Mastodawn

Metin Seven 🎨Oct 13

@codewiz Ah, whenever I see these colors and graphics, it instantly elicits strong feelings of nostalgia. 💚

@metin Honestly, I never liked Commodore's visual redesign of Workbench 2.0.

Switching black and white in the palette caused years of visual consistency issues for icons and apps designed for older Workbench versions.

@codewiz Would love to share it but "Screenshot of..." is not an image description.

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@ClipHead That's right, but the post itself has a better description, and a much more detailed description is available by following the link.

@codewiz
The post itself is not a description of the image. Just additional information. And following a link is one further step.

Accessibility is about making it easier for people.
I'll try to write an Alt4You, when I'm back home this evening.

@ClipHead I share the sentiment and I'll try to do better in the future...

...though it won't take long before we have web accessibility extensions with integrated vision models which can describe ANY image with similar or better accuracy than lazy humans like myself 😅

@codewiz 🤗 Thx!

Technological solutions are almost never a good solution for social problems, imho.

I myself love self-written descriptions because they sometimes convey more meaning. Like a photographer pointing out details I would otherwise have missed.

@ClipHead Qwen3, an open model, wrote:

"This image displays a retro-style graphical user interface (GUI) called “Old Blue Workbench”, version 1.0.0, created by Mats Eirik Hansen. The entire screen has a distinctive blue color scheme with pixelated icons and text, evoking the look of early computer operating systems — particularly reminiscent of AmigaOS Workbench, but clearly a modern homage or recreation."

I have Qwen3-30B running in llama.cpp on my laptop, but it's not a multimodal model.

@ClipHead Sorry if it sounds like I'm looking for excuses, I simply got curious.

I guess a better compromise would be pre-filling the alt text with an AI-generated description and let the human edit it for correctness (this isn't a recreation of the entire OS, it's just a replacement for the Workbench app).

@codewiz Okay, that's pretty close, isn't it.

The thing with AI - as always - is: You have to be an expert to spot any mistakes in it.

The last part (from "evoking") is a little misleading, cause it IS an early computer operating system.
In this case it would be good to point out the differences between the original and the replacement, imho.

@ClipHead The model does a better job if given the full context.

Also check the alt text ;-)