Micr0byteOct 15

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 threadMicr0byteOct 15
oh also there is no javascript, cuz screw javascript
Show thread40796c19Oct 15
@micr0 #alt4you github project language graph showing go at 72.5%, html at 26.9%, and css at 0.6%
Show threadMicr0byteOct 15
@40796c19 alredy have alt-text, it just didnt federate, damn I love how bad fedi is at federating edits.
Show thread40796c19Oct 15
@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 doll

@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>????????

Oct 15 at 6:23pmWeb
Show threadMicr0byteOct 15
@0x57e11a @40796c19 i prefer to let people know when content is AI-generated. That is why I always leave it.
Show threadvoidsent dollOct 15
@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

@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
@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