Just got blocked for telling someone “alt-text would be nice here” when they posted a picture of a sticker that was basically just text (without any alt text).
I guess that’s easier than admitting you don’t care about #alttext (which is fine, I guess, just be open about it at least).
Is there anything civilised I could do about this particular person?
@maegul if telling them that alt-text would be useful gets you blocked, I’d leave it at that. They are not going to change, and being adversarial does not give #AltText a better chance.
The other thing I would say is that getting a “mastodon users prefer X” message from someone you have not interacted with before always feels a bit odd. That should not be a blocking offense, but when there are too many of them, blocking becomes a temptation.
@maegul@torb I know one user who shall not be named who at the beginning tried to follow the practices that were imparted on them, and then it became too unbearable. They are happy now to block people… which they would not be doing if the tone/interactions were different.
I’ve reminded this person of the need for CWs certain times, and then they have used them when they believed it was best. But it was far from my first interaction with them.
“Many people in the global north tend to think that it is their right and that it is normal to consume the amount that we consume today,” says Vivian Frick. “They often completely forget that the consumption level that we have depends on exploiting other countries, having cheap resources from other countries, and having cheap labor. Prices would actually be very different if they were fair.”
« "Insisting that code is self-documenting is a form of gatekeeping and an example of an unhealthy project culture," Corleissen says. "I think the devaluation often comes from developers who see a static generator stack and think, 'How hard can it be?' One of my least favorite dismissive phrases: 'It’s just a pile of Markdown.' If only it were that easy! Documentation is code for an environment where (…) production regularly fails despite optimal conditions." »
«"Contributing to open source is not only a technical challenge but equally a social challenge. Documentation is needed to enable remote asynchronous collaboration, which is how communities work. If everything is stuck inside of people’s heads, that’s going to create an atmosphere of confusion, frustration, and inefficiency." Documentation isn’t just essential for code; it’s also a guide to understanding each project’s cultural and communication norms.»
@timbray this is one example where a Content Warning might have been useful for some people… and now that posts can be edited, probably CWs can be added retroactively.
I don't like Elon at all. I think he's a scourge on humanity. I'm easy that way.
Somebody was going to advance electric car technology. The fact he came along at the right time doesn't make him a hero. I judge the result good and the man bad. Aggressive domineering is not an admirable quality.
iCloud Drive has hit a very weird bug for me. I've used every Terminal and other solution. It stalls at a certain point—clearly a bad file or something. However, the Finder lacks good tools to pinpoint a fatal file. Does anyone know an Apple engineer I could send information to? It's clearly a combination of macOS and iCloud interaction. I can find other people with a similar problem online, but they typically solved it with one a number of techniques I've tried.
@timbray the median human has zero ovaries and two testicles… I was surprised to learn that the majority of the world’s population is now men, when it used to be women before 1960…
Specification is part of the documentation. It should be human-readable, not just machine readable… But it also has a role as driving tests, architecture, implementation…
Ivory for iOS/iPadOS 1.4 is out on the App Store! It will slowly roll out over the next few days, but if you want it now, go to the App Store and manually update.
@ivory neat upgrade. I clicked on the link to update, updates, and the new version welcomed me back in the very same post, but now I had access to the new media viewer/alt-text viewing… thanks!