Sony hate thread

[moocow]

It's a noble idea but it seems like a fun way to get bogged down in a years-long unwinnable lawsuit

Jailbreaking has consistently been upheld as a consumer right any time it's ever actually made it to court. The trick is practically nobody's ever actually tried. Cases companies have been retarded enough to bring so far have all focused on smartphones (Apple famously had their asses handed to them in 2010 and subsequent revisions of rules from the Copyright Office have reinforced that ass-kicking) and there is no case law concerning "jailbreaking" video game consoles (though the specific rules for smartphones don't mention them specifically).

It's all bluster. Every fucking bit of it. Remember our "friends" over at Nintendo, who have a remarkable history for lots of noisemaking and threats and a track record for fucking losing their litigation when they try. They sued Galoob over Game Genie (and lost). They've repeatedly threatened to litigate to stop bootleg cartridges and have never once successfully done so. They're currently losing their asses over Palworld (not related to jailbreaking, but another classic case of hubris leading to a poor choice in targets, and tangentially related because they're abusing copyright and patent law to harm a competitor). Even fucking Japan is sick of their shit. They're not just losing that case, either -- both American and Japanese patent officials are actually invalidating Nintendo's patents too. Turns out when you actually look at the dumb shit they're claiming, it winds up being really retarded and not worthy of protection.

No corporate faggots have the balls to take this nonsense to big-boy court because they're not (yet) confident the courts are crooked enough to take their side on it. They don't want to risk setting precedent. So they just let things float in "limbo" with lots of hot air and "threats" but little action (because it only takes one wily asshole to punch them in the nose in court to put a stop to all of this bullshit).

The bottom line is you own the shit you pay for, whether the lawyers like it or not, and the courts have generally upheld that principle. Computers are no different. It's your hardware. You are free to run whatever you please on it. The vendor doesn't have to like it, or support it, but companies like Samsung are borderline breaking the law as it is already (their tablets and phones "allow" you to unlock their restricted bootloaders, but at the expense of tripping a non-resettable hardware fuse, voiding the warranty, refusing to service unlocked units even for obvious unrelated hardware faults, and disabling a substantial portion of their functionality), it's just that nobody's gotten feisty enough to take their faggy asses to court to spank them for it.

ETA:

(Partly) the same reason that having 64 gigs of RAM and integrated graphics is inferior to 16 gigs of RAM and a card with 12 of VRAM.

You touched on it in your comment but this mostly comes down to architecture design. Integrated graphics w/unified UDRAM can be a winning combination under the right conditions. Modern Macs built on so-called "Apple Silicon" are absolute monsters for LLM workloads and they're all built on iGPUs sharing soldered RAM with the main system. The only thing wrong with those machines is the "Apple" logo -- they (sometimes) make undeniably good hardware, then hobble it with MacOS and lock it all down tight and smear Apple-branded feces all over it. It's a shame they act the way they do. They're holding genuinely impressive equipment hostage with their bullshit.

Even the machine I'm running is incredible (it's not Apple, but an AMD Ryzen AI 395+ Pro, i.e. Zen5 with a Radeon iGPU, 128GB unified RAM). Not quite as fast as NVidia's datacenter monsters, but it punches well above its pay grade. Unified layouts aren't auto-fails. It just has to be done right, and that generally rules out "cheap" designs (which do the unified thing but poorly).

 

[Computer Guardian]

They're not just losing that case, either -- both American and Japanese patent officials are actually invalidating Nintendo's patents too

quick question, are the invalidating every patent that they have as they go or is it just the throw creature from ball patents and ride on creature to fly and shit patents invoked from said lawsuit?, if it's the latter then that'd be a bit to think the courts would willingly go that far instead of the ones that people made a fuss about.

 

[Two Dollars]

A community-backed bounty has been launched in an effort to encourage the discovery of a major PlayStation 5 exploit,
YouTuber Dammit Jeff, the FULU Foundation, and supporters continuing to grow the reward. The announcement comes as a direct response to Sony's controversial decision to move the PlayStation platform to an all digital future.

Imagine if they put this much effort into modding a system that hasn’t already been modded and actually has exclusives games worth exploiting.

 

[The Last Stand]

Specific hardware tailoring fits different purposes better, which is why the few developers who managed to wrangle the PS3 architecture could make the best looking console games that generation.

Let me see if I understand this. A typical computer architecture would have a CPU, GPU and RAM. CPU does calculations, GPU handles graphics. Sony thought that it'd be best to split EVERYTHING under one pool.

Let's say I make an open-world game with NPCs, weather effects, dynamic AI, surround sound support and multiplayer. I'd have to make sure that each process properly goes to how Sony divided the PS3's structure with how much Sony gives. Oh, this section has extra space. Normally, the CPU would adjust. Nope, that's how much you get, no more no less.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

Imagine if they put this much effort into modding a system that hasn’t already been modded and actually has exclusives games worth exploiting.

To put things into perspective, we still don't have a proper Nintendo Switch exploit. What we currently have available is an exploit of Nvidia's Tegra recovery mode. Even the modchips exploit the recovery mode. It has been 9 years since the release of the Nintendo Switch and we still don't have a proper exploit.

Maybe there has been one and the person submitted the exploit for a Nintendo bounty. The homebrew scene is shot because most of the prominent hackers have been arrested, leaving the public to rely on Russians, Spaniards, and transexuals who fight amongst one another about who can groom their child Discord moderators first.

The 3DS homebrew scene was riddled with tranny catfights. Even today, the custom firmware of choice is still "Luma 3DS" a custom build of "ReiNand". ReiNand was a custom firmware developed by pedophile programmer, Reisyukaku that was forked by tranny, "Aurora Wright" to become "AuReiNand".

Spoiler: why I call Rei a pedophile

I call him a pedophile because I was a part of his ReiSwitched Discord server which only had two channels, one for technical discussion and one for staff messages. The technical support channel was used as a general discussion, and as a result while I was midway assisting people with hacking their Nintendo Switch, the administrator Rei would flirt with his admitted 14 year old female moderator derailing the conversation.

After the pedophile became angry his name was used alongside the tranny's name, the tranny renamed the firmware to "Luma 3DS" (after the little star character from Super Mario Galaxy for some reason).

These are the only retards capable of doing so much as a "hello world" anymore due to the skill drain of the tech industry and nerd culture as a whole. Now that most young people are broccoli brownoid hybrids that can barely read, the nerd culture of the 80s, 90s, early 2000s are gone. There is simply no one competent enough to program. Even this website's administrator relies on ai to circumvent issues with code, and sometimes even use the ai to write the code entirely with him merely supervising it. The western world has outsourced all tech development to non-allied countries who would easily seek to harm us at a moment's notice.

 

[The Last Stand]

Imagine if they put this much effort into modding a system that hasn’t already been modded and actually has exclusives games worth exploiting.

I see what you're saying, but I think it's to send a message. Ultimately, all of this is for preservation purposes. If Sony does not care about preservation, others certainly would and will. How this would be used remains to be seen.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

A typical computer architecture would have a CPU, GPU and RAM.

RAM and VRAM, it's split on PC as well. Sony had some ideas about having their own GPU based on Cell powering the PS3, but they scrapped it and got an Nvidia GPU and since it wasn't using XDR-memory they got two pools of memory using two different types of memory. Similar to a PC.

 

[Computer Guardian]

Maybe there has been one and the person submitted the exploit for a Nintendo bounty. The homebrew scene is shot because most of the prominent hackers have been arrested, leaving the public to rely on Russians, Spaniards, and transexuals who fight amongst one another about who can groom their child Discord moderators first.

The 3DS homebrew scene was riddled with tranny catfights. Even today, the custom firmware of choice is still "Luma 3DS" a custom build of "ReiNand". ReiNand was a custom firmware developed by pedophile programmer, Reisyukaku that was forked by tranny, "Aurora Wright" to become "AuReiNand".

Spoiler: why I call Rei a pedophile

I call him a pedophile because I was a part of his ReiSwitched Discord server which only had two channels, one for technical discussion and one for staff messages. The technical support channel was used as a general discussion, and as a result while I was midway assisting people with hacking their Nintendo Switch, the administrator Rei would flirt with his admitted 14 year old female moderator derailing the conversation.

After the pedophile became angry his name was used alongside the tranny's name, the tranny renamed the firmware to "Luma 3DS" (after the little star character from Super Mario Galaxy for some reason).

I knew the first bit of your post, but hearing that really deflates the idea of a proper exploit/hack that doesn't rely on pure luck, given that the idea of the most capable people are also the least mentally sane of society. But I wasn't intending to get or play anything from any of these recent consoles currently, so no skin off my back, though the people who still want the new bing bing wahoo games on PC are gonna have to learn that lesson the hard way if they don't want to wait like half a decade.

 

[The Last Stand]

RAM and VRAM, it's split on PC as well. Sony had some ideas about having their own GPU based on Cell powering the PS3, but they scrapped it and got an Nvidia GPU and since it wasn't using XDR-memory they got two pools of memory using two different types of memory. Similar to a PC.

This probably explains why PS3 emulation was difficult to get right AND required fairly powerful computers. All that multi-threaded code was specifically designed for the PS3; it wasn't that a typical computer wouldn't recognize it per se, but it'd have to work harder to translate and execute it probably. Lord knows Insomniac Games were known to be tech wizards to break shit to make THEIR shit work.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Now that most young people are broccoli brownoid hybrids that can barely read, the nerd culture of the 80s, 90s, early 2000s are gone. There is simply no one competent enough to program.

Thanks for the depression. I'm going to lay in my bed now

 

[The Last Stand]

Is that why every single one of your posts is awful and more than often, wrong? Figures, I guess I don't have to take your posts seriously ever again.

Just for you, I have it hot and ready for you to share.

 

[Super Hans v2]

Lord knows Insomniac Games were known to be tech wizards to break shit to make THEIR shit work.

True, but moreso Naughty Dog, which was the point studio in the ICE Team to document that heap of shit and distribute it to other studios.

One of the more obvious to the end user things they did was make Sony remove the PS3 trill/splash screen when booting up a game to get that half meg or whatever out of reserved memory so devs could use it.

 

[autoexec.bat 1995]

From what I understand of the PS3, the Cell processor divided its 512 MB between its CPU and GPU instead of having each chip have its own allocated memory. More than that, developers had to split their code into seven parts for the PS3 to even execute it. On Sony's behest, they intentionally made the PS3 difficult to work with as some proclaimed lesson on developing software for them.

The sick school of Ken Kutaragi. Even though the PS3 still got some impressive looking games. But their devs were not complete shit back then.

 

[The Last Stand]

One of the more obvious to the end user things they did was make Sony remove the PS3 trill/splash screen when booting up a game to get that half meg or whatever out of reserved memory so devs could use it.

Really? That was the best part.