evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

With the power of AI, you too can take your startup from “fucking around” to “finding out” in as little as two days!

I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.

https://www.wired.com/story/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-march-28/

The New York Times just discovered parallel computing.

I spent a good chunk of my weekend helping people running tiny, low risk, online services complete paperwork about the UK’s Online Safety Act, for zero discernible benefit.

So it is a bit galling that the main headline on the BBC this morning is about the government wanting to “slash red tape”.

I have spent one heck of a lot of time on the OSA, trying to help others with its burden, and it just seems so utterly unnecessary.

#OnlineSafetyAct

Those Facebook posts saying something like, "Only a genius will be able to see the hidden numbers" are a great way to round up gullible people in the same place, ripe and ready for scamming.

That's the dadgum truth, right there.

#disabled #disability #disabilityawareness #spoonie #accessibility #mentalhealth

Since this got so much attention, I'd like to use this moment of sunshine to invite you all to read with us next week:

https://inkican.com/gsbcw

The US Department of State, acting on orders of very questionable legality, destroyed my new, already printed, waiting to be picked up passport for only one reason: it listed my sex as "X".

Please help replace my passport.

Fill this out. Monday is the last day.

https://action.aclu.org/reg-action/hands-off-our-passports-stop-attacking-transgender-americans

that hashtables thing is a good reminder that a whole bunch of research discoveries boil down to someone stumbling across a random paper and making a connection to something else they were thinking about recently and having the time to execute on it.

- So, you finally stopped messing about with clouds?
- What? Oh, aye.
- Really?
- Nah.

#sillyScribbles #cloudCreatures #nonsense

Brick Lane, east London, seen yesterday.

Via random FB profile/page.

#politicalart #artpolitics #london #wallart #posterart #pasteupart #musk #trump #netenyahu #farage #putin

WOW - The French government announced a new OSS project simply called Docs:

“A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline."

It’s even offline-first, using the CRDTs under the hood (Y.js).

LOL, does this mean I get to roll out the

"Liberté, Egalité, CRDTé”

Dad joke?

I think it does. Link below:

https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/

V interesting joint project between DINUM (🇫🇷) and Zendis (🇩🇪)

..and a few more

Absolutely love the new Viltrox 25mm f/1.7 Air. Incredible lens. A few recent shots from it and my X-S20. #photography #Viltrox

Little spider dancing. X

Seems freshly pained.

#Art #StreetArt #Paris

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

#Styscraper just hit 100,000 views!
Going to put a traffic cone on my head to celebrate

every damn time

#libraries

#silentSunday #photography #alps