Oh it’s available in one other language, I wonder what language it is…

I love having the fast, on-device firefox translation to get different points of view. Open the ukranian version and read it in english.

Much the same but some slight differences of opinion.

Both articles do cite More Ukrainian monuments desecrated in Edmonton - New Pathway Ukrainian News | Новий Шлях Українські Вісті which is wild denialism.

i can only assume they went non-union for the trades

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Why would that be?

If it’s mandatory then it’ll get filled with low effort junk much of the time.

I have tried to write alt text for images but am discouraged by a) how difficult it is to adequately convey the point of an image, and b) then knowing few if any people will see it.

Things that make alt text more likely to happen:

• Alt text should be visible to everyone. Maybe it could go over-top of the blurred images. Or something.
• When you add an image via the toolbar button or paste into edit box, it should have placeholder alt text like “Image description here”; but that placeholder should get stripped out if it is not edited by the user, to avoid meaningless default alt
• the markdown Help page that you can get by pressing the (?) button on the far right of the editing toolbar (in default web layout) should describe the use of alt text
• images that are grabbed automatically when posting a URL should include alt text if available. For example this recent post contains a banner image, pulled from the original page. On hexbear, the proxied image has no alt, but on the original page, if you right-click and use “Inspect” you see alt="A row of teenagers all using their phones."

Images are a terrible medium for online communication

that’s a silly thing to say. even the alt text you provided for your own screenshot is way less good at conveying the intended message than the screenshot itself. By looking at the image I can instantly know how to add alt text when uploading an image as a post. But reading the alt text gives a hint, at best.

I’ve tried before to find guides about how to write alt text but never found anything that suits this kind of environment. It’s straight forward if you are talking about interface elements etc but hardly a trivial request when it comes to creative stuff, jokes, or images where inferences are supposed to be made.

I was not able to find any RSS feed on the patreon. It think it may have been disabled in the project settings but not 100% certain of that. Could be that patreon as a service is making it impossible to find because RSS is contrary to their business model.

Found the following other feeds by websearching: Libsyn (RSS link), Apple Podcasts, Spotify. There is a Youtube channel of the same name; looks unrelated.

Not clear to me if any of the above are sanctioned by the producers of the show and I’d be interested to find out, just to better understand how podcasting works. Do all or some of the above just somehow scrape patreon?

I agree that it’s wrong and bad analysis. I could say more about it but mostly I’m just wondering why more poor judgement interventions being made by mod/admin team. Like are you bored or something? Not enough notifications this weekend?

Obviously a policy decree like this without discussion is going to rub people the wrong way regardless of its content. Like obviously. If you are trying to solve some sort of problem, you should say what the problem is and why you think this is the way to solve it. Instead of unilaterally announcing site political policy, apparently on your own individual initiative. Is there like some sort of schedule where carcosa has to have a reason to make an accountability post every so often? Is it over due? Are you attempting to concoct a learning experience to train new mods in crowd control? Trying to boost site traffic? Why would a person in a position of authority decide to make this particular intervention? On any topic.

Have the discussion then make the rule. Good god. Why always doing it the other way around? Announce a rule to provoke a discussion?

It really makes me thump my head in particular for someone who was on the wrong side of the recent israel-cool struggle session that was so upsetting to make announcements of site political policy on the same topic. My feeling is that this is a continuation of that conversation. At least this time you have bothered to come up with a coherent political idea so it shows some progress I guess. But it is not tied to the intervention you have decided upon, so still incomplete. It would have been better for someone with more credibility on this issue to introduce the question. Honestly it does seem intentionally inflammatory.

To recap:

The mods/admins (including OP kristina) apparently arrived collectively amongst themselves at a completely ass backwards opinion which was in opposition to the entire rest of the userbase. (Briefly for those who missed it: the then-non-existent emoji of the burning israel flag would, if added, be an antisemitic dogwhistle and/or convey approval of the holocaust.) This was a reflection of some sort of prior discussion and ideas which had at the time had some degree of consensus from userbase. In the intervening years, every person on planet earth had their analysis of this issue sharpened at least a little bit, hexbears included, and the general opinion had changed dramatically which was not understood by the mods/admins. Instead of engaging with the political concepts and moment, they decided to instigate and then all piled on a giant shit show throwdown fight. Which when they understood themselves to be losing badly, told the “stupid” users to stop wasting their time posting on trivial matters. Many different aspects of political argument from users only met with inter-personal, conspiratorial, and emotional from mods/admins.

Eventually, “confused” why anybody (to say nothing of everybody else) cared about inconsequential emoji, the mods/admins backed away from the fight, unbanned numerous users, emoji was added by 1 mod who apparently was able to change opinions with rest of planet earth. The userbase was overall managed into a more peaceful situation because ultimately, that’s how the balance of power goes. Various people left the site or withdrew because the conflict was so hostile. The collective political clarification came at a price.

But unless I missed it (and I could have) there was never any resolution. No indication that any of the minority who were on the incoherent side of that argument changed their mind politically during or after the struggle session. Nor was the question of why mods/admins were permitting and even encouraging each other to go around ratcheting up the hostility on the basis of personal disputes.

It was just a stalemate. Mod applications opened and I assume (?) the team expanded, hopefully adding some diversity of opinions to better reflect the userbase. Everyone awaiting vague reforms.

Even kamala harris knows that everything exists in context and we didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree. I am not “relitigating”. I am wondering why again mod deciding to stir shit up by leading with censorious and dismissive assertions instead of attempting to collaborate.

I think this choice does a real disservice to the ostensible goal of the intervention by winding up feelings of interpersonal power struggle with politics. It is so arrogant, in the specific context of the recent chapter described above.

And look, if you are going to lead with threats it ought to be with an argument which has been better developed. It is clear from comments already that userbase again has a more nuanced understanding of the topic than the person who condescendingly lectures and warns of consequences should they step out of line according to her judgement.

Even those who broadly agree with the core ideas are seeking to develop the point further. Because as posted, it is insufficiently mature. Disagreement, discomfort, confusion, and contributions are being made re the politics and/or the policy. This comment is solely addressed at the policy, its implementation and the broader framework.

At minimum, the political stance that is to be enforced on this website requires significant clarification so that users can understand what the rule applies to, and mods can have clear guidance. Which is good for mods because it avoids the perception that that are arbitrarily enforcing ill-considered, unknown and unknowable rules according to their mood. It’s better if there is some degree of mutual understanding rather than initiating with conflict.

Soon will have a bunch of bans I guess? In this very thread there are outright refutations, yet the comments are not removed. So a rule is announced, then it is immediately ignored? On replies that generate a notification to OP who is so interested to enforce. So what is the meaning?

OK well then I should divulge to you full disclosure that I think you, like OP, are also probably not a hostile actor who is commenting to fuck with me specifically or ?lemmy users? in general. More likely someone who’s got a bit spun up their head. But I can’t say for sure…

As it happens, last time I was looking at different VPN vendors I had to spend a ton of time basically creating an abbreviated version of this chart that had the items most salient to my use case. To sift through the websites, forums, support sections etc, because the information isn’t clearly presented was annoying. They are all trying to emphasize their strengths to make a sale based on their marketing strategy.

I can say that this chart, exactly as it is, would have saved me significant time had it been available. I found similar but they were old. And I looked at it to see if the conclusion I came to is still the right one for me— it is. I can clearly see the required information.

Last time I said it was hard to figure out if this was some kind of malice or just someone without much experience/knowledge.

Totally disagree with the first few paragraphs. Someone makes a post you feel has inadequate depth and you think they’re the goddamned CIA? I don’t see any basis for the hostile tone.

If you need port forwarding for torrents, soulseek and usenet all at once then the tool is air.

But like it’s nice to be able to have a reference to quickly exclude certain options without having to wade through all their various websites. If you already know that you need port forwarding, then a chart like this will help you exclude several mainstream options. If there is some other criteria you already know about it could save you a lot of time.

A better start for this kind of post would be “here are some reasons to use a vpn service” or “here are some actual important differences between different vpn services apps”

Those do exist elsewhere and I don’t think there is much wrong with summarizing the current state of things for an informed audience. We are on lemmy here! I wouldn’t mail this chart out to the whole neighbourhood or anything, it’s probably not a good very first intro for most people. Although even for a person just getting started, having the column of criteria on the left could be useful to point out “what are the things to consider”. Like maybe you wouldn’t even guess that the number of devices would be limited.

Long narrative comparisons can be hard to follow. They are good for understanding the differences but then once you are having an understanding how do you pick? It’s very convenient if someone else goes to the trouble to sift through the information. On wikipedia there are some subjects that have tables comparing things and I find them very helpful. Otherwise I’d just have to spend hours making my own tables.

BTW wikipedia has a table comparing different kinds of wrenches so obviously someone thought it would be useful!!

The main issue is that the information could become out of date or erroneous in the first place so you need to verify for yourself whatever is key to your decisions. That’s just the nature of third party info.

I wasn’t directly involved in these situations but I have heard 2 different close secondhand stories where non English was banned. because to the ears of English - speaking people it sounded like the non English were using slurs or talking about certain English speakers in a way that would be considered inappropriate.

In both cases the complaints were made by black people. I think there can be complexity here

• in a lot of languages the normal word for black sounds like the n-word in English. It really sticks out even if some is saying “can you pass me the black marker” or other innocent and non hostile comment
• in a lot of languages there are using words that do in fact have racist overtones in that language. But the specific speakers in question may not care, may be racist, or may have insufficiently interrogated their use.
• Or frankly the sense that racialized people were being talked about covertly could have been correct.
• When it’s people just complaining that they can’t what conversations are happening around them (that they are not involved in) or white people feeling that they are being persecuted I have very little sympathy.

Even in a complex situation the banning of languages is unlikely the correct choice. Ideally workers could have a conversation to decide on etiquette.

Ask the electronic frontier foundation

Fuck man I saw a post in the past week that it was 5%. At this rate we’ll be leaving M$ in the du$t.

A doctor told me that if you aren’t asleep after 20 mins, you should get out of bed and do something quiet til you are tired. So you learn to associate being in bed with sleep.

Or as someone else told me: beds are for sleeping, sex and dying.

You’re missing a major incentive. Over the course of several decades, laws prohibiting discriminatory behavior internally and externally were passed. At the same time, unions became less militant and less democratic. So workers try to turn to the new laws to stand up for themselves. Especially middle- and upper- sections because they have the independent resources and systemic support.

The various waves of HR interventions are defenses against the above. Polices, trainings, disciplines, hiring practices, codes of conduct etc. Which are implemented in ways that are unserious, under-resourced, lots of loopsholes, designed to breed resentment, etc. But enough that if there is a problem, the boss can say “we did everything we could”. So any legal consequences will be eliminated or reduced.

Rainbow capitalism is a slightly different situation but in context of the above. After the western AIDS crisis settled down, LGBTQ+ leadership was entirely seized by wealthy people who were the least dead and least traumatized of everyone. They took advantage of work done by others to benefit their own individual positions.

It’s all in the context of capitalism being inherently about exploitation. There is no such thing as a woke corporation. it can’t happen.

I remember talking about this with friends 10+ years ago. Haven’t noticed it or heard anyone else mention it since, but I don’t know why.

Draw a tax zone specifically around all properties associated with Donald Trump and tax it at 1000% the current rate.

it sounds like you are responding to a different comment than the ones I am reading. everyone here is broadly agreeing with each other.

You can seed Anna’s Archive, the largest public collection of texts:

https://annas-archive.org/torrents

Can also do the same for scihub or archive.org but I think only on an individual basis.

You must’ve noticed the same thing in OP that I did:

my sister, girlfriend and some friends irl

Assuming there are both women and men around you that you could be annoying, its worth thinking about why these little assertions of dominance only target a certain group.

You could experiment with intentionally annoying men… And dont just pick men who are somehow subordinate to you.