SixKeys
Jason Scott
Koutsie 
@textfiles Alt text:
Screenshot of the New York Times being unreadable because of a "Thank you for reading The Times" popup that states you must create an account or log-in to continue reading.
Laukidh@k @textfiles Additionally, the headline of the article being obscured begins “The dream was universal access to knowledge.”
@Laukidh @textfiles oh yeah, i didn't catch that haha
Matunos
MaybeMyMonkeys
wanderer_jMe: climbs a Himalayan mountain in 2023 to seek wisdom from a wise man/guru.
Guru: Paywall first, sorry.
Sören@k @textfiles yes, but part of the joke here is that the headline starts, “The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge”
LambdaDuck@k @textfiles you missed the most important part: it’s covering up a headline starting with “The dream was universal access to knowledge. The” before being cut off by the paywall
Nik0 
@k @textfiles We should really have community alt texts here.
@ashiisbest @textfiles or people should just add alt text's to their images by default :D
@k @textfiles Yeah or we could use that energy to insure that potientially almost every major post in the future can have alt. text. Mastodon is getting bigger and we can't just police alt text all the time. The best thing we can do is just have a feature that allows users (who are trusted of course) to add the alt text
@ashiisbest @textfiles doing that in federation seems like a funny implementation problem 😄
@k @textfiles it would be and it is rather complicated but potientially (if possible) we could add a vote system for the better alt text. Or the easier solution would be how the mastodon app im using does it where a red highlight just shows up on a picture without alt text (it would just bother people really)
@ashiisbest @textfiles yeah that's what my client does too haha
antipode77It could be done kind of like the way wikipedia does edits.
Porquerias | 1312 🏴🌵@ashiisbest @k @textfiles one good thing about pre-musk bird site was the alt text OCR bot that you could summon to OCR a screenshot of text. It also reminded you with a direct message if you posted something or boosted something that had no alt text. It got me into the habit real quick!
@Galletasalada @ashiisbest @textfiles hehee the web client i use has this feature for text :)
(https://semaphone.social - fork of the now dead pinafore dot social)
(https://semaphone.social - fork of the now dead pinafore dot social)
Dodo & the Brawn@Galletasalada @ashiisbest @k @textfiles @PleaseCaption is the alt-text bot that DMs me if I boost something without alt-text.
@Galletasalada @ashiisbest @k @textfiles @PleaseCaption You are welcome! @ocrbot seems to work, but obviously can't help with images and videos.
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@k @textfiles no alt text makes it especially ironic, thanks for providing it
Gregory Hays@textfiles I never tire of these.
Veedems@textfiles please for the love of all that is good….plug your phone in.
Tom Bellin 
@veedems @textfiles The last thing that phone did was toot this screenshot. We salute its bravery.
LexiGirl@veedems @textfiles it’s making my palms sweaty!!
Jonathan 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇨🇦🇲🇽@veedems @textfiles Jumped into the replies to see when someone would post about this!
Jordan Mechner
[ Jer moved instances ]@textfiles alt text:
A screenshot of an article in the New York Times.
Headline: "The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The"
The page is then cut off by a large banner that says: "Thanks for reading The Times. Create your free account or log in to continue reading."
They couldn't even display the entire headline before cutting off non-subscribers.
A screenshot of an article in the New York Times.
Headline: "The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The"
The page is then cut off by a large banner that says: "Thanks for reading The Times. Create your free account or log in to continue reading."
They couldn't even display the entire headline before cutting off non-subscribers.
Rather obnoxious and somewhat ironic. The full title is "The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco."
Gift link:
Wow the gift link -- track much?
Tim Gatewood@admin @nyquildotorg @textfiles Interesting read. As much as I despise the current situation where a handful of companies control publishing in the USA, as a writer, I support copyright. At the time this court decision was announced, I said there really wasn't any other way it could have gone because what the IA was doing clearly violated copyright. I hope the appeal will clarify things on the academic side.
The version of this in which a library buys one copy of a work, then gets to lend out one copy at a time seems to me the fair compromise.
NOT the extraordinarily expensive digital subscription model that publishers have been forcing on libraries. NOT the digital version being far more expensive than the paper version. NOT special "library editions" either (again far more expensive).
I do think the library is in the wrong when they buy one copy, but then loan out several copies at once. If the library wants ten copies to loan, then buy ten copies. Here is where mass digital licenses might make sense, but not in the forms that gouge libraries.
@admin @nyquildotorg @textfiles That sounds reasonable. Alas, it's not likely to happen as long as a tiny number of companies control publishing. And corporate raiders KKR buying both Overdrive / Libby (which is how libraries lend ebooks) and one of the big publishers recently is not going to help. It's just more enshittification, to use the term from Corey Doctorow.
@admin @nyquildotorg @textfiles The other part of this is you sign up on Overdrive or Libby with your local library card. You don't just register on a website, which is far easier to fake. And there's no easy way to copy the ebook on Libby, so you can't then share it yourself. Can the same be said about IA ?
RhetRx@textfiles I’ve been a subscriber for decades, and now they want me to accept binding arbitration as part of reading their newspaper. No.
Daedalean
IronCladLou@textfiles sometimes the comedy writes itself! 😂
kolya
✾, chief troublemaker@textfiles (an image description:)
A screenshot of the New York Times website as seen from a smartphone. The article on screen has a headline that reads, “The Dream Was Universal Access To Knowledge. The—“, but it is ironically cut by the Times log-in user interface asking the user to log in and subscribe to read the article.
Beeks@textfiles so you stole this toot, but stripped it of alt text thus making it worse.
Wow, very archival of you...
Edit: shocker of shocks, the thief decided to block instead of man up. 🤡
lutoma :goose_honk: (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] The Dream Was Universal Access To Knowledge. The
Alaric@Beeks @textfiles ah it’s beginning to feel more like dead bird here every day!
Jonathan Huffman@textfiles I know the point of this is to point out the irony … but for anyone wanting a way around some paywalls you can often paste the URL into a web browser that can block JavaScript
Cmdr_Halo_JonesThere's more ironic ways to view this story than simply blocking JavaScript.
AlexanderMars@textfiles I think you won the category for “most Alt text suggestions for a mastodon post” for the weekend, congratulations.
vibhor 🍑 🏳️🌈@textfiles lmao the irony.!!
wobweger 
@textfiles
🤨 living on the edge is yours ...
notice battery status bar 🤪
GI Jack: All American Zero@textfiles if they got together and had a universal login to track us and sell ads is one thing, but a login for every news outlet is a deal breaker.
(it/its) The Frog ™️@textfiles this should remove the paywall
You can paste the URL of the website onto this website or just add 12ft.io/ to the beginning of the articles URL
https://12ft.io/
Sure it sucks we have to do this but for most bigger websites it works
You can paste the URL of the website onto this website or just add 12ft.io/ to the beginning of the articles URL
https://12ft.io/
Sure it sucks we have to do this but for most bigger websites it works
username@Six_Creates 12ft.io started out great but turned into a shakedown, they accept requests (and allegedly payment in some cases) to disable their services on sites.
Bypass Paywalls Clean is my go-to https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
@handle dang I had no idea, that kinda sucks
@Six_Creates archive.is often works well also
Lana The Raven@Six_Creates @textfiles
You would think, but no. Looks like 12ft.io is excluding certain sites now. Either they're getting paid or they're getting sued...
You would think, but no. Looks like 12ft.io is excluding certain sites now. Either they're getting paid or they're getting sued...
Nicole ParsonsDo you have a public library card?
If you do, most public libraries provide access to most paywalled material. Mine uses PressReader on its web site.
And this is why Republicans are attacking libraries...
Information asymmetry is needed when billionaires are funding a growing fascist movement.
Keeping access to information is mandatory for pro-democracy advocacy.