Notices by Stefan Bohacek (stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

@aral @rolle Yeah, I genuinely can't even name an existing company I'd trust with something like this.

(Maybe not too late for Mozilla to change course?)

@aral @rolle Oh absolutely!

"I just want a more trustworthy company to copy this."

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113305998819202782

Yeah, I know, Meta, and all. But this is a genuinely useful idea.

"Through this integration, the volunteer will see through the lens of the smart glasses in order to provide a real-time description to the user through their open-ear speakers, for everyday tasks such as setting a thermostat, finding the right supermarket aisle, or preparing meals—all while keeping the user's hands free."

https://www.bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-meta-accessibility-partnership

#accessibility #technology #blind #news

Happy #WorldTeachersDay to all teachers, tutors, and all the educators who continue to inspire each next generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Teachers%27_Day

#teachers #learning #education

CEO of Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, suggests that there is "no causal connection" between social media and teen mental health.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254044/mark-zuckerberg-meta-social-media-teen-mental-health

#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #MentalHealth #meta #facebook #threads #zuckerberg

CEO of Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, thinks that "individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content".

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254042/mark-zuckerberg-creators-value-ai-meta

#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #meta #facebook #threads #zuckerberg #AI

Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, "cut 21,000 jobs, including in trust and safety and customer service, over multiple rounds of layoffs", leading state and local officials "puzzled by what to expect from Facebook" around voting misinformation.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/meta-misinformation-problem-local-election-officials-worried-rcna172842

#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #meta #facebook 

I do like how the missing alt text icon is now more prominent, but I do wonder if this is enough to get people to add descriptions to their images.

I actually opened an issue addressing this last year.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27731

#mastodon #MastodonBeta #accessibility #AltText #UXUI #design

Heads-up: The CTO of an "AI-powered social network" startup Maven, Jimmy Secretan, confirming that his app has "ingested about 1,120,000 posts from Mastodon".

https://app.heymaven.com/discover/1190

Contact: jimmy@heymaven.com

Via @liaizon, @djsundog, and others https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/112603447990005434

#fediverse #maven #scraping

I'm prototyping a fediverse sharing button. Anyone interested in giving it a try?

Feature highlights:

- shows a logo of supported fediverse software
- lets you share selected text
- remembers the last fediverse domain used

Demo: https://fediverse-share-button.stefanbohacek.dev/
Download: https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-share-button/

#fediverse #FediverseSharingButton

Truly an assault on the internet we've all helped build.

- "Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs" https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/07/stack_overflow_openai/
- "Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models": https://mashable.com/article/reddit-signs-ai-content-licensing-deal
- "WordPress and Tumblr will sell user data to train AI models: https://readwrite.com/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-user-data-to-train-ai-models/

#IndieWeb #internet #TheWeb #ai #llms #capitalism #enshittificaton

It's not too late though. Start a blog, make a website for your hobby, join a forum. Stick with the fediverse!

In solidarity with the blind and vision-impaired community, I propose that twice a year, on the World Sight Day and the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, fediverse admins disable images on their servers to highlight the importance of writing good image descriptions.

Who's in?

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-world-sight-day/

#accessibility #a11y #AltText #ImageDescription #WorldSightDay #FediverseWorldSightDay #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #BeAnAlly

For some geeky fun, type "telnet mapscii.me" into your terminal.

https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii

(On Windows, you might have to install https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html.)

via @waxy

#ascii #AsciiArt #maps

The official Mastodon Android app now has QR codes for sharing profiles.

Full changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/releases

#mastodon #update

@brunoamaral Doesn't seem to be the case.

So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punch cards.

"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."

https://chsi.harvard.edu/harvard-ibm-mark-1-language

#til #computers #development #language #history

"I’ve now been using [Mastodon] for about two months and I am here to tell you that it is, in principle, what we should want the internet to be."

https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/

via @404mediaco

#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia

@aral Thank you! Yeah, that's the one I use myself.

I'm looking into making the list customizable, and I'll be sure to update the default one as well.

Are there any good plugins you'd suggest?

I updated my WordPress plugin that warns your site's visitors if they don't have an ad-blocker installed.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/detect-missing-adblocker

#wordpress #webdev #WebDevelopment #ads #AdBlocker #OpenWeb #IndieWeb