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I made it pretty clear he's a terrible person, just for many, many other reasons that are far easier to argue.

Defending a pedophile doesn't make one a pedophile. That's the stretch I'm arguing against.

I can't believe I'm defending Stallman here. He's got so many other reasons to be hated.

I haven't personally tested this, so this is all an assumption because of how related things work. But I've done extensive accessibility testing throughout the years and things tend to act the same.

On the web app for Lemmy, alternative text should be called out instead of the image (well, alongside since it lets you know there's an image with alt text). When you use an image as the text of a link (so, what is normally a clickable image) it should call out that it's a link, then that the link is an image, then that the image has alt text. This is not dissimilar to how things work if the image won't load and the alt text is shown instead.

On mobile apps it's the wild west, almost entirely depending on if the app developers put in the additional effort to make all of that information available to screen readers. By default not a whole lot is given other than the text itself so images are often completely skipped or called out without the alt text.

Richard Stallman is a bad person but I don't think we need to make stuff up to prove that. He's said he's fine with child pornography (as long as it's consensual) and might have favorable views on pedophilia (that may have since been backtracked) but that doesn't make himself a pedophile.

Just a misunderstood crazy person.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/richard-stallman-returns-to-fsf-18-months-after-controversial-rape-comments/

Yes. It partially makes sense because you could screw the new congresspeople who aren't corrupt with hidden income sources into not being able to afford their living situation, which could become a really bad point of leverage for awful people. I believe their staff goes without pay though.

I've got a mini and am looking into getting another mini or a full size. Caper sounds like a fantastic name considering how sneaky my current one is.

A lot of people don't realize the difference between psychologists and psychiatrists. It doesn't help that a lot of places offer "therapy with medication management" so it's all through the same place but with two different people.

A lot of it was updated with both OSM (imagery via Mapillary) and Google Maps.

While I love the "don't make Google stronger" stance, the goal wasn't to help Google but instead to help the people who needed the imagery. And (at the time, at least) most people planned their routes using Google Maps so it was important to meet them where they were.

Whoa I had no idea this happened. I used to be a part of a group that would go in and add street view for places like public transit stations so people could gauge accessibility. It's such a shame that Google killed that ability...

There's nothing worse than SSHing into a remote machine, coding some stuff in vim and losing the SSH connection randomly. Especially when you're working in a controlled remote environment instead of locally, screen is super useful to keep your place when you get back.

My knowledge on Hamas amounts to the first half of their Wikipedia page so I'd love to learn some more about their. While I can Google their name I'm going to get some weirdly biased shit that will probably contradict itself quickly. Got any suggestions for sources I can read up on to learn more about Israel's influence there?

After we lost that one expensive spacecraft we've been moving towards metric more and more there as well.

Both? Both!

They're starting to charge $0.30/packet in some areas of the US. Clearly this place is going downhill only because of that /s

My neighbor used to walk his cat on a leash to stay active in both of their old age. It used to be cute to watch the snow white cat just walking around with his harness, having the time of his life.

Cats shouldn't be left to roam free outdoors.

Yes, because not all drugs are bad for you.

I can only imagine they meant caffeine, another common drug that's heavily abused but a little more socially accepted

Definitely a lot more out in the country than in the cities or even suburbs. 10% sounds about right.

I think it's fair to say that our understanding of history, something which can change because it's always in the context of the present, has changed.

"Living the dream" is also in the US but it's usually more sarcastic like "Just another shitty day at this job, just living the dream!"