@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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stefan

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Husband, father, side project enthusiast:

👋 https://JoinTheFediverse.net
🖼️ https://AltTextHallOfFame.org
💻 https://SimplePageBuilder.app
📚 https://literary.domains
🤖 https://stefans-creative-bots.glitch.me
🎨 https://generative-placeholders.glitch.me
🏴 https://FightFascism.glitch.me

And more: https://stefanbohacek.com/projects

He/him. 🗺️ Bratislava -> NYC -> NJ

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josh, (edited ) to random
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Hey folks! I'm looking for examples of elected officials and people running for office who have accounts on the fediverse.

Know of one? Please let me know! Boosts appreciated :boost_requested:

stefan,
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@josh I'm still getting the hang of #wikidata, maybe someone who's more familiar with it can double-check my query, but this is what I was able to pull out.

https://w.wiki/AEEE

stefan, to random
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"Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech."

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/early-androids-and-artificial-speech/

#technology #automata #automatons

stefan, to random
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Ah, this is a long shot, but, do I know anyone who works at #zwift?

#connections

cheeaun, to random
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Hmm, this kind of change/feedback seems coincidentally happening at the same time.

"The alt text indicator on images has been moved to the right and reduced in size to avoid covering text in images." https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3ktikmfu77v2u

"It distracts me."
"In case of visual humor, the alt text often spoils the joke."
"Showing alt text by default encourages people to use it as a caption or Easter egg, rather than for describing the image."
https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issues/540#issuecomment-2136313339

Interesting.

/cc @stefan

stefan,
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@cheeaun Interesting indeed, thank you for flagging me!

Not really something I've noticed before myself, but I can definitely see the challenges mentioned here.

stux, to mastodon
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Tihi :blobcatgiggle: I was just searching if my local municipality is already on #Mastodon but instead I found a "council request" to talk about getting them on the Dutch gov instance within a few months :blobhappy:

That's pretty cool :mastodon:

stefan,
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@stux Nice, hope this goes through!

stefan,
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@stux Meantime, in the US: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112377641712722537

stefan,
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@stux Thanks!

I made this page for the 2023 #30DayMapChallenge

https://data.stefanbohacek.dev/projects/30-day-map-challenge/2023-01

It uses data exported from Wikidata around the time I made this, so it doesn't update.

But you can visit the link in https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-an-overview-for-government-agencies/ to get most recent data. (It's the "View map" link at the top of the page.)

stefan,
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@ezwal @stux Well you'd better give them a follow!

stefan,
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@ezwal @stux Nice!

stefan, to SideProject
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So I'm working on a new project, nothing too big, but I need to use some copyrighted images. The copyright owner's Terms of Service suggest this should be okay, but it's probably best to make sure.

The contact email address has "nice lawyers" in it, so hopefully this is a good sign 🤞

#copyright #SideProject

molly0xfff, to web
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just realized i've had the mollywhite.net domain for over 10 years(!!)

related sneak peek into an upcoming piece: i firmly believe that if you're going to spend money on one thing online it should be a domain, particularly as online identity gets more fragmented. as platforms come and go, you can always find me there.

stefan,
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@molly0xfff Nice, congratulations on the milestone! Looking forward to reading the article!

stefan, to Health
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Wait, has secret badges??

https://zwiftinsider.com/extra-credit-badges/

stefan,
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Also, is there really now way to show your achievements, on your profile, or a third-party site? Just take screenshots? #zwift

stefan, to ShareYourMusic
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Haven't been on https://www.submithub.com in a while now, but figured fellow #musicians #MusicProducers might find it interesting.

I don't really use the core features/services myself, but the feedback section is pretty fun!

https://www.submithub.com/hot-or-not

#music #feedback

stefan, to ai
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Good news for folks who enjoy AI embarrassing itself with nonsensical answers!

"Well, according to an interview at The Verge with Google CEO Sundar Pichai published earlier this week, just before criticism of the outputs really took off, these "hallucinations" are an "inherent feature" of AI large language models (LLM), which is what drives AI Overviews, and this feature "is still an unsolved problem.""

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ceo-google-ai-hallucinations

stefan,
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Between this public admission of what many of us already knew, and this recent news (sorry, can't find an unpaywalled version: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/generative-ai-providers-quietly-tamp-down-expectations), I wonder if we can start to hope to see the hype slowly die down.

#ai #TechHype

stefan, to fediverse
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What is a fediverse-neutral word for "subtweet"? People here use "subtoot", but that's based on Mastodon's "toot", which is no longer officially used.

"Subpost" doesn't sound quite right. But I guess that's it?

stefan,
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@JoeGrowling I do see where you're coming from.

At the same time, maybe if we could get the little things right, maybe it would help folks get used to the idea of inclusivity and build a better foundation to tackle the bigger stuff?

stefan,
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@JoeGrowling I don't know. Just a thought. I personally don't care enough when people say "Mastodon" when they actually mean "fediverse", certainly not enough to "correct" people.

But sometimes I do wonder about folks who use other platforms, often pre-dating Mastodon itself. I can see how that might get a bit annoying, I guess.

botwiki, to ai
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The inclusion of AI in products will continue until morale improves.

https://www.seroundtable.com/searchers-want-to-turn-off-google-ai-overviews-37405.html

Via https://c.im/@rustybrick/112450444107845817

stefan,
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@botwiki Okay, so now we have some data.

"The study from Reuters Institute and Oxford University (via BBC), which surveyed over 12,000 people across six countries, seemingly reveals how little that AI hype has percolated down to real-world use, for now."

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/hardly-any-of-us-are-using-ai-tools-like-chatgpt-study-says-heres-why

via https://mastodon.social/@distractal/112525601075562395

#ai #news #TechNews #TechHype #AIHype

stefan, to music
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Full song: https://soundcloud.com/stefanbohacek/secret-places?in=stefanbohacek/sets/mixtape

#music #NewMusic #synth #soundcloud

stefan,
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Full song: https://soundcloud.com/stefanbohacek/a-kind-of-feeling?in=stefanbohacek/sets/mixtape

stefan,
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Hope you'll enjoy!

Full song: https://soundcloud.com/stefanbohacek/the-moment?in=stefanbohacek/sets/mixtape

#music #NewMusic #synth #retro #vibes #soundcloud

stefan,
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@clear_dusk Thank you, really glad you enjoyed it!

stefan,
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Full song: https://soundcloud.com/stefanbohacek/feel-it?in=stefanbohacek/sets/mixtape

#music #NewMusic #pop #dance #soundcloud

stefan, to accessibility
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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/

stefan,
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Well, convincing admins of big instances to get onboard with the idea is an uphill battle, as you'd expect.

So maybe something like regular folks posting descriptions of the images they'd normally upload instead of the images themselves could be a good, arguably less impactful alternative?

https://werd.social/@ben/112507530887665910

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

stefan, to random
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Am I the only one who uses the interactive mode for "git commit"?

> git commit --interactive

I'm not really seeing much about this online, and every time I mention it to someone at work, it's new to them.

The only documentation about an interactive mode I see online is for "git add".

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Interactive-Staging

#git #development #developers

stefan,
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I wonder if @b0rk covered this, it seems very beginner-friendly.

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