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The current level of academic discourse on LLM's 

Anyway I brought this up at the LLM discussion group at an academic conference this week:

time.com/6247678/openai-chatgp

(tl;dr—Kenyan workers are being paid exploitative-level wages to manually filter out the worst stuff from the internet and this is necessary for how LLM's work)

And in that hour, only one person even addressed the issue, and their take was ~ "colonial exploitation is good, actually" and everyone just sorta nodded their heads

lewd? 

@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk oh lmao, i assumed the typo domain would've been fuck.rodeo

@dantescanline @tobi The lightbox isn't new, but did unfortunately discover it's implementation really sucks accessibility wise, so i'm on the hunt for a better library :")

@weirdwriter @tobi even that didn't work. I wonder though, isn't this also an issue on Mastodon, where images attached to toots also have duplicate alt and title attributes with the media description?

Guess the only right approach will be a better mechanism to show alt text on media and custom emoji, that doesn't use title at all. Something to ponder about

@weirdwriter @tobi ugh, seems the title attribute is just a mess in general, with wildly varying and incompatible implementations...
I wonder if adding an explicit aria label to the image element would override the alt and title mess, but could just make it worse as well

@weirdwriter @tobi the pausing might actually be due to the shortcode's colons being included in the alt attribute, we should probably strip that so they read more naturally

@weirdwriter @tobi huh, I wonder what NVDA is doing there, could it be weird because it has both a title, and an alt attribute with the custom emoji name?

With TalkBack it reads fine as "coffee pot, graphic". They're currently just image elements in-line with the rest of the text, nothing special, so quite odd.

Will look at the headings, easy enough to change the element as I can style them visually to be the same as they are now

I removed the custom CSS for my profile for now to show off the work @f0x did on the GoToSocial web view for profiles. Go open this in your browser, and go 'ooh' and 'ahhh' and 'woooo', and also 'hunnnhhhhhhhh'!

https://goblin.technology/@tobi

@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk glitter.duck.rodeo would work, or rubber.duck.rodeo

having to share Folding Ideas in a company meeting to try convince them that going with NFTs, surprisingly, isn't the ethical solution lol

@neil@darlow.co.uk then you'll be sorely disappointed on half of those!

@kim what if instead of just cat café's there were cat hotels

i would just like to spend like 8 hours with nothing but a room of cats

people are liking gotosocial a bit too much, we should introduce something terrible next release

re: :boosts_ok_gay:​Help with Linux Screenreaders 

@dangero yep.. Odilia seemed quite promising, keeping an eye on that for sure

It has been proven repeatedly that platforms prioritizing growth over safety are toxic to everyone else who doesn't present as white, straight, and a man.

No, I'm not going to debate it anymore. No, I don't care if people think I'm wrong to center safety in my dev efforts because I can live with it going sideways if that happens.

But in my experience as a dev and a citizen of the web for more than two decades, the missing link to rehumanizing social media spaces is safety for the most marginalized people that have historically been ignored.

And I'm going to create around that ethos.

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