Notices by Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social), page 4

🆕 blog! “Yet another AI Racism example”

Here's a good pub-quiz trivia question - which Oscar-winning Actors have appeared in Doctor Who? It's the sort of thing that you can either wrack your brains for, or construct a SPARQL Query for WikiData0. I was bored and asked ChatGPT. The new Omni model claims to be faster and more accurate. But, in my […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/yet-another-ai-racism-example/
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#DoctorWho #racism

@kitten_tech @jwz @docpop

Yup. Here's the little code I wrote. You might want to run it note for note.

https://github.com/edent/Tweet2Embed/blob/main/mastodon2html.py

Turns any public Mastodon status into semantic HTML & CSS for embedding.

Happy to answer any questions.

🆕 blog! “The tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth”

You know that ice-breaker game "Two Truths And A Lie"? When I'm forced into some mandatory office fun, I always say... I've sat in the seat of a space shuttle. I still have two of my baby teeth. I used to be a voice-over artist. Well, one of those truths is about to come crashing […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/the-tooth-the-whole-tooth-and-nothing-but-the-tooth/
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#health #teeth

Using Aliza for Linux (https://www.aliza-dicom-viewer.com/) I was able to load the DICOM images from my CT Scan and turn them into a 3D model of my teeth.

Holy shit! This CT Scan is so good that I can see my "Mental Foramen".

Up until today, I had no idea that I had a couple of holes in my lower jaw.

Trying to work out the privacy ramifications of posting a screenshot. This is so freaking cool!

Update!
I now have a CT scan of my teeth. Comes with a Windows executable - wonder if that'll run in WINE?

I've just requested the MRI records of my full entire head and brains.

I'm eventually going to 3D print replacement parts for every bit of me!

I got my teeth 3D printed.

What could possibly go wrong?!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/the-bite/

Hurrah for the NHS!

They sent me the full MRI of my head (on a CD in a weird file format, but let's not be too grumpy).

I'M GONNA 3D PRINT MY BRAINS!

(˙ƃuᴉɯɐǝɹp sʇᴉɐʍ nɥlnɥʇƆ pɐǝp ɥǝʎl,ɹ ʇɐ ǝsnoH sᴉH uI)

@ryanc I'm using Schema.org - 2nd example shows what I've got so far. Still noodling about with it.

You're looking at a snippet of code on a blog.
Do you find it useful to have a label to tell you what programming language it is written in?
Why or why not?

See attached for an example.

Think I've settled on something like this.
If there's no obvious logo, I'll just use plain text.

(And, yes, the images have alt text. And the right ARIA label in the SVG. And there's fully semantic microdata.)

eBay offered me £10 off my order if I used their app instead of the website.
So I downloaded it, claimed my discount, made my order, then immediately uninstalled the app.
I'm sure this quarter's KPIs are going to look *great!*

This is the *key* thing people don't understand about social media adoption.

Companies like Twitter / Facebook / SnapChat have *vast* teams of sales people. They offer support in setting up accounts, priority support lines, branding and moderation expertise.

Individuals mostly don't see that. So it appears that your local council just decided one day to join Twitter. They didn't - they were sold a product.

Mastodon's growth is (mostly) organic - and that has a limit.

https://mas.to/@natureworks/112866010008657148

OK! I *think* I've finished.

You can now "rescue" any embedded Tweet and recreate it as simple HTML - no tracking.

Includes:

🗣 Avatars inlined as WebP
📸 All attached photos inlined
🎥 Video poster inline, <video> to original mp4
🔗 Hyperlinks don't use t.co
#️⃣ Hashtags & @ mentions linked
🔄 Includes reply threads & quote Tweets
🕰 Semantic time
🔍 Schema.org metadata
🖼 Cards
📊 Polls
♥ , ♻ & 🗨 counts

One command. No API key needed.

Code at https://github.com/edent/Tweet2Embed

Feedback *very* much welcome!

Now also shows parents to replies, and full content of quotes.

And polls!

HTML validates!

Play with the code at https://github.com/edent/Tweet2Embed

I'll be doing this for Mastodon later - because I really don't like iFrame embeds!

Hey you! Yes! *YOU!*

Come to #OggCamp in Manchester - October 12-13.

It's a delightfully nerdy open source / open culture conference.

Meet new friends, give new talks, learn new things.

Tickets available now - https://oggcamp.org/

OK, if you have lots of Twitter embeds in your website, I've written an easy(ish) way to replace them with static images & alt text.

https://github.com/edent/Tweet2Img

Run:
`python tweet2img.py 1234`

And you'll get a ready-to-paste piece of HTML with a data-encoded image.

`<a href="https:/ /twitter.com/edent/status/123"><img src="data:image/webp;base64,Ukl..." width="550" height="439" alt="text from tweet."/></a>`

It also saves the WebP and alt text if you need them.

Any #Selenium experts in the house?

All my screenshots are slightly fuzzy. Why?!?!

I'm using the Chromium webdriver. Grabbing the area with `element.screenshot_as_png`

Is it because I have fractional scaling? Wayland?

I have set `chrome_options.add_argument("--ozone-platform=wayland")` but to no avail.

This'll be a two-drink minimum problem, I reckon.