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  • This post kinda infuriates me. Gary bowser is not an innocent, fragile little guy here. He is the sock puppet of Max Louarn, the basically mob boss of all major piracy groups in the world.
    Gary is also part of the gang ( that max also owns ) that is working on new switch piracy hardware, months after he got out of jail.
    They were also caught selling open source software that was breaking its copyright license, while including their own code that could brick switch systems and more.

    This is not a story of big bad company vs small fragile guy. Not even close.


  • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlEnshittification of GitHub?
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    Agreed there, but its still a source control platform. Its still git. I’d argue the code is the most important part and followers, subscribers and stars (whatever those may do) are a secundairy functionality that a developer doesnt necesarily care about. The most important part is the git repo and everything linked with it imo



  • Hm, kinda? if id compare the wii booting process then id say grub is part boot2, part later stuff. Boot0 is arm cpu bootrom, boot1 is like a mbr, first page on nand, boot2 is more like a step between boot1 and ios and handles backwards compatability stuff on top of booting mios ( gamecube mode if you will ) or system menu ( the wii main menu ). When it boots system menu, boot2 loads the correct “kernel” (ios) which boots system menu on the other (ppc) cpu. So ye, it decides what to boot, but it only sets up a single file that tells the ios what to boot hehe.

    It doesnt do any hardware inits or checks at all unlike bios/grub.


  • Hey, thanks for the message! Its good to read these! Though credit where credit is due, gary did 90% of the wiiu port of priiloader, and i was just the encylopedia for gary on how the wii worked and how priiloader injects itself in system menu!
    And tbh, without devkitPro and their libogc i couldnt have done anything. Not even 14 years ago when i took over the preloader source and created priiloader!

    Edit : and though it has no actual function at this time, the starstruck project has also helped to understand the wii more



  • It wasnt, this was never their strategy and i doubt nintendo would ever go down that route. The reason they made the boot2 update was an (useless) attempt to overwrite the boot2 replacement team twiizers made (bootmii). If anything most of the wii updates were attempts to stop homebrew and backup loading/piracy which i cant say they were wrong in doing so.

    The reward for users mightve been the functionality to store channels on an sd card, which was introduced in 4.0. Or maybe even the newer versions of the wiiconnect channels, that got updates and functionality over time. Or the wii shopping channel, so you could access the wiiware and vc channels (which needed latest channel version & ios’ installed )


  • Holy shit! My time as a wii homebrew developer to shine haha.

    SO, this is half myth half suspicion. On the wii, nintendo was able to update a part of the booting process called “boot2”. Boot2 can be considered like a kind of early program running while the system boots ( think of the windows logo you look at when booting your pc ). The group of people who made the tools/programs that made it possible to run homebrew on the wii, called team twiizers or fail0verflow, said the code used to update that part of the system was unsafe and could brick wiis. Personally, i havent seen that code yet to verify, but i degress.

    People read that, and took it as boot2 update == brick.

    Come the wii’s 4.2 update ( i think it was 4.2 ), nintendo pushed a boot2 update (boot2v4) and it would install when the wii connected to the internet and checked for updates. This made people scared that it would brick, which resulted in what you think off.

    Personally, i havent heard of any brick stories by the update ( besides people doing weird ass, unsafe, shit ). But without seeing the actual code from nintendo, it is possible i guess