lmmarsano

@lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨egg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So, mildly infuriating? Cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission preparing token gesture for angry gamers and game developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • healthcare: lives & health at stake
  • agriculture: environment & health at stake
  • video games: ?

  one of these is not like the others

  sorry, bruh: on a scale from critically important to idgaf, this ain’t ranking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission preparing token gesture for angry gamers and game developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, and the suckers who did can suck big, fat ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨call of the void⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in favor of helping dumbass humans no matter who they are. They’re not endangered. They’re ruining the planet. And we have all these other species on the planet that need saving, so why are we saving them?

  If someone wants to kill themselves, some empty, token gesture won’t stop them. It does, however, give everyone else a smug sense of satisfaction that they’re “doing something”, and plenty of people who’ve attempted suicide seem to think it’s hollow virtue signaling. Systematic reviews bear out the ineffectiveness crisis hotlines, so they’re not popularly touted for effectiveness.

  If someone really wants to kill themselves, I think that’s ultimately their choice, and we should respect it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨call of the void⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems more like a dumbass people problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King forgot his crown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  1. image of text: there’s this cool alternative called text that doesn’t break the web or accessibility. linking to source & quoting text makes an altogether better web for everyone.
  2. dictionary definition: not an official, legal definition.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does people doing things that upset others also upset you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bans are rarely justified. Strong emotions aren’t a good reason to ban much. If there are minimally invasive alternatives, and we can let others be, that’s typically better.

  Emotions aren’t a good reason for anything, really. I prefer to understand & make sense of feelings before I allow myself to indulge them in myself or others.

  Judgement of right & wrong can operate on reason, and it’s better that it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does people doing things that upset others also upset you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bans are rarely justified. Strong emotions aren’t a good reason to ban much. If there are minimally invasive alternatives, and we can let others be, that’s typically better.

  Emotions aren’t a good reason for anything, really. I prefer to understand & make sense of feelings before I allow myself to indulge them in myself or others.

  Judgement of right & wrong can operate on reason, and it’s better that it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does people doing things that upset others also upset you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, not in general: too much unjustified outrage & idiocy in the world over unreasonable shit. Karens, bigots, culture warriors, pearl clutchers.

  There are also legitimate differences in the world, and we need to respect rights to dissent & differ.

  They need to be justifiably upset. Only then is it understandable. However, getting upset over it is not generally a good move: it may lead to poor decisions. Better to stay collected, acknowledge the problem, apply fair judgement to correct the matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS describes too many people today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Language policing of this sort is a red flag indicative of an ignorant, contentious trendhopper picking a fight over conventional English usage.

  It’s conventional usage:

  we can check the dictionary

  > # female > noun > > 1. > 1. a female person : a woman or a girl > 2. an individual of the sex that is typically capable of bearing young or producing eggs > 2. a pistillate plant > # male > noun > > 1. > 1. a male person : a man or a boy > 2. an individual of the sex that is typically capable of producing small, usually motile gametes (such as sperm or spermatozoa) which fertilize the eggs of a female > 2. a plant having stamens but no pistils

  or plainly observe unsolicited speech productions

  • here on lemmy or in the news such as where a mother refers to her daughters as females

    “What if I would have been armed,” she said. “You’re breaking in. What am I supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed—that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. […]"

  • in singles communities, personals, classifieds, marketplaces offer abundant instances
  • in book titles & passages containing the word females or males, especially feminist or gender studies literature.

  What good cause is advanced by treating nouns female & male as toxic, dirty words?

  This kind of language policing is misguided & exhausting, and we need to police that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School legend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More like present day recognizer of dat ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School legend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what happens when you let children watch the Tate brothers.

  Or hear the kid out: dat ass. 😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Credit cards and debit cards can be disabled at a whim. Prone to being fucked up by computer error

  That’s the beauty: my card goes missing, I can lock it. Unauthorized charges can be reversed. I’m alerted of any charge immediately. Cards extend warranties on purchases & provide purchase protections.

  don’t work when the internet is down, or during a disaster with no power.

  Unless you carry around a huge supply of cash at all times, you’ll be in the same bind withdrawing cash: ATMs & account ledgers run on power & networks.

  Cash always goes through, though.

  That’s also a problem: anyone can use my cash. If they steal it, I have no way to disable it, and it’s more difficult to recover. If I lose it, it’s most likely gone.

  Cash will always remain king.

  Not in terms of security or recovery.

  I could withdraw cash, and carry it around, but then it won’t earn high interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More than maybe one. Some also accept deposits through stores. I’ve never used them or needed to.

  It was easy to adapt away from cash, and I prefer the safeguards of credit & mobile pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that not the purpose of their ATM networks? Though I never use them, I read some offer deposits that way.

  I’ve always direct deposited or scanned checks. If someone needs to send me cash, it’s always through some service like Zelle, ACH, or online bill pay. I don’t like to carry cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  overdraft fee

  I’ve switched to online banking & brokerage accounts and never had to think about those again.

  • They block overdrafts without charging a fee.
  • Deposited cash often earns high interest rates.
  • Large ATM networks or ATM fee refunds.

  Some guides

  • online banks
  • online brokers
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listen here, Little Dicky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Brah, chain rule & function composition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know which voice to use. We all know which voice to use.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless someone watched Borat or recognizes some Dune character (I haven’t & don’t), this context is shit, so I can’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know which voice to use. We all know which voice to use.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone explain this bullshit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless they state the risk & danger and support those claims with something concrete & rational (instead of leaving it to ungrounded speculation), it seems like peanuts. I like to set parameters around my anxiety & keep it real.

  For decades, we had phonebooks publish names, addresses, phone numbers, and the sky didn’t fall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  alt text for accessibility?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You had me pondering…yes, quotation dash: it is a thing in English, just less common!

  Please disregard what I wrote before: you had it almost correct, but use em dashes — as you suggested before. Some OSes offer nice character pickers for less common punctuation: for example, Windows summons it with WindowsKey+.. Apologies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not realistic for all users to follow semantics

  Not realistic for users to write lists the normal way that doesn’t look wrong? I don’t know guys

  -first
  
  -second
  
  -third
  

  looks obviously bad whereas

  - first
  - second
  - third
  

  looks right. Then you see the rendered result in preview.

  I don’t think this is asking much.

  If you weren’t trying to write a list, though, then I don’t know what you were doing & I doubt a chat bot will either: could you link to an example of what you were trying to do? For all you know, I’m a chat bot not figuring out your intent. No technology is about to fix PEBKAC.

  I think the bottom line is if you write lists normally, then everything else including accessibility will turn out right without you needing to understand the intricacies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  clever

  You use that word…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good question: for basic accessibility, structure should be conveyed, which adds

  when technologies support programmatic relationships, it is strongly encouraged that information and relationships be programmatically determined

  The web supports programmatic relationships through correct markup, so the technique using semantic elements to mark up structure applies, specifically by using ol, ul and dl for lists or groups of links or the markdown equivalent.

  If you want to experience this yourself, then put on a blindfold, use a screenreader & compare your “list” to mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So breaking accessibility for the heck of it? How forward-thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  -Why there are pyramids in Egypt?

  -Because Brits couldn’t moved them to British Museum.

  how to write lists

  markdown - Why there are pyramids in Egypt? - Because Brits couldn’t moved them to British Museum. renders to > - Why there are pyramids in Egypt? > - Because Brits couldn’t moved them to British Museum.

  Markdown guide is in the toolbar (?⃝) alongside a button for lists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because my precious data bellyachers & tinfoil hatters basically.

  Am I the only one who wonders how to get this in Edge? I like my shit integrated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  photograph of monitor

  Does OP know about screenshots or alt text? 🤦