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Zagorath

@ Zagorath @aussie.zone

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Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

  • Programming for the first time

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  • My take is that everyone does it for their own posts, it's not actually that much effort. And it's an amount of effort that's worth it, to make the threadiverse a more welcoming and accessible place. If even one post I transcribe is seen by one blind or vision-impaired user, I'll consider the work worth it.

    The fediverse broadly is already far better for accessibility than sites like Reddit and Twitter, with users in general far more likely to be aware of things they can do to promote access for users with special needs. But we can still do better, especially our threadiverse corner of the fediverse. Considering one of the reasons for outrage over Reddit dumping their API was the impact on users of blind-focused third-party apps, that's particularly disappointing.

  • Programming for the first time

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  • That's a pretty good point. For these standard template memes I usually go to Know Your Meme and copy/paste the relevant section of their description. In this case it looks like they said "also landing on it", which I think is supposed to get across the same idea, but it does seem easy to read that without getting the intended idea.

  • Programming for the first time

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  • My ideal hope is that by modelling good behaviour, I can encourage more OPs to provide transcriptions themselves in the body or the alt-text field.

    If OPs take my transcriptions and edit it into the body, that's pretty good too. Especially if more people take up the work so transcriptions get posted on posts that I don't do myself.

    The algorithm is far too fickle for me to have even considered my comment getting upvoted to the top. Good if it happens I guess, but not in my consideration.

  • Programming for the first time

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  • Yeah, it's much, much better if OPs provide their own transcription. It's much easier to see that way. Mastodon and Pixelfed both basically yell at you if you don't do it, and it's a shame that Lemmy isn't the same.

    For small transcriptions, there's an "alt text" field in the post itself, and for longer ones, they can be placed into the body of the post.

  • Programming for the first time

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  • Interestingly, the earliest example of this meme listed on Know Your Meme is "junior react developer", "senior react developer". So this meme seems to have come full circle.

  • Programming for the first time

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  • The stepping vs jumping on a rake meme, showing a stock image render of a person stepping on a rake and having it smack them in the face on top, and an image of a man doing a skateboard trick with a rake below, also landing on it.

    The man stepping on a rake is captioned "programming for the first time".

    The man performing a trick with the rake is captioned "programming for the hundredth time".

  • Smooth

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  • What’s with the downvotes people

    Accusations of AI are shitty. Don't do it, unless you're damn well sure it's what's going on.

  • Smooth

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  • Plain black text on a plain white background:

    A girl who caught me looking at her very toned legs in jeans.

    Her: "Whatcha looking at?"

    Me: Sorry your legs look great in those jeans.

    Her: You should see me without them.

    ME: Why would you take off your legs?

  • Don't touch my garbage!

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  • Is archive mode the appropriate tool for this? I would assume that's for when a repo is no longer receiving any updates from anyone, not just when the owner doesn't want others contributing.

  • Chat Control 2.0 has passed the first round of approval

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  • Chat Control 2.0 has passed the first round of approval

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  • outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service

    This is likely to be the case in practice, but technologically, it does not have to be the case.

    If the age verifiers (which IMO should be the governments themselves[^1], but could also be a private third-party, as long as it's not the same as the social media company) only ever receive a blinded token representing the user, verify the user's age, and then the user brings that token back to the social media site, unblind it, and present them the signed token, there is no way for the age verifier to track which sites a person visits, and no way for the sites to have any detail about who their users are (other than what they already have).

    [^1]: obviously, it actually shouldn't be anyone at all: parents should be put in charge of their own kids, and maybe given the tools with robust parental control software to handle it client-side. Government server-side age verification is just not a good option. But if we assume they're going to do that, we should at least discuss the way it could be done in the least-bad way.

  • The Pomodoro

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  • Make sure to take a five minute break after cooking this!

  • Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I

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  • I'm not sure what "piece linked" you're talking about, since none of the parent comments of this comment actually have a link in them.

    This is the first time I've ever heard of FUTO, but I did read their statement about open source and it sounds pretty good to me. I actually think they're capitulating a little bit too much by deciding not to call it open source anymore. As far as I'm concerned, if the source is available and anyone can contribute, that's open source. I don't particularly care whether or not it's free for Google to incorporate it into their increasingly-enshitified products or not.

    Creative Commons (an org to which FUTO says they have donated) doesn't like their licences being used for software, presumably for finicky technical legal reasons. But if you imagine the broad spirit of their licences applying to software, all the main CC licences would be open source in my opinion. All combinations of Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike, and No Derivatives, as well as CC0 respect the important elements of open source.

  • Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

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  • Visitors with UK IP addresses*

    FTFY

  • at least hitler cared

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  • what implies that it wouldn't?

    If the advice is "don't do this, let them do it", and the advice can go both ways, it kinda doesn't work as advice.

  • at least hitler cared

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  • You realise the exact same advice could be applied in reverse, right? If the relationship's gonna work, both people need to be interested in continuing it.

  • at least hitler cared

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  • The contacts app has a field for "first name" and one for "last name". I fill out the data that the forms give me. So yes, my parents are under their real names.

  • Dear god...

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  • while(true) { ... }

  • Just saying...

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  • Feathers more likely than keratinous hair.

  • Not promoting hate speech but what happened to all the slights/slurs/vulgarity from like the 20s and 40s. There were so many. Now it seems well I can only think of three?

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  • I thought for sure you'd be right. But it turns out, no! Dupe comes from 15th century French duppe, thieves' jargon, thought to come from Latin huppe/hoopoe, an extravagantly crested bird. Duplicity comes from Latin duplicitatem "doubleness".

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    The Blood of Dawnwalker lead say the medieval vampire RPG is a "narrative sandbox" with quests that "can be completed in any order, skipped entirely, or even never discovered at all"

    www.gamesradar.com /games/rpg/the-blood-of-dawnwalker-lead-say-the-medieval-vampire-rpg-is-a-narrative-sandbox-with-quests-that-can-be-completed-in-any-order-skipped-entirely-or-even-never-discovered-at-all/
  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is finally launching on October 21, and yes you'll technically be able to play as a Malkavian vampire

    www.pcgamer.com /games/rpg/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-is-finally-launching-on-october-21-and-yes-youll-technically-be-able-to-play-as-a-malkavian-vampire/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    How do I stop Docker trying to pull from IPv6?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    How to run a Chrome sandbox in Docker on a Synology?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    How to run a Node app on Synology?

  • PC Gaming @lemmy.ca
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    Age of Empires III Poles and Danes DLC cancelled

    www.ageofempires.com /news/age-of-empires-iii-definitive-edition-dlc-news/
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Where Does [the] Australia[n continent] End?

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    why women's pockets are useless | Answer in Progress

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Panic rule

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    NBC created the perfect template for Star Trek to follow with future comedies

    redshirtsalwaysdie.com /nbc-created-the-perfect-template-for-star-trek-to-follow-with-future-comedies-01jdndnpr09t
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Blahaj Rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Venn diagrule

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    Minor text rendering bug

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Affirming rule

  • Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works
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    Ahead of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 the first medieval RPG is 80% on Steam

    www.pcgamesn.com /kingdom-come-deliverance/steam-sale
  • Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    How does moderation work on Lemmy?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Sunfruler field

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Predictive text rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    196 rule

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    ‘Tragic and unnecessary’: Truck driver didn’t see cyclist hit and killed

    www.couriermail.com.au /truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-qld/tragic-and-unnecessary-truck-driver-didnt-see-cyclist-hit-and-killed/news-story/0458e9feee45cef8b142560f9fe77a37