• TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    17 hours ago

    That’s not what this double negation cancels to, though. The cancellation of “I can’t believe it’s not butter” is “I must/I’m compelled to believe it is butter”. This is because you’re saying you lack the power to believe that it is ~B, where B is the set of butter. Thus, because you’re addressing that it exists (i.e. you have to believe it’s something), you not only believe it is in set B but are powerless to do otherwise. ∎

    See also: /r/isitbutter

  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    6·
    18 hours ago

    Yes, everyone’s.

    Images of pure text aren't accessible or necessary: use proper text, instead.

    Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative:

    • 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
      • lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
      • some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
      • 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
    • 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.

  • NorthWestWind@lemmy.world
    3·
    16 hours ago

    And then there’s English’s double negative which results in single negative somehow

    “I ain’t doing nothing” means “I am not doing anything”