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rodgerd commented on Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship   polygon.com/news/616835/v... · Posted by u/mrzool
JumpCrisscross · 7 months ago
> a few dozen people's weird ideas about what shouldn't be allowed

I want to underline the absurdity of a foreign feminist organisation [1], in this political environment, dictating what Americans can and cannot see.

[1] https://www.collectiveshout.org

rodgerd · 7 months ago
No more absurd than US card schemes dictating what I can and can't buy in another country.

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rodgerd commented on Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators   github.com/qemu/qemu/comm... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
JonChesterfield · 8 months ago
Interesting. Harder line than the LLVM one found at https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#ai-generated-cont...

I'm very old man shouting at clouds about this stuff. I don't want to review code the author doesn't understand and I don't want to merge code neither of us understand.

rodgerd · 8 months ago
This to me is interesting when it comes to free software projects; sure there are a lot of people contributing as their day job. But if you contribute or manage a project for the pleasure of it, things which undermine your enjoyment - cleaning up AI slop - are absolutely a thing to say "fuck off" over.
rodgerd commented on The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela   kaveland.no/posts/2025-06... · Posted by u/rkaveland
boothby · 8 months ago
> These days, I find that I am using multiple search engines and often resort to using an LLM to help me find content.

For a few months, I've been wondering: how long until advertisers get their grubby meathooks into the training data? It's trivial to add prompts encouraging product placement, but I would be completely shocked if the big players don't sell out within a year or two, and start biasing the models themselves in this way, if they haven't already.

rodgerd · 8 months ago
There are already companies promising to attack Wikipedia and product LLM-bait YouTube content. Ship's sailed.

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rodgerd commented on Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen   cybercultural.com/p/web-d... · Posted by u/panic
ChrisMarshallNY · 8 months ago
I took a number of courses from the NNG Group, over the years, including from Nielsen and Tog (I don’t think Don Norman ever gave classes).

It taught me great respect for usability.

Designers hated Nielsen.

rodgerd · 8 months ago
> Designers hated Nielsen.

Several of the designers I worked with liked him, in as much as he gave them research to back them in their arguments with clients that the site should actually be usable.

It is still one of the high points of my career that I was part of a team that shipped an internet banking application that worked well in the then-current major browsers of IE 6 and Navigator 4, but also worked in Lynx and on a Palm Pilot browser.

We've now degenerated to the point that "engineers" demand Chrome everywhere.

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