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New comment by rodgerd in "iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras"

rodgerd — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:45:03 +0000

There's measurements to support your feeling that primes are better than zooms: https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2019/11/stopping-down-some-... and https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2017/02/things-you-didnt-wa...

New comment by rodgerd in "Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship"

rodgerd — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:30:20 +0000

No more absurd than US card schemes dictating what I can and can't buy in another country.

New comment by rodgerd in "What to expect from Debian/Trixie"

rodgerd — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 02:46:09 +0000

As you say, network programs activating from a master network management is, of course, the history of Unix. It's ironic to see knee-jerk complaints about it.

New comment by rodgerd in "Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators"

rodgerd — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 01:30:43 +0000

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.

New comment by rodgerd in "The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela"

rodgerd — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 03:26:07 +0000

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

New comment by rodgerd in "Google battling 'fox infestation' on roof of £1B London office"

rodgerd — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:25:53 +0000

Foxes live happily in urban areas all over Britain. The problem here is the Google employees.

New comment by rodgerd in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

rodgerd — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:16:44 +0000

> AI companies aren't seriously arguing that copyright shouldn't apply to them because "it's bad for business".

AI companies have, in fact, said that the law shouldn't apply to them or they won't make money. That is literally the argument Nick Clegg is using to ague that copyright protection should be removed from authors and musicians in the UK.

New comment by rodgerd in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

rodgerd — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:11:34 +0000

If you cared about your privacy, why are you handing all this stuff to Sam Altman? Did he represent that OpenAI would be privacy-preserving? Have they taken any technical steps to avoid this scenario?

New comment by rodgerd in "Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen"

rodgerd — Fri, 30 May 2025 01:09:09 +0000

> 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.

New comment by rodgerd in "xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app"

rodgerd — Thu, 29 May 2025 01:09:35 +0000

I imagine Telegram-based training data will bias Grok to reflect Musk's own views more reliably than any other platform out there.

New comment by rodgerd in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

rodgerd — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:55:11 +0000

You're correct that Christian Zionists only care about Jews to the extent that the right number of them will be in Israel to be killed as part of the End Times prophecies based off of Revelations. But they are fanatical supporters of the state of Israel because they see it as necessary to bring about the rapture.

New comment by rodgerd in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

rodgerd — Wed, 21 May 2025 21:36:03 +0000

Man, I remember the absolute hysteria here over the non-profit trying to reign Altman in. You'd have thought they were murdering babies.

I agree with your analysis, but it's hilarious that it's now top-voted, when the sentiment was so negative when the board saw the same thing coming ages ago.

New comment by rodgerd in "One island, two worlds (Haiti vs. Dominican Republic)"

rodgerd — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 21:58:18 +0000

> South Korea

The West supported an brutal military dictatorship in South Korea for decades. South Korean democracy is the result of internal struggle by the South Korean people.

New comment by rodgerd in "Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid"

rodgerd — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:02:34 +0000

I mean it's true that there's a rule, but at this point in US history I think we have reason to be sceptical that it will be enforced.

New comment by rodgerd in "Macron to open debate on extending French nuclear protection to European allies"

rodgerd — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:32:35 +0000

And yet South Africa and Israel aren't glass.

New comment by rodgerd in "Best Buy and Target CEOs say prices are about to go up because of tariffs"

rodgerd — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:53:59 +0000

It's stupider than that - a lot of people believe that the manufacturer will just eat a 25% hike in tax. Build a tariff wall and make China pay, as it were.

New comment by rodgerd in "Think tank seeks to give "Trump his rightful third term in office""

rodgerd — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:26:00 +0000

Before the election: "Project 2025 isn't real".

Now: Oh you better believe it's real.

New comment by rodgerd in "Sigma BF Camera"

rodgerd — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:30:40 +0000

> This is obviously aimed at the Leica/Ricoh crowd,

No-one who shoots M-mount at this point is giving up their rangefinder for an LCD-only camera with no viewfinder.

New comment by rodgerd in "Sigma BF Camera"

rodgerd — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:29:04 +0000

"Worse glass" is a religious position if we're talking about Sigma glass. Especially considering how likely it is that any given name-brand lens is actually a Sigma design, or a Sigma design and build.

New comment by rodgerd in "Sigma BF Camera"

rodgerd — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:26:04 +0000

Firstly the main failure of connectors in cameras isn't the connector per se, it's generally the board that the connector is mounted on breaks off from the mainboard.

Secondly, and more importantly, the lifespan of your camera is now the lifespan of the internal storage. That seems very unappealing.