Notices by Chee Aun 🤔 (cheeaun@mastodon.social), page 3

Interesting, there's experimental *local* alt text generation in Firefox Nightly https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/05/experimenting-with-local-alt-text-generation-in-firefox-nightly/

In short: DistilGPT-2 model in Transformers.js, trained on updated Flickr30k dataset with supervised learning.

The copy used is also interesting: "Alt text (alternative text) helps when people can't see the image or when it doesn't load."

#AltText #Firefox

@evan not sure if it's relevant, there's twitter-text https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text

Minimal warning + hints for too-large video/image files. Possibly could resize/compress in-browser but there's memory pressure issue for too-large files, especially on mobile browsers. Will revisit later. The copy is probably too technical.

Notes:
- It's actually KiB, disguised as KB https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/13815/files-size-units-kib-vs-kb-vs-kb
- New dimension suggestion is based on scaling factor √matrixLimit÷matrix where matrix = number of pixels (width × height)

#PhanpySocialDev

Little adjustments to the composer, now available for testing on #PhanpySocialDev

- Allow minimize composer, useful for temporarily stashing it aside, especially on PWA where the composer can't pop out to another window. Should work even while posting to the server (loading state).
- Add 'More…' in custom emoji suggestion list to open the extended Custom Emojis picker UI.
- Add 'More…' in mentions list to open extended Accounts picker UI.

Possibly still buggy. Feedback welcomed 🙇♂️

@dansup wait till IG enables federation maybe 🙈

👀 Not bad. Though honestly expected more from #PhanpySocial users 😤

Table is further analyzed from the kaggle site: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/fourtonfish/mastodon-social-alt-text-use-by-client-app

@stefan: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112439644471164986

@ayo I'm aware of these two:

- 2019: https://chenhuijing.com/blog/friends-dont-let-friends-implement-dark-mode-alone/
- 2023: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/01/16/minimal-dark-mode-styling/

#PhanpySocial changelog ✨ :catjam:

👾 Custom emoji search — Pointer & keyboard-accessible tooltips of shortcodes. Fuzzy search. Shortcodes show by default when searching.
🐛 Bug fixes

🔗 https://phanpy.social/
💬 https://matrix.to/#/%23phanpy:matrix.org

Niceee @trunksapp
https://mastodon.social/@trunksapp/112377957622535049

👀 Oh? "Cycle back through time and pick up where you left off with a version of Phanpy’s “Catch-up” feature" 🤔 — wondering where I can try this, can't seem to find it @newsmast
https://newsmast.social/@newsmast/112377811774832831

I think following specific hashtags of a profile would be useful. Technically it's like following a profile but the timeline posts filtered by specific hashtags. Perhaps similar logic on Mastodon, to hiding boosts from profile or filtering posts by subscribed languages.

Could probably solve the issue where folks create multiple accounts for different interests or circles.

#SocialMedia

Honestly this link preview problem should be no different than getting HN-ed. The other (older) term is probably slashdotted.

Gotten a little curious ever since my last post https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/112291603392332206 and… here's top 20 (Mastodon-API-compatible) servers with highest number of custom emojis.

List of servers from @fedidb. Numbers are outdated now but should give a rough idea on the scale.

#Fediverse #CustomEmojis

Complete list here (CSV, JSON) https://gist.github.com/cheeaun/65df5e7867fab4f2f9f9032cd9dcace8

@dansup @liaizon I see that Mastodon does cache the remote emoji images, but the API only expose the instance's own list of custom emojis 🤔

…and now, it's 47,872 😮📈

@liaizon huh, really?

😱 pixelfed.social has 47,775 custom emojis 🫠 https://emojos.in/pixelfed.social

Honestly the first sites that really need #ActivityPub federation are GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket and all repository sites, including self-hosted ones. Got to mass cater us developers first before the general public.

On a lesser note, I just want to star repos and they go into the same stars list. Open an issue and I can see a list of issues I reported across them all.

Kinda mind-blown. When @neet 's masto.js migrated to JS Proxy API (https://github.com/neet/masto.js/releases/tag/v6.0.0), I was like "cool, this make so much sense".

But never thought that I would be coding it this way, and it works ✨ Don't have to wait for next/newer versions of masto.js when there are API endpoints/parameter/method changes. It lacks types but fine for me.

#MastoDev