack something. She's targeting a very specific piece of very shitty software, removing it from a game, and piracy is a consequence of that but not necessarily the motivation. The motivation is to make these games run better, and to get praise for making them run better, undoing a problem that the developers made on purpose. Without Denuvo, I think it's likely we would not have Empress. At least, not in the same capacity.