John

@John@chaos.social
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Day Job, Colourist for Films TV and commercials.

This is a place for everything else.
Artist/Maker/Hacker of sorts,

The day I stop being curious is the day I'm dead

PronounsThey/Them
Gay?Very Much So
John2d ago

I've submitted a proposal to WHATWG about a provenance/origin classifier for alt text on images.

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11448

The current HTML specification provides the alt attribute on images to supply alternative text for users who cannot see visual content. However, there is no way to indicate whether the alt text was authored by a human or generated automatically by a machine (e.g., via AI or computer vision).

#a11y #accessibility

Proposal: New attribute alt-origin to indicate provenance of alt text (machine vs. human authored) · Issue #11448 · whatwg/html

What problem are you trying to solve? The current HTML specification provides the alt attribute on images to supply alternative text for users who cannot see visual content. However, there is no wa...

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John3d ago
Matt Round5d ago
Idea: set up an online forum, but to comply with the Online Safety Act and verify age, new UK users have to go to a pub & buy you a drink to get access
John4d ago
Jon Wood4d ago
“Pay for privacy plus” says the cookie consent banner on a news article I barely cared about to begin with. It is 10am and I already want to burn everything down.
John4d ago
🏳️‍⚧️Cameron6d ago
ah, the three genders:
John5d ago
abadideaJul 6
"Transhumanism is second nature to us mastodon users, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows about dollposting and one or two dragon therians." "And a bunch of furries, of course." "Of course."
JohnJul 4
9836219 "Alyx"May 29
Every hackspace has:
- a bunch of queers that are all poly and half of them are sleeping together
- some old men there for the woodworking.
- some old linux users with strong opinioms on linux (that u disagree with)
JohnJul 4
when I was telling a friend about @q ticketing Shenanigans and googled to find the FOI -
JohnJul 4
James BrownMay 25
I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.
JohnJul 3
had some AWS stuff I'd been meaning to delete from previous backups and it was just easy to close the account than it was to manage correctly syntax'd permissions json 😌
JohnJul 1
CloudflareJul 1
It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content. https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compensation/
Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!

It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

The Cloudflare Blog