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🥥 Don't think of #AltText as a chore you have to perform.
Think of it more as an art form, like #Haiku or #Bonsai; a fine #wine or a rare #cheese that YOU can hand craft. 🥥

Weird how the jobs that AI-boosters say AI is going to replace never seems to include the management or executive class.

Considering that the limiting factor is the depth of rucks which will be mainly used to transport the dice. Thus, will need to look into what the average ruck depth is and based off of the value, make the first prototype.

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Looking into welding a hollow steel d20 dice aka icosahedron.

There are three factors that are dependent on the final result:

- thickness of the steel sheet metal,
- length of the equilateral triangle, and
- diameter as twice the circumradius.

Looked at sheet metal thickness of 2-5 mm and triangle length of 75-200 mm where the end resulting weight is 0.78-13.9 kg without the reduction/addition of welding and using steel density of 0.008 g/mm^3. The diameter respected to the triangle length is 143-380 mm.

The script is called "pergs" ([P]ublish Codeb[erg] Static [S]ite) and can be found on :

codeberg.org/barefootstache/pe

While on tried to install the script and it failed. Thus refactored the install script taking inspiration from install script.

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Zuck said Meta is in a "partnership" with White House; Google is following suit. They are all that stand between you and Trump admin data grabs.

Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean Big tech can decide whether US authorities have access to your personal info, like location data.

Meanwhile, Europeans are starting to see US data services as “no longer safe”

Here's a resource collection of non-US services, and more:

wired.com/story/trump-era-digi

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I guess that "bare minimum" alt-text is better than no alt-text.

But giving people who can't view images high quality alt-text - a chance to enjoy an image properly - is (to me) just part of treating people kindly.

It takes me but a few seconds to type an extra sentence or two.

Bad alt text: "Cat"

Good alt text: "A tabby cat sitting on a windowsill, looking out the window with its tail curled around its body."

(Edit: I am thinking of those who could but don't, not those who can't.)

rnib.org.uk/campaign-with-us/a

#accessibility #kindness #alttext

Welcome to Colorful Colorado. Turns out that all the colors except blue and brown were taken.

The two tools that caused the most frustration were and .

Just was not able to extract the album cover and merge it into the m4a file. So that feature has been put on hold.

And with jq the test function did not like it when the values are equal, so had to default to using == when using select.

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What playlist download tools exist?

Wrote a small script that requires this setup

--- Quick Start ---
1. Create public playlists on Spotify
2. Export them using exportify.net/
3. Copy the link to the playlists and download the files via spotidl.com
4. Create a directory, add the media files, and the playlist's CSV file.
5. Run the script and possibly install the missing dependencies.

And converts the mp3 files from spotidl to m4a files and parses the metadata from the csv from exportify.

This past season foraged about 2 kg of . Today did the float test to weed out the empty shells and the yield dropped down to a total of 20 nuts, which equates to about 3% success rate assuming they aren't empty.

@joel IMO: if your instance permits it of having more than 500 character limit, then incorporate newlines to make this content easier to read.

Had the fun of upgrading from 1.4 (latest version) to 2.0. Although there is no migration script the error messages while running suffice to understand the breaking changes and fix them.

Have an existing project that was setup using and decided to migrate it to . It doesn't help that I have 4 different virtual environment references and needed to build some of the libraries. Although the uv documentation has some examples on how to do it, there were a lot of bad practices on my side that I had to iron out.

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