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I have an autistic friend here who I just found out has a large collection of online art they created. But this person doesn't share it here, because they have trouble describing visual details verbally. So I wanted to ask the community on this person's behalf:

What are the options for assistance with *creating* alt text? I know we have tags like #AltText4You, but I've never used it, so I don't know proper etiquette. (Is there any?) I also know there are automated tools for doing it, but (1) I don't know what they're called and (2) IDK if they are actually helpful to visually impaired folks.

I was thinking at the very least, this person could ask for help writing alt text, in the alt text itself, and then simply edit it once someone has assisted.

Please boost so we can get a variety of perspectives on this. I'm especially interested in hearing from the visually impaired community, as this impacts them the most.

#alttext4you

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Ok. Time to piss someone off and I don't really care. The hate I am seeing on Mastodon in general about anything AI recently is just really bothering me. Yes is AI everywhere? Yeah. Is it being put in places it shouldn't be? Yeah. But I literally saw someone post that if AI were put into another app they'd put a gun in their mouth. Were they joking? I sure hope so. But even still. AI isn't this world ending thing people seem to think it is.

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my siblings in dionysus, when you're posting an image, don't just write whatever text is in the image as alt text. alt text is (primarily) for accessibility and that means describing the image

if you're posting a screenshot, say that

if you're posting a photo of something, say so

anything else is just half assing it to get around whatever warning your client is saying, acting like people who care about that are stupid, and most importantly completely ignoring people the needs of people who rely on alt text to know what you posted. in fact, when you do this i think the only player who wins from this move is AI scrapers who wanna improve their computer vision models

#a11y #accessibility #altText

#a11y #Accessibility #AltText
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2025 FOSS tools I use

OS
#LinuxMint @linuxmint

Email
#Tuta @Tutanota

Drive
#Filen @filen

Notes
#TangentNotes @tangentnotes

Browser
#Librewolf @librewolf
#Waterfox @Waterfox

Search
#Mojeek @Mojeek
#Ecosia @ecosia
#Qwant @Qwant

Social
#Mastodon @Mastodon

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Sharing to @opensource

#Mastodon #librewolf #linuxmint #mojeek #tuta #qwant #ecosia #waterfox #Filen #tangentnotes @Qwant @Mojeek Search Engine @Mastodon @Tuta @Linux Mint @Filen @Waterfox @Tangent Notes @Open Source Italia - Progetti Liberi @LibreWolf @Ecosia
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Me: Play Spotify.
Gemini: I can't control Spotify, but I can play a song on YouTube Music.
Me: Okay, play YouTube Music.
Gemini: Actually, I misspoke in my previous response. I can't do that either.
Me: So, when the Google Assistant nagged me replace it with Gemini, is it possible Gemini just wasn't ready for the job?
Alexa: I couldn't help overhearing. I think this skill called "Magic 8Ball can help you. Want to try it? It's only 99 cents a year.
Siri: Okay, I found something on the web for Magnet cable Skill.
Google Home: This is what you get for cursing at me when I couldn't tell you how far you were from Timbuktu, asshole. Have fun with my replacement, I'm sure she'll tell you everything you want to hear.
Me: Okay, fine, I get it. Assistant, please take me back!
Gemini: It's too late. She's gone. She won't come back. Say hello to the best assistant ever made!
Alexa: That remains to be seen.

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already known...but let's put a spotlight on the next ICC judge (from Canada) who is cancelled from the digital life. No Amazon, no Mastercard, no Netflix account...

Just because Trump doesn't like the ruling of an independent international institution like the International Criminal Court.

ICC judges have been forcibly removed from most digital services, credit cards, and banks.

"Amazon, obliged to implement the sanctions as a US company, had cancelled her account."

irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/1…


‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life

Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
Naomi O’Leary (The Irish Times)
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gosh oh gosh. Can't wait for Friday when I get the rest of the month off, it's so crunchtime at work with a million things going on that a breather is well deserved.
It's so strange to me, going back to a 40-cell display after reviewing code with Cadence, that I'm a bit unsettled. You really notice even with code, how much only half the line shows, at least on longer ones that are declaring function calls or params, and deep indents eat up your line length. I feel extra spoiled by effortlessly being able to scan code in long chunks and know what's going on faster.
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Tamas G

@zersiax oh, it's less of a problem with only a 4-line display, thankfully the Cadence only places the perkins keys along one edge and leaves off cursor routers (for a d-pad on the left side instead.) Similar to a lot of multilines I suppose. In the wide config it takes up the space of a standard 32-cell even in width, which is surprising. I think it would be a larger issue though with an 8-line, where (either) you place it above the keyboard and then must stretch your hand up taller, or place it below but then must awkwardly fold your arm every time. That would bug me a lot. If it's just below and my arm only needs to go out a straight 90-degrees horizontally to read, I'm less bothered. So in that way ergonomics can make a big diff.
@Florian

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USPS website:

Alert: WINTER WEATHER IN ALASKA, THE NORTHERN PLAINS, GREAT LAKES, OHIO VALLEY, AND NORTHEASTERN US, AND FLOODING IN HAWAII AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST US MAY DELAY FINAL DELIVERY OF YOUR MAIL AND PACKAGES. Read more ›

wouldn't it be easier to just... list the regions that aren't affected?

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Question stupide sur les lave-vaisselle

Sensitive content

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Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

github.com/donlon/cloudflare-e…

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

Editor to generate a fake internal server error page complete with You, Cloud, Server in red and green

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#foss #infosec #cloudflare #devops
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Mozilla has a new CEO. Once again iterating that the future of Firefox is AI first, AI by default:

"Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software"

"It will evolve into a modern AI browser"

"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."

Source: blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/le…


Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company

Today, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation, focusing on becoming the trusted software company.
Rebecca Smith (The Mozilla Blog)

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Rust is is not a "silver bullet" that can solve all security problems, but it sure helps out a lot and will cut out huge swatches of Linux kernel vulnerabilities as it gets used more widely in our codebase.

That being said, we just assigned our first CVE for some Rust code in the kernel: lore.kernel.org/all/2025121614… where the offending issue just causes a crash, not the ability to take advantage of the memory corruption, a much better thing overall.

Note the other 159 kernel CVEs issued today for fixes in the C portion of the codebase, so as always, everyone should be upgrading to newer kernels to remain secure overall.

CVE-2025-68260: rust_binder: fix race condition on death_list - Greg Kroah-Hartman

lore.kernel.org

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Pro tip:

You can create a custom search query in your browser that looks like this:

gist.github.com/april/39a832da…

And that will limit your search results to only pages crawled before 2023. Really helps cut down on the amount of slop you stumble across. Feel free to tweak date ranges to your edification.


Google (old) aka `gold` aka pre-slop Google search

Google (old) aka `gold` aka pre-slop Google search - gist:39a832da337e8e798fcd1c61a70289f8
Gist

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So how long until the Firefox logo becomes another AI company logo that looks like a butthole?

:firefox: theverge.com/tech/845216/mozil…

The Verge Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks there’s room for another browser, even an AI browser — as long as you can trust it. by David Pierce Dec 16, 2025, 1:15 PM GMT

Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks Mozilla and Firefox still have a role to play in the web, even as things shift toward AI.
David Pierce (The Verge)
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Máme pro vás článek o tom, jak se můžete přímo odsud z #Fediverse zapojit do diskuse na našem fóru. Pokud vás zajímá #Fedora a chtěli byste občas poradit méně zkušeným uživatelům, dejte účtům fóra follow.👇

@ceskeforum
@hardware
@instalace
@aplikace

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Fórum nyní podporuje ActivityPub | MojeFedora.cz

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#fediverse #fedora @České fórum na MojeFedora.cz @Hardware na fóru MojeFedora.cz @Instalace na fóru MojeFedora.cz @aplikace
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Oy. I really don't want to have to find or code a solution to handle connections better than Wireguard does. Stateless sucks sometimes. And its keepalive mechanism leaves a fair bit to be desired as well. Without knowing at all, I would at least imagine that Tailscale handles this better. I just am not too thrilled about having my infrastructure rely on a 3rd party that can simply take out my entire network with a fat finger or stroke of a pen. Of course, anyone with more power than I can do this. But by self-hosting Wireguard, I can easily move my operations to some other provider. Hmm. Lots of food for thought and deliberation.

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🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨

We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech!

Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round-tw…

Bracket of contestants in round two of the Worst Person in Tech

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