Notices by sknob (sknob@mamot.fr)

Every time I consider the possibility that my position on gen AI might be too extreme (there is no ethical use of Gen AI, none), I stumble on something that makes me realize it is in fact way too lenient. Like yesterday, I watched a few minutes of a video about viral AI video slop… Oh boy…

Ptn, je reçois une prune pour excès de vitesse alors que 1/ je n’utilise quasiment jamais ma bagnole et 2/ je respecte toujours les limitations de vitesse (je suis bien le seul)

QUAND SOUDAIN, je vois que l’infraction a été constatée au milieu de la nuit à l’autre bout de la france 😭

Bref, je suis autant dégoûté que désoeuvré.

Apparamment, je dois déposer plainte pour usurpation de plaque… Mais conseils welcome…

@aral @lislegaard @eaterofsnacks @media
Yes, that one, sorry, couldn’t easily search for the link earlier. :)

@lislegaard @eaterofsnacks

I just wish there was a light mode for people with astigmatism like me (although I usually just read it in my RSS feed 😅)

https://mamot.fr/@sknob/114801643818143762

@lislegaard @eaterofsnacks
There are different ways of doing it, but the most common and compatible way is with a media query. It’s really a matter of defining the colors for light and dark. Something like :

:root {
--bg: #fff;
--text: #000;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
:root {
--bg: #000;
--text: #fff;
/* filter: brightness(.8) contrast(1.2); */
}
}

@lislegaard @eaterofsnacks @media
Or there’s @aral’s script which I’ve also used on complicated sites (in the answers to my linked toot).

Please please please don’t impose dark mode on your websites. Honor the user’s system settings.

There are plenty of people with visual impairments as common as astigmatism who can’t read light text on dark background, because it’s like staring at a strong lightbulb in the dark.

And it’s not hard. Just a few lines of CSS.

#accessibility

Me, daydreaming a few years ago about how to take down capitalism : what if we could spread some kind of malware that would discretely and randomly alter numbers in spreadsheets, etc., making all corporate data suspect ? 😈

Corporations (and states) today : let’s integrate bullshit-generating software in all our processes \o/ 😑

@aral
Not the only ones, no, unfortunately. And I was reacting to (and agreeing with) both points in @burnoutqueen toot…

@burnoutqueen @aral well that second bit is the problem isn’t it? So many people on the left (in France at least) equating jews with israeli fascists the same way people on the right equate muslims and palestinians with islamic terrorists. Jews and muslims are instrumentalized and tokenized all over the political spectrum for tactical, electoral reasons, while Israel continues to massacre palestinians unimpeded…

This can’t possibly be an original idea, but I made it for possible use on my own sites and so I thought I’d share (as in feel free to use it if you like).

#slop #StopSlop

Le moins que l’on puisse faire, le minimum syndical, c’est de ne plus utiliser/financer les produits et services des sociétés qui financent et appuient et mettent en œuvre les politiques supremascistes de Trump, à commencer par X, Meta, Amazon et Spotify.

Ce n’est pas forcément facile ni agréable, c’est bien comme ça que le capitalisme nous tient et qu’on devient les complices involontaires de la haine, mais quand c’est possible, ne pas le faire, c’est devenir complice volontaire de la haine.

Merci à celleux qui ont mis un CW. Pas merci aux autres.

🤖 🚮

https://noblogo.org/sknob/a-message-to-llm-users

Je passe sur NOT WHAT I CALL RADIO BONKWAVE \o/ (https://not.what.i.call.radio.bonkwave.org/)

Une chaîne thématique de THE INDIE BEAT RADIO (https://theindiebeat.fm)

Elle-même alimentée par le nouveau bandcamp-like fédéré, BANDWAGON.FM (https://bandwagon.fm), qui permet notamment de s’abonner depuis Mastodon à vos musicien’nes préféré’es.

Magie musicale du #fedivers 🙌

#indieMusic #bonkWave #notBonkWave

@joachim Ben oui, c’est pour ça que je le suggérais. Mais pardon pour la réponse en mode #captainObvious 😬
@orange_lux

@joachim @orange_lux tu pourrais peut-être utiliser les balises detail pour ça. Résumé d’un sujet + clic pour approfondir.

@joachim je ferais aussi un TL;DR en début d’article, du genre

Comment rejoindre mastodon :
1. Choisir un serveur, par exemple piaille.fr*
2. Lire les règles du serveur et s’inscrire
3. Il n’y a pas d’étape 3

Comment utiliser mastodon :
1. Suivre plein de gens
2. Suivre plein de hashtags
3. Pouet de présentation
4. Décrire les images
5. Échanger plutôt que posturer

*Pour celleux qui ne veulent vraiment pas se poser de questions.

Puis développer.

:)

If you use LLMs, I consider you to be committing violence against me and all creators (not to mention the biosphere), and I literally consider you as an *enemy*.

If you don’t care about the absence of *creative choices* behind LLM slop, if you consider art to be limited to elevator pitch+finished product, I consider you to be a soulless fool.

No ifs, thens or buts. Sorry not sorry.

Yes, I know there are small LLMs that run locally and can be marginally useful. But they legitimize #LLM technology and all it’s evils (plundering creators & renting them back their own creative work).

Yes, I know they can be used for assistive technologies, but I actually think this is an ablist view (we can finally automate getting those pesky disabled people off our backs). If you can’t be bothered to write #AltText, *you* are the problem in search of a (bad) solution.