egerlach

@egerlach@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. It sounds like they haven’t gone after them for emulation, but instead for emulation-adjacent things: copying ROMs, circumventing digital locks, etc.

  They explicitly mention (one of?) the developers of Yuzu sharing ROMs in the article.

  In other words, the emulator itself isn’t illegal, but in order to use the emulator the way most people want, you have to do illegal things, and that’s what they go after you for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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…