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by kixiQu 4y ago
https://witcher-games.fandom.com/wiki/Baked_potato The same kind of "and not even accurate medieval Europe" complaint as the article, when I do agree with you that the myopic focus on Europe is more importa
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Right – something else like Github, the component under discussion, which is dissimilar to SourceHut in more ways than the gamification elements under discussion.
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What I am saying is that, both in what I've seen and what you've stated, SourceHut is emphatically not trying to be "Github but just without the gamification elements", so if that's what people are looking for, th
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If you are also down with requiring that your would-be contributors conform to his preference for email patches. https://man.sr.ht/git.sr.ht/send-email.md "SourceHut is not GitHub/GitLab/Gitea, and you w
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Fully agreed – it at least seems like you could tune for this in your less deterministic algorithmic sorting, too. There's no Reddit Constitution that says an upvote is an upvote is an upvote – so you could weight upvotes issued from
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Some day some master's student is going to write a thesis on the history of the #witchcraft tag on Tumblr and how it functioned as a social space and I only hope my username does not appear. :D
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Yeah – I'm not even sure we can call it adversarial where there seems to be no signal for relevancy. I'm sure there are "good" reasons for not having one (where by "good" I mean "profitable") but oo
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> active, thorough exploration of particular topics > discovery to the level you are describing It is not a thorough or sophisticated search-engine-type task to "use a celebrity's name as a tag to look at pictures of a celeb
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> Right, but it was never meant to specialize in user-directed filtering and discovery We agree: > Instagram's ontology is designed to not make this possible, because everything about it is meant to facilitate tube-feeding So as
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> For example, posts that contain both #jenniferlawrence and #hoodedeyes would be what you are looking for I mean, not to overwork it, but in this example, this isn't accurate: I just want pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, not the much
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I went and got my laptop to type up a reply to this: Instagram's tagging system was and is atrocious in combination with their discovery mechanisms and the incentives they create. A real example, this has been true for years: I want
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People are not necessarily all on the same side of defining "the issue", FWIW.
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Truth! I treat Olia Lialina as the prime academic expert on this: https://interfacecritique.net/book/olia-lialina-from-my-to-m... > There was no time in the history of the Web when building your home was celebrated
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Please change the title of this submission. It misrepresents the content
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The younger generation seems unexpectedly into it: https://neocities.org
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> It's because there is no exchange, if I give you a birthday gift can that be considered income? Obviously not as I am not asking for something in return. > However: > If I buy you a gift and we agree for the gift you do task
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Can someone who has access say if they count healthcare and disability? Because WHOO that's a huge difference within the sectors where you see bifurcation
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The thing about invoking "scapegoating" is that the goat definitionally did not do what it's being tossed into the desert for. > Even, landfills and incinerators are better than dumping it in the ocean. https:/&#x2
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Isn't it kind of explicitly about not being scalable?
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I am a ~single-user Mastodon instance admin. It is a big hassle to get set up, but then I never have to really think about it day-to-day. That said, there are also a lot of other good instances, and I am jealous of folks with a nice local t
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I would have guessed that it means something like "you know how you need to get postgres, redis, and elasticsearch up for a good mastodon install? none of those"
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hypercore :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_(web_browser) https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/
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To be clear, when you move accounts, your old server will notify the servers of all the people who follow you such that they will silently be updated to following your new account. This is not something you can do yourself at all; you can c
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Can you cite someone talking about this? Another commenter has pointed to w3 stuff on non-conforming versions and from there I got here: https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/conformance.html#... . You can&#x
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Wouldn't it be more the opposite? Someone's elsewhere in these comments noting that a screen reader can navigate through the structure of paragraphs much better than blobs of alt text.
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There is a technological reason! https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/ballp...
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Is that really a goal of accessibility, though? Are image descriptions not "separate"? If this is not enough, should no one have any images on the web at all? I don't think we should discourage people from setting up systems
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There is a link to the transcript, and the link has alt text indicating what it is.
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Where is "marketing" coming from here? If you read more of her stuff, I think it's clear that it's presented as sort of a personal space. When written for an audience that isn't The General Hacker News Audience, thi
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This is very important to not forget. We might also note, though, that that same indemnification exists in a context where e.g. the postal service is under no obligation to keep people from sending things in code to each other, even if poli

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