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potungthul

@potungthul@toot.io

#intp
"Dirtfree" and "dus tfr ee" but not "stainfree"

log 😅 = 💧 log 😄
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weirdwriter, to internet

Another reason to add to your photos, basically, anywhere, is that, yes, there are sighted people that disable all images in their browsers because it's faster to browse.

potungthul,
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@weirdwriter

I think my case is far more common: I, a sighted person, look at the image, and I don't know what I'm looking at.

Sometimes I think I know what I'm looking at, but then the alt text tells me the intent of the person who posted is not at all what I thought.

E.g. I think I see a beautiful photo of a sunset behind mountains, but the alt text says: "wildfires are turning the afternoon sun red". Then I think: Good thing there was .

potungthul,
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@ChasMusic
@weirdwriter

Agreed that that is the role of captions. Still, often will reveal the intention behind the picture, something the writer had assumed was obvious, but not to me.

Also, often it is hard to get alt text to describe every single aspect of the picture. Knowing what the writer did describe lets me know where to focus my attention.
E.g. "class photo. Everybody is frowning" is very different from "class photo. Everybody is wearing red", even if it's the same photo.

dgar, to random
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The existence of Norway implies...

potungthul,
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@Professor_Stevens
@dgar

According to Wayne's World, that last one in the list of the six gates should be named "No Way", accompanied by another one named "Way", as per the attached figures.

Buffer logic gate (output=input) drawn with dark blue lines with white edges on red background, in the same style as the flag of Norway

DemocracySpot, to photography
@DemocracySpot@mstdn.social avatar

📷 Bowl.

potungthul,
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@DemocracySpot

Thanks for . I was trying to figure out if it was an overhead view looking down of a snowboarding track down a conical artificial hill, taken from the ski lodge at the top of the hill.

gaytracing, to random
@gaytracing@sakurajima.social avatar

I've been lurking for a while now but figured I would make an . You can call me ferret and I use she/her pronouns. I don't know how active I'll be because I'm pretty shy, but I decided to make an account because I've been trying other social medias since twitter was bought by musk and I decided to try out the fediverse after Cohost had their second big funding issue back in March. Currently my favorite anime are the show Bang Dream: It's MyGO and the movie Liz and the Blue Bird.

potungthul,
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@gaytracing

Welcome to Mastodon! I've never seen a cubic ferret before. :)

I realize that you might have been lurking for a while so you don't necessarily need all those newcomer tips. But everyone deserves a welcome, anyway, so here is yours!

Follow @FediTips for starter tips.
Check https://fedi.directory
for curated lists of whom you should follow.
Follow @lisamelton who boosts interesting and varied posts.
Do lots of searches for .

Glad you're here!

potungthul, to random
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@lisamelton
Lisa, at your discretion:

@Nonilex has been live-tweeting trial, in a very newbie-friendly, easy to understand way, especially if you can't read all previous threads to catch up.

From the boost count, leadership looks lower than what she deserves. I suspect it's just that people don't know about her feed. If you boost her once, I think people would become aware and could decide which live feed to follow.

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112377413008408639

Up to you.

RareBird_15, to linux
@RareBird_15@tweesecake.social avatar

Hi all. Hoping there are some users out there that can help me out. I'm using an old computer, not the one I mentioned in my previous posts, but a different one, and isn't speaking. I originally installed Mate, but Orca was freezing a lot, so I switched my to . It seemed like a lot of things were inaccessible, though, so I decided to try . I installed Gnome, chose GDM as the display manager, and restarted the computer. Now, Orca works on the login screen but nowhere else. It seems to be running, and when I run "orca --replace" in the terminal, I get an error about something only working with X11. I've been able to tell that by scanning the screen with on my . I need to get Orca up and running again so I can use my computer. What's the best way to do this, preferably without sighted help, as my mom and stepdad aren't good with .
@mastoblind @main

potungthul,
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@mdione

I was wondering that, too.

@k6gte @RareBird_15 @mastoblind @main

GottaLaff, to legal
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

NEW #TrumpTrial THREAD STARTS HERE 🧵 #legal #Trump 1/...

Anna Bower:

Trump has returned to his seat in courtroom 1530.

Keith Davidson is back on the stand.

Here we go!

potungthul,
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@GeePawHill
@GottaLaff

I echo those thanks.

@Nonilex also does a live feed of the court case, which is more like an editorial interpretation compared to Laffy's "anthology" style, but also very much appreciated.

Thank you to both of you!

alttexthalloffame, to accessibility
@alttexthalloffame@mastodon.social avatar

A few extra seconds of your time it takes to add a good image description can really improve someone's day.

"To a totally blind person like me it means a lot to have a picture in my mind of your images, especially the animal pics."

"I don't know what it is, but as a blind user it's making me emotional to be able to actually interact with content."

https://alttexthalloffame.org

potungthul,
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@alttexthalloffame
@blogdiva @Kimota94

So, I wanted to ask, especially to our blind users:

Sometimes an image is missing alt text, so I add it, and I add the tag

Does that help people find alt text, added by somebody else, that's not actually attached to the image posted?

Or do people find that there's no alt text, and then don't look in the replies for ?

I just hope my efforts aren't wasted.

Skepticat, to random
@Skepticat@mstdn.social avatar

Never on pants!

potungthul,
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@Skepticat
Ha ha! That's funny.

I'm going to be a bit of a wet blanket and ask you to correct the which currently says:

Test message (should be "text" message)

Did you spend $300 on plants?
No.
Correction: plants.

The first "plants" should be pants, to make the joke understandable and funny.

rolle, to random
@rolle@mementomori.social avatar

Welcome @poorlydrawnocs!

potungthul,
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@rolle

Is this a new user you know, then?
Hi. Welcome.

@poorlydrawnocs

potungthul, to random
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@lisamelton

Lisa: Please consider boosting if not already.

via @Waitnwallflower

https://beige.party/@Waitnwallflower/112334450705985630

totori, to random
@totori@squawk.social avatar

whoopsie. i joined Fedi a few months ago then
(1) got a job
(2) developed an overbearing paranoia about online privacy and stuff
(3) embarked on a WAY overcomplicated journey to back up and synchronise my digital life
and as a consequence felt i didn't have time to "maintain" an "online presence" :wshum:

but i'm back now (with a fresh username)! i kinda take everything too seriously - it's just fun to see what everyone's up to :gphn_happy:

potungthul,
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@totori

Welcome to Mastodon!

Don't feel you have to share anything you don't want. Tell us as much or as little about yourself as you want. Some people just lurk and never say anything.

You don't have to "maintain" an online presence. Respond or not respond as you wish. Take a few months break and then come back, if you like. The only thing is, some instances might go down so just check to see if squawk.social is still there every few months or so.

Glad you're here.

potungthul,
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@totori

Mastodon is great for talking to people without pressure or expectation. There are some celebrities here.

Follow @FediTips for starter tips.
Follow @FediFollows for curated lists of whom you should follow.
Follow @lisamelton who boosts interesting and varied posts.
Do lots of searches for .

You can follow lots of accounts/hashtags, then set "mute for home" so they don't show up on your home timeline (ie. default feed) but you can go check them whenever you're ready.

65dBnoise, to opensource
@65dBnoise@mastodon.social avatar

"With the cabinet decision, the state government has made the concrete beginning of the switch away from proprietary software and towards free, open-source systems and digitally sovereign IT workplaces for the state administration's approximately 30,000 employees.

[…] Due to the high hardware requirements of Windows 11, we would have a problem with older computers. With Linux we don't have that"

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/german-state-gov-ditching-windows-for-linux-30k-workers-migrating/

potungthul,
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@65dBnoise
This is years after the government of Munich made the switch, although then they switched back, and then it became a political thing.

I remember when Munich reported: yeah, switching to was more expensive due to "Total Cost of Ownership", accounting for the cost of switching itself.
Microsoft said: I told you so! So now you'll switch back, right?
Munich: no, now that we've switched, it's cheaper to stay with Linux!

Then politics happened, blah blah blah.

libreture, to random
@libreture@mastodon.social avatar

Foliate is a fantastic ebook reader for Linux.

I use it for checking the formatting for ebooks I stock at @scarletferret or to quickly check boos I store in my Libreture library.

It has lots of handy reading tools, and is well worth installing if you ever handle ebooks.

https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/

potungthul,
@potungthul@toot.io avatar

@libreture
@scarletferret

Thanks! Always good to hear about apps for Linux.

Have you used Calibre before? How does Foliate compare to Calibre?

KaraLG84, to mastoblind
@KaraLG84@dragonscave.space avatar

Blind hive mind, I wonder what the proper name for German film is, as in that plastic film that you draw on to create tactile images. It just seems to be known at least in the UK as German film, which surely can't be what it's actually called.
@mastoblind

potungthul,
@potungthul@toot.io avatar

@KaraLG84
@mastoblind

This is interesting. I've never heard of this material. (Disclaimer: I am sighted.) So there's a material on which you can draw something, and someone can feel the drawing and the shadow of the lines?

Please excuse my ignorance if this is already well-known in there circles.

bagder, to random
@bagder@mastodon.social avatar

(Easy) ways to help struggling open source projects:

  • step in and help review a few PRs

  • help the project triage/reproduce bugs

  • if code in the PR looks complicated or is hard to understand, ask for an explanation

  • express your gratitude to the maintainers

  • make your company sponsor projects they depend on

potungthul,
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@bagder
What is "PR"?

Carolepayne, to random
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Wordle 1,015 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟨⬛🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

potungthul,
@potungthul@toot.io avatar

@Carolepayne
Nice job!

Here's mine:
Wordle 1,016 5/6

🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oops, I did the Wordle to see how I'd compare, but it's a new puzzle word already. I wonder if I have my thing from yesterday. I don't do Wordle too often but I think I did it yesterday...

potungthul,
@potungthul@toot.io avatar

@Carolepayne

This is mine for 1015, the one that you did. You still beat me. :)

Wordle 1,015 4/6

🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

potungthul,
@potungthul@toot.io avatar

@Carolepayne
Oh, that was absolutely deliberate. In fact, my first three guesses have no letters in common.
After the first word there were too many possibilities, so my second guess I knew would be wrong but it would tell me which letters are in the secret word. Knowing none of the letters appeared was a big help (since the first two guesses cover the 10 most common letters) and I narrowed it down to four possibilities. The third eliminated all possibilities but one.

Fun stuff!

SaraVonglasenapp, to random
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Hey everyone! 💕 Before anything else, I just want to say a big thank you for letting me join Tooters! Here’s my ☺️ I’m Sara, 37 years young and I’m from Portugal. Right now, I’m living it up in the Netherlands. So excited to get to know all of you! 🩷

potungthul,
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@SaraVonglasenapp
@YadyO

I echo that welcome. I'm from toot.io, not tooters.org, but it looks like your instance and my instance are friends. Judging from the family name, they might be cousins.

+1 . Haven't been there for a long time, but I have fond memories. Why did you move there from Portugal?

Follow @FediTips for starter tips.
Follow @lisamelton who boosts a variety of interesting posts.
Do lots of searches for .

Hope you like it here!

lisamelton, to random
@lisamelton@mastodon.social avatar

After the disruption from the nightly build on Monday, I began experimenting with both @phanpy and @elk, alternate Web interfaces for Mastodon.

While is quite nice with always-available mouse-based back navigation, it doesn't seem to support either multi-column views or auto-refreshing timelines.

So, is a much better fit for my use case. However, it suffers the same limitation sorting notifications as the current unfixed nightly build, i.e. no quick-access filter bar.

1/4

potungthul,
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@lisamelton

Ah, yes, I recall you were involved with Apple, Lisa, so it's not surprising that you prefer the mouse/graphic paradigm though I personally prefer keyboard.

I envision your fingers wiggling your mouse in precision movements whipping out clicks and drags at superhuman speed. The movie camera pans up to your face showing that you're sipping your coffee, not even looking at the computer but just staring at the weather outside while you're doing 1.2kbps (kiloboosts/s)
:)

@craigmorgan

KathyReid, to mastodon
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A warm welcome to #Mastodon to @thorstenvoice - one of the best communicators about #ASR #TTS and #STT in the world. His #OpenSource #German #Deutsche dataset is in use in many places.

Please make Thorsten welcome 👋

#Introduction

potungthul,
@potungthul@toot.io avatar

@thorstenvoice
@KathyReid

Welcome to Mastodon! I generally try to make everyone feel welcome.

Having said that, what exactly is ASR, STT and TTS? Reading messages associated with those hashtags, I think the last two are computer conversion between speech and text? ASR brings me to a post about role playing games?

In any case, hope you like it here. We welcome everybody (including people like me who don't know what those acronyms mean).

:)

butchraptor, to ADHD
@butchraptor@mastodon.social avatar

M’yello. I am giving Mastodon another shot. So here’s another :

I am a from The Great Migration.
I love humor, jokes and funny toots.
I love to read. Mostly horror and thriller.
I love art doodling and music.

Also, not that it defines my life, but I am just now embracing my and how it affects my daily existence.


potungthul,
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@butchraptor

Welcome to Mastodon (again, I guess).

What happened the last time? Technical issues? Or people problems?
Anyway, hope you find a home here this time.

Feel free to share some of your doodles, if you feel comfortable.

If you didn't already know, follow @FediFollows for curated lists of whom you should follow.
Follow @lisamelton for an interesting and varied feed.
Do lots of searches for .

Glad you're here!

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