egerlach

@egerlach@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re Japanese patents, so maybe they’re already circulating in Japanese media and haven’t been translated yet.

  Alternatively, maybe the Japanese Patent Office requires you to follow some bureaucratic process to get a copy: like you have to be a lawyer and it takes 4-6 weeks to get your reply. I don’t know, but Japan just finally got rid of its last laws requiring floppy disks for certain processes a few years back, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility

  I’m sure we’ll hear the details soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tried it out. Liking it so far, but I might have soft-locked the demo? I think I got into a state where I can’t get a key to progress. Or at least I can’t seem to find it. Happy to send pics of map or copy of save file if it would be valuable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe tells you to use Chrome, not Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t fully agree with these, but these are the cases I’ve heard of:

  • Deeper integration with webcams
  • USB authentication devices like Yubikeys

  I think these are better served with extensions or specific browser protocols that communicate with native apps in order to keep the crazy web world more isolated from the high-value computer world, but what do I know? My guess is that someone at Google went “You know, we’re creating a lot of these specific protocols to communicate with webcams, printers, and now we want to do authentication dongles. You know what? They all use USB? Why don’t we just create a general way to access USB?”

  In the immortal words of Dr. Ian Malcolm:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe tells you to use Chrome, not Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s the topic of this conversation, WebUSB. I happen to believe that a missing feature here for Firefox is a good thing, mind you…