It was honestly easier in the non-digital days. You could take portrait oriented photos when it was appropriate, and nobody cared that they had to rotate the print to look at it the right way up.

AFAIK they’re trying / unable to get Max Louarn extradited. They also investigated another member located in China. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/04/bowser-free-from-prison-still-owes-nintendo-14-5m-for-switch-hacking/

As for why they didn’t go after anyone else, I don’t know. It could be laziness, it could be that others did a better job covering their tracks and the government doesn’t think they’ll get a conviction, or it could be those individuals are in countries that won’t extradite / prosecute even if there is evidence.

As I said, I think the sentences are bullshit, but I’m not sure Bowser got singled out. He just happened to be in a country that actually extradited him.

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Figures, but disappointing.

AFAIK Google isn’t mirroring any of the binary stuff anyway though, are they? So how big is it? Surely with proper text compression it’s under 100TB. That’s 5 large hard drives at this point.

Are they adding back AVX512?

Yeah, it needs to get into Internet Archive stat.

Interesting! What if it connects to a server by IP without using DNS? Do you have a way to track that?

My concern would be that without diasssembling all of the components, isn’t it impossible to know which pieces have telemetry? For example, on iPhone, some of the core OS UI elements have telemetry built-in to keep track of which elements are displayed, selected, etc. And, based on research, some of that telemetry stays active even when you “disable it.” Based on that, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Control Panel or Device Manager has telemetry built-in. I know PowerShell has telemetry, at least, since that’s documented.

I guess it would be possible to disassemble and identify which OS pieces access the networking APIs. Is that what you’ve done? I had a friend who was working on something like that one time to hone his disassembly skills. I’m not sure what you’d do if the kernel itself has telemetry. I guess you could patch it out, but that feels like an uphill battle.

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Aren’t they releasing their own games on their platform already?

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Which countries get unlockable bootloader? I know Samsung devices aren’t unlockable in the US.