it kinda looks like they just mistyped "dropping it" and they're actually talking about some streaming service like Disney+
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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Gross: image of text.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not.
Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:
- usability
- we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can't
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc) is lost
- some users can't read this due to lack of alt text
- users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can't explore wider context of the original message
- authenticity: we don't know the image hasn't been tampered
- searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images. I wonder what they think git is.
My guy from nsfwlemmy making sure all people, regardless of disabilities or horniness can read git memes. Respect
And much like going from phone call to answering machine to voicemail to visual voicemail (and even for a while being able to text a verbal reply on I believe Sprint back in the day for a bit) we now have phones being able to OCR images, then you can select the text on the image. (Also so the creepsters can harvest metadata on all your images.)
Degrading the text to image, then OCRing it is a lossy (especially of semantic structure), more failure-prone waste of computing power than linking to source or just providing the text: it only poorly addresses 1 issue while adding extra steps. We still lose web connectivity, authenticity, searchability, fault tolerance while impairing usability & accessibility. I don't think linking to the comment or pasting text is an extraordinary effort compared to taking & clipping a screenshot, saving it to file, uploading it.
Since you didn't understand it, here's the full list of issues again: Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:
- usability
- we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can't
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc) is lost
- some users can't read this due to lack of alt text
- users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can't explore wider context of the original message
- authenticity: we don't know the image hasn't been tampered
- searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
Text:
We're droppi git because its almost €200/y in my region. Nah, i dont need old episodes of Family Guy and ass tier recent Marvel movies that bad.
In fact, yes. Not exactly for git itself, but for Gitlab, which does the git hosting for us.
GitLab LFS storage is mad expensive. I regret buying into it... We have an unreal engine project and the assets cross over 20GB, not raw assets mind you. I've self hosted perforce before and should have stuck with that
What are you switching to, if you don't mind me asking?
I'm not OOP, we will continue using Gitlab for the foreseeable future. Our company recently switched from self-hosted to cloud hosted by Gitlab.
Why, though?
Because Cloud is cool or something. You know, now that the US is beconing more and more unreliable and untrustworthy, it's exactly the right time for a large European corporation that provides critical services to move over to an US product hosted on US servers outside of our control.
To convince you to keep paying for git
You guys are putting binary files in git? 😬
Git-lfs go brrr I hope
what a git
Anyone else having issues accessing lemmy.world?
Getting hsts error
it works for me. did you forget to pay your git bill?
Now it loads as well (perviously tried at work).
Very weird ¯\_(ツ)_/¯