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@hikari Yeah, I feel like the question of "who is this for and what purpose does it serve" doesn't always get asked, but it really does guide what kind of alt text it'd even need.

The other thing is, the WCAG guidelines tend to emphasize concise descriptions in ways that posts about alt text here don’t. If the community guidelines don't line up with pre-existing "advice for writing alt text" guides, that makes it even harder to figure out.

PASSPORT MID? i find this composition to be quite excellent actually

But I had put together how many real world systems are examples of the same thing: mass screening for low prevalence problems.

And how the different situations make it either a good or bad idea.

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I knew about the problem of trying to detect something that has low prevalence. The number of false-positives may vastly out number the true-positives.

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A very insightful talk!
"FireShonks 2023 - Chat Control: Mass Screenings, Massive Dangers"
youtube.com/watch?v=z-Gi5mEFSq

Been seeing "post your most popular art of this year" going around, so here's mine of Xenia the Linux fox, which did so well on Mastodon it got an amount of numbers I didn't know was possible there

#art #furry #linux #xenia

the wii fit balance board is the original smart scale

@drahardja there is a distressing tendency to reward those who respond to a disaster, while ignoring those who do the difficult work of preventing a disaster. The latter is so much harder to see, and also so much more challenging...

Making and posting little things and bring me joy cuz my brain has a habit of focusing on the things that make me sad. This is number 1 (out of hopefully many more lol)

Ref sheet of our little magical girl, since I haven't quite gotten her design down yet. Not quite sure about her name, I do have a candidate in mind but any suggestions are welcome~

wtf a huge ice block just almost crushed me??? that's not very osha compliant im gonna go complain

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This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.

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