Being famous sounds hard.

@jyarbrough @lowqualityfacts

Alt text: "Jake Gyllenhaal: I try to stomp at least one rat every time I ride the subway. People are less likely to ask for your autograph when you're busy stomping rats."

@jyarbrough @lowqualityfacts Aren't image processing algorithms for standard typed text good enough these days that reading text from images must be a fairly cheap operation?

You'd think Mastodon et al. could include an automated feature for generating alt text for images that are basically just text. Like they do for translations, which I'd expect to be more computationally expensive.

@nottrobin The app I use has the option built in. I mostly called it out because @lowqualityfacts is usually good about it but I've noticed a few posts recently where it got missed.
@jyarbrough @lowqualityfacts ah I see. Also, @lowqualityfacts's posts are often handwritten aren't they? They might be harder to automatically parse?
@lowqualityfacts this actually works. since stomping rats on the subway, nobody had asked me for my autograph.
@lowqualityfacts There are girls who become enraptured when you stomp rats.