I love watching the modding scene with Nintendo consoles. Nintendo tries so hard to stop all of it and yet always fails right from the start.
OG Switches were amazing to hack. You literally just had to short two pins on one of the joycon sockets, then you could boot it into RCM/Recovery mode, and then you could inject a payload to run a layer between the OS and the hardware so you could tell the OS whatever you liked about the hardware. The ghetto method was to just use a paperclip, but you had to be careful because if you accidentally shorted a particular pair of adjacent pins you would brick the device. The better way was to buy a cheap little 3D printed jig, literally just a piece of plastic with a wire in it that slid into the joycon rail. You would then clone the system NAND onto an SDCard, running the console off the SDCard instead, leaving the original console completely clean and available to swap back to with a regular boot.
Then you had stores, freeware apps where you could just download games directly to the console. Nintendo started cracking down on those (although as usual you only seem to get their attention when you start asking for money) so most of them went away or into deep hiding.
On top of all that, when the Switch first came out it had a WebKit browser exploit that allowed complete hacking. It turned out this browser exploit was actually pretty widespread across other browsers on PC, and they were all subsequently patched.
I also loved the wii scene. That thing was amazing to mod. Super easy to do, too.
Yes hah shove in an SD card, then open a "message" in a red envelope with a bomb on it, then a bunch of code executes and BAM you're in!
My favorite was the hack before that one was discovered on the Wii, where you loaded up a corrupt save for zelda twilight princess that had a weird name for your horse, and then just walked backwards and BAM, game crashed and you are in.
This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.
Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.
Current topics this includes but is not limited to:
Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.
Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.
But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.
But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.
But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.
But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.