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  • Your initial comment above came off as hostile to UX designers, which is why I felt the need to reply.

    Nah, I’m married to one. I just share her grief over grifters wearing the title without actually doing the job well and giving the whole guild a bad name.

    Incidentally, that might also be why I’m so aware of the distinction (on paper) between the responsibilities. As you say, the actual job is usually fused from both responsibilities, which makes sense because it skips a step between UX analysis and UI design.


  • UX designers will be quick to point out that it’s a related, but separate role from UI. The experience you have with a product starts before actually using it and lasts after you stop.

    For example, your product’s presentation sets expectations, and so does the context in which you look for it in the first place. If the actual product doesn’t deliver on that, it’ll lead to frustration, no matter how good it may be at what it actually does. (Of course, if it turns out to be great, that may compensate for the disappointment, but “they liked it anyway” is not exactly what you want to gamble for.)

    UX also covers the flow of actions, such as reading comment replies and replying in turn. I need some way to know that there is something worth reading and replying to (which the UI then implements as a red badge), that intuitively leads me to the thing in question (so the UI puts the badge on the Inbox, which then opens to the unread messages) and enables me to do what I want (with buttons, gestures or a menu, or all three).

    Often, good UX requires a good UI, and a good UI designer will have a solid grasp on the way users think and act too. They’re closely related and you’ll see many people fusing the two roles, because there’s a lot of overlap between “how do users think” and “how do I communicate what they can do”.


  • A corrupt government can also be bought off by the companies to not fuck with things so that they at least remain functional.

    …for whose definition of functional? Because any additional overhead from having to bribe the government would inevitably impact customers. And while they’re at it, they might as well come up with more ways to be anti-consumer and the bribed government won’t stop them.

    They might also just bend over to please their dictator instead of buying him off, so it’s not even a given thay they will keep him from interfering

    I get your point about the current government situation though. I’m just not convinced replacing a corrupt private company with another not-yet-quite-as-corrupt private company from a different country would improve things in the long run.



  • I remember an MMO that had a profanity filter bleeping out parts of words with asterisks. I was so confused and frustrated why I couldn’t talk to other players about ****ysing whatever it was that needed ****ysis.

    Yeah, they had a mechanic called analysing, their own filter made it impossible to talk a out and 13 year old me didn’t understand why it was censored. Talk about sane and reasonable.


  • I really dislike the sound they use for censoring. It’s so annoying. Plus, why make it so loud? I think they genuinely do it to make it seem worse and grab your attention.

    That’s probably from back in the analog days where the only ways to censor a word from a live audio feed were to kill the signal or to overlay another, louder noise that renders the undesirable word unintelligible. If the video and audio signals are coupled and you don’t wanna interrupt video, that just leaves bleeping over it.

    Someone smarter than me is probably gonna correct me, but that’s my best guess.



  • Is it worse than private companies leveraging their dominance and effective monopoly to impose demands on all who depend on the critical infrastructure they provide, sidestepping all legislative processes and accountability to the public?

    Besides, a corrupt government can just as well abuse regulatory powers to impose its will on private companies, since it doesn’t have to observe due process. A sane government, however, will have less power to force a private company to do business it doesn’t want to.

    Privatisation is no protection against corruption, but a hurdle for public oversight. There are sectors where that is acceptable and the flexibility it provides may be worthwhile, but infrastructure isn’t one of them.



  • Pretty sure humans are perfectly capable of producing organic, naturally generated slop.

    For instance, corporate writing culture at my company has trained me to liberally sprinkle dashes into my speech—wrongly, I concede, because the person I adopted it from doesn’t use them correctly either. I tend to use en-dashes (–) instead of em-dashes (—), put spaces and haven’t got an intuitive handle on where to use which of them. On Linux, my keyboard does them on Ctrl+Alt±, on Windows codes 2013 and 2014 +Alt+X, in markdown/HTML it’s – or mdash and on my phone it’s a long press on -.

    Since the rise of LLMs, however, the character has been associated with machine-writing since people don’t normally use it (because it’s not as convenient as simply putting a - on most keyboards), which has led to people wrongly classifying my writing as AI slop.

    I assure you: it isn’t. I don’t need machines to do my train-of-thought rambling for me or insert artificial mistakes. I just suck naturally.


  • Same tbh. Well, not sexually interested at least (but can definitely appreciate an attractive aesthetic).

    Give Hawkeye some profile shots where you see the veins on his forearm. Superman gets gratuitous booty-shots (nice glutes, bro) in flight. Intense fight-scenes between guys ought to have at least one shot with a tinge of homoerotic tension, whether or not that fits the characters. Show the tough Adonis-shaped hero being attentive and sensual. Probably should get the input of actually attracted people too, what kind of fanservice they want.

    If the female character gets a “laying down with a sniper rifle, a hint of cleavage and a nice butt” scene, make the male show back muscles, lower abs and a hint of upper pelvis.

    We could have different artistic genres scaled along having more or less sexualisation, but make it equal-opportunity objectification.


  • Um einen Klick zu ersparen, der verlinkte Abschnitt “Kritik”, Links und Rechtstext-Quellenanfaben ausgespart. Ich empfehle das Lesen des kompletten Artikels (auch für die Quellenangaben), aber für die mit kurzer Aufmerksamkeitsspanne:

    Entgegen der Ankündigung des Gesetzgebers, mit dem Gesetz einen Beitrag zur Entstigmatisierung psychisch kranker Menschen zu leisten, werde deren Stigmatisierung noch verstärkt. Der besonders umstrittene Art. 35 BayPsychKHG in der Fassung des ersten Entwurfs sah die Führung einer Unterbringungsdatei vor, deren personalisierte Daten einschließlich des erhobenen Untersuchungsbefundes zur Verhinderung oder Verfolgung von Straftaten sowie zur Abwehr von Gefahren für Leben, Gesundheit oder Freiheit einer Person oder für bedeutende Sachwerte auch an die Polizei übermittelt werden durften. Eine entsprechende Regelung wird zum 1. Januar 2021 für den bayerischen Maßregelvollzug in Kraft treten. Die Unterbringung eines Patienten diene damit nicht mehr dem therapeutischen Ziel, ein selbstbestimmtes Leben zu führen, sondern wie bei Straftätern allein der Gefahrenabwehr. Ausweislich der Begründung zum Gesetzesentwurf sollten mit dieser Regelung Zugriffsbefugnisse für den Bereich der Justiz, der Polizei und der Kreisverwaltungsbehörden eingeführt werden. Insbesondere sollte die Polizeidienststelle, in deren Zuständigkeitsbereich das Bedürfnis für die Unterbringung aufgetreten war, von der bevorstehenden Entlassung benachrichtigt und auch notwendige Informationen für eine Gefährdungseinschätzung übermittelt werden. Das bayerische Polizeiaufgabengesetz hätte sodann eine Überwachung dieser Personen ermöglicht.

    In dem zweiten, überarbeiteten Gesetzentwurf sieht Art. 33 BayPsychKHG nur noch ein anonymisiertes Melderegister vor, in dem alle Unterbringungen, Zwangsbehandlungen und Zwangsfixierungen von den Trägern der Einrichtung in verschlüsselter und anonymisierter Form erfasst und der Fachaufsichtsbehörde Zentrum Bayern Familie und Soziales jährlich gemeldet werden. Von der Benachrichtigung über eine Entlassung wurden zwar diejenigen Fälle ausgenommen, in denen die gerichtliche Unterbringung ausschließlich auf Grund von Selbstgefährdung erfolgt war. Die Übermittlung einer Gefährdungseinschätzung an die zuständige Kreisverwaltungsbehörde und die Polizei wurde aber aufrechterhalten. Zusätzlich werden bei der Entlassung Minderjähriger die Sorgeberechtigten oder das Jugendamt verständigt.

    Dieser zweite Entwurf wurde am 11. Juli 2018 vom Bayerischen Landtag mit den Stimmen von CSU, SPD und FREIEN WÄHLERN angenommen. BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN lehnten den Entwurf ab.


    Klar, lass mal die psychisch gefährdeten überwachen. Ich würde ja hoffen, dass das mit einer erhöhten Förderung für tatsächliche Behandlung einhergehen würde, aber dann wäre womöglich weniger Geld für die Überwachung übrig. Ne, da ist es viel wichtiger, dass die Kranken bösen, gefährlichen Irren ihrer Rechte beraubt werden und die Mitmenschen und “bedeutenden Sachwerte” mit Gewalt geschützt werden.

    Ich ahne schon, welche Definition für “bedeutende Sachwerte” herangezogen wird. Und wenn wir dann noch alle als krank bezeichnen, die eine potenzielle Gefahr für diese Sachwerte darstellen, haben wir ein wunderbares Mittel für die Repression politisch unerwünschter.

    Alter, fick die CxU, ob jetzt die schwarze, rote oder die orangene Ausgabe. Find ich ja sinnvoll, dass sie mangelhafte Gesetze auffrischen (müssen), aber es wäre doch nicht zu viel verlangt, eine tatsächlich konstruktive Neuregelung zu schaffen.


  • The issue with newly emerging and poorly defined professions is that I could apply to any arbitrary position of that title, pretend like I’ve got expertise in a universal structure for it (managers love structure) and sound vaguely knowledgeable (hiring managers often don’t know the subject matter).

    By the time they’ve figured out that I’m not actually contributing anything of value, I’m taking off to other pastures that aren’t about to wilt, my experience serving as selling point for the next sucker to hire me.

    Of course, the people I just fucked over have no way of telling whether that’s me being a fraud or whether it’s the entire profession that’s actually worthless and overhyped. Some, like you, err on the side of “I assume that person was a cunt”, while others default to “UX is completely useless”.




  • The emphasis is distinction from reactive. Proactive means you act before something has occurred (for example to prevent it or to prepare for its occurrence), as opposed to reactive, which is acting after the fact. If you’re fixing issues proactively, that means you anticipate that something is going to become a problem and change it, rather than waiting for it to become a problem and (reactively) fixing it.

    Of course, the difficulty with appreciating the impact of proactivity is that it changes what happens and thus makes it harder to see what might have happened otherwise. If I (proactively) replace some machine part that was close to breaking, the result (business as usual) is less visible than if I had let it break (interrupting business) and (reactively) fixed it.