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also it’s definitely just so Firefox can write “AI browser” on their landing page isn’t it
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glad they’re at least trying to do something helpful rather than gluing a slop generator on the side
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surprisingly controversial, just want to say two things 1. 100% depends on execution. If the model is bad then obviously it won’t be helpful 2. It is obviously no substitute for good human-written alt text. HOWEVER, even though this site has a good culture for writing alt text, only a tiny…
Samuel@samuel.fm· 1 Jun 2024
huge!
Mozilla Developer @mozhacks Firefox 130 is bringing a game-changing feature: automatic alt-text generation for images using a fully private on-device Al model! Initially available in the built-in PDF editor, our aim is to extend this to general browsing for screen reader users.
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…fraction of images posted even has alt text, and I’d bet that only a fraction of that have *good* alt text. While this tool wouldn’t raise the ceiling, it certainly would provide a baseline for that overwhelming majority of images that would otherwise go without. Please don’t stop writing alt text!
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and like, sure, probably going to be a lot of slop, but is this really *worse* than nothing? bare in mind this is on-device, aka your browser looking at an image without alt text and describing it, rather than the person uploading it adding lazy alt text
Conversation with chatgpt where I asked them to provide alt text for the famous “Washington crossing the Delaware River” painting appropriate for a microblogging site ChatGPT: George Washington and his troops crossing the icy Delaware River during the Revolutionary War, depicted in a historic painting. 2 1 26
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I am definitely anti-automatic alt text generation at upload time without human review. that seems bad, but also that’s not what Firefox is proposing
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I’ll take a closer look at this on Monday but this is so cool having open source contributions of this calibre!
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to celebrate pride month it seems like Tech Twitter decided to get explicitly homophobic. time to unfollow some people ig
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I was following a fair few “””e acc””” morons just to keep tabs but this is the last straw
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“Followed by 65 people you know” fml. bring back cancel culture!
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just realised I’ve been saying dedents rather than detents. can I read? maybe not
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Discover is now *really good*, can’t wait for it to start including more “for you” kinda content
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flying the American flag upside down is the stupidest fucking thing. it only works on the Union Jack, due to the subtle asymmetry!
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gotta be a pretty terrible time to be a secret service agent. you either get bitten every other week by Biden’s dog or sent to Rikers
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you’re a real bsky elder if you remember when every dropdown menu used this bad boy
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this update is looking ridiculously huge just from a few not-particularly-big tweaks
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unreal how hyped I am for this
skywatch@skywatch.bsky.social· 31 May 2024
Merged PR into main at bluesky-social/social-app: Change many border widths from `1` to `hairlineWidth` (#4294)
Change many border widths from `1` to `hairlineWidth` by haileyok · Pull Request #4294 · bluesky-social/social-app
Why Note: We are changing #2090 to round to 0.5 instead, since hairline is 0.5 pixels. Hairline width looks a lot better in many places. I also adjusted a few more things while going through the co...
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