Catoblepas

joined 1 year ago

Isn't this just prose formatted in a weird way?

When you get down to it, isn't that all poetry really is? But really, I think this would technically fall under 'free verse' (poetry with no rules).

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It shows up in the mod log with “expires 1 hour ago” on the blahaj mod log and doesn’t show any additional action, like rebanning you. If you’re still banned on your end you could try reaching out to the egg_irl mods and ask if your ban was changed to a permanent one or if it’s in error (federation is clunky, it very well could be).

 
[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

Wow, and I thought the guys that broke into and pissed all in the halls of our high school were going wild.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I don’t know if this is still the case, but I know years back iPhones were preferred by a lot of blind people just in terms of accessibility. Digging through accessibility settings, it looks like you can use Voice Control to tell it to open Lemmy, and VoiceOver to read all the text on the screen without touching it. I don’t know about the example you added to your OP, adding phrases it would need to interpret seems more like a Siri thing (which I don’t use), so I don’t know how well that plays with Voice Control.

I wouldn’t rush out to buy anything unless some Android people confirm it’s not doable. Apple does have people that know the software working at their stores, so they could tell you specifics for sure. And check that I’m not totally wrong, lol.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Someone who knows more about how to/if you can do this on Android will have to answer the specifics for that; I know on iOS you can use custom voice control actions (along with default voice control phone navigation mode) to do more or less what you’re describing. I’m surprised if Android has no accessibility features that work similarly.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 children)

Sorry if I’m overlooking something obvious here, but you’re basically asking about accessibility features, right? Whatever settings and features blind users use should let you navigate without looking at it. I realize that’s overly vague but I only know how to get to accessibility features on iOS, sorry!

Although I will say you probably would need to get used to listening to text at a very high speed to use it at the speed you read.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 hours ago

Seconding this. Some of these comments are an unpleasant reminder of why the stereotype of cyclists as upper class and entitled exists.

Some blame also lies on the local government for not adding bollards or other structures to separate the bike lane from traffic. Seeing all these issues and deciding someone with shit pay and zero job security is worth getting mad at just doesn’t make sense. Go take that energy somewhere it can do something.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Great argument for and example of how the US government isn't taxing wealth nearly enough, if we have homeless people and billionaires funding sci fi fantasies for their own amusement in the same country.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wow, that article was basically a cut and paste of the DOJ release, neither of which said why he was only charged with four counts if he’s done it over 300 times. Thanks, NBC! 🙄

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In that case the instance you're on is basically the block list, right? That's good, especially if most instances are really dedicated to stamping out that kind of thing. But if/when Mastodon gets big, it becomes a problem of scale.

In practical terms it's kind of unrealistic to expect T&S to deal with people because they have garbage takes; most of their day is going to be dealing with the usual internet nightmare sludge, which is where I think block lists become a real utility on the user end of things. In addition to the advantage of just making the blocked users shout into the void when 90% of the site wants nothing to do with their ass, which I can tell you from observation makes them extremely mad.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

On Bluesky anyone who really hates TPOT can make a block list that anyone can subscribe to and you never have to think of it again. You can also easily flag accounts to include on the list.

If TPOT moved en masse to Mastodon, across many different instances, how would someone achieve the same thing? My understanding is they don’t have any similar feature. As long as “just block them all individually or hope they all move to one shitty instance you can block” is the solution, it’s going to fail to attract people.

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Obviously learning a couple of words in another language doesn't really make you bilingual, or being able to say a few phrases. But there's also clearly some point before full fluency where you can be considered bilingual, but how is it determined (formally or informally)? Is it purely vibes based, you'll know when you see it kind of thing?

I'm vaguely familiar with the CEFR levels measuring how much of a language you speak, but if there's a cutoff point for counting as bilingual in there somewhere I don't know where.

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