Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

In this time of search engine decline and AI flooding the net with trash...

...it's time to bring back curated information. Expert reseachers and tomes of information.

This is the age of the librarian.

https://mastodon.social/@glyph/113879644607529041

As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.

#appreciation #accessibility #altbot #alttext #blind #blindness #fediverse #gratitude #images #inclusivity #peoplewhocare #pictures #technology

After a long silence, Tumblr confirms it is still planning to join the fediverse.

> The migration is still a work in progress, as we’ve previously detailed here, but we can say for sure that it will include support for WordPress’s existing ActivityPub plugins. We hope this comes as good news.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Tumblr

Playing with the idea of "different perspectives on the same story"!

A QR code that sends you to a different source based on the angle.

zoom feature: overlay that shows you the total hourly wage (or equivalent for salaried jobs) of everyone in the meeting multiplied by how long the meeting has gone on

Trying hard not to be that pushy tech person, but also herding people towards the fedi.

Now is a great time to talk about your server. When I say "I help run a social media server" I worry it sounds like "I'm in charge of the CIA!" that *is* how it can sound.

No one has any idea what's going on out here in the free and open air.

Sabot in the Age of AI

Here is a curated list of strategies, offensive methods, and tactics for (algorithmic) sabotage, disruption, and deliberate poisoning.

🔻 iocaine
The deadliest AI poison—iocaine generates garbage rather than slowing crawlers.
🔗 https://git.madhouse-project.org/algernon/iocaine

🔻 Nepenthes
A tarpit designed to catch web crawlers, especially those scraping for LLMs. It devours anything that gets too close. @aaron
🔗 https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

🔻 Quixotic
Feeds fake content to bots and robots.txt-ignoring #LLM scrapers. @marcusb
🔗 https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html

🔻 Poison the WeLLMs
A reverse-proxy that serves diassociated-press style reimaginings of your upstream pages, poisoning any LLMs that scrape your content. @mike
🔗 https://codeberg.org/MikeCoats/poison-the-wellms

🔻 Django-llm-poison
A django app that poisons content when served to #AI bots. @Fingel
🔗 https://github.com/Fingel/django-llm-poison

🔻 KonterfAI
A model poisoner that generates nonsense content to degenerate LLMs.
🔗 https://codeberg.org/konterfai/konterfai

...I am waiting for a country to make the open proclamation of "We do not care if you are Trans, or a Furry, you are safe here" ...and them very shortly becoming the most secure country in terms of their computer systems.

And having the absolute best quality services.

Waiting for database migrations to finish always feels like this:

Yes. Even with tons of backups