You know, I was mildly ambivalent about Ubisoft recently (just burned out by their games and not wanting to buy them until I've slept for ages) but... Really? This is the hill they want to die on? Well that does say a lot about them, now doesn't it?

Yeah, that company has red flags.

Red flag number 1: the contents of the note

Red flag number 2: using duct tape to attach the note to the wall. Hints at a huge managerial Skill Issue.

Oh yeah, they have a plan all right.

Now, the plan isn't any good and everyone gets screwed, even them.

But it is, technically speaking, a plan!

I don't have that many tabs open. I keep them neat and tidy!

Now, the bookmarks... 😩

"Well shit, a UFO just crashed in the middle of the town square. That'll take some time to sort out. Whatever. I'll fix up my bicycle and go see what's going on in the next town over."

(Edit: spent this time getting acquainted with PieFed through piefed.social. Seems like pretty nice software! Hope slrpnk will migrate, as they suggested.)

Farming Simulator has an esport. Microsoft Excel has an esport. At this point it'd be weird if Geoguessr didn't have an esport.

Would love to, but Nintendo nukes people who do that from the orbit. (Actually, this whole thing started when I tried to download ISOs and found most of the sites down.)

However, if you do personal archival projects, they legally can't do shit! We have laws here.

I was about to doodle something like this, but looks like folks are beating me to it. Great that debates sometimes lead to results.

Yup. Officially, last I checked, GitHub encouraged people to use a single account for everything. But I wish they'd at least let people create multiple "personas" on the same account, along the lines of "Notorious Open Source Hacker Alias" vs "Random Code Monkey On Corporate Gig".

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

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.

"The new Windows Terminal is so slick! And PowerShell is soooo awesome! When will Linux get cool neat powerful stuff like this?"

"Uh... About three decades ago?"

(To be honest, PowerShell is neat. But it's also cross platform, so if I really want it on Linux I guess I can get it there too? I don't really need to, I'm in middle of rewriting some PowerShell stuff in Python)