Theoretically they might be able to, but it would be a very difficult case fought against a massive corporation. I doubt they’d consider it worth the trouble and legal fees, especially given there’s no guarantee of winning.
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Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by boardEnglish
501·2 years agoSomehow, Altman returned.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.English
5·2 years agoOh, so it’s shit in the way I originally thought, then.
And also shit in the second way I thought, since adblock is a symptom of how terrible they’ve made the experience on their platform and if they want less people to use it they should make that experience more reasonable.
Given the shit big companies have got up to in the past and continue to get up to, as exposed in past and ongoing antitrust cases, that conspiracy theory you mention really isn’t all that unrealistic. Yeah, it’s not what happened in this case and it isn’t the simplest solution, but it’s absolutely a believable thing for YouTube to do, though I think they would have hidden it better if they had.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.English
422·2 years agoAh, I was wondering why YouTube was taking so long to load recently. I thought it was just because their code was shit, and it turns out I was right, but not in the way I thought.
Neither, it’ll be included as-is without a [sic]. I follow the guidelines of r/TranscribersOfReddit, since they were developed in cooperation with members of rBlind.
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Image Transcription: Meme
[A screenshot of Grogu / Baby Yoda, a character from “The Mandalorian”. He is a small green-skinned alien character with large pointy ears and big eyes. In the image, he is leaning towards a control panel to push a button whilst looking right towards something off-frame with large, innocent eyes. Text at the top and bottom of the image reads:]
ME FINDING OUT IF THE 3 MEMES PER DAY RULE
IS POSTS AND COMMENTS OR JUST POSTS
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Molly Maclachlan@lemmy.worldto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Well that didn't go as expected...English
1·3 years agoI didn’t know you could do that!
From what I can see, this means you can add alt text to images you embed using markdown. However, directly uploaded images in posts don’t seem to have a way to directly add alt text that I can find. You can add a transcription in the text body, but it’s not quite as accessible as pure alt text because screen readers won’t read it automatically when the image gets focused.
Possibly you could embed an image in the text body and upload that like a text post, and that way use the markdown to add the alt text, but that would require the image is already hosted somewhere in the internet.
Molly Maclachlan@lemmy.worldto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Well that didn't go as expected...English
1·3 years agoAs far as I’m aware, Lemmy unfortunately does not provide the option to add alt text to images. Hopefully that will change, though!
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Well that didn't go as expected...English
1·3 years agoImage Transcription: Meme
[Gru, the long-nosed protagonist of the “Despicable Me” franchise, presents to the camera, pointing into the air and smiling. Behind him is a flipchart with text reading:]
And the best part about using Linux: No viruses!
[Still presenting, Gru has his hand in a C shape and his head down as he peers at the gap between his fingers. The text now reads:]
Look at this, a website downloaded a malicious .exe on my machine.
[Gru now has his hands pointing down, fingers splayed, still presenting. The text now reads:]
*Double Click*
See? Nothing happe…
[Gru looks back to the flipchart in a double-take, his eyes round and wide and his mouth downturned. The text still reads:]
*Wine is launching*
[The Wine logo: a slightly tipped wine glass with red wine sloshing inside it.]
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Molly Maclachlan@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Lemmy.world Admin Response to Meta/ThreadsEnglish
2·2 years agoThis, all of this. Meta is the one company I really manage to completely shut out of my life, partially through use of extensions like Facebook Container and partially through simply never interacting with anything I see from them. I’m on places like Lemmy because I want nothing to do with these huge corporations, because they always bring nothing but corruption and exploitation.

Definitely seems like Djokovic had reduced movement; I think that was why he was coming to the net so much this match & the whole tournament really. Seems like he wanted shorter points, but Alcaraz just blasted passing shots, and Djokovic volleys weren’t good today.
Alcaraz played so well though I agree, even without the knee I couldn’t see Djokovic beating him today.