umbraroze

@umbraroze@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  To just have the most recent data within reasonable time frame is one thing. AI companies are like “I must have every single article within 5 minutes they get updated, or I’ll throw my pacifier out of the pram”. No regard for the considerations of the source sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo GameCube is coming to Nintendo Switch's Online Membership⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been incredibly happy lately dumping my GameCube/Wii games (using a softmodded Wii) and running them on PC with Dolphin. Perfectly legit way of playing games I already own, no matter what Nintendo says, and this is also a way to futureproof my GC/Wii collection the way I can actually trust.

  I’m sceptical about how close to Dolphin the official emulation experience on Switch will be able to reach. Based on the N64 debacle, I don’t have massively high hopes. Either way, wouldn’t be paying extra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it had happened now, that figure might be accurate. However, this was originally exploited in 2022, so it’s probably pretty bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are color palettes subject to copyright protection?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Colour palettes are collections of facts. Facts don’t have copyright protection and ability to claim copyright for a collection is pretty tenuous. However, copyright may apply to certain related things.

  For example: Suppose you see that someone is selling a Photoshop colour palette for money, and included the entire palette in the store image. In that case, there’s literally nothing, legally speaking, stopping someone from prodding the image with a colour picker a bunch of times. But there would be copyright protection for the Photoshop palette file itself, because that’s a more tangible piece of data.

  There are also other kinds of intellectual property laws that apply to colours. Pantone gets away with whatever shenanigans they’re doing because of trademarks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Two points. I’ve never paid for anything by cheque (we have had bank transfers in Finland for ages) and Blockbuster didn’t operate here (we had our local video rental chains, and the convenience store chain that I used to go to is still in business, just, you know, not having movies for rent any more)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'X' Marks xAI's Spot: xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Short summary: Elon gives Elon some Elon and congratulates Elon for being such an Elon, that big money boy he is. Money!