Oh no, the AI Bros are calling our human stuff. HUMAN SLOP! oh no, what ever shall we do? LMAO! How will we ever recover from being called, HUMAN SLOP? Oh no! The horror! I've never seen such a bunch of desperate crowd before. Yet again, showing they can't leave us the fuck alone. #FuckAI #NoAI

Keep this #NoAI website, featuring software, communities, and more, without the use of any AI in the code bases or have an openly NoAI stance and policy https://noailist.org/ #AI

Pretty solid resource for #NoAI as in, why *shouldn't* I use it, with links and such. https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware/src/branch/main/why_not_llms.md

I’m considering putting my foot down with my friends that just can’t seem to quit using Facebook messenger, even when I give them numerous other ways to get a hold of me. Sure, it’s a lot more effort to ask me what I’m up to rather than reading it online but I have my own website, I have my Fedi account.

The messenger app is slowly becoming unusable, the facebook app has so many problems I find it a chore to keep up with friends even when I am looking at their profile exclusively, and a whole canyon of other things.

I’m considering just leaving my friends with a final message and then deleting my account and if they can’t SMS me or send me an email, then they like Facebook more than me.

#SocialMedia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@HendrikPreuss/117327973974468474

Yes! #Privacy

As I continue to use my Git workflow for beta readers, I am realizing Git just isn't for fiction prose and everything I am doing is tricks and hacks to work with it.

I ended up hiring someone to build me a python script that is interactive.

The common frustration I ran into was,

let's say Jason edited a paragraph in Chapter 1.

Jane edited the same paragraph but a different section.

I wanted Git to smartly present these as changes and have me reject, accept, and or set them aside for later.

It couldn't do that with Git. I'd eventually have to open files and compare myself, which defeats the reasoning. I was contorting Git to the point it stopped making sense to hack and contort.

I gave up and just use Git as glorified Cloud storage and for tracking my own changes to my own MD files.

My trial and errors to turn Git into more of a track changes system that was screen reader friendly wasn't cutting it, so I just decided to pay someone money to make me a non-vibed Python script that includes multiple things such as Critic Markup support, Pandoc's Track Changes support when I convert DOCX to MD using --track-changes=all,

and other goodies that compare comments, compares insertions, deletions, and far more inside of text files and MD files.

I *could* use Google Docs and Track changes, but I like working with local text files, and I have more than five beta readers.

#Git #ReadingCommunity #Beta #BetaReaders #Python #Programming

Did some light investigation into how much AI is used in publishing and publishers beyond that video I shared the other day, and in short, publishers love LLMs and it is so ingrained into the modern publishing process that if an author says they do not want LLMs to touch their book, they do not have any agency, they do not have the right to not consent, it’s impossible to avoid. Publishers also will mark you as uncooperative and hard to work with. If you see an author not getting publish today, it’s very likely they said no to LLMs. #WritingCommunity #Authors #AI #LLM

I just now realized why there are table of contents at the beginning of some blog posts. Sighted folk don’t have a way to jump to the first heading level 2 or 3 on the page, nor do they have the capability of bringing up a list of headings on the page and then jumping to a chosen heading the way we do. Gods, how do you all use such a limited form of navigation? I would think scrolling would get tiresome after a while.

If I sit here and think of all the ways that screen reader users can navigate easier around a web page than a sighted person, because the screen reader user can access more symantic things, it makes me actually want browsers that borrow how screen readers are able to extract and use symantic information. Like I think it would be cool to give you all the capability of jumping to a particular heading on the page, or the capability of extracting a list of links in the browser, things we have. The mouse just clicks and scrolls. How do you all handle such limited forms of navigation?#WebDev

If you really want to tell disabled people to use an open source or alternative thing instead of the proprietary thing, you better make damn well sure that open source or alternative thing is at least screen reader friendly as a bare minimum when it comes to disability access if you're the developer.

If you're a user of the open source or alternative thing, encourage the developer to do better than the proprietary developers on all disability developments, even when the developer tries to make the excuse that they are not a large corporation and can't afford the accessibility developments.

If you can't figure out why disable people continue to use proprietary thing when open source or alternative thing exist, shut the fuck up and do a lot more reading instead of replying.

#OpenSource #Accessibility

Went to the ER recently because my country is so garbage that's the only way I'm gonna be seen, medically, by someone, and The thing that pissed me off the most wasn't the EMTs assuming/joking I was fat because *sigh* I'm not, but the fact this woman kept insisting I must have Munchausen syndrome because, after the pain went away, the stutter returned. I had to patiently explain how the brain works even though she was the medical professional. I had to explain why pain can actually stop stuttering entirely. If you know a stutterer, and they suddenly don't stutter for minutes at a time, that should be a warning sign they are not fine even if you think they are fine. #Disability #Brain #Medical #Medicine