My take is that everyone does it for their own posts, it’s not actually that much effort. And it’s an amount of effort that’s worth it, to make the threadiverse a more welcoming and accessible place. If even one post I transcribe is seen by one blind or vision-impaired user, I’ll consider the work worth it.

The fediverse broadly is already far better for accessibility than sites like Reddit and Twitter, with users in general far more likely to be aware of things they can do to promote access for users with special needs. But we can still do better, especially our threadiverse corner of the fediverse. Considering one of the reasons for outrage over Reddit dumping their API was the impact on users of blind-focused third-party apps, that’s particularly disappointing.

That’s a pretty good point. For these standard template memes I usually go to Know Your Meme and copy/paste the relevant section of their description. In this case it looks like they said “also landing on it”, which I think is supposed to get across the same idea, but it does seem easy to read that without getting the intended idea.

My ideal hope is that by modelling good behaviour, I can encourage more OPs to provide transcriptions themselves in the body or the alt-text field.

If OPs take my transcriptions and edit it into the body, that’s pretty good too. Especially if more people take up the work so transcriptions get posted on posts that I don’t do myself.

The algorithm is far too fickle for me to have even considered my comment getting upvoted to the top. Good if it happens I guess, but not in my consideration.

Yeah, it’s much, much better if OPs provide their own transcription. It’s much easier to see that way. Mastodon and Pixelfed both basically yell at you if you don’t do it, and it’s a shame that Lemmy isn’t the same.

For small transcriptions, there’s an “alt text” field in the post itself, and for longer ones, they can be placed into the body of the post.

Interestingly, the earliest example of this meme listed on Know Your Meme is “junior react developer”, “senior react developer”. So this meme seems to have come full circle.

Is archive mode the appropriate tool for this? I would assume that’s for when a repo is no longer receiving any updates from anyone, not just when the owner doesn’t want others contributing.

I’m not sure what “piece linked” you’re talking about, since none of the parent comments of this comment actually have a link in them.

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of FUTO, but I did read their statement about open source and it sounds pretty good to me. I actually think they’re capitulating a little bit too much by deciding not to call it open source anymore. As far as I’m concerned, if the source is available and anyone can contribute, that’s open source. I don’t particularly care whether or not it’s free for Google to incorporate it into their increasingly-enshitified products or not.

Creative Commons (an org to which FUTO says they have donated) doesn’t like their licences being used for software, presumably for finicky technical legal reasons. But if you imagine the broad spirit of their licences applying to software, all the main CC licences would be open source in my opinion. All combinations of Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike, and No Derivatives, as well as CC0 respect the important elements of open source.

Visitors with UK IP addresses*

FTFY

while(true) { ... }

I understand the argument in favour of dangling commas, but oh gods I hate it. Aesthetically it’s just so awful.

Not even auto-update. Just auto detect updates. Then you go and download it yourself manually.

Auto-update-detection meant that the software was calling out to a remote server, so they updated the TOS to reflect that, and people got upset.

From what I could tell when I looked into it after a comment someone left on !nebula@lemmy.world, some people were very upset at the privacy implications of Audacity adding an update detection mechanism (which can be turned off, and which is not included at all in the default build if you build it yourself).

Watched last weekend.

On Nebula? !nebula@lemmy.world if you’re interested.

Same on Dvorak.

Though the custom coder’s Dvorak I use while programming has a dedicated ! key. Shift still needed for : though.

There’s this meme of ‘why is ChatGPT expert on everything but the area I have knowledge of’.

That’s just Gell-Mann amnesia applied to chat bots.

There’s a ~/.docker/config.json. In that there’re some auths, with keys https://index.docker.io/v1/, https://index.docker.io/v1/access-token, and https://index.docker.io/v1/refresh-token, and then there’s "currentContext": "rootless".

There’s ~/.docker/contexts/meta/[a long hex string]/meta.json, with {"Name":"rootless","Metadata":{"Description":"Rootless mode"},"Endpoints":{"docker":{"Host":"unix:///run/user/1000/docker.sock","SkipTLSVerify":false}}}.

The only file in /etc/docker is key.json.

I never set one up myself, and this 11 year-old thread implies that Raspbian doesn’t have one set up by default. It is a very old thread though, so could be wrong.

edit: this is more recent and also says Raspbian doesn’t have DNS caching by default

$ dig registry-1.docker.io

; <<>> DiG 9.18.33-1~deb12u2-Debian <<>> registry-1.docker.io
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50801
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;registry-1.docker.io.          IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
registry-1.docker.io.   33      IN      A       54.210.249.78
registry-1.docker.io.   33      IN      A       44.218.153.24
registry-1.docker.io.   33      IN      A       107.20.112.188
registry-1.docker.io.   33      IN      A       34.234.222.10
registry-1.docker.io.   33      IN      A       34.195.83.243
registry-1.docker.io.   33      IN      A       52.21.128.203
registry-1.docker.io.   33      IN      A       52.0.248.137
registry-1.docker.io.   33      IN      A       52.207.69.161

;; Query time: 47 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.20.1#53(192.168.20.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Tue Aug 12 22:27:45 AEST 2025
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 177
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by NetworkManager
search Home
nameserver 192.168.20.1

edit: oh, and in my router’s configuration:

• Primary DNS Server:9.9.9.9
• Secondary DNS Server:1.1.1.1

I’m happy to keep it public if only for the off chance that if we find a solution it might some day help someone else with the same issue. The thread’ll fall down in the rankings naturally over time anyway so I wouldn’t worry about polluting anything for people not actively seeking it out.

I’m not 100% sure how to find the OS version, but uname -a outputs [...]6.12.25+rpt-rpi-v8[...]. /etc/os-release contains “Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)”. It should be whatever was latest as of a month or two ago when I installed the OS fresh.