What about proof that the violators throw enough shit at that you can't tell? Which ironically included demanding that you violate someone elses license. It turns into a popularity competition because that is what people do.
Eh? I did see your debacle with MAME/libretro (not digging it up again, it's been off-topic for good reason and the summary is: let a judge decide over that one), but in this case, it's been rather clear-cut. They even left in an obfuscated (yet still recognizable) string from nx-hbloader, which they removed after people called them out on it.
That is always a risk with jail broken systems. Plenty of people have bricked over the years because something is different on their system, it's impossible for them to test every case.
No. This should have been prevented from the start. Beta test your product. The sheer amount of consumers they seem to have should be enough to release something as a beta to properly test stuff, mail some of their userbase or whatever. The amount of people who bricked makes this not any form of an "edge" case.
If you call any function without first putting enough data on the stack then it will use whatever values are already in memory. It's not technically random & it's Mike Heskin's fault for doing it. Blaming them for it sounds good when people don't understand what really happened, but that is all it is.
The random data part aside
don't you understand the issue with the concept of bricking code? I understand that Heskin is at fault for that randomized password brick, but do you honestly think it's considered a good idea to brick a 300 bucks system? Like, for
any reason. The mere fact that they do this should have caused them to be outcast, especially when they tried to pass it off as a "challenge for aspiring hackers" (I'm literally quoting them here).
To be exact: this is the equivalent of coming in your house and shooting your dog and then excusing it by saying "well, I did it because you are a house security expert in training and I wanted to give you a challenge". Would you consider that a valid reason? (And no, it isn't a false comparison. Your dog in the eyes of the law and the insurance company is just like your TV or another luxury device.)
Or maybe they just don't care & TX complainers appear to be trolls.
I have a pretty substantial list of people that defend TX by tooth and nail and seem to have 0 activity outside of defending TX or deriding other projects. Some are new accounts, registered in February/March/May this year (for reference: Team Xecuter announced their product early May), while others seem to be accounts that have had little activity before TX released their product. I have little doubt that TX is making use of shills.
The majority of their customers don't seem bothered by that. If they are, then they should complain to TX. I'm not sure what benefit you get out of deriding their software quality, does it make you feel superior?
Why? I do it because I give a flying fuck about the homebrew scene. I've been in the better part of the 3DS scene, I've seen the Switch scene kinda come up from a distance, and seeing bad actors like Team Xecuter try and force their way in without giving a
flying fuck about anyone else just pisses me off.