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boogah

@boogah@simian.rodeo

Wears a lot of hats. Mostly Dodgers ones. Professional #WordPress nerd from #Bakersfield, CA. I advocate feminism. Runs simian.rodeo. He/Him #fedi22

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stefan, to fediverse
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I know some fediverse apps use various text/image detection technologies, so I was curious if this encourages the use of alt text.

The main thing I learned: Out of nearly 30,000 fediverse posts I looked at, almost 80% did not have information about the client app.

That was a bit surprising. And it makes doing this sort of analysis difficult.

boogah,
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@stefan AFAIK, the closest that Ivory comes to using AI/ML for alt text is the inbuilt iOS photo feature (Live Text) that'll detect words in an image and copy them over to the image description.

(Daily user of Ivory here.)

docpop, to Starwars
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Today I learned about Project 4K77, a fan lead project to scan and restore the the original 35mm prints of Star Wars: A New Hope. https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/

That same team has also released 4K80, a restored version of the original 35mm prints of Empire Strikes Back. https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k80/
Thanks @genex for the info.

boogah,
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@docpop There's 4K83, as well! And all three are great!

boogah, to random
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Just came to this quote in “A People’s History of the United States” and thought it worth sharing — even though May Day is almost over.

“If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists.”

— Joseph Ettor

skinnylatte, to food
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Me: I never eat frozen food!

Also me: I love yoshinoya frozen gyudon!

I’ve now changed my mind to accept culturally relevant frozen food

https://www.sayweee.com/en/product/Yoshinoya-Cooked-Beef-with-Onions-in-Sauce--Frozen/2478?referral_id=4972487&lang=en&utm_source=copyLink

(Growing up in the tropics, we never had anything frozen. It’s more of a cultural bias from lack of exposure)

Yoshinoya is also what I spent all my pocket money on as a teenager, so it also makes me feel nostalgic even tho I can make better gyudon from scratch now

boogah,
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@skinnylatte The only Yoshinoya I've ever had is the stuff from their restaurants here in the US. And that was consistently terrible.

Given that I trust your taste in food, I am also operating under the assumption that this is better than what I could walk in and get at a Yoshinoya here. 😉

boogah, to FediPact
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Reminder: It’s not too late to either sign (or ask your server admin to sign) .

https://fedipact.online/

If your instance won’t sign on, find a smaller instance that already has. There’s a list of a few hundred listed over on the fedipact site. 😉

We don’t need the “flagship” instances that will put up with the corporate colonization of this beautiful network that we’ve all built together.
https://kolektiva.social/

boogah, to wordpress
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Oh, nice! Dark Visitors (a list of known AI crawlers) has a plugin that'll update your robots.txt whenever a new bot gets added to their collection.

It'll even let you pick the types of crawlers that you want to block.

https://darkvisitors.com/docs/set-up-a-robots-txt

boogah, to random
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This Martha Wells lecture about is very good and worth your time.

https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/649804.html

(Shout out to my friend Bobbie for sharing it.)

boogah, to random
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Wireless earbuds with ANC and replaceable batteries?!

You know, my AirPods Pro recently developed a bit of a rattle in the left earbud and I have been thinking about replacements… 🤔

https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds

boogah, to random
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Public to @benbrown:

https://1.44mb.club/

boogah, to random
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Can any of y'all even imagine how annoying shit would be if the world still used Roman numerals for everything?

boogah, to random
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Every day we stray further from God's light…

https://www.chewboom.com/2024/03/27/7-eleven-unveils-new-big-bite-hot-dog-sparkling-water/

boogah, to wordpress
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We didn't like any of the other spaces — corporate bootlicking, toxic positivity, shitty people, tolerance of racists, neoliberalism — so we made our own. 🧷

https://watercoolerslack.lol
https://mastodon.online/@jaykass/112153636859630054

boogah, to random
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Fellow users: Have any of y'all noticed the transcription getting worse?

The last few podcast episodes I've edited have had long gaps with no detected speech where people are clearly speaking. It’s annoying.

cabel, to random
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A pretty subtle spotted at the airport. Do you know which logo is new?

boogah,
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@cabel Feels a little retro. I think I like it.

(The one on the right is the new one, BTW.)

boogah, to random
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I bought a copy of Kyle Kinane's new special “Dirt Nap" and it came with a few “share it with a friend" promo codes that make the price of the special $0.

I've given a couple away already, but I have two more to share. If you're interested and need a laugh, hit me up and I'll DM you one.

https://800poundgorillamedia.com/products/kyle-kinane-dirt-nap

boogah, to wordpress
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Just realized that my development strategy is to make a bunch of smallish plugins that do one thing adequately.

I could make it so they do one thing well, but c’mon… let's not get carried away. :melting_sweat:

boogah, to random
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Trying to come up with a honeypot service that redirects any AI crawlers that visit a site to HEAVY Scots English translations of the posts and pages that it thinks that it's scraping.

boogah, to random
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Thinking about moving a few of my WordPress sites over to Ghost. Diversify some shit.

fraying, to random
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Posting to my blog is so fucking frustrating now. I have to get off Wordpress. They have screwed the pooch so badly. I don't need blocks, I just need a decent writing environment. What a shame.

boogah,
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@fraying @bixfrankonis The plugin you want is: https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/

boogah, to random
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@ivory Any chance y’all could add @omnivore to your list of Read Later services? ♥️

boogah, to wordpress
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Hey pals: If you were designing the WXR¹ format today, what would you do differently? What do you think is missing from the current spec?

Since it's no longer 2004, would you do the whole thing in JSON instead? Would you package images in with the post content like TextBundle?

I want to hear some big ideas. Go nuts!

¹ The WordPress import/export file, based on RSS.

boogah, to random
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Who do we like for transactional email nowadays?

(Boosts for reach appreciated.)

nathan, to random
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So, I'm trying this out... Mastodon only for now! I want to be a part of a "WP Builds" community, but all-the-platforms seem to put themselves first... ads, and ways to monetise. I recently found Discord, and set up a WP Builds server. I'm no expert, and WILL screw things up, but if you're into WordPress and want to try this out with me, here's a link to join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fCrfrvgpv6 I hope that this works!!!! Please let me know if it does not!?!? 😀

boogah,
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@nathan Welcome to the cabal of podcasts with a Discord!

@wpwatercooler has one that you’re very welcome to check out here:

https://discord.gg/eGHzUVDSRJ

boogah, to random
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It'd be pretty funny if an aerospace whistleblower started posting their receipts on boeingboeing.net.

danhon, to random
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Something I look forward to every Tuesday now is the email I get from Plex telling me what @mathowie has been watching, it saves so much time because I don't need to ask him anymore and instead I can ask him awkward questions

boogah,
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@danhon The least you could do is help poor ol' @mathowie opt out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/18687eb/how_to_optout_of_plex_discover_together/

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