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[–] 31 points 1 year ago*

it kinda looks like they just mistyped "dropping it" and they're actually talking about some streaming service like Disney+

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    In fact, yes. Not exactly for git itself, but for Gitlab, which does the git hosting for us.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    What are you switching to, if you don't mind me asking?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You guys are putting binary files in git? 😬

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Anyone else having issues accessing lemmy.world?
    Getting hsts error

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