refalo

it's not really "open source" anymore per OSI, specifically #6: https://opensource.org/osd

He claims to have gotten permission from the contributors... not sure where you heard that they didn't.

for some reason a lot of emudevs are very hostile to the whole idea of forking. mame also famously hates retroarch for it, as well as inolen from redream and skmp from reicast/nullcast, probably more.

this isn't even the first project that an emudev has directly relicensed or even shut down their entire emulator for over a retroarch fork, which is usually done in the first place due to maintenance problems with the original emudev.

as others have said, the whole scene just seems to attract the kind of genius that too often steps over that fine line. out of the probably couple dozen emudevs I know, the vast majority have explicitly stated themselves that they suffer from severe mental health issues.

https://retroarchleaks.wordpress.com/

also almost every /vg/emugen thread is full of "danny drama"

technically correct, the best kind of correct

For good privacy (from fingerprinting) it is undoubtedly a bad choice.

I have. You just don't hang out in the "right" places

Nobody mentioned number of speakers though

I think you answered your own question :)

Alternate plot line for the movie Contact

I'm really surprised servers have not started by default limiting and/or vetting who can federate with them. I know many Lemmy instances block many other instances from federating with them, but only after learning about what a lot of their content is. To me this practice kinda creates a very fragmented "which wind would you like to piss into" problem.

People don’t know about what they don’t hear about

Some people take the initiative to learn things on their own though. I suppose we're not their target audience however.