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Did everyone suddenly get much better about putting alt text in their pics/gifs on twitter or did Twitter invent an AI that will do it for you
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Apr 9, 2022 14:17
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Badger of Basra posted:Did everyone suddenly get much better about putting alt text in their pics/gifs on twitter or did Twitter invent an AI that will do it for you What does that do in an era where pictures load faster than you can see the text?
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Apr 9, 2022 14:52
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credburn posted:What does that do in an era where pictures load faster than you can see the text? It’s for the visually impaired.
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Apr 9, 2022 15:06
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credburn posted:What does that do in an era where pictures load faster than you can see the text? It's an accessibility feature for folks that use screen readers
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Apr 9, 2022 15:06
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Badger of Basra posted:Did everyone suddenly get much better about putting alt text in their pics/gifs on twitter or did Twitter invent an AI that will do it for you They added a badge signifying the image has alt text globally a couple days ago. https://twitter.com/TwitterA11y/status/1512191972856975364 So it probably had the effect of making you more aware of images with alt text and also making more people aware that alt text is a thing leading to more usage.
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Apr 9, 2022 15:06
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credburn posted:What does that do in an era where pictures load faster than you can see the text? It's also legally required in the EU, since every website has to be accessible to people with disabilities, including the blind.
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Apr 9, 2022 15:57
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In movies where two characters are underwater, and one blows air directly into the other's mouth (usually a man to a woman) to give them more oxygen, that's total bullshit, right?
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Apr 9, 2022 17:55
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Human Tornada posted:In movies where two characters are underwater, and one blows air directly into the other's mouth (usually a man to a woman) to give them more oxygen, that's total bullshit, right?
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Apr 9, 2022 18:09
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Tiggum posted:I don't know what Google Drive Sync is, but if you use the Google Drive app, it access the files on your Google Drive just like you can from a web browser. There's no need to synchronise anything because it's not keeping multiple copies in different places. Which doesn't work with obsidian so you have to use a 3rd party program to get it to work.
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Apr 9, 2022 20:25
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I’m looking for those weird early morning dance club videos that played on early morning MTV or YTV in Canada. Does anyone know what those “shows” were called?
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Apr 9, 2022 23:02
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I think the mtv one was called the Grind.
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Apr 10, 2022 03:58
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Human Tornada posted:In movies where two characters are underwater, and one blows air directly into the other's mouth (usually a man to a woman) to give them more oxygen, that's total bullshit, right? I learned to do this in my lifeguard training in the scenario where someone's got their hair stuck in something at the bottom of the pool.
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Apr 10, 2022 07:40
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What about if they get their dick stuck in the bottom of a pool?
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Apr 10, 2022 08:57
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Trapick posted:No, your exhalation contains a decent amount of oxygen. This is why mouth-to-mouth is done generally. I'm sure it's only done in movies because it looks like smooching though for fucks sake posted:I learned to do this in my lifeguard training in the scenario where someone's got their hair stuck in something at the bottom of the pool. Well that settles it, Speed 2: Cruise Control is a flawless movie.
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Apr 10, 2022 13:33
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Trapick posted:No, your exhalation contains a decent amount of oxygen. This is why mouth-to-mouth is done generally. I'm sure it's only done in movies because it looks like smooching though It’s worth noting that mouth-to-mouth isn’t part of CPR for adults any more
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Apr 10, 2022 14:03
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dupersaurus posted:It’s worth noting that mouth-to-mouth isn’t part of CPR for adults any more Last time I was trained about four years ago in the US they still taught it but it wasn’t a mandatory part of the process.
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Apr 10, 2022 14:22
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I do CPR classes every two years for work, and it is definitely still part of the program, but the focus is mainly on the chest compressions.
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Apr 10, 2022 15:20
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dupersaurus posted:It’s worth noting that mouth-to-mouth isn’t part of CPR for adults any more
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Apr 10, 2022 18:51
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Slimy Hog posted:It's an accessibility feature for folks that use screen readers Ohhh... I'm working on a degree in data analytics and one of the early courses was kind of a refresher on basic HTML, and throughout it I had to keep making a point to add alt text, but nowhere in the curriculum did it really give a reason for it. Just that it's good practice. dupersaurus posted:It’s worth noting that mouth-to-mouth isn’t part of CPR for adults any more Coincidentally, I happened to ask a paramedic yesterday whether it was the chest thing we weren't supposed to do or the mouth thing. Her explanation for why we don't do it was interesting, probably not accurate, but I'll share it: She said it's easy to remember which one not to do because it's the one nobody wants to do anyway. She said people started dying because nobody wanted to give random people CPR because they didn't want to put their mouth on a stranger's. So by saying the mouth to mouth thing isn't a thing, it's more likely people will give help to strangers, even though --according to her-- professionally trained people absolutely still do mouth to mouth. Now I know I could also easily look this information up, but I wanted to contribute to the -- oh gently caress I didn't even realize this was the questions thread. credburn fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Apr 11, 2022 |
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Apr 11, 2022 01:38
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Badger of Basra posted:Did everyone suddenly get much better about putting alt text in their pics/gifs on twitter or did Twitter invent an AI that will do it for you They seem to be A/B testing a pop up that says “Think about adding alt text to this image” when you add an image from your photos. I get it about half the time on my tablet, never on my phone. 
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Apr 11, 2022 02:13
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Ever since I got a second monitor my main monitor has been acting weird. It and the second monitor turn off as a screensaver but after a while the main one turns on and just displays black until I input something to break the screensaver. Is this a known issue and how can I fix it?
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Apr 11, 2022 02:32
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El Jeffe posted:Ever since I got a second monitor my main monitor has been acting weird. It and the second monitor turn off as a screensaver but after a while the main one turns on and just displays black until I input something to break the screensaver. Is this a known issue and how can I fix it? Stop using a screensaver. It's 2022. You haven't had a CRT for at least a decade.
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Apr 11, 2022 02:47
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If you're a public speaker covering a controversial topic is putting a heckler in the audience who's secretly working with you "a thing"? I feel like I've seen this a couple of times. I went to college in the southern US and we usually had random "preachers" come on campus to call us fornicators and sinners. Most people just gathered around and laughed at them. But there was always one person in the crowd who would heckle them but unlike everyone else they weren't trying to be funny. They would just shout random disagreements. They also happened to be much older and disappear as soon as the preacher was done. The very same thing happened when I went to a "town hall" with one of my Senators. It was Lindsey Graham if that helps set the stage. There was one person sitting near the stage who was shouting at him through the whole thing but as soon as Lindsey told him to hush he would for a while and by the end of it they had somehow found some common ground and were posing for pictures. None of the stuff the heckler shouted made much sense. He wasn't mad about a particular issue or thing. He just sounded like a random crazy person. It's entirely possible he was but the fact that they "made up" near the end made me think of the preacher thing from college. Is this some sort of know pressure relief tactic for hostile crowds? Making sure the angriest person in the room is working for you so they can work the crowd somehow?
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Apr 11, 2022 04:03
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Another reason you might be seeing more emphasis on image alt text recently is the DoJ issued a statement confirming that the Americans with disabilities act accessibility rules apply to websites too, so suddenly a lot of big websites that otherwise didn't care now have to. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-issues-web-accessibility-guidance-under-americans-disabilities-act
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Apr 11, 2022 04:32
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Nighthand posted:Another reason you might be seeing more emphasis on image alt text recently is the DoJ issued a statement confirming that the Americans with disabilities act accessibility rules apply to websites too, so suddenly a lot of big websites that otherwise didn't care now have to. Good. 
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Apr 11, 2022 04:35
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McCracAttack posted:If you're a public speaker covering a controversial topic is putting a heckler in the audience who's secretly working with you "a thing"? Yes, goes back at least as far as the 19th century medicine show days.
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Apr 11, 2022 04:44
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AlbieQuirky posted:Yes, goes back at least as far as the 19th century medicine show days. Is there like a term for this I can read up on? It seems to go on a lot around here.
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Apr 11, 2022 04:45
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credburn posted:Coincidentally, I happened to ask a paramedic yesterday whether it was the chest thing we weren't supposed to do or the mouth thing. Her explanation for why we don't do it was interesting, probably not accurate, but I'll share it: The way it was told to me when I got CPR training is basically: oxygen is useless if it's just in the lungs. It needs to be transported to the brain to keep the person from dying. That's what the chest compressions are for. And for an amateur, it's way more important that you keep doing chest compressions (which anyway will get some oxygen into the lungs so long as the airways are clear) than it is that you put more oxygen in the lungs. The risk of fumbling during mouth-to-mouth, and spending too long not getting oxygen to the brain, is too high for it to be worth it.
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Apr 11, 2022 05:15
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:The way it was told to me when I got CPR training is basically: oxygen is useless if it's just in the lungs. It needs to be transported to the brain to keep the person from dying. That's what the chest compressions are for. And for an amateur, it's way more important that you keep doing chest compressions (which anyway will get some oxygen into the lungs so long as the airways are clear) than it is that you put more oxygen in the lungs. The risk of fumbling during mouth-to-mouth, and spending too long not getting oxygen to the brain, is too high for it to be worth it. Wouldn't it be useful to at least then give one good mouth-to-mouth attempt and then just do nothing but compressions thereafter?
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Apr 11, 2022 06:23
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McCracAttack posted:Is there like a term for this I can read up on? It seems to go on a lot around here. Probably audience plant. You see the same thing with magicians.
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Apr 11, 2022 06:24
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Comedians get called out for having audience plants, but politicians can do stuff like Buttigieg’s light switch gag and the media will not call it out as fake because that would be indecorous.
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Apr 11, 2022 07:08
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The media is just deathly afraid of using the word "lie" around politicians even when they blatantly are lying.
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Apr 11, 2022 07:20
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credburn posted:Wouldn't it be useful to at least then give one good mouth-to-mouth attempt and then just do nothing but compressions thereafter? If you start doing CPR immediately when they go down, they'll already have that last breath of air in their lungs. If you don't start doing CPR immediately, they're probably dead anyways.
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Apr 11, 2022 07:49
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Platystemon posted:Buttigieg’s light switch gag What is this? I can't seem to come up with anything via Google...
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Apr 11, 2022 09:01
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credburn posted:What is this? I can't seem to come up with anything via Google... The lights went out at a gymnasium he was speaking in on the campaign trail in Nevada. Very mysterious. https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1231388368707182593 Context for the speech is that it’s heavily inspired by one of Obama’s stump speeches. https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1231454124316614657
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Apr 11, 2022 09:41
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Platystemon posted:The lights went out at a gymnasium he was speaking in on the campaign trail in Nevada. Very mysterious. I don't really care either way, but it doesn't seem fake to me...? I'm sure there are hundreds of speeches that predate Obama's that have a progression of scale, and he didn't exactly respond to the outage with like flair. If people hadn't started turning on their phones and if someone didn't start playing a melancholic piano tune it probably would have been really bad for him.
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Apr 11, 2022 09:51
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It wouldn’t have been really bad for him because he was speaking at a high school in Nevada in September of 2019. The Obama parallels is something that you can find on Google, though. https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1232155217547784193 Why not study a winning strategy?
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Apr 11, 2022 10:01
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Tiggum posted:Stop using a screensaver. It's 2022. You haven't had a CRT for at least a decade. Maybe screensaver is the wrong term. I just want my monitors to turn off after 10 minutes of inactivity and stay off. edit: Ok it's actually the power & sleep setting not screensaver. El Jeffe fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Apr 11, 2022 |
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Apr 11, 2022 19:26
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Is using a VPN worth it and realistically how much would it slow down my internet? Also and recs on the best one? Surfshark seems pretty well liked and is cheap?
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Apr 11, 2022 19:50
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Worth it depends on what your goals are. Hide your private browsing data from your isp so they can't bundle it up and sell it to advertisers? Sure. Conceal your location and even appear to be from another country for websites and some online web stores? Yeah that works. Internet speed comes in two main flavors: latency and bandwidth. A good paid vpn should not restrict your bandwidth, so things like loading websites, downloading large files, or streaming videos on youtube/netflix/etc won't be affected. But it will inevitably increase latency, so things depending on super-fast response times like online videogames will get laggier.
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Apr 11, 2022 20:11
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