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If you're blind, you can really stick it to the Trump Administration by "hacking" the Epstein files, AKA reading them normally.

forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2…

So, how was someone able to hack these documents, undoing the redactions that the DOJ of all people had put in place, and reveal the information for all to see? I hope you are sitting down, because it’s going to knock your socks off: “I simply highlighted the text, copied it, and pasted it in a document,” Krassenstein said.
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i turned off altbot for now.

a conversation happened that i need to sit with and that i want others to read and also to consider: ieji.de/@anantagd/115804706509…

#BlindAltBot

2025-12-29 20:19:49

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I am blind. Seeing people who think I'm not worth the effort fill my timeline with AltBot generated AI stuff that isn't even accurate in lots of cases.

Human alt text is always better, because it doesn´t focus on ocular seeing. Seeing people think, and AltBot was designed around that notion, that blind people must compensate for missing "eye-seeing", but that's not the case. I am interested in the meaning of an image to you, its maker or publisher.

Again, human alt text is better, also because it strengthens reciprocity between seeing and blind people. AltBot doesn't but it makes seeing people believe they have done their bit for accessibility. In actuality, the reverse is often true.

!!!!!!!!!


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Jonathan

Honestly this constant back and forth is the only thing I'd think about in this case. I understand if you feel exhausted working on this alone, or if you don't get enough donations or anything. But this tool has helped many, and rather AI description than no description. Some sighted don't bother and that won't change just because, idk, that person thinks they'll feel more guilty when no AI produces the description for them. I'll lose information most of the time. I can still decide whether I want to generate or read the description. But let's say it's just a generic text, or poster, or dashboard, someone just didn't bother describing. Right I could ask them, but would the original poster actually bother adding the alt text afterward? In the least cases. Yeah maybe some nice other sighted person will describe it. But then the difference is not too big anymore, if you get what I mean. Don't let these little comments from all sides get so close to your acting. That's just my take, and I probably don't have a lot room to talk here.
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politics, leftist anti-communism

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Vous avez entendu les AI bros dire qu'il fallait mettre des datacenters dans l'espace ? Bah c'est une immense connerie. "The short version: this is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever. There are multiple reasons for this, but they all amount to saying that the kind of electronics needed to make a datacenter work, particularly a datacenter deploying AI capacity in the form of GPUs and TPUs, is exactly the opposite of what works in space." taranis.ie/datacenters-in-spac…

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.
Taranis

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I have disabled every fucking piece of AI bullshit I can find from Firefox and DESPITE THAT today I got ambushed by a new ASK AN AI CHATBOT line in a fucking image context menu

jesus FUCKING CHRIST @mozilla

STOP.

FUCKING.

PUSHING.

THIS.

SHIT.

ON.

US.

(I know the account's abandoned. Don't care. Best I've got. Fucking Mozilla.)

#mozilla #firefox #ai #FuckAI #FuckChatbots

#firefox #mozilla #AI #fuckai #fuckchatbots @Mozilla

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RE: chaos.social/@c3cert/115809417…

This is the kind of place where you can reasonably wonder if someone built/brought an insulin making setup:

C3 CERT (@c3cert@chaos.social)

A large amount of insulin was found at #39C3. Anyone who can describe how it is packaged and where it was probably lost can pick it up from us at CERT.
C3 CERT (chaos.social)
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