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.

I wonder what they think git is.

What are you trying to argue? Non-liberals will demand liberty from intrusive imposition of age verification? What do we call these advocates for social liberty? With which major US political ideology do they belong if they had to choose?

The politically illiterate US population uses every term and definition wrong.

You must be speaking of yourself: now you’re disagreeing with political scientists & historians. The linked article cites definitions & references from both.

The political spectrum article

Generally, the left wing is characterized by an emphasis on “ideas such as freedom, equality, fraternity, rights, progress, reform and internationalism” while the right wing is characterized by an emphasis on “notions such as authority, hierarchy, order, duty, tradition, reaction and nationalism”.

Political scientists and other analysts usually regard the left as including anarchists, communists, socialists, democratic socialists, social democrats, left-libertarians, progressives, and social liberals.

reaffirms political scientists consider progressives & social liberals on the left.

Also they are relative

Not entirely: words still mean things.

Progressivism: ideology

that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform.

Social liberalism:

variety of liberalism that endorses social justice, social services, a mixed economy, and the expansion of civil and political rights

social liberalism places greater emphasis on the role of government in addressing social inequalities and ensuring public welfare

So back to modern liberalism in the US: what has it endorsed & pursued?

The modern liberal philosophy strongly endorses public spending on programs such as education, health care, and welfare.

What are these if not social reforms to advance the human condition (ie, progressive policies)?

It combines ideas of cultural liberalism, social liberalism, progressivism, civil liberty and social equality with support for social justice and a mixed economy

Important social issues during the 21st century include social justice, economic inequality (wealth and income), voting rights for minorities, affirmative action, reproductive and other women’s rights, support for LGBT rights, and immigration reform.

What is the support for mixed economy & these issues if not the definition of social liberalism?

Are you claiming any of that has much to do with “notions such as authority, hierarchy, order, duty, tradition, reaction and nationalism” that characterize the right? They seem to have an awful lot more to do with “ideas such as freedom, equality, fraternity, rights, progress, reform and internationalism” that characterize the left.

It’s time to face reality & admit the facts don’t support you.

all I’ve heard from so-called US ‘liberals’ was nearly as horrible and right-wing as the rest

Then maybe you don’t know many liberals.

overton window is so narrow it only goes from fascist to center-right

Regardless of what you think, people in the libertarian left of the political map exist in the US, and there are only 2 major ideologies there to choose from.

Modern liberalism is one of two major political ideologies in the United States, with the other being conservatism.

They’re not throwing their lot in with conservatism. That really narrows down the possibilities.

US liberals are mostly social liberals & progressives. They include liberal/libertarian leftists from the political map.

Are you claiming liberal leftism? Then welcome to the club.

A lib (liberal or libertarian leftist) as opposed to what? A non-liberal, ie, authoritarian leftist?

I don’t think authoritarians have credible claims on this matter or anything worthwhile.

Et tu, California with Democratic majority in both chambers? Fucking disgraceful.

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature

It’s a bad one: if I’m unable to get that version of your IDE, the tutorial becomes useless. If it had stuck to programming essentials like the source code & configuration files, then it’d have enduring value as the reader could understand without unnecessary concealment of basic information dependent on an IDE.

no bloat from going through everything twice (once for VS, once for VS Code)

Not implied: the tutorial would properly focus on the programming without IDE complications as it shows the files generated & dependencies linked. (eg, “I did this in my IDE: here’s what it did”.) The reader could in principle use any text editor. It’s not an IDE tutorial.

Microsoft hasn’t written a tutorial for this topic, at all, right?

And you made another Microsoft-grade tutorial: that’s not a compliment.

Looks like a case of broken web browser or doesn’t understand footnotes. 🤔

I think the blogger is more technical than they let on:

• understands how to write footnotes
• structures lists correctly
• runs their own blog with custom domain name.

I’ve known programmers struggle with markdown.

I think your tutorial depends too much on your editor UI. It reminds me of those tutorials (often written by Microsoft) where the IDE has changed enough to break the tutorial. This made the tutorial completely useless, because none of them would explain what I actually needed: the magic thing their IDE did in terms of essentials (text files, basic commands), so I could reproduce the effect.

This is different in the unix world, which favors tool-agnostic approaches in terms of text files & basic commands. Even as tooling & technology changes, I can usually look up the meaning of the text & those commands to update them.

That’s the most important I think: not the answer itself, but where the answer comes from, so I can go back there when I need to.

or documentation.

• Bash command line editing covers searching.
• Readline library command line editing covers searching.

they get off on ruining your day cuz

That’s true of everyone, though. Leftists find leftists grating, rigid with their insufferable call-out tactics, fixation on niche issues, clashing priorities, infighting, ease of provocation at obvious bait. We love to troll ourselves & just have a stronger capacity than the right to endure the left.

I’d like to tell people “soy aquí” is perfectly grammatical and means you’re identifying with a place like “I’m the Earth”. It could be figurative language or science fiction.

Cool way to break your computer wide open to security exploits.

Also, an awesome image of text, so people can’t just copy & paste it, but that’s more of a hidden blessing.

It’s your system

Evil techcorp’s servers (hosting online services I send requests containing data to) are mine? Cool! How do I sell those?

Or are we referring to local software that gets & sends my data without authorization?

you either accept it or don’t get to use what you bought

Claiming that’s theft seems like (taking artistic license with the word steal to express) wanting an agreement that wasn’t offered. Like

How dare evil techcorp make a service I want to use with voluntary conditions I don’t want? That’s stealing!

I don’t think computer hardware typically has those types of agreements, and I can change the software & choose online services.

Europe is good at failing?

So, it’s their system & it’s not theft by usage agreement?

steal your data

Do they break into my computer or accounts & take it unauthorized? Is it data in my private systems/networks/accounts that I exclusively own or is legally protected as exclusively mine?

Funny thing: developers say the same.

Stop children using VPNs existing to watch porn, ministers told

Radical times, radical solutions.