i can't say much because of electoral silence, but if you're polish, haul ass to your nearest electoral commission and vote today it's one of the most important elections to date and it will impact not only the next few years, but also the political direction our place will go and it's very likely that, quite literally, *every single* vote will matter a *lot*
also, for any folks from warsaw – public transport is free today ^^,,
The threshold has been reached! Everyone involved can have a pat or a million. 🎉 But please don't stop here, because some signatures may be invalid/double counted/misspelled/etc. Let's continue with this energy until the last minute.
At the time of making this post, it's sadly only at 756,756 signatories out of the 1,000,000 required by Saturday 17th May in order to proceed any further!!!
Please, please sign this if you're within the EU, or otherwise please share with friends and family within the EU, or please boost this post
This is a rare real opportunity to try to ban conversion therapy EU wide and fight back against bigotry and prejudice, so please take it while you can ✊
And please don't follow the UK down the right-wing rabbit hole 🥺😔
there are multiple problems with using a bot to generate alt text as your main option.
First, it's the technological reality that a bot might not recognize stuff in the picture (there was one a while ago that Jolene used to have fun with, where the bot went on a loop and blew itself up), or might miscategorize what it actually sees
Second, the bot doesn't know the intention. If it was made by whoever is posting, they can explain some parts of the image that could be misunderstood (just the other day the foxes in love alt text explained that one of them wanted to eat a pumpkin whole, while I thought it was just carrying it with its mouth)
Third, even if neither of the previous 2 apply, sometimes the order in which you describe the image can have the same effect of delaying the punchline like when you tell a joke, or how you'd see a visual pun. A sighted user can look back and forth in the image easily, a screen reader has to reread the entirety of the alt text every time, so if the joke was too early, it can be missed without a reread.
Fourth, it's not always obvious to a bot what context is well known and what needs to be explained. Heck even for a human, I don't always know when to describe a meme and when to use it's name, let alone if I feel like I need to explain that this is a callback to an in-joke in a circle that the reader might not be a part of.
I'm purposefully leaving out questions about morality and stuff (altbot is an LLM) because for one, there are people who will never be convinced and so having the option is still good because accessibility is a net good, and for another this will derail the conversation about why a bot backup is good, but it should remain a backup.
So I am in the camp of I very much try to add alt text and I think all my pics here do have alt text. Still, I disagree with the shaming those who do not. Alt text bots do not work well and describing images well can frankly be draining. Not every image is deserving of such effort but adding alt text is a really cool thing to do even for non visually disabled folks like me because it adds explanations/context.
@saalbers And even if you have nearly zero IT knowledge: If you are fed up enough with Microsoft you are able to make the switch to Linux. I did it. And if I can do it as a middle age woman with little IT knowledge then everybody can!
My favorite feature in Windows 11 is that it makes users discard perfectly good computers I snap up and run Linux on. 10 out of 10 stars for that feature.
Same same. Good, innit?! I now have 3 perfectly usable laptops, all running various flavours of Linux, for basically bugger-all other than a little of my time.
I should start hawking them round some of the local community groups who provide IT kit to those without such.
some dark development about nicole the fediverse chick spam waves
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some people on reddit and fedi managed to find out who "Nicole the Fediverse Chick" was, and apparently the entire spamming campaign is orchestrated by the stalker of the person in the images.
they're using pictures and video of someone they stalked and pretending to be Nicole.
New sensitive breach: Lexipol had 672k email addresses breached last month by self-proclaimed "Puppygirl Hacker Polycule". Data included name, phone and MD5 or SHA-256 password hashes. 23% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: them.us/story/puppygirl-hacker…
--- 🇪🇦 URGE #fediblock a freysa.ai / social.freysa.ai
Esta instancia cuenta 1500 usuarios, todos ellos generados por IA, enviando spam random al fediverso en forma de estados con #hashtags creando falsos trendings. Se han detectado 1787915 estados generados por IA con #hashtags mientras escribo esto. (ver imagenes)
Esto además, puede causar que las bases de datos de las instancias con las que federe gasten recursos y espacio en disco innecesarios almacenando esta basura.
Estas cuentas generadas por IA y con estados podrian usarse para realizar ataques de SPAM a usuarios del fediverso con @mentions --
🇬🇧 URGENT #fediblock to freysa.ai / social.freysa.ai
This instance has 1500 users, all of them AI-generated, sending random spam to the fediverse in the form of posts with #hashtags that create fake trending topics. As I write this, 1,787,915 AI-generated posts with #hashtags have been detected (see images).
As of November 2024 we have switched our ongoing production of Framework Laptop 16 to use Honeywell PTM7958 phase change thermal interface material instead o
A proposal by BlueSky to allow you to opt out of training AI.
Oh lookie here.
First, some background.
Speaking at the SXSW conference in Austin on Monday, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said the social network has been working on a framework for user consent over how they want their data to be used for generative AI.
Now onto this.
Link below but #Bluesky will start selling your data to train AI. The fact this is a proposal and something the CEO is pushing for should tell you that this is a small step towards selling everyone's data, regardless of whatever you want to happen.
Many here are willing to actually trust CEO's for some reason.
A CEO wants to make money. Period. That is their primary function.
This proposal is opt out, not opt in. Otherwise, they wouldn't go on the record with this comment...
Speaking at SXSW, Graber explained that the company has engaged with partners to develop a framework for user consent over how they would want their data to be used — or not used — for generative AI.
The fact a CEO is considering something multiple times should tell you your wishes will be violated to make a profit. If not now, but eventually.
@ErickaSimone It doesn’t say anything to that effect though? If anything that looks like a good proposal for Mastodon/Fedi to adopt, and create a structured version of what people just stuff into their bios freeform right now, giving people more tools for consent.
@mastodonmigration you would if the terms of service you had to agree to in order to get your license said that you agree that your car can be broken into at any time, and that the terms of service can be changed at any time and your continuing to drive after the effective date constitutes your acceptance of the new terms.
hey fedi, how do i not be a horrible person? (for context, when i was younger, i was diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder, and i'm pretty sure those behaviors are ones i still exhibit until today (probably doesn't help that i rarely ever socialize))
Hi! I'm planning on escaping my current place to move to a safer location with friends, where I'd be able to actually live my life.
For that I need around 600 euros to cover travel expenses and food for the time it'll take me to find a job and stable housing, for the first month. I'm planning on leaving first week of April, but this may change.
Goal: 612/600 euros
If you don't want that money to be lost forever, you can lend me money and I'll make sure to refund you whenever I'm able to. That'd be very appreciated. No matter what, every cent I get through this will be invested back into mutual aid again once I'm out of this mess.
Thank you so much for your help, it helps me so so much! ❤
Boosts appreciated :3 Me and my friends have made these paracord collars a bit ago and they're pretty fun to make, so if you want me to make one for you or a friend, i'd be glad to do it! I can also make similar bracelets.
You have complete control over the colors and accessories. Also, we can put an NFC tag on it to point to a website, a fedi account or contact information when someone scans your collar.
You can DM me here or on Matrix (@tasiaiso:vulpinecitrus.info) for more info.
no, it works on regular instances too. I verified by checking for Enby.Life which has never used CloudFlare. It correctly identifies the server as being located in the USA.
I'm not so concerned about country, but like, I'm worried about exact IP addresses, which SHOULD be masked by wire guard, but if they're not they could lead back to the city my mom lives in
I totally forgot to mention, this thing sends probes using a web browser user agent (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:127.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/127.0) and an ActivityPub content type (application/activity+json). This will never be done by a legitimate instance, and is another way to reliably detect malicious requests.
long (if it gets cut off view on my instance), confession, actually not a shitpost, i'm so sorry fedi, can y'all help me out with this pretty please
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hey, fedi i have some pretty horrible confessions to make...
-i haven't really played games in years now -i haven't watched much tv shows and movies lately -i haven't been listening to music as much as i'd want to -i haven't been looking at and appreciating general art as much as i've used to -i've haven't really coded anything since i was a child i think (which actually isn't all too long ago all things considered but still years ago) -...and there's so many other things my brain kinda just shutoff rn
...and i really wanna change all that! i wanna do shit again!
so, could it be possible for fedi to help me out? i genuinely don't know where to start!
even if you have a hobby or interest that may be considered weird or niche or whatever, please don't hesitate to reply! when i was younger i was pretty in to elevators and stuff like that :3
It's honestly laughable how we went from an era where the only universally agreed upon bad browser was IE, and now we're at a point where there isn't a universally agreeable good one
If you're thinking about switching away from Firefox, at least make sure you don't put your trust in a company which is worse, because that would be fucking pointless.
this is probably a dumb question, but, like, I don't understand why there isn't a good Firefox fork at this point ?
is it really that hard to fork Firefox and remove all of the monetization decisions made by mozilla over the past few years, while keeping the rest of the browser ?
like, I realize that if the open-source community is treating bad mozilla leadership like a problem we'll have to deal with, it's probably because there's a reason why it's difficult to just remove their bullshit from the browser and keep using the rest. but I'd like to understand what the reason is.
would you guys ever vote for me if i was to become prime minister or president of any country? my goal is to essentially make things better than what the current situation is (in the future)
i also actually have more concrete plans than just "make things better"
AZ is trying to introducing an ID law again. If this passes it'll effect E621 which is based in AZ. If you know anyone in Arizona you should give them a nudge to call their reps over this.
I've been discussing doing this in private posts so... I guess I'll post this now and start this weekend 1 boost to this post = 1 day I can only pee in my diapers
rules: - I can also piss my pants (because....it's fun) - I won't be wearing diapers in cases where I anticipate I might end up naked with someone else, to not kill the mood - in the case above, I'll still make all possible efforts to try and not go until I can be in diapers again. if that can't be achieved and I end up using the bathroom, that day won't count towards the remaining days
Thank you for the great work!
send me your favorite artists please i wanna look at cool art especialyl gay furries
Hi! I'm planning on escaping my current place to move to a safer location with friends, where I'd be able to actually live my life.
Gwen, the Fops
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in reply to Ahri Enby • • •there are multiple problems with using a bot to generate alt text as your main option.
First, it's the technological reality that a bot might not recognize stuff in the picture (there was one a while ago that Jolene used to have fun with, where the bot went on a loop and blew itself up), or might miscategorize what it actually sees
Second, the bot doesn't know the intention. If it was made by whoever is posting, they can explain some parts of the image that could be misunderstood (just the other day the foxes in love alt text explained that one of them wanted to eat a pumpkin whole, while I thought it was just carrying it with its mouth)
Third, even if neither of the previous 2 apply, sometimes the order in which you describe the image can have the same effect of delaying the punchline like when you tell a joke, or how you'd see a visual pun. A sighted user can look back and forth in the image easily, a screen reader has to reread the entirety of the alt text every time, so if the joke was too early, it can be missed without a reread.
Fourth, it's not always obvious to a bot what context is well known and what needs to be explained. Heck even for a human, I don't always know when to describe a meme and when to use it's name, let alone if I feel like I need to explain that this is a callback to an in-joke in a circle that the reader might not be a part of.
I'm purposefully leaving out questions about morality and stuff (altbot is an LLM) because for one, there are people who will never be convinced and so having the option is still good because accessibility is a net good, and for another this will derail the conversation about why a bot backup is good, but it should remain a backup.
Chilly 🛡️
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