Poll only for #Blind/LowVision users who rely on #AltText. Is AltText generated with an LLM actually “better than nothing” as some argue? Please comment if you’re Blind or Low Vision, and please boost to get a good sample.

@gwynnion I think rather than human beings and their intelligence, what the AI folks really want is slaves that cannot rebel and can be ordered to perform tasks and replace humans that still have hopes of rebelling.

18. This "neural band" is neat. It can be programmed to recognise hand gestures and output keyboard events. Could be a good companion for my twiddler so I can type with my left and navigate with my right. mudra-band.com/pages/mudra-lin

Show thread

The lack of functional discovery features on Mastodon is so nice. One of the worst experiences on Bluesky is making a post and then 18 hours later completely random people start Discovering it. And they're almost never happy to see it, nor do they remotely understand the intent or context. Make a post for your friends on Bluesky and wake up the next morning to a bunch of messages from mystery people along the lines of "why did you post this??". And I just want to know well why did you read it??

@jsbarretto Yeah that's fair. I just use the smallest dose to give me a bit of focus during work. Been doing a good job reworking my life to make the symptoms less of a problem in recent years. Mostly switching so I can quit caffeine.

> test failing
> uncaught exception
> no stack trace 💀

*something* is opening a file descriptor after test close but there's a huge mess of code where it might be happening. 🙃

@jsbarretto Yeah alarms + snooze / reschedule is such a life saver. I basically live by the calendar. Maybe this is the opportunity for you to schedule doing your form! 😸 I finally got my doctor calls done just now.

@jsbarretto So real. 😭 I've been trying to use my partners as reminder systems but even that's hard cause the timing needs to align.

Getting treatment for ADHD is a special kind of torture because the more you need it the harder it is to start the process.

There should be a term like "sapiosexual" but for freaks and weirdos. 💜

@lvk Nah, just that I can't do in-memory storage of data anymore. 😅

I have been blessed with more Goat Simulator 3 DLC 🥰💜

Had to add an extra parameter to almost every unit test because the storage mechanism changed for this dependency upgrade. Now it seems some core function is busted and most of the tests are failing. 😭

@ellyxir They were surprisingly chill about it, but it was a pretty stressful first week for me. :P Glad I figured out a quick fix or else it could have gotten nasty.

@northeyes That makes sense. I suppose a visit to the local library would be as good a start as any. At least I'd be more likely to avoid LLM generated garbage 😅 Ty for the insight.

This new kind of "search correction" is like some kind of horrible forced normie filter for life.

You must mean whatever is more popular. And not "did you mean?" either... just not even bothering to show you the results for what you wanted to search for in the first place.

It's really insulting.

Show thread

Back to work tomorrow. Re-enabled all my social media timers to reduce my screen time in preparation of spending most of my day at my computer. 😅

@northeyes Any book recs for getting into hypnosis? I've been wanting to learn how to do it but don't know any practitioners in meatspace.

@gavcloud @liaizon @akhileshthite Hey there 👋 Feel free to shoot any questions or comments our way. You might also be interested in reader.distribited.press

Show older
Mauvestodon

Escape ship from centralized social media run by Mauve.