Hector Martin / Héctor Martín Cantero / @marcan42 / マルカン / @marcan42x / @marcan@treehouse.systems / Asahi Lina / Asahi Linux - Developer of Asahi Linux with a VTuber persona. Made Byuu's death unbelievable. Constantly accuses others of harassment and abuse. Hates Hacker News and Kiwi Farms.

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I wonder what side he'll take when they finally come for byuu's work.

He's going to be pretty fucked over in that regard because he's a direct link to Byuu and their lawyers wont believe the empty urn story.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

It's not the emulator that violates the DMCA, it's probably how they obtained keys and other stuff.

You know all those emulators that tell you that you need a BIOS but they won't supply it but you need this specifically named one HINT HINT? That's because the BIOS is protected. Much of byuu's work doesn't need this as the consoles basically didn't use them, if he was including it in Ares for the newer consoles that use them that's not his problem since he's "dead" and there's people still working on that.

Somebody's going to fork yuzu and Citra and take that stuff out. But these guys fucked over everyone by locking the newest versions behind a paywall. And they can't "leak" it because Nintendo knows who they are.

 

[teriyakiburns]

It's not the emulator that violates the DMCA, it's probably how they obtained keys and other stuff.

No, Nintendo are going after it because their position on copyright is radically different to the west. Jap companies will pursue copyright cases that even the most die-hard copyright trolls would consider a lost cause. They sued yuzu because it exists.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Sorry, I didn't mean to speak to Nintendo's intent but rather to be more specific than Hector about what the settlement likely agreed was infringing. Nintendo's complaint targeting the decryption keys is, unfortunately, within the bounds of Western copyright laws as to be plausible. I have to conclude Yuzu's attorneys advised them to settle considering the potential damages had they lost even if Nintendo's real intent was just to shut it down. Hence, why Nintendo was willing to take a quite low figure moneywise versus what they alleged but get everything.

But, yes, Nintendo has made false copyright claims in the past along with correct ones.

 

[AnOminous]

Nintendo's complaint targeting the decryption keys is, unfortunately, within the bounds of Western copyright laws as to be plausible.

Encryption and decyrption keys are protection measures so including them probably does violate the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA.

 

[bremer]

Yuzu did not have decryption keys built into the emulator, however, what they did have were:
- An entire page on installing custom firmware on your Switch and dumping the decryption keys for games you own.
- As already mentioned, paywalled versions of the emulator on Patreon with game specific fixes (most notably Tears of the Kingdom) weeks earlier than public releases of both the emulator and the game itself. Patreon income often spiked when these things happened, so the settlement was probably paid for the idiots who wanted to play leaked first party Nintendo games.
There were also rumors that Yuzu devs openly participated in the Switch game dump scene, but I have no idea how to confirm that now if it's even true. I believe that the two other things would already lend them to get fucked in court, especially profiting off of Nintendo's IPs with the Patreon.

To be a bit less OT, people crawling out the woodwork to decry piracy for the multibillion dollar company is insane faggot shit, no wonder Marcan is participating in this.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

So Yuzu devs went full retard. If they did not run that early release patreon (the fact that they had fixes before the official release, and were directly profiting from them is quite incriminating) and kept the entry level just a bit higher, or published the guide as some other entity, they may have actually slipped under the radar. Even a throwaway github account would do. But nintendo caught them with the pants down.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Yuzu did not have decryption keys built into the emulator, however, what they did have were:
- An entire page on installing custom firmware on your Switch and dumping the decryption keys for games you own.
- As already mentioned, paywalled versions of the emulator on Patreon with game specific fixes (most notably Tears of the Kingdom) weeks earlier than public releases of both the emulator and the game itself. Patreon income often spiked when these things happened, so the settlement was probably paid for the idiots who wanted to play leaked first party Nintendo games.
There were also rumors that Yuzu devs openly participated in the Switch game dump scene, but I have no idea how to confirm that now if it's even true. I believe that the two other things would already lend them to get fucked in court, especially profiting off of Nintendo's IPs with the Patreon.

To be a bit less OT, people crawling out the woodwork to decry piracy for the multibillion dollar company is insane faggot shit, no wonder Marcan is participating in this.

A friend of mine said this:
Do: accept optional donations from a page that makes no mention of emulation ambitions or through untraceable cryptocurrency transactions.
Do not: try to paywall your emulator with a shitty goddamn service like Patreon run by faggots who wouldn't think twice about snitching you out to the Goytendo glowies.

Do: run a private IRC server for communication among developers with no access from the general public under any circumstances
Do not: run a fucking Discord server open to the public with monetary incentive run by faggots who wouldn't think twice about snitching you out to the Goytendo glowies
Which is honestly pretty good advice.

 

[AnOminous]

Patreon income often spiked when these things happened, so the settlement was probably paid for the idiots who wanted to play leaked first party Nintendo games.

That's probably why they realized they were utterly fucked. I think their lawyers told them they were going to lose bigtime on this. That's the kind of infringement that can actually be criminal.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

That's why this is a stupid case to try and defend (unless you're actually going to go all the way to anti-IP, which these corporate fanboys would never do), Nintendo could have really buttfucked them under DMCA but was willing to take a shutdown and a chunk of the Patreon money. And it was all the Yuzu's guys greed that created the situation. A Nintendo employee seriously could have subscribed to the Patreon and exposed the whole thing but they apparently never considered this obvious thing. Their lawyers were probably salivating instead of disappointed at basic plausible deniability like with most every other emulator. Does anyone really seriously think they wouldn't have tried to do this to Dolphin by now if they could?

 

[Henri Barbusse]

Nintendo has a lot more interest in shutting down Switch emulation because any decent PC can run emulated Switch games better than the actual console. On the other hand, that gives more plausible deniability to emulator devs, since people can have interest in playing the games they purchased legitimately at higher framerates and higher resolution that what the Switch can handle.

 

[Type93Torpedo]

Nintendo has a lot more interest in shutting down Switch emulation because any decent PC can run emulated Switch games better than the actual console. On the other hand, that gives more plausible deniability to emulator devs, since people can have interest in playing the games they purchased legitimately at higher framerates and higher resolution that what the Switch can handle.

Their biggest problem was the Steam Deck. Has all of the controls of the Switch, except it's not limited by Nintendo's bullshit, at a decent-enough price for most people.
I still can't imagine it really hurt them that much, though. Nintendo loyalists are more loyal than Apple fanboys. I swear, Nintendo could announce NSDAP 2 and all the Nintendo fanboys would vote for it.

Nintendo-sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei? Yeah, I'll see myself out.

 

[revenge of rebecca]

I am somewhat annoyed by Hector's hypocrisy here. This is the guy who wanted to create a sort of black list of "bad" linux maintainters, aka any maintainer who says no to him. This is the guy who will indirectly threaten anyone he dislikes with the threat of causing problems on social media for that person. He is quite guilty of being the asshole that is being complained about here. In fact, he behaves worse.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

I am somewhat annoyed by Hector's hypocrisy here. This is the guy who wanted to create a sort of black list of "bad" linux maintainters, aka any maintainer who says no to him. This is the guy who will indirectly threaten anyone he dislikes with the threat of causing problems on social media for that person. He is quite guilty of being the asshole that is being complained about here. In fact, he behaves worse.

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That's such a common behavior it doesn't even register for me anymore. Yes, every single person who publicly complains about "assholes" in projects is, in fact, himself a raging asshole who drives people away from projects. Also probably at least a creepy perv, if not an outright consent accident enjoyer. It's just one of the rules of nature.

 

[Peristaltic Pump]

Just jumping in to say that I was here before the impending spergout where he brags about how he was “right from the start” about Byuu, despite fucking up the basic details of the suicide

 

[Markass the Worst]

Just jumping in to say that I was here before the impending spergout where he brags about how he was “right from the start” about Byuu, despite fucking up the basic details of the suicide

As I have said in the OP, if Byuu truly is dead, Hector did the worst possible job of proving it. Speaking of which I will update the OP to account for Byuu's death once the dust settles on this new evidence.

Edit: OP has a temporary edit pending a complete rewrite. I also asked in TTS to update the subtitle.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Next will be the Kiwi Farms' disinformation about Asahi Lina.

 

[hcaptchaisthedevil]

Cross-post from the Byuu thread...

On page 5 of the FOIA:

Could be Hector but with how many people were involved in tracking down this guy I find it unlikely.

Thanks for clarifying. Was confused on the state of this speculation.

My conclusion was that Hector wrote the "suicide" letter, not that Byuu was alive and active under a different pseudonym. Learn to read:

And I stand by that conclusion, because the FOIA documents confirm that no last will or suicide letter were left.

Still lean towards it as well, just seems to best explain Hector's dishonesty and seeming gayop shit towards the suicide. @AssignedEva's "stolen valour" theory + Hector's abundant immaturity's an adequate explanation but doesn't fit as well IMO. Besides, pretending to be seperate people is apparently something "Asahi Lina" loves to do.

Regardless which explanation, I think these three points cover why Hector didn't just provide the legit proof:

1. He didn't have access to the documents.
2. He didn't know how to get access to documents.
3. Being a hedonist, he was too lazy to complete the document request procedures, or asking someone to do it for him..

Next will be the Kiwi Farms' disinformation about Asahi Lina.

Maybe Hector's planning to pull a Susie.

 

[AssignedEva]

Still lean towards it as well, just seems to best explain Hector's dishonesty and seeming gayop shit towards the suicide. @AssignedEva's "stolen valour" theory + Hector's abundant immaturity's an adequate explanation but doesn't fit as well IMO. Besides, pretending to be seperate people is apparently something "Asahi Lina" loves to do.

I would suggest there's a third solution. My theory is mostly that he had no involvement in any of probate, so couldn't produce any proof. He's not the person who was assisting Byuu's husband in Tokyo, and it seems likely the third party that the urn was given to for scattering was Wayne (hence how he had photos of the urn).
That doesn't mean he couldn't have written the googledoc. In fact something occurred to me when reading through the bundle, specifically the bit confirming that the phonecall actually took place.

I haven't got around the censorship! I don't want this being taken out of context. This is a mockup I made.

Basically I just typed "Martin called" in the same font and scaled it down until it matched the exact size of the word "called". The stem of the M lines up with the other text (the leftmost vertical line of "M" is aligned with the vertical of "h"). Calibri Light is a variable width font, so it's not any six letter combination that could fit in there. I did the same thing with another part of a later document -

Again, I typed "called, Mr. Martin called" and "another hour. Mr Martin gave" and scaled them down to fit. Arial's also variable width so not anything would just fit in there (this one looks a bit off but it's because it's a scanned version of a printed document).

If "Martin" didn't fit in there aligned with the text, it'd suggest that there must have been a third person involved. This doesn't exactly prove Hector wrote it, but it strongly supports the stylometric analysis.

Hence the stolen valour theory. He received a phonecall from Byuu (although apparently at 11:11, instead of 11:45 as claimed in the googledoc- this aligns with some other timings; Byuu had given up talking to Blumiere at 10:46 on Telegram). He heard Byuu ramble on about Null until he died an hour later, and made no effort to contact the police until 5pm. Realising this looked bad (why didn't he call the police when Byuu was still alive?) he instead wrote the anonymous document to "prove" Byuu was dead. When this was interrogated further he made up other stories to prove Byuu was dead. He claimed to have phoned police and been told Byuu was dead, and when asked why the police would tell a random stranger that Byuu was dead, claimed to have been posing as one of Byuu's relatives. We now know this to be false - the police and embassy reports indicate the only people they had contact with were Byuu's husband and his mother (as in, Byuu's mother in law). Byuu's husband also told the police that Byuu had no living relatives.

Byuu's husband coordinated with Byuu's colleague Hiromi, and named him as the point-of-contact. Hiromi was very reluctant to do so - why not ask Hector? Oh right, because Hector wasn't involved. Apparently the staff of Cyber Gadget Corporation had gone with the police to try and gain access to the apartment the day after, and so I assume this is where the photo of Byuu's corpse came from (I don't know what would possess someone to take a photo of a coworker's corpse, but it makes more sense than the police randomly sharing it with people). Hiromi helped clean up the flat and then was put in touch with Byuu's former employer, Wayne, who was given the ashes (and presumably got the photo of Byuu's corpse off Hiromi). Byuu's husband had asked them to scatter the ashes somewhere nice where Byuu liked to go, but Wayne and Hiromi claimed Byuu never left his house and so didn't have anywhere he liked (whereas Hector, if he'd been involved, could have discussed the places they'd visited).

The autopsy was not concluded until Thursday July 1st, and then there were a lot of arguments about who could sign off on it (the embassy and the employer couldn't sign it and the landlord didn't want to sign it; Japan's borders were closed to foreign citizens due to covid). If Hector was involved, he could have signed it. On the 2nd of July, the landlord (Mitsui Fudosan Residential Liaison Co., Ltd.) eventually submitted the "death notification"

and then this was finally issued on the 3rd of July

I'm having difficulty finding when Hector claimed to have a copy of the death certificate he refused to post (the threads were very fast moving back then, and Hector's deleted his twitter) but the date on which this was claimed would be illuminating. Also, this doesn't appear to have been issued to anyone but his husband and the Japanese point-of-contact, along with the consulate. Hector also claimed to have Byuu's passport but was refusing to post it. This is incorrect - the police took possession of the passport as soon as the found the corpse, and this was then sent directly to Byuu's husband.

Basically all the evidence seems to suggest Hector was the person on the end of the phone which is why he was so certain Byuu had killed himself, but couldn't admit to having been the person on the phone as he did nothing to save Byuu's life, so instead created a fake anonymous third party and then fabricated a bunch of lies that may have been completely disproven by the release of this document bundle.

 

[A.P. Hill]

Still lean towards it as well, just seems to best explain Hector's dishonesty and seeming gayop shit towards the suicide. @AssignedEva's "stolen valour" theory + Hector's abundant immaturity's an adequate explanation but doesn't fit as well IMO. Besides, pretending to be seperate people is apparently something "Asahi Lina" loves to do.

That's what I don't get. If Byuu really did kill himself on the phone with Hector, why was everyone else involved acting so shady about it? Someone slightly more savvy like No Dong would have immediately gotten the documents and used them to go scorched earth on every single ISP, host, you name it. Something tells me that there's some information out there that would reflect really badly on Hector if it came out. I favor the theory that Hector was on the phone with Byuu and did nothing to talk him down, but I think there's more to it.

Do we know if Byuu had drug/alcohol issues or other problems in the past that could have caused his psychotic break? It seems like he fell off the wagon of something in the days leading up to his death. I think Hector must have enabled Byuu and the resulting spergouts from him are his attempts to CYA. Hector is a spineless enough worm that I could totally see him supporting whatever self-destructive behavior Byuu was doing to himself, and then screeching about le eeeeeeebil kiwis to absolve himself of his own guilt.