Great point on accessibility, a guarantee of screen reader support is a benefit that would be lost with screenshots or text without the correct semantics.

I don't think it would be hard to grab the text along with the screenshot and set the alt text.

Reddit seems to be able to do this. They have bots that transcribe the text on image-based memes, and the transcription has always been accurate.

A nice improvement! An unfortunate side-effect of it is that it introduces some jitter during macOS's smooth scrolling in Firefox at time of first render, though.

Archive: https://archive.is/WJLKT

That was an incredibly powerful read. Thank you for your effort.

Some companies are still keeping them on.

From the article:

> [...]some of them—including Nvidia, as well as giants like Facebook and Google—continued to pay their service workers.

Seconded. This was a great blog post, I think a more visible plug at the end is more than justified.

Happy rsync.net client here, thanks for the great service; the ability to use rclone for exactly this purpose, without having to worry about ingress/egress charges, is a huge value-add.

Edit: Will free-of-charge ingress/egress always be a feature of the service? With more customers using rclone for shifting data to/from/between other services, I'd hypothesize that bandwidth use could be creeping up.

Edit 2: A feature I'd love to see would be the ability to setup automated cron-like jobs directly from the admin portal, for e.g. automated rclone backups, eliminating the friction of having to setup another service to periodically run a command on rsync.net. (Tricky to do in a serverless fashion for long-running commands like rclone.) Is this something that might be in the pipeline?

Yes, there is the potential of an rsync.net account being used as a "seedbox" - as the young people call it.

However, even our discounted pricing is more expensive than the cutthroat seedbox provider pricing that we see out in the world - so I think serious folks will use rsync.net accounts for brokering data like this, but the datahoarder crowd will store their petabytes elsewhere.

Also, we have recently turned up multiple 10gb pipes at he.net which we found to be very affordable in 2021 so, at least for now, we have bandwidth to spare ...

Original post from January 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551

It's probably a running joke internally---anecdotally, I've came across it a few times on different Google properties over the years.

This looks very slick. Great job!

Thanks a lot!