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Hey, folks who understand alt text and limited vision accessibility:
I have need to write alt text for the diagram below. The alt text needs to be comprehensible to somebody who is encountering this kind of diagram for the ••very first time••. I could describe the images using the relevant jargon, but that would only serve people who already know the thing this activity is teaching them!
Any suggestions for how I could write good alt text for something like this? Is it possible? (The horizontal black bars are minus signs, i.e. subtraction. This is clear from context in the text, but probably not clear in the image.)
PLEASE NOTE: I am looking for people with ••relevant accessibility expertise••, not just random best shots from people who (like me) don’t really know much about this kind of problem.

#WritersCoffeeClub Jun 6
What are the conventions of the genre in which you write? How strictly do you follow them?
Um.. . I don't know, I write high/epic/dark fantasy (according to my beta readers) but I follow my story where it leads me. Are there conventions? Probably. Do I care? Not consciously.

Stupidly, today I decided to play around with the DuckDuckGo ai (duck.ai) to see if I could get it to write the code for me to change the resolution of a dataset to the native model resolution.
I *knew* that LLM were bad at math. But I didn’t realize HOW bad.
I asked it to change a 0.25 by 0.25 georeferenced global array to 1 by 1.25 degrees.
Maybe I was naïve in thinking it would ‘know’ that there are 180 degrees of latitude and 360 degrees on longitude.
But I had to do 5 prompts to get that piece corrected. Admittedly, I did not correct it directly— I corrected it as I would a student by prompting that there was an error in a particular line. (And yes- I realize it isn’t human and this is the wrong approach.)
I think I’m done with AI for now. I would have failed a student taking a class with me who didn’t have this most basic of knowledge down the first 5 minutes of class.
I keep thinking that LLM are sewing machines. They do a lot of good in the hands of someone who knows how to make them work, but they are only marginally better than hand-stitching when given to someone like me.
Is there a LLM that can write code in FORTRAN?

The only documentation I can find about using the `:custom` keyword with use-package is "The :custom keyword allows customization of package custom variables."
I have no idea how to read that.
1. Can I do (recent-mode t)?
2. If I am to set a config option like dired-dwim-target to t do I write that: (dired-dwim-target t) or (setq dired-dwim-target t)?
#Emacs #UsePackage

Sometimes I feel like a broken record when #writing about #neurodivergence
But re-processing my past through the lens of #Autism

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist gerade die Sonos-Radio-Station "The Lighthouse", über die Brian Eno jede Menge unveröffentlichte Tracks abspielen läßt, gratis (man braucht halt ein Sonos-Gerät dazu), und ich höre mich da nun etwas durch.
DJ Food hat das ein paar Monate lang gemacht übrigens, und mitgeschrieben (Stand 2023):
ht…

Brian Eno – The Lighthouse, what’s on it?
I’ve been compiling this, off and on, all year, while listening to the 340+ unreleased tracks on Brian Eno‘s Sonos HD radio station, The Lighthouse. If I had the phone nearby I’d check what’s playing, make a note of the track number and year and write a short description. I was intrigued to see how often tracks repeated (not very often), how long it would take me to hear all of them (over 6 months) and what the ratio of good to average to bad was. It became quite addictive as I’d fill…

Last week I asked Google to stop releasing broken things. Apologists said maybe I needed to contribute more, write code or demos.
Last year I outlined some of what I *have* done and how, for the most part, Google / Web•dev doesn’t give a shit:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/07…

Don’t Use Web•dev for Accessibility Info
Web.dev is a site from Google Chrome developer relations that provides content both to evangelize Chrome and to more broadly support the web platform. Rachel Andrew’s monthly “new to the platform” posts are effectively required reading to try to stay abreast of the browser support landscape. However, the accessibility content…

[2025-06-06]
#WritersCoffeeShop
>What are the conventions of the genre in which you write? How strictly do you follow them?
Okay, let's jump onto this bandwagon.
None. As I've formulated years ago, "I like science fiction because it's the ideal clay to mold". I believe that the underlying idea is what matters, and fiction/fantasy/sci-fi is the…

I cannot figure out how to use Github Copilot in @… @… on demand.
Is it a way to make it work like code assist? Basically trigger it with a shortcut.
I don’t want it turned on all the time spewing text right in front of what I write.

@…
"… I had already ran a script that 'over organized' my project files and made it too complicated for me to access simple files, so I asked ChatGPT
"Can you write me a script that will retrace our steps to how it was organized on my desktop before we ran the last script? Rather than have over organized session folders like they …

I get the desire for live coding interviews, you can't just take people's word that they know how to do it.
But what's the point in throwing Advent of Code style problems at me and interrupting a naive or incorrect approach before I even start implementing it? Let me write unoptimized code for you and then make it better! I'm not going to write the perfect implementation first try for every problem, but I can show you my process and prove I can write _some_ code.
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