admiralpatrick

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago

Because that would greatly harm accessibility for the visually impaired.

And if you wanted to adhere to accessibility guidelines for the conversational images, you’d need to add alt text to them. But then the ML models can train on that, so you’re back to square one.

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

mediabiasfactcheck.com/hindustan-times/

MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY

Overall, we rate the Hindustan Times Left-Center Biased and questionable due to poor sourcing, numerous failed fact checks, and the promotion of propaganda

<span style="color:#323232;">Questionable Reasoning: Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Poor Sourcing, Numerous Failed Fact Checks
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Factual Reporting: MIXED
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Country: India
</span><span style="color:#323232;">MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MODERATE FREEDOM
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Media Type: Newspaper
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
</span>

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago

Yeah, I got that from the post, and I appreciate it. Which is why I’ve chosen to leave it up. It’s certainly an unpopular opinion based on the types of comments I’ve seen elsewhere, it’s not calling out anything specifically, and the message is important.

If you want to edit it to be more generic, that’d be cool. Otherwise, I’m just gonna watch to make sure the discussions/comments don’t go off the rails. When the new mod team took over, we all agreed we should leave politics at the door since it’s everywhere and sometimes you just need a reprieve.

Not sure where the line is for that, exactly, but I’m willing to allow some generic, good-faith discussion once in a while. May need to chat with the other mods to see how they feel about it.

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

For the record, I agree with everything you’re saying.

As a mod, I have to say “Rule 1: No Politics”.

That said, I’m going to allow this as long as it remains civil and discussion is done in good faith without “Godwin’s Law” coming into play. I’ll be actively moderating this thread, so please keep discussions as generic as possible, and no blaming/figer-pointing/name-calling/etc. I’ll probably also be locking it once I’m unable to keep an eye on it (no offense and nothing personal, OP).

That that said, other mods of the community may disagree and remove it, as it is technically violating rule 1 (which we all agreed was for the ultimate benefit of the community). If one of the other mods decides this post should be removed, then I support that decision.

So, for now, carry on, but be civil.

admiralpatrick, 26 days ago

Lol, yeah. I was referencing the plot (Elaine accidentally grabs her breast in the sauna and tells Jerry she think’s they’re fake).

Also, I tried to merge that exact GIF into the static image but failed miserably 😆.

admiralpatrick, 26 days ago

As a GIF, that scene looks like it’s cut from a horror movie lol.

admiralpatrick, 26 days ago

https://dev.dubvee.org/image_proxy/lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cf45394a-0906-4cd0-a67e-e5a4f9b508a6.webp?fallback=true

admiralpatrick, 8 days ago

OP, the wording of the post is very confusing. Would you mind perhaps editing the post to clarify your opinion?

Thanks!

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago

There’s an amazing bakery near me that’s like that. People have just kind of adapted, and it seems to work well for the business. They start at like 4 in the morning to bake everything they’re going to sell for the day, open at 7, and are pretty much always sold out by 10:30 or 11.

If I recall, I think they do a lot of catering, so the part of the shop that’s open to the public is kind of an afterthought. I’m never able to get there when they have the good stuff, but it’s an amazing treat when someone from the office stops by early in the morning and brings a box of something.

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago

Is it weird that I read your reply in Frasier’s voice?

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago

Yeah, timezones are annoying when you want to do something for a specific day. Figured going by UTC would make the most sense.

It’s still March for me as well haha.

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago

We did discuss that, but figured it might be too confusing. Plus, with the federation delays that were happening yesterday, didn’t want to take the risk.

Just assume the new signage isn’t here yet lol

admiralpatrick, 6 days ago

I’ve been using this one a bit more during these federation backups. I can’t really adopt it as my daily driver, though. My home instance is the one I run, so I tend to favor it. lol

admiralpatrick, 7 days ago

If my instance ever gets sync’d back up where I can interact in something approximating real-time, I may make that happen lol.

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago

Rule 3 seems to be very unenforced lately 😠

admiralpatrick, 17 days ago

https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExdzI0N2EwYXAxdnUzcjM2bWdsMTM2eWNjMGpxaXFneXY4YmtuYm0wbCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/c1zviFHCf4pq0/giphy.gif

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago

I don’t know if it was intentional on OP’s part, but our April Fool’s Day rules are in effect at the moment, so posts are expected to be “Popular Opinions” .

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago

Lol. Only the post submissions are expected (though not required) to be Popular for today. Comments, as usual, are open season.

admiralpatrick, 7 days ago

Good lord, I can’t believe Lemmy World’s federation queue is backed up for so many other instances because of stupid shit like this.

admiralpatrick, 7 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Oh, I was just lamenting that such a garbage post is contributing to the backlog because of the activities it generates (which LW has to federate out since its “owns” the community this was posted in). Basically a potshot at a low-effort, shit take of a post.

admiralpatrick, 7 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

It’s a Lemmy thing. Basically latency limits the maximum number of activities that can be sent per second (they’re sent like TCP: serially, and each must be acknowledged). When LW has a LOT of activities to send out, they can get backlogged if there’s significant latency between LW and other federated servers.

That’s the gist of it, anyway.

admiralpatrick, 1 month ago

I’ve seen this site get spammed in the past, but it’s been a few months. Guess they’re at it again.

That whole site is an unholy mixture of religion, conspiracy, and Elon Musk. It’s bonkers.

Basically if you see tiblur [dot] com, you can pretty much just report it as spam.