rastinza @rastinza@qoto.org

A Russian wife turns to her husband and asks, "What's this special military operation our glorious leader keeps talking about?"
Her husband replied, "It's a proxy war between Russia and NATO."
“Oh, OK. How's it going?"
“Well," he says, "so far we've lost 24,000 soldiers, 2,000 tanks, 200 aircraft, numerous helicopters, loads of armored vehicles and artillery pieces, our naval flagship, and other naval pieces"
"Wow! What about NATO?"
"They haven't turned up yet”

Imagine you're using an online shop. What you'll typically see is a list of products where each list item has a small preview image, a product name and some other metadata.
Now imagine that the shop displays a long textual description for each product instead. This is what the timeline appears like to screen reader users if long image descriptions are used. And unlike people seeing the text, they don't have the luxury of skimming to grasp vital information quickly -- they have to wait for the screen reader to read it all.

In-depth descriptions are only helpful when the user has decided the content is interesting to them. Currently, most fedi frontends put them in the attachment's alt attribute, which is fine if the user is currently viewing a single post instead of the timeline. But on the timeline, it's much more important to have quick summaries instead.
In terms of the example above, it's the same difference as when viewing a single product vs. the product list. You're only interested in the details if a product is interesting to you.

Image description on fedi are a step up from having none at all, but they're still inadequate. Ideally, you could provide both a quick summary and an in-depth description, and the UI presents both in a way that's the most helpful.
Since this possibility doesn't exist, please consider keeping image descriptions short and putting the long description in the post body.

@AntonioCabras ha detto tutto sull'ennesimo sciacallaggio necrofilo del maledetto nullafacente. Non ho altro da aggiungere.

#introduction Hey, I'm Thorbjörn, an #ecologist specialised in #chemicalcommunication.
Currently located in #Finland, but looking for #postdoc option across #Europe.
Bare with me while I figure everything out. You can still find me on the Big Bird @volephd.

#biology
#ecology
#scicomm
#mammals
#animalbehavior
#science
#ethology
#Evolution

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Lack of creativity in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._place_names

Minchia cheppalle! Ma ancora stiamo a:

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Bestemmia sì
Bestemmia no
Bestemmia bum!

il social dei cachi.
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#porcodio

QOTO does things right: "we don't block any servers".

This is what sucked about Mastodon the most. Authoritarian admins.

It truly is extraordinary when you think about it. But dont think this trend is likely to carry forward. Technology growth is logarithmic, not exponential. It starts off exponential then slows down significantly. At least, thats what the trend looks like when you really break it down. Lets hope some new area of technology never before considered is discovered to keep it going.

Btw, oggi é il compleanno di Andrea Pazienza

Finalmente, ho guardato "Salo o 120 days of Sadom".

RT @EU_Eurostat: 🏫In 2021, the Member States that reported the lowest shares of early leavers from education and training were:
🇭🇷Croatia (2%)
🇸🇮Slovenia, 🇬🇷Greece and 🇮🇪Ireland (all 3%)
Highest shares in:
🇷🇴Romania (15%)
🇪🇸Spain and 🇮🇹Italy (both 13%)
👉https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20220523-1

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/eurireland/status/1528684586942742528

@rastinza That's actually what we're already doing, and it sucks. Excel is limited. It'd be nice if there was a link-based system kinda wiki style.

Obsidian's capable of doing that and the Dataview plugin can make a nice table with its query language that's very similar to SQL.

They will try to pit us against each other to distract us from the real problem. #TheEmpiresMustFall

A #Mastodon devo, tra le altre cose, la scoperta di una app che è entrata di diritto nella mia TOP5 e risponde al nome di NewPipe.

Grazie a NewPipe, infatti, posso fruire dei video di YouTube godendo di alcuni interessanti vantaggi, tra i quali:

▪️ L'assenza di pubblicità
▪️ La possibilità di riprodurre i video in background - solo audio, quindi - o in miniatura
▪️ Il poter scaricare i video

NewPipe non è presente sul Google Play Store, ma potete scaricare da qui ⤵️

https://newpipe.net/

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