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when you don't write alt text, I just think you're an ignorant loser
when you write hostile alt text, I think you're a complete asshole who deserves a swift kick in the teeth.
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when you don't write alt text, I just think you're an ignorant loser
when you write hostile alt text, I think you're a complete asshole who deserves a swift kick in the teeth.
what's hostile alt text? you ask
it's when you don't actually describe what's in the image. it includes; just a joke, endless hashtags and/or emojis, extensive URLs, just a period, the file name of the image,....
I hope this helps clear things up
alt text on your picture of your cat could literally just be "my cat" and that's good enough. it's not great but you achieved the bare minimum—describing what's in the photo.
what it should not be is: "lol look at this silly guy" or "wow what a pose" or "fuzzball" or "this one time I took this picture and I thought it was so good so I wanted to share it with you"
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Quizzino della domenica: Stella di Natale
@matematica - qual è l'area della stella di Natale disegnata?
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Likewise. Most of my "follows" on Mastodon are just various news junkies that summarize, link to and comment on breaking stories and broader investigations - with most of these drawing from numerous sources.
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@monnier I agree about improving the UI!
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Select all statements you agree with. Specifically curious about respondents from the #floss crowd, but everyone with an opinion should participate. Boosts welcome for larger sample size. #llm #stochasticParrots #ai #generativeAI #eliza #programming
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Gli stessi errori fatti con Putin quando ha annesso la Crimea.
Vediamo di non continuare.
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What to do When Your Foucault Pendulum Stops Swinging
At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped swinging for the first time since its installation in the 1970s. (Video, embedded below.)
While some might take this as yet another sign of the end times, here it is simply a sign that the electromagnetic system that kicks the pendulum developed a fault and will need to be fixed.
Their explainer video of this Herzstein Foucault pendulum is also worth watching, as it explains both the underlying physics and this particular pendulum’s construction. Every 48 hours the 81.6 kg heavy pendulum completes a full rotation, like clockwork, with pins along the circumference being tipped over one by one as the pendulum precesses.
Overview of the Foucault pendulum system, with the electromagnets that sustain the movement on top. (Credit: Houston Museum of Natural Science)
Invented by [Léon Foucault] in 1851 as an experimental demonstration of Earth’s rotation using a swinging pendulum, the Foucault pendulum remains a popular physical demonstration in museums and elsewhere. Although the pendulum seems to just follow the same line, it gradually shifts its plane of oscillation, making it seem that it rotates around its attachment point.The effect differs per region of the Earth globe, making it both a fascinating experiment and a sore point for those who insist that the Earth is a flat, unmoving disc.
Not only does it measure the rotation of the Earth, but also its shape due to how the effect changes depending on the pendulum’s position on the globe, with the north and south poles showing it will precess in exactly 24 hours, while at the equator the pendulum will not precess at all.
We hope that the repair of the mechanism behind the Houston museum’s pendulum progresses smoothly, and would love to see a video of its innards and repair.
youtube.com/embed/yG6ghaLgM4o?…
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I had ChatGPT put together a list of NBA feeds that don’t use paywalls. It’s been running a few days and the results are impressive. I’ll do a writeup of the list in next few days.
https://feedland.com/?river=true&screenname=davewiner&catname=nbaai
