Mastodawn

New post from Joe Mullin, EFF's Sr. Policy Analyst: Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because they fear AI scraping. This is a misguided notion: it won’t stop AI, but it will erase the web’s historical record.

@eff has the story ⤵️
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

Electronic Frontier Foundation

nrq Mar 1

Made a small change to the Neo Geo Diagnostic BIOS to add an option with a white screen for gain calibration and published it here: https://github.com/herrkuhn/neogeo-diag-bios/releases/tag/v0.19a02-ws - Here's how I modified my NeoBiosMasta to switch four different BIOS, including this: https://imgur.com/a/2YZtwCb

nrq Mar 1

Windfisch Feb 28

top N64 setup mit 2 Labornetzteilen auf der #wicmp11 #wicmp

nrq Feb 10

David Chartier Feb 8

Good morning. Here’s an auto-tuned howling husky #dog to brighten your day.

#dogs

via #Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FunnyAnimals/s/DDYUip3SwK

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nrq Feb 7

I really like this one, too.

nrq Feb 7

This makes some pretty neat data analysis possible. 😁

nrq Jan 18

endrift 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 17

A pox on relative timestamps in website UIs. They make things hard to read when they don't dynamically change if the page itself is dynamic, and they remove valuable context when screenshotted.

nrq Jan 18

Alison Pitt

Jan 17

Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀

#Technology #InfoSec
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

TechCrunch

nrq Jan 2

asie Dec 31

I highly recommend reading Shonumi's State of Emulation 2025 post, outlining the current status of DS peripheral emulation: https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art40.html

Myself, I've been working on unlicensed peripheral preservation on the side now, so I'd like to introduce that subject matter a bit more here...

I don't really agree that this category is intrinsically in less danger of disappearing; if anything, the unofficial and low-volume nature makes many of them almost impossible to purchase today. (Though there are far fewer of them that are historically relevant.)

Many flash cartridges feature unique menu programs; as such, I think there is merit to emulating at least some of them to preserve those experiences and quirks. As much as the industry resents it, millions of people grew up with these things - more than the vast majority of games released on the DS platform! This rationale - the belief that unauthorized and underground experiences are not inherently less valuable than sanctioned ones - is part of why I added R4 emulation to melonDS in addition to its existing homebrew compatibility.

Some of these products were not even that underground, as they were sold in stores! The Datel Games'n'Music is essentially the unlicensed equivalent of the AM3 DSVision in this regard.

There were also unique peripherals, many of which are much harder to find for sale than licensed games. Here's the ones I'm aware of:

- DSerial Edge. For some time, it was the only way to use hardware MIDI communication in NitroTracker. I still don't own one, and have never seen one for sale.
- DS Fire Link's USB adapter. This is essentially an USB controller exposed via the Slot-2 bus. It received its own programs - USB HID implementations of a mouse and gamepad. I am the only person known in the community to own its earlier "D12" revision, while the "D14" revision is not that hard to find, thankfully.
- DS Motion Card and Pak. Not the Activision one, note, which is a simplified version of the original homebrew device. Homebrew programs for the DS Motion do not support the Activision variant. Thankfully, melonDS emulates both. I only own variants of the Card, myself, and I have never seen one for sale.
- EZ-Flash 3-in-1. It featured more RAM than the Browser pak (useful for e.g. DSLinux), as well as an enhanced Rumble Pak emulation with the ability to set distinct rumble strengths. These are a little expensive second-hand.
- SuperCard DSTwo. This is a Slot-1 cartridge with its own MIPS CPU on board, which received a fair share of unique emulator ports and even custom programs (in particular DS2x86). I still don't own one, and they are a little expensive second-hand.

There were also some peripherals which were sold, but I could not find any users of (like the GBAccelerometer for the GBA - still in stock).

The State of Emulation - 2025

The current state of emulating everything

nrq Nov 17

DerTobi Nov 16

Turning a low-cost CH32V305 MCU into a Game Boy Advance (and Color) USB capture device, with no extra circuitry required.

Captures full-res RGB565 at ~60 Hz and streams it over UVC in YUY2. A fun look at combining basic peripherals to extend the capabilities of a simple microcontroller.

https://www.embedded-ideas.de/posts/251030_xgb_to_usb/

xGB to USB - USB video capturing for Gameboy Advance and Gameboy Color

A proof-of-concept showing how a low-cost CH32V305 MCU can capture full-resolution Game Boy Advance video and stream it over USB as a UVC device

embedded-ideas.de

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