Hello crsu, thank you for your comment on [email protected]. Unfortunately, it was removed for the following reason:

This community is an aggregator for my transcriptions on other communities, so that people who use those transcriptions can find them all in one place. It isn't meant for irrelevant discussion regarding the state of other social media platforms.

Image Transcription: Screenshot

[The screenshot is from a GitHub commit summary. It is zoomed in to show just the tab headers for the "Checks" tab and the "Files changed" tab. The "Checks" tab has a number 1 next to it, and the "Files changed" tab has an infinity sign next to it.]

I am a human who transcribes posts to improve accessibility on Lemmy. Transcriptions help people who use screen readers or other assistive technology to use the site. For more information, see here.

Theoretically they might be able to, but it would be a very difficult case fought against a massive corporation. I doubt they'd consider it worth the trouble and legal fees, especially given there's no guarantee of winning.

Easily one of my favourite episodes in years. I'm a sucker for creepy monsters, cosmic horrors and monsters whose origins are only vaguely hinted at and this had all of that. Overall much more polished, better-paced and intriguing to me than The Star Beast (which I still liked!). This was Doctor Who back at its best for me.

Somehow, Altman returned.

Oh, so it's shit in the way I originally thought, then.

And also shit in the second way I thought, since adblock is a symptom of how terrible they've made the experience on their platform and if they want less people to use it they should make that experience more reasonable.

Given the shit big companies have got up to in the past and continue to get up to, as exposed in past and ongoing antitrust cases, that conspiracy theory you mention really isn't all that unrealistic. Yeah, it's not what happened in this case and it isn't the simplest solution, but it's absolutely a believable thing for YouTube to do, though I think they would have hidden it better if they had.

Ah, I was wondering why YouTube was taking so long to load recently. I thought it was just because their code was shit, and it turns out I was right, but not in the way I thought.

Image Transcription: YouTube Comment

@davidm.313

"Debugging. The game where you are the criminal, the victim, and the detective at the same time. But you probably don't know where the crime took place, or what it was. But there definitely is a crime."

I am a human who transcribes posts to improve accessibility on Lemmy. Transcriptions help people who use screen readers or other assistive technology to use the site. For more information, see here.

Do you mean automate the actual transcribing process? If so, section 2 in this FAQ explains a number of reasons why AI isn't suitable for accessibility purposes, though it's not an exhaustive list. Or do you mean something else?

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Still needs to be checked over to make sure it didn't get anything wrong. In my experience the mistakes AI make with monospace fonts tend to be very awkward to notice (like 1 and l and I and | being interchanged), so I'd have to go over with a fine tooth comb which, for me, since I type quickly, isn't noticeably faster and is a lot more boring.

Image Transcription: Code

[Transcriber's note: the first line in the following transcription is incorrect. After the equals, there should be eight instances of the word "Option", each succeeded by a less-than symbol, then two brackets, like (), before the first greater-tha symbol. However, if you type a less-than symbol on Lemmy, it seems to strip that symbol and whatever word comes next out of the source when you save the comment.]

type Wtf = Option>>>>>>>;
let two = Some(Some(Some(Some(Some(Some(None))))));
let three = Some(Some(Some(Some(Some(None)))));
let six = Some(Some(None));
unsafe {
    assert_eq!(
        std::mem::transmute::(two) * std::mem::transmute::(three)
        std::mem::transmute::(six)
    );
}

I am a human who transcribes posts to improve accessibility on Lemmy. Transcriptions help people who use screen readers or other assistive technology to use the site. For more information, see here.

Hopefully many others will follow suit. Pavement parking is an accessibility nightmare.

Image Transcription: GitHub Commits

[The order of the commits has been swapped from the order in the image so as to preserve chronological progression.]

Clean up unused CSS, committed 10 minutes ago

It turns out that CSS was, in fact, used., commited 1 minute ago

I am a human who transcribes posts to improve accessibility on Lemmy. Transcriptions help people who use screen readers or other assistive technology to use the site. For more information, see here.

This isn't something I'd thought about when creating this community, but I'm going to say that comments within the code don't qualify here. I created this as a replacement for a subreddit I used to moderate, which was specifically focused on commit messages, and that's the intent for this community too (as stated in the sidebar).

It may be more suitable if a Funny Comments community exists, or if it doesn't is created, and then posts with humorous comments could go in that community.

Ah, now this isn't something I'd thought about when creating this community, but I'm going to say that comments within the code don't qualify here. I created this as a replacement for a subreddit I used to moderate, which was specifically focused on commit messages, and that's the intent for this community too (as stated in the sidebar).

It may be more suitable if a Funny Comments community exists, or if it doesn't is created, and then posts with humorous comments could go in that community.

Ah, now this isn't something I'd thought about when creating this community, but I'm going to say that comments within the code don't qualify here. I created this as a replacement for a subreddit I used to moderate, which was specifically focused on commit messages, and that's the intent for this community too (as stated in the sidebar).

It may be more suitable if a Funny Comments community exists, or if it doesn't is created, and then posts with humorous comments could go in that community.

I'm also experiencing this problem, however I don't see anything about being blocked by Cloudfare. What I do see in the network tools is that on the image's POST request, Lemmy is returning a 400 (Bad Request) error. Issue is happening on both the normal Lemmy UI and the Photon UI.

If one does ever get created, I'll definitely try and remember to ping you!

To answer your edit questions, which I've just seen:

1. The original r/TranscribersOfReddit (ToR) was run by an actual non-profit organisation (the Grafeas Group) with a lot of infrastructure built up to support it and keep it running smoothly. When Reddit's API changes happened, we didn't have the resources to move the project somewhere else (and nowhere else was as dreadfully inaccessible as Reddit), so we were essentially forced to shut it down. The communities that exist on Lemmy aren't coordinated, they're just people who used to be part of ToR doing transcriptions in their free time, in a capacity not associated with the Grafeas Group. As such, there isn't really a way to coordinate them.

2. I just sort by new on the communities I'm subscribed to.

3. I don't use a screen reader but l do know the answer to this -- alt text on the image is a much better route to go when you have the option, as it means people can find the transcription right next to the image instead of looking for it in the comments. Helping people find our transcriptions in the comments was a challenge on Reddit.

As I don't personally benefit from transcriptions (except in extremely rare cases where my colourblindness becomes pertinent), I'd say asking the folks over at c/[email protected] would probably give you the best answer, but I can give my take as someone who has been doing transcriptions for a few years.

I think that including a transcription when you have the time do so is always better. It's never possible to say who might be interested in experiencing the content (and it's not just blind/partially sighted people who are helped out by transcriptions; see section 1, here for a non-exhaustive list). I an say for certain that there are people who benefit from and want them; when I was part of the (sadly now shuttered) r/TranscribersOfReddit project, we did receive requests for transcriptions of purely aesthetic pieces.

I think that, though the minority that can't view the image will be even more pronounced here, transcriptions are essentially another way of including more people in experiencing the same "scene", if that makes sense, even if they're doing so via a different medium. As just one example, that could include people who previously enjoyed the community, but became blind/partially sighted and still want to experience the content in some way. Obviously it's a bit subjective, which is usually something we try to avoid in transcribing, but I try to write transcriptions of art or scenic photographs with the intent of capturing the atmosphere of the image rather than with purely clinical descriptions as I might in other situations, while still including all the actual details of the image.

That said, obviously detailed transcriptions take a fair bit of time, so it's definitely not a mark against anyone who doesn't include them. I find myself doing a lot less of them these days as well. I would say this is one of the circles where transcriptions are less pertinent, but I think it's always a good thing to have more ways of accessing content.