Do you want something that runs on your NAS or from another computer? What OS(es) are you using?
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Do you want something that runs on your NAS or from another computer? What OS(es) are you using?
So you think it’s too unreasonable for you to cope with?
I think all of the communities would rather have something more than just a bare link. I’m not sure why you’re responding with such indignation, to be honest, it was a perfectly reasonable suggestion, politely made.
Interesting article, thanks, although I don’t know what the page is doing to make Firefox offer to kill it. Maybe it’s something to do with the 1455 comments.
Yeah, that’s what I mean by transcriptions; if you’re mostly posting screenshots of social media posts then it’d probably work quite well, but if it’s photos you’re definitely going to need something more complicated.
I feel that auto-generated descriptions are going to generally be terrible, even with the new GPT AIs. There’s too much context needed to do a good job to be able to just feed an image into some code and get something useful.
On the other hand, transcriptions should be able to be done more accurately, particularly with a bit of extra logic to recognise forms like Twitter posts.
Some database of alt-texts might be possible by scraping for alt-texts and transcriptions from the fediverse, reddit, etc, but a quick search didn’t come up with anything.
I’d just copied that exact thing to comment on. We need more people like @tmcw@mastodon.social in our world.
Why would the BBC want old film, once they had the footage? They’ve already thrown them away once! It’s only of value to collectors at this point, and the Beeb can’t sell it if they’re claiming it’s lost.
Sounds like these 80 year olds need some friendly data hoarders to help them to digitise their collections. (Or for the BBC to promise to return the film, undamaged, once they’ve digitised them.)
You’re 100% right, I think we do a lot more to stop content rotting like this. Now it’s half gone, with any contributions from other instances unable to federate, fracturing any more conversation.
Maybe we need to do two things:
The migration one is tricky, because ActivityPub is very tied to urls. I guess that you could make dummy account for the conversation you brought over, so you’d at least have a read-only record.
reddthat is a great instance, and I’m glad to see that it’s not just a single-admin setup. If you vanished (I hope not!), does the team have the access, knowledge, finance and motivation to continue?
I hate that they’ve vanished like this, it just means that we’ll end up with a few massive all-purpose instances instead of the ideal topic-based instances that the Fediverse wants.
Well yeah, you need to do the computation somewhere and it’s not doing it on the server so…