hybrid havoc / is on Nostr

Work in #HigherEd #IT as a Business Analyst working with #EllucianColleague. Fan of #Fantasy #SciFi. Admin of darkfriend.social.

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2024-07-06 12:56:19

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Definitely seems like you have to strike some kind of balance between wanting a service that's good for the present (pulling in lots of posts through relays / Fedifetcher / follows) and one that's good for the past (keeping old posts stored).
I have opted for favoring the present, being joined to several relays and relay.fedi.buzz for relevant hashtags, while having a content cache retention period of just 20 days.

2024-07-01 20:00:16

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Yeah, it does nothing to actually describe the image (the purpose of alt text)

2024-06-26 20:04:34

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toots out for summer

2024-06-09 14:21:54

Looking forward to today's #XboxShowcase. Anyone else on the fedi plan to watch?
#VideoGames #Xbox #SummerGameFest

2024-06-05 15:49:03

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Speaking of keyboard shortcuts: if you're using multiple monitors on Windows, doing Win + Shift + Left Arrow / Right Arrow will move the active window from one monitor to another.

2024-06-05 15:41:36

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I think if it hadn't been a book club pick, or I hadn't DNFed the previous book as well, I might have. I don't regret having read it, but it's one of those where I think I like the idea of the book more than I like the execution.

2024-06-05 15:29:58

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I finally finished The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow. Good book overall, but wow did it ever sometimes feel drawn out. Some of that is the long-winded way of speaking the characters all take, part is the narrator following suit. I don't often bump up audiobook speeds but did this time.

2024-05-28 14:07:35

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As an admin of a small instance I've developed my own little python scripts, one of which looks at newly-learned accounts and tries to do some very rudimentary checks against them to detect potential spam.
I haven't looked at regexing the username / display name, but the next time there's a wave I become aware of I might try to come up with something to add to it.

2024-05-16 11:20:30

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I would say that unless you have a rule that the post is in clear violation of, you let it be.
If the post is reported by many other users (particularly users of your instance) then perhaps reach out to the poster and ask to CW, and consider whether you want to add something to the rules.
While I don't think moderation and the rules have to be a 1:1 tit-for-tat (which just promotes Rules Lawyering), there should be something applicable if you want to take action.

2024-05-14 13:50:33

I #AmReading The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow for the Brown Ajahs Bookclub.
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There's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. But when the Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement.
#AlixEHarrow #TheOnceAndFutureWitches #BrownAjahsBookClub
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2024-04-19 02:47:24

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you're never going to believe this but they make wireless headphones that are not earbuds.

2024-04-13 16:34:27

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You ask if they can "just skip it" but the issue is that when you're listening to the alt text of an image being read out and it gets to something like a URL there is no way to know 1) how long the URL is going to be, or 2) whether there is still useful information on the other side of that URL. The same would go for something like copyright information.
A sighted individual can look at a paragraph and instantly have that context. That isn't available through a screen reader.

2024-04-13 16:30:41

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I'm mostly just curious at this point about the framing of the question. Like, if you know that's not what alt text is there for and that it's better for people to not do it, then what do you hope to do with whatever answers you get here?
I do not personally use a screen reader day-to-day, though do occasionally use screen readers for testing accessibility. In my experience this sort of use would be extremely annoying.
If they are willing to speak on it, [@9ValleyMaiden](https://darkfriend.social/@9ValleyMaiden) could say more.