[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 49 points 8 months ago

Somehow, Altman returned.

[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Image Transcription: Meme


[The meme shows two fanart images of the character Sayori, from "Doki Doki Literature Club", with text to the right of each image.]


[In the first image, Sayori is wearing sunglasses and scowling, with her hand up in a blocking gesture. The text reads:]

Anti-Cheat


[In the second image, Sayori has her head up high, looking pleased, with a finger pointed to the right, where the text reads:]

Kernel Level Surveillance


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[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Image Transcription: Meme


Junior devs writing comments:

[A photograph of a road signpost in front of a metal fence with a low, long building in the distance. The post has two signs on it. At the top is an octagonal sign, filled red with a white outline, reading "STOP". Beneath it is a rectangular sign with an arrow pointing up to the stop sign, and text reading "THIS IS A STOP SIGN".]


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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.

[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 159 points 1 year ago

Image Transcription: Meme


[Gru, the long-nosed protagonist of the "Despicable Me" franchise, presents to the camera, pointing into the air and smiling. Behind him is a flipchart with text reading:]

And the best part about using Linux: No viruses!


[Still presenting, Gru has his hand in a C shape and his head down as he peers at the gap between his fingers. The text now reads:]

Look at this, a website downloaded a malicious .exe on my machine.


[Gru now has his hands pointing down, fingers splayed, still presenting. The text now reads:]

*Double Click*

See? Nothing happe...


[Gru looks back to the flipchart in a double-take, his eyes round and wide and his mouth downturned. The text still reads:]

*Wine is launching*

[The Wine logo: a slightly tipped wine glass with red wine sloshing inside it.]


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[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Image Transcription: Meme


In Unix there is a "man" command and a "cat" command...

[Image of a black dog with a white throat and floppy ears that hang limply, sitting by a bed. Their mouth is downturned and their round, sad eyes look up.]

so why no "dog" command???


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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world to c/mmtranscriptarchive@lemmy.world

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 do 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 improving 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 being derived from r/TranscribersOfReddit's original guidelines, created with the aid of moderators of r/Blind), and certain parts should be placed in specific markdown 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 it's important to understand 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, and it doesn't, and can't, know if it does. This will always be the case because that's what LLMs are: for this reason, AI is not remotely suitable for transcriptions.
[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Image Transcription: Meme


People in every profession: We know what we do

Programmers:

["Awkward Look Monkey Puppet", two images of a red monkey puppet from “Ōkiku naru Ko”. On the left, the monkey faces right and sideglances with wide eyes and contracted pupils, while the right image shows the monkey staring straight ahead.]


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[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Image Transcription: Greentext


Anonymous

[Image of a feminine anime character with very pale red hair, pink eyes, blush under the eyes, and an open mouth.]

>Install the Linix operating system

>Suspicious black van is parked outside my apartment and doesn't move

>Black cashier at the grocer made weird hand gestures at me

>Every second night at 8 PM a car will circle past my window and honk exactly 3 times

>Every new month someone will leave a piece of litter in my mailbox

>Start receiving silent calls from random numbers every time I do the laundry

>Coworker talked to me about his dog in-person, next morning all youtube ads are about dog food and dog toys

>Stopped by a burger stand one day on my way home, all my bookmarked blogs running google adsense start advertising McDonald's exclusively

>My hotmail account is suddenly flooded with spam mails about alien abductions


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[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Image Transcription: Meme


[Four images of toilet roll holders, each with text above them.

The first shows a toilet roll holder holding a partially-used roll of toilet paper. Its text reads, "Non-zero value".

The second shows a holder holding a completely used roll of toilet paper, leaving just the cardboard tube. Its text reads, "0".

The third shows a holder with no toilet roll or cardboard tube on it at all. Its text reads, "null".

The fourth shows no holder; simply plain wall. Its text reads, "undefined".]


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[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Image Transcription: Comic


[Swords DCCXXXIX: CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON, by Matthew J Wills]


Panel 1

[A sword with a brightly glowing blade. The hilt is blue and scaly, while the guard forms the shape of two yellow-eyed, green-scaled dragons consuming one another's tails to form a circle. The pommel features a ring hole from one side to the other. At the tip of the blade are two dots and a very thin line forming a slightly smiling face.]

A SWORD THAT GLOWS BRIGHTLY WHENEVER YOU'RE HUNGRY


Panel 2

[A sword on a wavy dark blue background. The blade is large, heavy, and only sharp on one side. There is a large spike like a dorsal fin bending backwards from the blunt edge, two divets like side fins on the flat, four divets along the sharp edge, and a large crack digging into the tip, reminiscent of a toothy maw. The hilt is dark brown, seemingly bound with leather straps.]

A SWORD THAT ONLY WORKS UNDER WATER


Panel 3

[A sword with a blade enclosed in pink-and-white striped wax, like a decorative candle. The hilt is blue, with a crossguard that curls up towards the blade. At the tip of the blade, the wax is melted away, revealing a dark, sharp interior like the wick of a candle, and more reminiscent of a wooden stake than of a blade. This tip is on fire, and the fire blazes forwards to form a more conventional sword-tip shape.]

A FIRE SWORD THAT ONLY LASTS FOR A SINGLE DAY


Panel 4

[A jagged, decrepit sword, curved in multiple places. The tip curves forwards then hooks back again like the tip of a khopesh, with two distinct, sudden corners to change angle instead of a gradual curve.

Beneath the tip, the blade is partially enclosed in a wooden guard of some sort. There is a spiral marking leading into a line on the upper part of this, and the wood is unenclosed at the front until the very bottom of the blade, where it closes over and curves to a very thin point before curving back to meet the hilt.

From the spot just above the hilt, grey hair like a beard emerges from the wood. The hilt is wrapped in white strapping of some sort, and the pommel has a ring hole from one side to the other, and three spikes, one on the bottom, two on the sides.]

A SWORD THAT STEALS THE VICTIMS AGE AND ADDS IT TO THE WIELDERS


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[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Image Transcription: Code


bool is_prime(int x)
    return false;
}

[Beneath the code is a snippet of console output, as follows:]

test no.99989: passed
test no.99990: passed
test no.99991: failed
test no.99992: passed
test no.99993: passed
test no.99994: passed
test no.99995: passed
test no.99996: passed
test no.99997: passed
test no.99998: passed
test no.99999: passed
95.121% tests passed

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[-] MurdoMaclachlan@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Image Transcription: Twitter


Giray Özil, @girayozil

Ask a programmer to review 10 lines of code, he'll find 10 issues. Ask him to do 500 lines and he'll say it looks good.


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