The Great Twitter Meltdown of 2021 - Emulator creator Byuu bullied to death by HateSpeech™ forum, Twitter takes up arms (Still No Death Report)

[Slimeball92A]

David Kirk Ginder
DOB February 21, 1983

husband
Patrick M. Tresner

PATRICK MICHAEL TRESNER, BORN 20 JANUARY 1978, 68 N OLD STATE RD, DELAWARE OHIO, U.S.A.

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Tranny in question on the right, his husband, Patrick on the left.

WE did it fam.

This info came up days ago.

 

[sophnar0747]

yet they constantly ignore how beloved Sophia Narwitz is here.

Meh, there’s still ample time for me to become a Lolcow.

 

[axfaxf]

The Kiwi Farms Death Squad is a highly specified and very expensive combat unit, wih the sole purpose of defending the right to point and laugh at retarded autists and disgusting troons.

The twatterati circlejerk sob squad of pedophiles, animalfuckers and every other degeneracy under the sun, are not only an heroing themselves in VERY satisfying numbers, they´re fucking doing it for freeeeeeeeee.

 

[cuddle striker]

Okay, just stop. There's such a thing as laying it on way too thick. He wasn't some kind of super genius, he was a hyperfocussed anti-social autist who decided to apply his talents to emulation, of all things. I'm sure he was very very good at it, as these autists are. But come the fuck on now.

I'm wondering if he didn't break a contract or law in his work; could explain the desperation to get thread removed, and all the high drama.

 

[The Silent Perjority]

Benutz may be piling lavish praise on Byuu's hyper-skillz in the hope that his autism will overcome him and he'll break cover to soak it up.

 

[hundredpercent]

Okay, just stop. There's such a thing as laying it on way too thick. He wasn't some kind of super genius, he was a hyperfocussed anti-social autist who decided to apply his talents to emulation, of all things. I'm sure he was very very good at it, as these autists are. But come the fuck on now.

He had the right kind of OCD to be extremely meticulous about coding, along with mental illnesses that caused him to feel an immense pain whenever he wasn't coooooding. If all you can do is coooode, you will. If your mental illness by definition prevents you from fucking up, you will be good at it.

 

[Pil Chollins]

From left to right:

セルトラリン (Zoloft) 50mg
レクサプロ (Lexapro) 10mg
ミルタザピン (Remeron) 15mg
アナフラニール (Anafranil) 25mg
インチュニブ (Guanfacine) 3mg

Here you go:

Thanks AssignedEva for finding these.

Spoiler: spoilered for pharm sperging

Zoloft (sertraline): Standard antidepressant.
Lexapro (escitalopram): Standard antidepressant.
Remeron (mirtazapine): Standard antidepressant.
Anfranil (clomipramine): Standard antidepressant.
Guanfacine: ADHD drug, used when adderall/vyvanse etc. don't work.

Now for the sperging - all of these pills would have killed him or at least fucked him up enough to need hospitalisation. Serotonin syndrome is the biggest risk here, and at it's worst would have given Byuu seizures or rendered him unconscious. Zoloft and Lexapro by themselves are unlikely to cause a fatal overdose. Remeron is known to cause death in doses well in excess of the normal dose, the number of tablets in this picture shouldn't be enough. Anfranil is where things get interesting. Unlike the other antidepressants, it's a tricyclic antidepressant. These absolutely can kill in an overdose. The effects can take from 30 minutes to six days to set in after taking the tablets. Patients can experience severe hypotension, respiratory failure and cardiac arrythmia and need to be monitored in hospital for days after.

If he taken all of the pills from the email pics, he basically would have passed out and stopped breathing. Theoretically, if someone had called a welfare check on him (the 'friend' from Twitter), he would have been taken to hospital and received supportive care until he recovered.

 

[Meriasek]

Just a wee nitpick, but thats not accurate. Yeah if youre buying latest and greatest brand spanking new you might get up into 7 figures, but if youre willing to go 20+ years vintage you can get used ones in the low five figures or even mid-to-high four figures that would still probably serve the purpose. And tons of universities have mid-to-high end SEMs, which would be a likely way for sperg-nerd-hacker-crackers to access one.

Also, older chips like those in the 80s/early 90s had feature sizes well within what can be resolved with an optical microscope. Did Near actually do a full deconstruction of the chips, though? Seems a) excessive and b) surely somebody already did it and published full information on the chips in the SNES, right?

 

[hundredpercent]

Also, older chips like those in the 80s/early 90s had feature sizes well within what can be resolved with an optical microscope. Did Near actually do a full deconstruction of the chips, though? Seems a) excessive and b) surely somebody already did it and published full information on the chips in the SNES, right?

There was another guy, Dr. Decapitor, who had access to all the really expensive equipment. He did decap work for both MAME and Byuu at cost, and then disappeared without a trace. This caused some people to seethe, because he had some semi-rare chips when he did. Byuu never decapped anything, AFAIK.

 

[Toolbox]

There was another guy, Dr. Decapitor, who had access to all the really expensive equipment. He did decap work for both MAME and Byuu at cost, and then disappeared without a trace. This caused some people to seethe, because he had some semi-rare chips when he did. Byuu never decapped anything, AFAIK.

How hard would this work even be with modern pattern recognition tech? Could you just snap the photos and have the chip automatically mapped? It seems like Byuu is operating on ancient knowledge for today's landscape.

 

[The Emperor Skeksis]

He had the right kind of OCD to be extremely meticulous about coding, along with mental illnesses that caused him to feel an immense pain whenever he wasn't coooooding. If all you can do is coooode, you will. If your mental illness by definition prevents you from fucking up, you will be good at it.

Absolutely, but he also found the time to find a husband and get married, so saying 'he must have not slept for decades because of his sublime coding' is a bit ridiculous. You can admire someone's skills and talent without making him out to be some kind of inhuman mystical figure.

 

[hundredpercent]

How hard would this work even be with modern pattern recognition tech? Could you just snap the photos and have the chip automatically mapped? It seems like Byuu is operating on ancient knowledge for today's landscape.

Well, how do you snap the photos? You need extremely expensive equipment for that.

I think someone suggested using AI to digitalize it, but you still need to make logical inferences about what each part does. Even if you managed to break it down into a 100% accurate graph of transistors, synthesizing this back to Verilog would be on par with taking a chunk of machine code and producing C code that compiles to it. I mean, sure, you can do it, but for it to be human-meaningful C code, the technology simply isn't there yet.

Absolutely, but he also found the time to find a husband and get married, so saying 'he must have not slept for decades because of his sublime coding' is a bit ridiculous. You can admire someone's skills and talent without making him out to be some kind of inhuman mystical figure.

yeah definitely. The chronology is also wrong. bsnes was first, then he renamed it to higan, then he did another project also called bsnes that was a fork of higan, then he did ares. He had a normie job in Ohio for most of the time, it was only the last few years he was in Japan. Basically, he was a good programmer, but what set him apart was just the utter dedication to spending like a decade on meticulously reproducing every detail of the SNES.

Other emulators had hacks to make every game run perfect, emulating the system at various degrees of accuracy. The idea of bsnes was to not do this, and instead just always emulate at 100%. I think he did make some compromises though, settling for "100% accuracy on all *commercially released* games"

@benutz, are you French?

 

[Toolbox]

Well, how do you snap the photos? You need extremely expensive equipment for that.

I think someone suggested using AI to digitalize it, but you still need to make logical inferences about what each part does. Even if you managed to break it down into a 100% accurate graph of transistors, synthesizing this back to Verilog would be on par with taking a chunk of machine code and producing C code that compiles to it. I mean, sure, you can do it, but for it to be human-meaningful C code, the technology simply isn't there yet.

yeah definitely. The chronology is also wrong. bsnes was first, then he renamed it to higan, then he did another project also called bsnes that was a fork of higan, then he did ares.

@benutz, are you French?

Well it would be assumedly after you've taken under microscope. But the whole bit about needing incredibly specialized knowledge about the equipment itself doesn't seem to add up. Pretty sure most of the dedicated emulation spergs could figure it out if they can figure out most of the nonsense they have. Yeah the whole part of assigning what each portion of the chip actually does is still an entirely manual process which would need someone who's been in the chip making field for years.

 

[Meriasek]

How hard would this work even be with modern pattern recognition tech? Could you just snap the photos and have the chip automatically mapped? It seems like Byuu is operating on ancient knowledge for today's landscape.

Yeah, it could be done automatically. For old chips like that you need 50-100x optical magnification, a motorized stage, and some decent software to scan over the entire die and stitch it together. Most good modern microscopes with motorized stages offer a feature to do stitching.
You still need to do some very careful etching and polishing to get the traces in the open, and you'd need to train an AI long and hard to get the pattern recognition done properly. Is there much interest in doing that, even? It's probably easier finding the documentation of the chipsets, not to mention that somebody probably already has cloned the chips in question anyway, so why bother doing it again? You can also probably more easily map the chip behaviour without opening it up (like, give it inputs, measure the outputs) and have it emulated by an FPGA or something.
And yes, it's ancient compared to today's landscape. We're talking about feature sizes of several µm for late 80s chips, and in the low nm for modern chips. Magnitudes higher complexity now. Reverse engineering that shit would be ridiculous. The general principles are the same, though, gotta open it up, polish it, and trace the all the little lines.
Copying is much harder, though. To replicate the masks you need a very expensive electron beam lithography setup, and to produce a state of the art chip you need a massive ~$1B EUV lithography machine.

 

[Staffy]

The twatterati circlejerk sob squad of pedophiles, animalfuckers and every other degeneracy under the sun, are not only an heroing themselves in VERY satisfying numbers, they´re fucking doing it for freeeeeeeeee.

Reddit too. The datamining shady groups out there think they're worth no shit.

 

[AssignedEva]

To people here saying Hector is a 'respectable hacker'. He isn't. At least nowadays. He is a moralist faggot.
...
Hector didn't like the outcome of this, since he only wanted his exploits to be used for homebrew... so when the Wii U came along he chose to keep the exploits he found to himself, and/or disclosing them to Nintendo privately. He'd go on twitter and say stuff like "I found this neat exploit, but I can't tell you how it works because I don't want another Wii situation". IIRC he did end up talking about the exploits, but only after they were patched.
...
All the 'hacking' he does nowadays is playing Bad Apple on some novelty devices.

In that regard, he might actually have gotten on with Byuu then, since Byuu was all "Thanks for sending me this super rare SNES games collection! I can now finally rip and catalogue every single PAL region release for SNES with perfect accuracy, stripped of any hacked code! I won't be sharing these super rare ROMs, though, this is just so I can experience 100% accurate-to-the-original games on my 100% accurate emulator."

If Hector confirming byuu's death with the police was true he would just double-down on that. Think about it, when you know something is true first-hand, it's enough (for yourself) to simply state the first-hand experience (the police confirming that byuu killed himself).

Hector is not doing that though. He is bringing in other points and counterpoints to support his belief. He's arguing as if he's constructing a persuasive essay. To me, that demonstrates that he doesn't fully believe his own first-hand experience (i.e. it never actually happened).

I suppose Hector may have fallen for a ruse, in that he was anonymously sent that Googledoc by Byuu's "friend" (read: Byuu) after seeing Byuu post the same song on Twitter and maybe after having received messages from Byuu saying goodbye.

Then, thinking "Oh wow, Byuu would never send me fake messages to make it look like he killed himself, he's my friend", he 100% believes Byuu is dead and the friend is idk scared of le ebic KiwiFarms haxxors so send the doc from a burner. He makes some shit up to try and shut down speculation because he "just knows" Byuu is really dead. He hears about how the American Consulate publishes a list of burgers that die abroad, and so he later mentions that this is where it'll be proven and why he talks about it again despite saying he wasn't going to.

 

[Slimeball92A]

I suppose Hector may have fallen for a ruse

The whole "Never make a charity in Byuu's name" thing says otherwise.

 

[Particle Bored]

Haven't seen these Hector tweets addressed yet, they're quite funny as well (see archive for full tweet chain)

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"Go ahead and verify Near's death yourself. Good luck. Don't think the police or media in Japan will be any luck "
"Wait didn't you say you had independently verified his death with the police yourself?"
"THAT'S ENOUGH CONSPIRACY THEORIES - ANYONE ELSE WHO REPLIES IS GETTING BLOCKED AND HIDDEN"

The more this guy says, the more he hurts his case. If Near is actually dead he should probably just shut the fuck up about it

EDIT: Just to highlight the absurdity of what he is saying here: His claim is that he verified Near's death with the police because he was actually interviewed about it. He claims elsewhere he only had a few IRL interactions with Near:
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So, aside from a couple of meet-ups, their relationship was primarily online- He is claiming the police actually dug through Near's phone/computer and selected Hector to go in and interview about what happened to Near? This really stretches his credibility IMO.

"I have spoken to the police department in charge of the investigation, and they have confirmed that Near passed away yesterday, June 27th 2021."

That sure seems like an odd way to recount being interviewed by a police detective. Feels like youd want to lead with "I was interviewed by police about Near's death," not "I spoke to them and they confirmed."

 

[Sheogorath]

"I have spoken to the police department in charge of the investigation, and they have confirmed that Near passed away yesterday, June 27th 2021."

That sure seems like an odd way to recount being interviewed by a police detective. Feels like youd want to lead with "I was interviewed by police about Near's death," not "I spoke to them and they confirmed."

"HERRO WHYTU PIGU YES FRIEND KIRR HIMSERF VERY BAD USERESS USERESS USERESS TRASH"

 

[Slimeball92A]

"I have spoken to the police department in charge of the investigation, and they have confirmed that Near passed away yesterday, June 27th 2021."

That sure seems like an odd way to recount being interviewed by a police detective. Feels like youd want to lead with "I was interviewed by police about Near's death," not "I spoke to them and they confirmed."

Yep, sounds like he was trying to say he contacted them, and they answered his query.