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7 hours agoEveryone eventually dies.
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then it’s an unsettled contest between a split community
a language’s community isn’t bound by any rules: it’s free to change a language however it chooses
I’ve found a language policing minority on here try to pejorate female as derogatory, and I explain to them that by trying to induct sexist presuppositions into the language they’re either sexist or playing themselves
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Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative:
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- 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
- 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.
yes, conventions (which include natural language) work that way: the community of users sets the convention
what if I told you images can have alt text?
- usability
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.
image of longass text
- usability
Instagram had recommended 1.4 million potentially inappropriate adults to teenagers in a single day in 2022
What does that even mean?
That all still seems like catastrophizing over videos, images, text on a screen that can’t compel action or credible harm. I expect that lawsuit to go nowhere.
As the US Congressional commission on similar laws reported decades ago
- age verification is ineffective with highly adverse impacts
- client-side filtering[1] is more effective with less adverse impacts.
Those conclusions still hold today.
ie, parental controls, which have been available & widespread for ages. Parents supply their children with technology & pay for everything they have. It’s entirely within their power to enable parental controls on all their children’s devices instead of expect government to take over their parenting duties. ↩︎
How do people avoid smelling their own farts? Do they run away?
3·5 days agoNeeds 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.
Principally because I don’t know who those bitches are.
- usability
That’s still pretty normal. People (think they) feel how others do. It takes effort & practice to dissociate and try not to feel.
Not necessarily. It usually means somewhat selflessly feeling or understanding how they might feel enough to care about their wellbeing & treat them compassionately.
If you’re selective about the recipients of your empathy (eg, only those you care about or near you), then you’re not really an empath or a good one. Buddhists had empathy & compassion figured out. Jesus stated it, too, with love your enemies. I’ve frequently seen people try to wield empathy as a cudgel and miss the point.
You just described abilities within the normal range of interpersonal skills: reading emotions. That doesn’t imply feeling them.
OP was ridiculing the projection of emotions people don’t necessarily have but that the subject arrogantly assumes they do.
Needs text alternative.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative:
- 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
- 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.
Yep, they’re special.
- usability
kink-shaming
3·11 days agoI like pretending to be a bot for the extra charm: beep boop.
Same point in saying anything online: none. That’s social media.
Lemmy is great place to say shit about reddit that reddit won’t let you say because it’s a moderation hellscape.
Programmer explicitly bypasses code safety with
unwrap.
Let’s blame it on their programming language!Cool hot take, brah.
Nah, a child is entitled to full parental care. In cases of financial hardship, the state may provide support. Adoptive parents may takeover responsibilities. Whoever the parents are, though, they are responsible.
This consideration has nothing to do with abortion & everything to do with parental obligations the child.
Right, and no one’s shaming them?
Also
He was 17 at the time but initially charged as an adult.
A minor: charging minors as adults is unjust, and a sentence appropriate for minors should be expected.
Not how natural languages work. Those “authorities” merely claim to be. You can call yourself the king of Kentucky, too.
Yes, they are whether they recognize it or not: their policing would have that effect. Older activists understood that and chose to reclaim words like black & queer as words of pride instead. Newer activists would be wise to follow that example: by instead trying to establish self-demeaning complexes into the language, they are playing themselves.
The rest you wrote is misguided opinion you’d ironically perpetuate.
Counterfactual. The language community decides the meaning of words through observed usage, and in the preponderance of the community, female is inoffensive. That includes among females themselves. Female is used self-referentially “in-group”: it shows up in feminist book titles, in dating communities (eg, “F4F/M”), classifieds (eg, “need a roommate […] females only”), etc. In conventional language, female is an acceptable word.
From an external, impartial observer, claiming there’s a problem with the word female with little regard for context communicates the problem resides in whatever the word itself denotes rather than the contextual meaning.
This analogy fits you.
Imagine online activists started condemning usage of the word dutch as a slur. It’s bizarre: there is nothing wrong with the dutch, yet they’re acting as though we should think so & resist that urge? Why are they propagating problematic presuppositions we don’t have about the dutch? Why are they trying to make this official? Are they some special breed of stupid?
Continuing this analogy, they drag you into fights by claiming you’re a racist for using the word when you’re not actually saying anything offensive about the dutch. You & the rest of society know the word dutch isn’t offensive, yet these activists insist it is by pointing to some fringe online community spewing vitriolic propaganda about dutch inferiority specifically using the word dutch. You repudiate their claim by asking why some fringe group irrelevant to wider society gets to decide the meaning of words, but they condemn your “hurtful” language and say you’re as bad as them or one of them. Don’t be an asshole & use another word like Dutchperson, Netherlander, or Hollander they say: it’s the right thing to do & shows socially conscientious, moral rectitude.
Logic has no sex. You’d be wise not to promote sexism.