And yes, believe we've been social media mutuals a while but don't think we've spoken much directly!

Hey! Yep I'm in Edinburgh.
I haven't been to UX Scotland but heard good things from former colleagues.

This is great fun Alex, you killed it. The Cursor pointing and grunting! 🔥

Looking forward to the next one!

"ChatGPT told me we should replace our robots.txt with this when I asked it why it wasn't recommending our business"

"Our AI SEO company wants you to implement this schema for forums on our product pages"

How about you get a bucket for all the brain leaking out your ears?

I'm on on the Ubiquity UniFi system — got one of their routers and a few WiFi nodes.
It's a bit technical to set up compared to other systems but once you do it's rock solid. I've never had to restart any of them in the 5 years I've had them!

Update: I missed out details about where the image was hosted, so have added a section about that.

I definitely did have it at some point but must have accidentally cut it through the editing process, oops!

In short: hosted via a 3rd party cache, not by me!

alistairshepherd.uk/writing/open...

Oh oops! Back to 199 then, damn!

In the UK there is "fair dealing" which is similar to the US "fair use", but it has no explicit exceptions or much detail. It could well fall under that given the circumstances but I never found any previous cases that were web-based and similar enough to make me sure.

So yeah, perhaps!

That's a good point, perhaps I should have reached out to them for support.

Honestly I have no clue where that sits legally — of course they don't even link to the images directly either!

I guess they get away with it by being big and scary enough that no one challenges them.

Of course I say meaningless, likely not to a judge determining wilfulness, damages etc. But in B&W the law doesn't care.

Yep! My non-lawyer reading of copyright legislation and previous UK cases seems to suggest that doesn't matter at all though. Where it's hosted is meaningless, what matters is I displayed it.

More here:
bsky.app/profile/alis...

The specific language in the emails were around my "use" of the image, no reference to hosting at all!
And displaying an image from an external site you don't have the rights to is a well established infringement so doubt that would have changed anything.

It's so sad, but the world we live in. I just hope others can learn from these lessons and avoid similar!

I'm dubious whether those circumstances are functionally different from a legal standpoint. 'Hotlinking' images have long been established as copyright infringements and referencing the original OG URL would be functionally similar.

Whether that would have changed things I don't know though.