/tech/ - Technology

Dude, you have almost a full month to make backups. I've had services that didn't even give me notice before they went dark.
Is this all rom dumps? I'm not glad that this is going away, but I'm having trouble believing that we're ever going to be at the point where there's no brazillian out there willing to host the No-Intro set on clearnet for donation gibs.
I'm probably going to grab that Touhou collection before it goes, though.

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>>17942 (OP) 
>the internet's sucking harder and harder the older I get
Quit yo' bitchin', nigga. Myrient been up since, what, 2020-ish? By your logic shit was bad in 2019, then 2020 got better, now it is worse again. Then some other nigga will create another one that yo' lazy ass will contribute nothing to, and that too will fall. And on, and on, and on.
And it be like the other nigga said: yo' ass got a full month to download whatever you want. 'Sides, it's not like they are hosting anything exclusive, they just put other niggas' collections in a format that deadbeat fuckmeats like you can easily access.
>the older I get
Says a lot about yo' age, lil' nigga. For me, file sharing only been getting better over time.
>Why do good /tech/ things always have to end so soon?
Because yo' definition of "soon" is "before I die".

>>17943
>I'm having trouble believing that we're ever going to be at the point where there's no brazillian out there willing to host the No-Intro set on clearnet
It be better than that. Some nigga started seeding Nyaa torrents over I2P recently. Even if them big nose niggas keep killing sites in the clear, niggas will be hosting that good stuff in the dark where us niggas can hide bettah.

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>>17942 (OP) 
That's a good thing, not a bad thing.
<I need my individual ROMs downloadable from separate surface clearnet Google SEO indexed webpages for each
<I need my dumps to have clearly labeled hosting at Internet Archive URLs stable for years
<I need my emulators listed for 1-click install on my distro's default package manager, Steam, Play Store, and unjailbroken iOS.
<I need my projects hosted on GitHub
<I need funding via Patreon to my personal PayPal for sponsor-exclusive early emu builds
<I need my real meatspace powerword publicly credited as a dev so I can list that in my resume
You might say that trying to teach normalfags to torrent fullsets and subscribe to 3rd-party repos so they don't get fucked up the ass by Nintendo and their ilk is unrealistic, but the fact that literal billions of 3rd-worlders are savvy enough to use VPNs and cryptocurrency in countries where that's a criminal act (a real throw-you-in-jail crime, not a C&D nuisance lost-every-actual-trial-to-date-in-court fake crime like emudev and ROM dumping) gives me hope.

Just as long as the gatekeeping doesn't tip over the line into outright homosexuality (e.g.: private trackers), we shouldn't tolerate total ignorance of opsec that can (and often has in the past) spiraled into pretentious safe edgy hipster moralfaggotry every bit as lethal to vidya preservation as Nintendo's DMCA LOLsuits.

>>17942 (OP) 
Yeah, I can't believe that we're losing a centralised service that uses fucking direct downloads when even fucking usenet was at least server-to-server, and usenet is literally older than the internet. The faggot running that place could have just hosted the site as a single txt file with nothing but titles and magnet links, and it would have worked just fine. But no, peer-to-peer solutions are apparently too scary and instead we must bitch about some random site being taken down here at /tech/ of all places.

>>17948
>t. nintendo kike

>>17960
Yeah, only a nintendork shill would tell you to use distributed solutions instead of relying on a single point of failure.

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>>17973
NTA, but even if you dislike Myrient, it's still a bummer to lose it, only Nintendo fans are known for celebrating when emulation takes a hit, which is why I believe you were called a Nintendo kike.

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>>17983
>it's still a bummer to lose it
What's a bummer is that it could be lost at all, unlike anything with the slightest robustness in implementation or any opsec whatsoever from its operators.
>only Nintendo fans are known for celebrating when emulation takes a hit
The unique characteristic of Nintendo fans is acting like a bunch of wide-eyed toddlers and gormlessly exposing themselves as much as possible. Nintendo's bad reputation for leaning on their lawyers comes in no small part from how brazen their autistic cultists are.

The only people who deserve the slightest sympathy for acting like that (they still shouldn't, really) are hobbyists for ancient home micro platforms that nobody even  remembers who if anyone owns the legal rights to in their country, not the 2nd-largest modern console platform who relies almost totally on milking their backlibrary of exclusive IPs for trillions of Yen of revenue.

>>17948
>direct downloads
>magnet links
>usenet
but why not both?

>>17987
>list 3 items
>ask why not both
Does not compute. You can definitely upload things & stuff to usenet, the problem is that big companies crawl the backbone servers and automatically issue takedown notices if they find anything they don't like, so copyrighted material won't last for long on their servers. And usenet works for piracy only because professional companies with professional servers let you move data at decent speed, trying to run a usenet server for binaries on your own wouldn't be that different from running a website with direct downloads. Still, what you could do is to share magnet links as plain text news, and those would be replicated through all servers, including the free ones that only carry text messages.

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>>17942 (OP) 
well at least one thing is going out that i dont feel bad about

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>>17999
>tfw I like both Myrient and GNOME.

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>>18000
>tfw I like [...] GNOME.
Literally how? What do they still make that hasn't been forked by somebody else, somebody else both more competent _and_ more popular? In my eyes they're an OpenOffice-tier domain squatter at this point.

>>17999
is this day of the seal?

Start using I2P

https://i2p.net/

>>18000 (checked)
>>18001
Someone I know IRL made the mistake of installing Gnome on his Arch install. Recently Gnome crashed so hard that it fucked up his kernel, somehow deleted pacman, and so thoroughly trashed his system that he has to do a complete reinstall.

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>>18001
>>18006
I just like the UI.

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>>18012
>liking soulless rounded corners zoomer/jeet iShit UI
>cuckchan
>telegram
>those doujinshi tags

>>18048
having poor taste comes free with the Arch install

>>18112
I use Arch myself but I'm looking to switch to Devuan, or depending on how the age verification shit plays out, to some other soystemd-less distro or maybe a BSD.

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>>18012
>>18048
>he's also a mobileshitter favela monkey on top (see >>18091 )
KEK.

>>18122
>mobileshitter
Fair.

>favela monkey
Rude, we're cool and often treat people well just for the sake of it, no idea why so much hate.

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>>18124
Your country was a CIA testing ground for multiculturalism. The results ruined a decent post-empire state and produced a mud race infamous for being obnoxious retards who lived in filth with trannies while being the worst posters on the internet for decades. It took fucking rural India getting internet access for you guys to lose your title.

>>18134
>pic 2
Closed it as soon as I saw the Instagram whore pictures.
What's it trying to say if anything?

>>18136
>what do fake-ass whores have to do with Brazil?
They're the most relevant images OP could have possibly included. You might as well complain that you don't see the connection between the industrial revolution and trains.

>>18137
>relevant to the OP
>images of fake plastic whores is why myrient is going down and or AI is ruining ram prices
>the text is not even about Brazil
Brazilian sluts are funding AI? I'm not that anon and am not going to read it all due to a lack of text wrapping but it's about globalism and AI is about automation taking jobs away. Why do you even carea bout Brazil's past? You want to live in pre-zog Brazil? Brazil being all the worst shitposters sounds like a meme also. 
>>17943
>dude, I'm short sighted
I hope ya go to jail for something you didn't do and the cops sell all your shit and you come back to a bunch of 'why didn't you download all the full sets bro'. You know they don't always give that shit back, right? House fires, theft, bitrot, the list goes on. You better have a time capsule full of DVD-R discs and an immortal computer ["schizophrenia" starts here. Reading past this point is not recommended] due to how they will eventually destroy backwards compatiblity to stop illegal shit. If nerd sites go down a lot they won't keep up with the emulation communities. Eventually with rising computer prices and bloatware that's more accurate but less fast retro gaming emulation could end up being a  'game' of "can we make sure that no one poor can own a working cheap computer that can even handle emulation?". I had already seen things like my win98 computer not freezing with The Minish Cap back,and other famous games in general, around 2008ish and then later on in 20XX it was freezing with newer versions on newer hardware along with snes emulation having gotten so slow I started ignoring new software. Ironically the win9x would not play as many games but the ones you'd want to play they had already optimized, and when not they even had hacked gba roms to compensate at first on emuparadise, like the Legacy of Goku games had many versions to get past the 'this is not in a gba' bullshit message that would pop up. I used to liek gba intros as I felt like they were heroes for fighting such bullshitery, though now the emulator probably can use the unaltered file I suppose. [schizo symptoms increasing] Do things like that still happen or are places like cdromance being intimidated into taking down their files over english patches; are we devolving into a world wherein it's all bloatware and with higher prices of computers only someone rich enough to pay jewtendo for a software download on The Switch 5 would even play a retro game so as to avoid incarceration after things like VPN are banned? I can hear it already: buy a 5 to keep old software alive! More likely at that point they would have merged so it'd not be a switch, not a Sony, not an xbox... what would it be? 
>buy a 5 to keep it alive
>buy a 9 to stop games from being asinine
>buy a 7 to get to xbox heaven 
[If you have read this far you have been infected by a vampire bite mental illness.]
I'm jus' sayin'. I can meander on about stupid shit too when in reality OP's post is just about a little bitch that wanted ad revenue but did not get it.

>>18134
>decent post-empire state
>white-identifying brazil of the mid-twentieth century
Completely delusional, "Argentina is white!"-tier cope. Brazil's problem (South America's generally) is that it was dealt the same starting hand as USA, but instead of stamping out its semifeudal planter/serf classes during industrialization in a second revolutionary war, allowed them to retain power. As a result it remains culturally and economically backward in spite of having already begun tertiarization. India/SE Asia has the same problem, except far more severe, and its massive population dampens inertia also making it even harder to fix.

This is what makes both countries insufferable hicks online in spite of being just developed enough to get online, though India has one exacerbation because some English proficiency is so common.

>>18146 
>automation taking jobs away
If it could've happened it would've centuries ago after the Industrial Revolution. But it never will, due to Jevons' Paradox.
>RAM prices
Lies by the RAM cartel, see >>17675 it has nothing to do with datacenters.
>House fires, theft, bitrot, the list goes on.
Automatic scheduled incremental backups to encrypted anonymous cloud
>more accurate but less fast
Ended, the accuracy wars have, the phantom menace of cycle accurate emulators are no more. FPGA solved it on one end, while on the other decompilation is advancing fast enough IMHO emulators are going to become totally obsolete inside a decade. I think retro games will soon be MACHINE ported run at >90% native speed to SAME GEN hardware.
>after things like VPN are banned
Hasn't stopped the Chinks, Russkies, Saudis, Bongs, etc.

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>>18146
>what about this specific scenario where you're fucked no matter what
You sound like my parents arguing why they don't want to keep a gun in the house, even locked away. "What if he dodged the bullets, anon?"
Nothing can save you from the circumstances of life, but it doesn't invalidate the fact that you're always the first person that you should rely on.

>"What if he dodged the bullets, anon?"
That's why you should also have a pouch of grenades ready.

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>>18112
gonna leave this picrel here

>>18134
It's fair for the country to have a bad reputation, I won't pretend it's not, but generalizing and putting everyone from a country in the same basket is just unfair, at least I feel it's unfair to me. I get why my setup can be a joke for some, but my nationality has nothing to do with it as most people here would also make fun of me for it.

>>18154
>racism on my racism website, nani desu

>>18154
>my nationality has nothing to do with it
If you find a stereotype hurtful that's because, regardless of its general validity, it applies to you personally and you know you should set a better example.

>>18156
You're right, I'm probably being too sensitive and naive.

>>18157
Fair I guess, though I still don't think I did anything to contribute to my country's reputation of being obnoxious, I was just autistic in my preferences.

So, given this thread and myrient still exist, what's hosted there that's very difficult to publicly find elsewhere in it's coming absence?

>>18262
It's up until March 31st, then it's over.

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>>17942 (OP) 
I'm going to back up some arcade classics, what do you guys recommend? I love stuff based on 80s and 90s films, so I downloaded some Aliens, Jurassic Park, Terminator, Robocop, Batman, etc... anything else that's classic that I might be missing? I don't want to feel like I missed out on anything, but downloading the whole thing isn't viable for me now.

Also, no idea how to download entire folders on Myrient.

>>18365
>no idea how to download entire folders on Myrient.
wget can be used for downloading entire directories

wget -e robots=off -r -nc -np -R "index.html*"

>>18368
That's awesome! Thanks, anon.

Given today is April 1st and Myrient shut down at the tail end of yesterday, it makes me wonder whether this was all an elaborate prank to bamboozle hundreds into personally mass archiving and attempt to corale donations. I guess we'll find out by tommorow.

>>18419
I hope, Myrient coming back would be the best.

I like how vimm getting raped by jewtendo didn't get it's own thread until I bitched about it months after the drama. My bad I don't check the /v/ news threads so I can see gaymer gate shit over and over and over and over and over along with gay new video games I don't care about. 

All direct download sites died. Mp3 ones went first before rom ones. Bitorrenting will get the axe next. They are already breaking it for years to where your uploads don't innitially work, forcing most users to be leeches by default until they fix the deliberately broken system. That and before fixed half the seeds won't connect to begin with. 

But yeah, vimm was the 'last one'. Now there are no good sites and your newfag one I never used for the time it was up. I don't use reddit or discord, search engines are broken, people like me won't even know about the new sites.

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>>18439
It's time to backup as much as you can, the end of the free internet as we know it is near.

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>>18457
>It's time to backup as much as you can
Gosh, if only people had been seeding that shit all along for years. Oh, wait!

>>18439
>Bitorrenting will get the axe next
Everything from Russian RKN to Chinese Great Firewall has failed, we spoilt 1st-worlders can use VPNs just as easily if it comes to that.
>They are already breaking it for years to where your uploads don't innitially work
Private trackers have always been a thing and have always been for homos

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>>17943
>I'm probably going to grab that Touhou collection before it goes
Hope you got what you were after. Moriya Shrine related. Unsure if this was an April fools joke or not.

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>>18458
I feel like (they) will go for Torrents next, anon... that's why we need to backup, and backup the backups.

Here's some sort of Myrient revival: https://minerva-archive.org/
Torrents: https://cdn.minerva-archive.org/

>>18462
>Unsure if this was an April fools joke or not.
It is.

>>18472
There should be some sort of rule about how long an April fools' joke can go on for. 24 Hour limit.