MurdoMaclachlan

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

Definitely seems like Djokovic had reduced movement; I think that was why he was coming to the net so much this match & the whole tournament really. Seems like he wanted shorter points, but Alcaraz just blasted passing shots, and Djokovic volleys weren't good today.

Alcaraz played so well though I agree, even without the knee I couldn't see Djokovic beating him today.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago

Somehow, Altman returned.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

 

I've noticed very recently (last two days or so) that when I get a direct link to a specific comment, it won't load anything under certain circumstances.

Following the link from the button on the comment, either from the profile or from viewing other comments on the post, will work, but using the link as the URL for a post in a different community, or opening a new tab and pasting the link in, don't.

In the former situation, the UI of the post I gave it as the URL for just freezes until I press the back button, still showing the post. In the latter, Lemmy doesn't load at all.

I'm using Librewolf 116.0, based on Firefox 116.0.

 

The following is an FAQ for why I transcribe and questions I have been asked here or was often asked on the other site. It's adapted from an FAQ I posted over there, but with site-specific details removed. I may add more questions to it in the future.


1. Why do you transcriptions?

Transcriptions help improve the accessibility of posts. Lemmy doesn't, at the moment, provide a native way to add alt-text to images, so transcriptions are an attempt to fill that space. The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of some of the ways transcriptions improve accessibility:

  • They help blind or otherwise visually-impaired people who rely on screen readers, technology that reads out what's on the screen. That technology can't read the text in an image or video, and obviously it cannot describe non-textual images at all.
  • Audio transcriptions are necessary for deaf or otherwise hearing-impaired people.
  • They help people who have trouble reading small, blurry or oddly formatted text.
  • In some cases, they may be helpful for people with colour deficiencies, if there is low contrast between text and background colours.
  • They help people with bad internet connections, who as a result may not be able to load the image at high quality or at all.
  • They can provide context or note small details that people missed when first viewing the post, potentially aiding their understanding and/or appreciation of it.
  • They are useful for search engine indexing and the preservation of images, videos or audio that may at some point get deleted.
  • They provide data for improve OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. See below for reasons as to why OCR isn't yet adequate.

2. Why don't you just use OCR or AI?

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is technology that detects and transcribes text in an image. However, it is currently infeasible for three simpel reasons:

  • It can, and does, easily get a lot wrong. It's most accurate on simple images of plain text, such as screenshots from social media posts, but even there will have errors from time to time. Since this is an accessibility service, as close to 100% accuracy as possible is required. OCR's work simply isn't reliable enough for that yet.
  • Even were OCR able to 100%-accurately describe the text, there are certain parts of posts I don't always transcribed if they are not considered relevant (this beingderived from r/TranscribersOfReddit's original guidelines, created with the aid of moderators or r/Blind), and certain parts should be placed in specific markdwon formatting and so on. Sometimes things that aren't normally relevant become relevant depending on the context of the post. Working out what is and isn't relevant isn't possible for computers right now.
  • Finally, for posts without text, or where a large portion of the post is not text, OCR is useless. Other AI such as ChatGPT can sometimes describe these, but here is where an important understanding of what these types of AI, that is LLMs (Large Language Models) actually are. They're generative. You give them a prompt and they generate a statistically likely response. It doesn't matter to the LLM whether the response is correct or contains errors or complete nonsense. This will always be the case because that's what LLMs are: for this reason, AI is not remotely suitable for transcriptions.
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