MurdoMaclachlan

MurdoMaclachlan, 6 months ago

Easily one of my favourite episodes in years. I’m a sucker for creepy monsters, cosmic horrors and monsters whose origins are only vaguely hinted at and this had all of that. Overall much more polished, better-paced and intriguing to me than The Star Beast (which I still liked!). This was Doctor Who back at its best for me.

MurdoMaclachlan, 7 months ago

I’m also experiencing this problem, however I don’t see anything about being blocked by Cloudfare. What I do see in the network tools is that on the image’s POST request, Lemmy is returning a 400 (Bad Request) error. Issue is happening on both the normal Lemmy UI and the Photon UI.

MurdoMaclachlan, 9 months ago

Image Transcription: Meme

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[A screenshot of Grogu / Baby Yoda, a character from “The Mandalorian”. He is a small green-skinned alien character with large pointy ears and big eyes. In the image, he is leaning towards a control panel to push a button whilst looking right towards something off-frame with large, innocent eyes. Text at the top and bottom of the image reads:]

ME FINDING OUT IF THE 3 MEMES PER DAY RULE

IS POSTS AND COMMENTS OR JUST POSTS

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MurdoMaclachlan, 9 months ago

Neither, it’ll be included as-is without a [sic]. I follow the guidelines of r/TranscribersOfReddit, since they were developed in cooperation with members of rBlind.

The policy there was always that doing any sort of change affects the message and delivery fo the original content, so it should be avoided. [sic]s are avoided because they affect the flow of the content, and particularly in posts with multiple typos they can be very distracting.

MurdoMaclachlan, 10 months ago

Image Transcription: Meme

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[The meme shows two fanart images of the character Sayori, from “Doki Doki Literature Club”, with text to the right of each image.]

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[In the first image, Sayori is wearing sunglasses and scowling, with her hand up in a blocking gesture. The text reads:]

Anti-Cheat

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[In the second image, Sayori has her head up high, looking pleased, with a finger pointed to the right, where the text reads:]

Kernel Level Surveillance

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MurdoMaclachlan, 10 months ago

Image Transcription: Meme

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Junior devs writing comments:

[A photograph of a road signpost in front of a metal fence with a low, long building in the distance. The post has two signs on it. At the top is an octagonal sign, filled red with a white outline, reading “STOP”. Beneath it is a rectangular sign with an arrow pointing up to the stop sign, and text reading “THIS IS A STOP SIGN”.]

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MurdoMaclachlan, 10 months ago

Thanks! Not sure if there’s been other people doing any or not, but for my part I just do them when I find the time, which unfortunately isn’t all that often.

MurdoMaclachlan, 10 months ago

Ah, that’s good to know. For me the problem is that most of my non-lurking activity on Lemmy is transcribing posts to improve accessibility; I post the URLs to an archive to make all the transcriptions easy to find for those who need them, and I know there are at least a few people from rblind subscribed to it, but with this going on the archive is essentially useless.

MurdoMaclachlan, 10 months ago

Image Transcription: Meme

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[Gru, the long-nosed protagonist of the “Despicable Me” franchise, presents to the camera, pointing into the air and smiling. Behind him is a flipchart with text reading:]

And the best part about using Linux: No viruses!

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[Still presenting, Gru has his hand in a C shape and his head down as he peers at the gap between his fingers. The text now reads:]

Look at this, a website downloaded a malicious .exe on my machine.

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[Gru now has his hands pointing down, fingers splayed, still presenting. The text now reads:]

Double Click

See? Nothing happe…

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[Gru looks back to the flipchart in a double-take, his eyes round and wide and his mouth downturned. The text still reads:]

Wine is launching

[The Wine logo: a slightly tipped wine glass with red wine sloshing inside it.]

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MurdoMaclachlan, 10 months ago

As far as I’m aware, Lemmy unfortunately does not provide the option to add alt text to images. Hopefully that will change, though!

MurdoMaclachlan, 10 months ago

I didn’t know you could do that!

From what I can see, this means you can add alt text to images you embed using markdown. However, directly uploaded images in posts don’t seem to have a way to directly add alt text that I can find. You can add a transcription in the text body, but it’s not quite as accessible as pure alt text because screen readers won’t read it automatically when the image gets focused.

Possibly you could embed an image in the text body and upload that like a text post, and that way use the markdown to add the alt text, but that would require the image is already hosted somewhere in the internet.

MurdoMaclachlan, 10 months ago

Image Transcription: Meme

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In Unix there is a “man” command and a “cat” command…

[Image of a black dog with a white throat and floppy ears that hang limply, sitting by a bed. Their mouth is downturned and their round, sad eyes look up.]

so why no “dog” command???

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MurdoMaclachlan, 11 months ago

Image Transcription: Greentext

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Anonymous

[Image of a feminine anime character with very pale red hair, pink eyes, blush under the eyes, and an open mouth.]

>Install the Linix operating system

>Suspicious black van is parked outside my apartment and doesn’t move

>Black cashier at the grocer made weird hand gestures at me

>Every second night at 8 PM a car will circle past my window and honk exactly 3 times

>Every new month someone will leave a piece of litter in my mailbox

>Start receiving silent calls from random numbers every time I do the laundry

>Coworker talked to me about his dog in-person, next morning all youtube ads are about dog food and dog toys

>Stopped by a burger stand one day on my way home, all my bookmarked blogs running google adsense start advertising McDonald’s exclusively

>My hotmail account is suddenly flooded with spam mails about alien abductions

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MurdoMaclachlan, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Image Transcription: Comic

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[Swords DCCXXXIX: CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON, by Matthew J Wills]

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Panel 1

[A sword with a brightly glowing blade. The hilt is blue and scaly, while the guard forms the shape of two yellow-eyed, green-scaled dragons consuming one another’s tails to form a circle. The pommel features a ring hole from one side to the other. At the tip of the blade are two dots and a very thin line forming a slightly smiling face.]

A SWORD THAT GLOWS BRIGHTLY WHENEVER YOU’RE HUNGRY

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Panel 2

[A sword on a wavy dark blue background. The blade is large, heavy, and only sharp on one side. There is a large spike like a dorsal fin bending backwards from the blunt edge, two divets like side fins on the flat, four divets along the sharp edge, and a large crack digging into the tip, reminiscent of a toothy maw. The hilt is dark brown, seemingly bound with leather straps.]

A SWORD THAT ONLY WORKS UNDER WATER

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Panel 3

[A sword with a blade enclosed in pink-and-white striped wax, like a decorative candle. The hilt is blue, with a crossguard that curls up towards the blade. At the tip of the blade, the wax is melted away, revealing a dark, sharp interior like the wick of a candle, and more reminiscent of a wooden stake than of a blade. This tip is on fire, and the fire blazes forwards to form a more conventional sword-tip shape.]

A FIRE SWORD THAT ONLY LASTS FOR A SINGLE DAY

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Panel 4

[A jagged, decrepit sword, curved in multiple places. The tip curves forwards then hooks back again like the tip of a khopesh, with two distinct, sudden corners to change angle instead of a gradual curve.

Beneath the tip, the blade is partially enclosed in a wooden guard of some sort. There is a spiral marking leading into a line on the upper part of this, and the wood is unenclosed at the front until the very bottom of the blade, where it closes over and curves to a very thin point before curving back to meet the hilt.

From the spot just above the hilt, grey hair like a beard emerges from the wood. The hilt is wrapped in white strapping of some sort, and the pommel has a ring hole from one side to the other, and three spikes, one on the bottom, two on the sides.]

A SWORD THAT STEALS THE VICTIMS AGE AND ADDS IT TO THE WIELDERS

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MurdoMaclachlan, 11 months ago

Image Transcription: Comic

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[An Engineer Helping A Designer]

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Panel 1

[Two people stand in front of a computer. One, the designer, has blue hair with a full beard and moustache, with sideburns, and a large nose. The other, the engineer, has brown hair and wears a hoodie. The engineer is typing at the computer, with a window up on the screen, while the designer stands with their arms limp by their sides.]

Engineer: No problem, we can fix this on the terminal

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Panel 2

[The designer has their hand up to their beard, with wide eyes and a mouth rounded by amazement. The designer has a slightly confused expression, eyebrows frowning a little.]

Designer: Whoa, you’re a hacker!

Engineer: No, it’s just the terminal.

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Panel 3

[The designer has their hands in the air, their mouth wide open, their eyebrows arced and both eyes looking in opposite directions in a look of bafflement. The engineer is rolling their eyes.]

Designer: Where are all the buttons, icons, and dropdown menus?

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Panel 4

[Now with both hands to their beard, the designer has returned to their look of amazement, but with a hint of fear in their eyes, their pupils contracted to tiny white dots. The engineer looks relatively unphased.]

Designer: Is this… the matrix?

Engineer: Yes.

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