Eugen Rochko
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.
A great thing to do for alt text is to simply describe what’s in the image. It doesn’t have to be Pulitzer Prize winning prose. Something as simple as “a cute black kitten sitting in a tiny bandage box,” or “a middle-aged man with graying brown hair looks directly into the camera as someone pours beer over his head.”
What isn’t as helpful is when one simply repeats the text of the toot to which the image is attached (unless the toot itself is descriptive text) or oversimplified descriptions like “a cat” or “a man and beer.” Or when someone posts a comic in which two cute foxes have dialog about sadness and hope, but then for alt text writes something like “a comic about a fox being sad” without describing the foxes and their actions or repeating the dialogue.
Descriptive alt text is awesome because it lets everyone in on the joke or the beauty or the silliness or the cuteness. Access is sexy, friends.
"Oh, you're really cute, aren't you..."
*head tilt angle increases*
"Oh my GOD"
The giant red SUV really took me out from the movie being set in England. Having been on country side roads here that thing wouldn’t fit anywhere. The neon sign on the police station was a wild choice too.
Please don’t take this the wrong way because that's a rectal thermometer.
🍪 There's one thing we can all agree on: we're fed up with misleading cookie banners. 🚫 And we finally have a chance to get rid of them!
💡 The solution? Simple! Express your privacy preferences once, for example via your browser or device, and have them respected permanently.
📃 A proposal to end this tracking circus is currently on the table of EU lawmakers – and could easily simplify things for everyone in the European Union.
I’m just back from a trip to Germany to visit one of my closest friends, Daniel, who’s been held in solitary confinement 23h a day for the past ten months in a 2 × 5m cell.
They get one hour of visitation per month.
This is nuts. #huggingface have just scraped the entirety of #github. https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack
The new #euro notes should feature peak european innovation.
Edit: less litter, better for wildlife, you don’t lose the cap – I love it!
But it’s funny because it’s a little annoying sometimes. :smug:
Results from tracking 16,988 images across 1,037 instances from the mstdn.social federated timeline.
Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 25 images (1.5x the average).
Lost in thought or just hyper-focused on an invisible dust mote? Either way, those big golden eyes have my full attention. 🖤✨
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#MastodonCats #BlackCatsOfMastodon #CatsOfMastodon #VoidCat #CatLovers
