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reposting to add #altText :

from @laurachiarelloarts :

Words that could be said today, yet they were inspired by events that happened over 100 years ago, experienced first-hand by the English poet Wilfred Owen.
(born OTD 18 March 1893 - died on 04 Nov 1918)

"Those who know do not forget, those who deny history repeat it."

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@BrianJopek #AltText

CU Apartheid Divest (CU... @ColumbiaBDS
BREAKING: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HAS JUST SUSPENDED, EXPELLED, AND REVOKED DEGREES FROM 22 STUDENTS FOR PROTESTING GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE

Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois
A university degree is a qualification, not a morality clause. A University revoking degrees for 'wrong think' makes a total mockery of its mission. This is also the most authoritarian 'right-woke' nonsense I've come across in a while.

I noticed that automated emails from Steam weren't doing alt-text very well. Some image links had no or inadequate alt-text. (Note that Steam don't support opting for plain text rather than HTML emails.)

I'm fortunate enough to depend upon alt-text never-to-rarely. But I prefer not to load remote images, so I still benefit from alt-text.

I filled out a support request to Steam layout out the specific examples I'd found of where they weren't doing very well, and stressing why it's (morally, legally, etc.) important to do better.

And you know what: they quietly fixed it. When I received an email today telling me that something on my wishlist is on sale, it had reasonably-good alt-text throughout. Neat.

#note#steam#email
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@Baristaline Der #alttext 'Tunnel' ist zwar richtig, aber völlig Leer, da er nichts über dessen Aussehen preisgibt.
Was ist das für ein Tunnel? Aus welchem Material? Wie ist er geschaffen? Ist er beleuchtet? .....
Alles Fragen, die sich Menschen stellen, welche das Foto nicht so sehen wie ich und du, der Fotograf.

For those whose disability makes it hard to write your own Alt-Text, the altbot is now privacy-centered, which means none of your data is leaking to unscrupulous cooperations.

I still think it's better and less prone to error when humans write Alt-Text, but it's nice to know this exists. #AltText #accessibility #disabled #NEISvoid

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🔗 fuzzies.wtf/users/micr0/status

Fuzzies: What the Fuzzy!Micr0byte (@micr0@fuzzies.wtf)Hey everyone, I'm micr0, the creator of @altbot, the open-source bot that helps generate alt-text for images on the Fediverse to make content more accessible. I have some exciting news to share - Altbot no longer uses Google's services! Many of you expressed concerns about privacy when I first launched Altbot using Google Gemini, worried about your images being processed on their servers and potentially used for training. I promised to fix this, and I'm thrilled to announce that Altbot 2.0 is now running entirely on my own hardware using the Ovis2:8B model. Your images are processed locally with absolutely zero data retention - your content never leaves my server and isn't used to train any models. The new system is fully GDPR compliant, and descriptions are even better across all 11 supported languages. What's also cool is that the setup is significantly more energy efficient, with 36% of power coming from clean sources. Altbot now even shows you how much energy was used for each request! The only things Altbot 2.0 records are that a request happened, how long it took, and what language was used. No images, no content, no personal data - nothing that could identify you. Building this upgrade was more expensive than planned - I needed a more powerful server with an A5500 GPU, which exceeded my budget by about $900 that I covered out of pocket. If you appreciate this commitment to privacy and accessibility, any support through my Ko-fi page would help recover these costs and keep Altbot free for everyone: https://ko-fi.com/micr0byte/goal?g=18 Thanks so much for your support! I built Altbot because I believe accessibility shouldn't compromise privacy, and now that vision is reality. Feel free to boost or reach out with any questions! For press inquiries: inquiries@micr0.dev