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@PugJesus Give him a break; he hasn’t been feline very well lately.

@PugJesus Prescient…
With apologies for the Instagram link, check out Herman here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQMhNRMET3W/

@PugJesus I’ve gotten on to the lead programmer of piefed, and he is now going to change the default behaviour when alt text if left off by users 🙂

https://aus.social/@whybird/115462676995423324

To be clear, actual descriptions are *greatly* appreciated by the fediverse generally - and not just for people with limited vision - but at least in future if piefed users choose not to describe images, it won’t deceptively make it look like they have 👍

@PugJesus How odd! All your image posts seem to follow this pattern. Maybe it is a setting of your client app or your instance?

@PugJesus thanks for putting #altText on the picture, but please don’t just repeat the text already in the post there; much better to actually describe the image in some way. Thanks :)

@maniacalmanicmania TL;DR

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@TimePencil @No1 @Davriellelouna … through temu

@Zagorath Your comment on the other post made me look in further depth… I haven’t really found much on the north/south divide yet, which supports your thoughts there, but I did find this report on the boundary streets so thought I’d add it here: https://nit.com.au/01-01-2025/15602/the-boundary-streets-of-brisbane-a-history-of-division
(Though the report does seem to mention several Southside places and I think only Spring Hill on the Northside?)

@Zagorath p.s. if you are interested in another remnant of Brisbane’s racist past, the reason that there are so many “Boundary Roads” in Brisbane (esp. south side) is that those were the boundaries that the Aboriginals were not allowed to cross without a permit. I kid you not.

@Zagorath Historically, it’s racism. I literally heard a Northsider say that “ewww”, the Southside is “where all the Aboriginals live”*. That person was elderly already then, and it was decades ago, but I do think that’s where the inertia comes from.

* (Conversely, Northside might have been perceived as where all the racist, or at least snooty, people live.)

@brisk The article says “However, the code does preempt concerns that children might get around controls by simply not logging in to their accounts.”

@brisk I thought the same, though also I presume you’d have to be logged in to turn safe search off.