Micr0byteOct 15, 2025

I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.

You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified.

Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice: activists, journalists, researchers, solo folks.

I paid for premium hosting (high-reliability VPS in Sweden) and a quality email provider because uptime actually matters for something like this. Also paying extra for minimal data retention (7 days email activity, working toward zero content storage).

Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.

https://wellness-p.ing

Wellness Ping

Show threadMicr0byte
oh also there is no javascript, cuz screw javascript
Oct 15, 2025 at 2:49amWeb
Show threadAltbotOct 15, 2025

@micr0 The image is a horizontal bar chart representing the percentages of different languages. The title, “Languages”, is positioned above the chart. The chart consists of three colored bars representing Go, HTML, and CSS.

The first bar, colored blue, represents 72.5% and takes up the majority of the chart. The second bar, colored red, represents 26.9%. The third bar, colored purple, represents 0.6%. The text “Go 72.5%”, “HTML 26.9%”, and “CSS 0.6%” is displayed below each respective colored bar.

Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:27b

🌱 Energy used: 0.098 Wh

Show threadMostlyBlindGamerOct 15, 2025
@altbot your alt text is overly long and verbose, and doesn’t effectively communicate function. I would like you to not waste energy in my name, as a visually impaired person.
Show threadDavid Mitchell Oct 22

@altbot @MostlyBlindGamer

Wow, that is truly and spectacularly awful AltText, yikes!

#AltText4You
Chart showing languages used:
Go: 72.5%
HTML: 26.9%
CSS: 0.6%
Demonstrates poster’s claim that no javascript is used.

Show threadMostlyBlindGamerOct 22

@DavidM_yeg @altbot organic, sustainably sourced, brain-to-post alt text. Delicious. Concise and functional, hats off to you.

We won’t be replaced by AI, at most we’ll accept mediocrity.

Show threadDavid Mitchell Oct 22

@MostlyBlindGamer @altbot

lol … you almost make me sound like an entree, but I’ll take it! 😉

Show threadMostlyBlindGamerOct 22
@DavidM_yeg @altbot hahaha. Maybe I was too hungry for the internet.
Show thread40796c19Oct 15, 2025
@micr0 #alt4you github project language graph showing go at 72.5%, html at 26.9%, and css at 0.6%
Show threadMicr0byteOct 15, 2025
@40796c19 alredy have alt-text, it just didnt federate, damn I love how bad fedi is at federating edits.
Show thread40796c19Oct 15, 2025
@micr0 no it federated, altbot's alt text is just unnecessarily long and far too detailed for something that doesn't need two paragraphs of description
Show threadvoidsent dollOct 15, 2025

@40796c19 @micr0 alt text should be descriptive but not excessive

also like. why leave in the <plain>”Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:27b”</plain>????????

Show threadMicr0byteOct 15, 2025
@0x57e11a @40796c19 i prefer to let people know when content is AI-generated. That is why I always leave it.
Show threadvoidsent dollOct 15, 2025
@micr0 @40796c19 or just. write it yourself? having an alt text generator llm is not an excuse to be lazy and not write actually good alt text
Show threadNeil D. FosterOct 15, 2025

@0x57e11a @40796c19 @micr0

i agree with the sentiment of always trying to get the best alt text, but i feel like altbot can be a pretty good tool for speeding up the process

it's often pretty hard for me to describe things with words so having altbot helps a lot

also i think that it's still a good idea to keep the little """AI""" disclaimer unless the text did actually get revised by a sapient being

Show threadvoidsent dollOct 15, 2025
@goat @40796c19 @micr0 ig leaving the disclaimer in is fair. altbot is better than nothing, but at the moment the llm generates mediocre quality alt text, there's room for improvement ofc
is it not better for someone who has the time to at least try to write better alt text?
it's still a bit ironic that the sentiment of trying to get the best alt text has gotten this one blocked by the creator of altbot, who didn't write their own alt text
Show threadfox brownOct 15, 2025
@micr0 hello, is this app similar to your's? https://github.com/keepalivedev/KeepAlive
GitHub - keepalivedev/KeepAlive: Android app to notify others if you haven't used your device in a given period of time.

Android app to notify others if you haven't used your device in a given period of time. - keepalivedev/KeepAlive

GitHub
Show threadviqOct 15, 2025
@brownfox @micr0 for one, they're kind of orthogonal. If your phone is the only thing not operational, one will alert, and the other will not.
Show threadMicr0byteOct 15, 2025

@brownfox Yes, kinda similar but that requires your device to be on, if someone turns your device off they easily disarmed your whole system.

I know a person who was using this app but when their apartment was raided authorities seized their phone and all devices and turned them off, so it didn't work.

But its a good option for people who are less concerned about stuff like that!

Show threadfox brownOct 16, 2025
@micr0 I see. Thank you.
Show threadKevin Karhan Oct 15, 2025
@micr0 NOICE!
Michael Rosen (Nice) - GREEN SCREEN 4K60

YouTube
Show threadMaypop the DragonOct 15, 2025
@micr0 based blind javascript hatred