• xthexder@l.sw0.com
    16·
    1 day ago

    it kinda looks like they just mistyped “dropping it” and they’re actually talking about some streaming service like Disney+

  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    22·
    18 hours ago
    Gross: image of text.

    Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

    • usability
      • we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
      • text search is unavailable
      • the system can’t
        • reflow text to varied screen sizes
        • vary presentation (size, contrast)
        • vary modality (audio, braille)
    • accessibility
      • semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc) is lost
      • some users can’t read this due to lack of alt text
      • users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
      • systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
    • web connectivity
      • we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
      • we can’t explore wider context of the original message
    • authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
    • searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
    • fault tolerance: no text fallback if
      • image breaks
      • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

    Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

    I wonder what they think git is.

    • verstra@programming.dev
      5·
      1 day ago

      My guy from nsfwlemmy making sure all people, regardless of disabilities or horniness can read git memes. Respect

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      1 day ago

      And much like going from phone call to answering machine to voicemail to visual voicemail (and even for a while being able to text a verbal reply on I believe Sprint back in the day for a bit) we now have phones being able to OCR images, then you can select the text on the image. (Also so the creepsters can harvest metadata on all your images.)

      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        18 hours ago

        Degrading the text to image, then OCRing it is a lossy (especially of semantic structure), more failure-prone waste of computing power than linking to source or just providing the text: it only poorly addresses 1 issue while adding extra steps. We still lose web connectivity, authenticity, searchability, fault tolerance while impairing usability & accessibility. I don’t think linking to the comment or pasting text is an extraordinary effort compared to taking & clipping a screenshot, saving it to file, uploading it.

        Since you didn’t understand it, here’s the full list of issues again: Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

        • usability
          • we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
          • text search is unavailable
          • the system can’t
            • reflow text to varied screen sizes
            • vary presentation (size, contrast)
            • vary modality (audio, braille)
        • accessibility
          • semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc) is lost
          • some users can’t read this due to lack of alt text
          • users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
          • systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
        • web connectivity
          • we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
          • we can’t explore wider context of the original message
        • authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
        • searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
        • fault tolerance: no text fallback if
          • image breaks
          • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

        Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.