@lmmarsano

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 56 minutes ago

At best, this guy lacks basic common sense.

Common sense is a myth & lack of it is unsurprising. Nothing of substance here.

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 24 hours ago

As the US Congressional commission on similar laws reported decades ago

age verification is ineffective with highly adverse impacts
client-side filtering^[1] is more effective with less adverse impacts.

Those conclusions still hold today.

ie, parental controls, which have been available & widespread for ages. Parents supply their children with technology & pay for everything they have. It’s entirely within their power to enable parental controls on all their children’s devices instead of expect government to take over their parenting duties. ↩︎

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 2 days ago

People like to single out the state violence record of any president like they’ve never paid attention to history. Practically all US presidents in recent history are the same. Only Jimmy Carter has been light in military operations, though they exist.

Singling out Obama is particularly annoying, because all they did is still conduct the same senseless violence as usual, but update the technology to drones: wow.

People notice the tradition of violent foreign policy, hate it, & don’t understand why the government acts like it’s necessary (probably dickheads trained in the same dickhead institutions pushing the same dickhead political theories), but there doesn’t seem to much popular will to end it.

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 4 days ago

classic weaponization of “antisemitism”

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 5 days ago

So, they shouldn’t challenge the tariffs?

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 5 days ago

Presidential death trap.

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 5 days ago

kink-shaming

lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 6 days ago

Needs text alternative.

Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

usability
- we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can’t
  - reflow text to varied screen sizes
  - vary presentation (size, contrast)
  - vary modality (audio, braille)
accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can’t read this due to lack of alt text
- users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can’t explore wider context of the original message
authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

There was that whole genocidal, racial supremacist, fascism thing…