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[–] iliketoshare@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Since they're back at it again I have to jump onto my alt and re-share the fact that I totally backed up Yuzu's source code, their progress reports, their Github issues pages + pull requests, and all the latest available binaries right before it got taken off of Github. No illicit materials in my archive (ROMS/Firmwares/Keys). Freely available as a torrent.

https://lemmy.ml/post/12810167

Otherwise I wish the best of luck to the nascent Suyu project.

[–] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thanks. Just added this to my torrent server and will seed until the server dies

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

archive.org is cool and all, but a centralized service will never be a reliable way to truly archive something.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

At least not one that's hosted in a country where the IP mafia has any power, which is unfortunately most countries excluding places like Russia or China where you probably wouldn't want to host it anyhow due to a variety of other, uh… issues

[–] viking@infosec.pub 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As long as you host the checksums elsewhere so that users can verify the repo hasn't been tampered with, you can host files in China or Russia just fine.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's assuming that the only potential issue you care about is tampering though

[–] viking@infosec.pub 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What else would I care for? We're talking about piracy, so I wouldn't turn the choice of a server location into a human rights debate.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz -1 points 7 months ago

You can definitely care about whatever you want. Human rights aren't the only potential issue though, but there's things like eg. do you trust that you'll be able to retain control of the site. So for example if you set it up in Russia and you're not Russian, do you trust the Russian government not to pull the rug out from under your feet at some point?