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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure the invidious: protocol supports live streams, it seems like it's only fetching a single fragment from the HLS stream. What you're trying works for me using a direct invidious instance URL, e.g. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=cmkAbDUEoyA.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

For fun I did a quick check and based on GEBCO elevation data this looks like about 20m sea rise (I'm guessing exactly -- I assume whoever made the image picked a round number).

Hacked-together graphic showing Florida with sea level rise causing approximately the same coastline as the OP.

I could have posted what 2m looks like but at this scale it just looks like current Florida.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

shopt -s dotglob will make * include .dotfiles.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's just a one-time pad with extra steps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Australia’s about as sparsely populated ...

Sorry what? Australia's population density is is 3.6/km², the US's is 33.6/km², almost 10 times higher. Even if you fudge it by treating the swathes of uninhabited desert as an outlier and ignoring them, you're still dealing with a raw number of people lower than the population of Texas.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are we really so far down the "obligatory memetic envelope because apparently just stating opinions isn't socially acceptable any more" slope that we've dropped past "can't stop thinking about x lmao" and on to "i was talking to my sister and, get this, i said x"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I guessed the same, but according to Wikipedia:

The name wallaby comes from Dharug walabi or waliba.

I'm not sure how modern anglicisation works but I assume what's given there is considered the most accurate spelling of the indigenous word. So "wallaby" isn't too far off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This is honestly quite mild by website bloat standards. If that's really the entirety of their Javascript it's already way smaller than e.g. Medium or what this blog post considers "slightly bloated". The fact that it's in one file in 13 lines is also very standard. It makes no difference to the parser whether there are newlines or not, and removing them will in fact be saving bytes.

I'm guessing the performance issues with the site are more to do with how it's coded. If it's really bad for what sounds like a simple use case it might even be a cryptominer or something. A lot of those "random utility as a service" sites are.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I don't think that's what's happening here. As far as I know it's an issue with a driver installed on the computers, not with anything trying to reach out to an external server. If that were the case you'd expect it to fail to boot any time you don't have an Internet connection.

Windows is bad but it's not that bad yet.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Looks like the laptops are able to be recovered with a bit of finagling, so fortunately they haven't bricked everything.

And yeah staged updates or even just... some testing? Not sure how this one slipped through.

 

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

after calling Australia's emergency line 001

So close.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm a bit too young to really remember a time before CSS, but I wholeheartedly agree with you on the growth of websites needing a mess of convoluted Javascript just to load/construct what is essentially static content. The idea of both CSS and JS is that they should be used for progressive enhancement -- take a good starting HTML webpage, make it prettier with CSS, then make it even prettier with JS. But in practice people just build React apps and the like, that show nothing unless you enable Javascript. (Even Lemmy-UI sadly succumbs to this; it should be perfectly possible to enable most forms of interaction on this site with plain old HTML forms.)

Again I agree with you on dark themes, but for screenshots that's a user problem, I don't think there's much Mozilla can do about that. FWIW I'm using Dark Background and Light Text which has an "invert" option that's generally pretty successful even when style-based approaches fail. (But it goes out of its way to not invert images, so you still get those blaring Twitter screenshots.)

I think I actually remember being frustrated by Firefox's handling of broken images in the past, so really we agree about pretty much everything haha. I have a user CSS style for Lemmy that sets a min width and a border for images even when they're broken, but that should absolutely not be necessary of course.

The last part of the CommonMark page is an exercise! It's giving you a challenge: to add alt text to the image. "SHOW HINT" is giving you a hint. So I definitely don't think it's encouraging you to not add the alt text; quite the opposite.

CommonMark is not in alpha. It's a specification for Markdown, which is a kind of text formatting that's been around since 2004. There were a bunch of differing implementations of it, so CommonMark was created as a standard. (Variants of) Markdown are used on Reddit, Github, Discord, and in comments in the Rust programming language, among many other places. But alt text itself is not even a Markdown thing -- it's part of HTML, and has been since 1993. It has its own Wikipedia page and everything.

Markdown compiles to HTML, so Markdown has a way to specify alt attributes, and Lemmy uses Markdown for message formatting, so Lemmy transitively also has a way to specify alt attributes. Both of these are good things, because alt text is a web standard that is widely recommended for accessibility reasons.

To your point on welcoming people into the Fediverse, sure, there is definitely a lot more that could be done there. I haven't used Mastodon much, but I believe they have a more user friendly UI for adding alt text to images, that encourages you to do so and explains why. Maybe something similar will eventually come to Lemmy as well.

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