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Two heads? And no butt?

I would believe it more if it was an animal with 2.3i butts. :-P

Now, I know what you are thinking - that doesn't exi... (hold my beer):

I should probably read that - I figured that I get the gist having read Animal Farm but hey, if we are going to live out the irl version then it might be good to at least say that I read about it first!:-P

It is fascinating how some people see far (ahead), by virtue of seeing clear (to the soul/center of the human condition) - technology may change but we don't seem to. Asimov, Jules Verne, George Orwell, they are like techno- or cultural prophets, not that we listened, sadly:-(.

C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia) in addition to being a christian apologist also wrote philosophy about how Hitler was able to influence Europe during WWII, and I found that just fascinating e.g. if you avoid ever saying a thing but instead just act as if it is true then it is a way to avoid it being questioned. Evil people have access to so many tricks that a free & just society would never condone using (another big one lately is misinformation), nor would it even so much work in the other direction b/c getting people to question things is a major bonus in such a society so it's at best an anti-pattern there, and yet I wish we were much more aware of them b/c otherwise it is like facing a pathogen with no immune system.

Anyway thank you for reminding me of those quotes:-).

Yup. And look how much the CEOs of like Alphabet, Apple, Meta, etc. are making by comparison. Although most of it is stock so... this sounds like literal fraud then, meant to make the company look far more "profitable" than it actually is (though ianal). Wouldn't it be funny if he went to jail? :-P (haha j/k, rich people don't go to jail, nor suffer consequences of any kind:-|)

He is telling you to run away - do it, do it now! :-P

^ THIS - whoops, old habits die hard.

/s btw, b/c I've mostly only ever done that ironically (iirc)

Okay, so you may not even think that's funny, but at least if you get mad, there's a chance that I would LISTEN and we could have a REAL discussion about that! I've changed people's minds here and vice versa, and yeah been brought down a peg or two, b/c as you said these are actually people.

Tbf Reddit has some irl people too, mixed in there, but they are... of a different kind. Some are indistinguishable from bots, while others may as well be.

I don't want to be social media-ist - if it was merely "another place" then that's entirely their call, to live however they want, but dayum, it really is different over there, especially after all the best people left, though it was becoming more that way all the time even before that.

Same - well, at least in regard to r/popular, though I did keep going back to the small niche sub that I used to mod and felt a connection to, but while I couldn't call it "dead" now, it definitely does not seem as vibrant as it used to be, and nowadays I only check it perhaps once a week, and haven't commented in a LONG while. Just people trying to drum up content, sorta like here except more inane posts there vs. just silence here. I prefer here regardless:-P.

A couple of months ago, r/popular seemed mostly people arguing with bots - or else I couldn't tell the difference and that is just as bad - while in my smaller sub at least it is people wishing they had something to say, and arguing with what looks like literal and actual children.

Wherever the actual content creators went, they don't seem to be on Reddit anymore.

The definition of pretty much every word these days has been hijacked to mean the exact opposite - like Google lets you "search" for things you "want", and Reddit would "connect" you to "~~humans~~ people", FaceBook will ~~steal all of your data~~ share "news", again from "people", and so on.

I pretty much think of "smart" as now meaning "tactically weaponized to maximize corpo profits" - you know, "for your convenience"!:-P 🤮

It is never enough to feed his voracious appetites. He craves power, and he's trying to win like Elon Musk (ignoring how the latter is nowhere close to "winning").

The users haven't left, that's for sure, but didn't the mods of most of the larger subs (something like 48/50 I thought?) leave? Some unwillingly actually...

But if you mean the enormously long tail of smaller subs, then yeah, that happened, fo sho.

In my experience, anything browser-related tends to get WORSE over the decades, not better, especially as pertains to cross-platform compatibility. HTML5 was a significant leap forward, but countering a trend with inumerably many other smaller steps backwards. The shift from direct HTML to CSS being one huge leap backwards, and nowadays the shift from CSS to JS - even if you view the html sourcecode, and even if you pair that with all of the relevant CSS files, you often still cannot readily find the link between what the dev wrote vs. what ends up happening - and I don't just mean end-users, but the actual teams of devs in the first place!!!

Just to pick one recent example for me, if the bright white background used by many websites (including Google Docs, Sheets, etc. that otherwise offer such great tools to collaborate with people on) literally hurts/strains my eyes, then in the past it was difficult but doable to use something like an Extension to change the background and font colors to my own preferred "dark mode" (or at least swap out the white for cream or some such), while later it got MUCH more difficult to do that with CSS but was still do-able with significantly more work, whereas now with HTML+CSS+JS the task becomes well-neigh impossible across a wide variety of sites.

And even in cases where I use dark mode, including Lemmy (mostly using Firefox browser), people will upload text boxes (from Tumblr or Twitter or whatever) containing that bright white background that hurts all the more when it is the only thing blaring forth from admist the sea of darkness.:-P

Which makes me doubt that the description in the CommonMark tutorial (that also uses a bright shining white background I note, among other things about it) is factually correct - although the more I think about it, perhaps it is me who was wrong. In any case, most browsers choose to render a small "broken-image" icon whenever an image cannot be displayed, which makes it obvious that an image was supposed to be there, without having to look at the sourcecode. Except Firefox that chooses not to, for whatever reason, unless someone specified the abolute height and width for their image (and probably did so using direct HTML, rather than CSS and/or JS?). Since I do not use a screen reader myself, that part I cannot comment on.

Btw that CommonMark page itself seems to advocate for putting nothing inside of the brackets? If you click the 3rd circle at the bottom, it says:

I tested and in Preview mode at least, that works on Lemmy. There is a SHOW HINT (IN ALL-CAPS FOR SOME REASON?) button, relatively obscured by differing from all other buttons on that page in being in black and white (and why is the font size so small in all of the active elements!?), especially in relation to the giant sizes of the buttons themselves, but by default the page seems to be suggesting that it is fine to leave the parts between the brackets empty.

So while I do not know anything at all about CommonMark, at a guess I would surmise that perhaps it is itself still in alpha? Or at most beta, b/c that does not look very polished to me, though that's just imho ofc.

Firefox is open source, but I mean that I would replace it with something else that is open source - as opposed to Chrome, Safari, or Edge that are not - and also better, assuming ofc that something else came close to being better or at least slightly less worse wrt the specific issues that I keep having to deal with when using it.

Anyway, thank you for letting me know about what was supposed to be inside the brackets - I hope I have convinced you that that fact was by no means being made obvious, but with enough community support then as people welcoming noobs into the Fediverse and explain to them one-on-one how things work, hopefully using the accessibility features will catch on more.