lmmarsano

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Needs text alternative.Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

  • usability
    • we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
    • text search is unavailable
    • the system can't
      • reflow text to varied screen sizes
      • vary presentation (size, contrast)
      • vary modality (audio, braille)
  • accessibility
    • lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
    • some users can't read this due to lack of alt text
    • users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
    • systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices
  • web connectivity
    • we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
    • we can't explore wider context of the original message
  • authenticity: we don't know the image hasn't been tampered
  • searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
  • fault tolerance: no text fallback if
    • image breaks
    • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

They're both public nuisances & can be reported as noise disturbances.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Any communist that says they want to “form and participate in a vanguard party” has no understanding of revolutions and left theory.

So, did Soviets get the concept wrong? It's often claimed dictatorship of the proletariat doesn't mean an actual dictator, yet there it was.

What do we call the Soviet concept of vanguard if not vanguardism?

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago

Not yet, but we can help.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

No, society doesn't owe people whatever you're pushing. Liberty > bullshit state intrusion to act as everyone's nanny. No one has to agree with your bullshit concern or agree to nonsense impositions.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Cool catastrophizing. Humanity will cope. People have a fundamental freedom to fail by their own doing.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Again, their problem: let them go to shit. It's everyone's fundamental right to fuck themselves over.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Parents who were also raised by social media?

Yes: their problem.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

But nobody does that, and the problem is getting worse.

Past an education campaign, that's a them problem. Imprisoning everyone would fix problems, too. Why don't we do that?

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

forgetting just how racist and misogynistic the Republican Party is

They didn't forget.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Relevance is the only consideration that matters. Background & history is irrelevant.

The best solution is for everyone to adopt this as regular practice to help users like OP lose their marbles at non-issues.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 1 week ago

Statements comparing the EU to Nazi Germany are “part of the freedom of speech that we very much praise in the EU,” which “allows even for the craziest statements that you can imagine,”

That's news to Germany.

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