Or write it out as words: Nineteen eighty-nine

Hopefully political stuff like this will not hurt the game.

I watched this video yesterday too and it inspired me to write an article (not the longest article, its mainly to provide download links for those NES games): Nintendo Family BASIC Type-in Programs Collection (homebrew roms for NES)

The video itself is as you say, surprisingly interesting. But to be honest, I expected that. This channel has often interesting content like this. BTW Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of Kirby and game designer of Smash Bros., had posted a video about this system too. Its very interesting watch as well: Family BASIC [Programming & Tech] by Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games

Deactivating Wordpress contributor accounts does not prevent any forks. I don’t get what the benefit is to ban them. Is it just to demonstrate his power?

In many countries in the world it makes a huge difference to not having a license. If its not properly licensed or licensed at all, then it means in many countries in the world the most restrictive one, the entire opposite of the goal: Do not use without permission. By not putting the license text and clearing things up for the user, means it is not properly licensed. Therefore in countries like Germany this project would be a violation to use without permission. It becomes a liability, as the person could potentially sue anyone (in those countries).

I don’t think its enough to link. You just need to copy or create a single txt file named “LICENSE” and put it in the root of your repository. I am not a lawyer. The license text will tell anyone who cares to know what they can do and cannot with the project. If you do not do that, you only make it harder for anyone looking for the license (as explained with the websearch example previously).

I think you need to put the actual license text in the repository, to have a license. Just stating a license name in the readme is not correctly licensed. In example people need to a websearch for this accronym in order to find their rights and who knows if they find the correct license. Maybe they find a different written one by another person. In example there are two “official” versions of this license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL

Someone else suggested SSH instead too. I will have this in mind for the next time when I struggle with gpg. I also learned that I can reuse my existing gpg setup, so maybe I do not need SSH.

I never take over entire home, only selected configurations. Usually my old drive is available as a backup, in case I forgot something important (but my last drive broke). If done correctly, this approach is much cleaner and not the actual problem, doing it since 2008. Just didn’t know I could reuse my existing .gnupg directory. I’ll add this dir to my regular backup routine, after everything is working as it should.

I can only test this years from now. Thank you for this advice, it will save me lot of trouble and nerves.

I don’t reinstall very often, usually use it for many years (its a rolling release). But even if I do, that should not be the problem here. As for the process to take over the old signed keys and reuse them, I didn’t know. I always thought the signing is for a specific set of hardware and current os installation. I have the directory .gnupg and the files .git-credentials and .gitconfig. Is there something else I have to copy?

@barf Hmm, I will try SSH next time then.

My goal is to use git only. The problem for me is, this application “git-credential-oauth” is not in the official repository of my distribution. Which is a huge no-no for security related stuff in my opinion.

I don’t use githubs program, but the regular git. Process is explained here: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/managing-commit-signature-verification

To program an operating system, you need deep knowledge how internals work. The language you are using needs low level access. And I don’t think a garbage collected language is a good fit for an operating system either. Especially an interpreted language like Python requires an interpreter to run under. And Python is not the fastest language either, which is fatal for a low level os functionality.

What do you expect from turning C code into Python code? Python does not have low level access, it requires C (even Rust requires some C functionality). I don’t think it is even possible to write an OS purely in Python.

The thing is, having a “centralized” place makes it easier to cooperate with others, with a single account. Monopoly is probably not the right word here, because nobody is really dependent on Github. And the core functionality of hosting the code and builds for free does come at no cost (money) at all. All Git functionality work. It is still Git.

I don’t see anything in Github that is against Open Source and Libre Software. The features like searching might not be optimal, but that’s just a feature of the site. On the other hand, I’m also just a little guy who does scripting and small CLI tools. So it does not matter at all what I do. In the end, I do not feel the need to stop using Github, despite disliking Microsoft a lot.

He is cooked.

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This site is amazing. It even has an option to list all games for a particular platform in a single page (here for Steam): https://delistedgames.com/all-delisted-steam-games/

• Breath of Fire 2 (SNES): I don’t know how I managed to finish this game. It’s too drawn out, didn’t have an interesting story to follow with meaningless and annoying stuff to do and the random battles was too often.
• Killer Instinct (SNES): I played this game seriously, learning the combos and fighting competitive with a friend. But nowadays it just does not feel good to play.
• Toshinden (PSX): Similar to Killer Instinct, I played this game seriously with a competitive friend. Playing it today, I just can’t do it.

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