Daily Tech News 29 October 2022

• The usual suspects are livid that Elon Musk is going to clean out the foetid cesspool where they like to play King Rat. (The Verge)
  
  Diseased rodent of the day is Nilay Patel, whose spittle-flecked rant asserts that censorship is Twitter's chief commodity rather than an aberration that has cost the company tens of millions of users and billions of dollars.
  
  Mike Masnick of TechDirt was on a tear on Twitter with a similar take, claiming that Chief Book Burner Vijaya Gadde was a First Amendment crusader, and blocking everyone who suggested he might want to lay off the sauce.
  
  
  

• Any Pantone colour so long as it's black: If you use uncommon Pantone colours in your artwork, you're gonna have a bad day. (Pluralistic)
  
  Pantone wants license fees. Like $20 per month per user, which is more than Adobe charges for Photoshop. So support is going away.
  
  And since Photoshop is a subscription now and automatically updates itself, it's going away right now.
  
  So if you load up an image that worked fine yesterday and is now just a random collection of black smears, that's why.
  
  Well, that or you accidentally download an Democrat ad campaign.
  
  
  
• The open source community immediately stepped in with a solution:
  
  

  Adobe & Pantone think they can own colours and charge us to use them! So I've just liberated the whole colour book and I'm giving it away for FREE unless you're associated with Adobe or Pantone! You can get yours for free here: https://t.co/deQ2RUub8e pic.twitter.com/VDO3bQeuQ1

  — STUART SEMPLE (@stuartsemple) October 28, 2022

  
  
  
  
• Which was just far enough off to be useless:
  
  

  ok i downloaded it and um.
  it's just off enough not to be useful tbh.
  like I use 806c as my main branding color and it would look very off using this color library.
  (pantone on the left, freetone on the right. it's close, but far enough to make a big difference in branding) pic.twitter.com/IJrnEEEExw

  — MadameBerry 🍓 🎨 (@MadameBerry) October 28, 2022

  
  
  
  
• But the creator is actively working to with users to resolve any issues:
  
  

  Thanks for sharing yes that might help. This is different than the adobe defaults. If affinity starts blocking pantone I might have to make a pack just for affinity.

  — STUART SEMPLE (@stuartsemple) October 28, 2022

  
  
  Also, colour is complicated.
  
  
  
• A handheld device with a 7" 1920x1200 screen covering 100% sRGB colour? I am so there.
  
  Prices starting at $1199? Maybe not so much. (Liliputing)
  
  It does come with a Ryzen 6800U and up to 32GB of RAM and 2TB of storage, but it's a niche within a niche.
  
  
  
• Details have leaked of AMD's new high-end graphics cards and this close to launch they're likely to be pretty accurate. (WCCFTech)
  
  Where the current 6950XT has 16GB of RAM and 80 cores ("compute units" in AMD terminology), the 7900XT will have 20GB of RAM and 168 cores, and the 7950XT 24 GB and 192 cores.
  
  The new designs are split into multiple chips, with a large main chip handling computation and multiple smaller chips (five on the 7900XT, six on the 7950XT) handling the memory interface and caches.
  
  While the total silicon area on a 7950XT won't be much less than on Nvidia's RTX 4090, the largest chip will be half the size, making it easier and cheaper to produce. We'll have to wait and see how much easier and cheaper, and also how much of that 140% increase on compute hardware translates into real world performance.
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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