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@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-12-21 21:22:04

TalkBack does not offer an option to use computer vision & LLMs (“AI” for the scope of this thread) to describe images lacking alt text.
If you do it in Chrome, it overwrites all the good alt text with, well, crap.
Try it on this page:
srt.csb-cde.ca.gov/jaws/jaws-l

Web page in Firefox with photo of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon, focused by TalkBack,  and a TalkBack caption showing: “view of the planet Earth from the perspective of the moon.”
The same image focused by TalkBack in Chrome, with the TalkBack caption: “earth-view.”
<img src="../images/earth-view.jpg" width="700" height="470" alt="view of the planet earth from the perspective of the moon">
@jtk@infosec.exchange
2025-12-20 03:16:06

When you're trying to get #Google to help them fix a problem they have in relaying an email to a list (they are forwarding as if it they are originating your non-GMail email, thus incurring an SPF failure) their helpful support team to the rescue (see image attached).
FYI... the second thing they want is a screen cap of the client SMTP config.
Very temped to send a screenshot wit…

Thank you for reaching out to Google Workspace Support. This is Jolina, and | hope this message finds you well

Thank you for your patience as we look into the issues you've been experiencing with your email integration.

To help our technical team pinpoint exactly why the connection is failing, we need a bit more visibility into how your third-party application is communicating with our servers. Could you please provide the following two items?

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@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2026-02-21 22:03:38

i just finished a rather dull book that santa left under the tree
i am now able to name from memory the six lake superior iron ranges
here's a harsh review from the journal of economic history

This photo shows a vintage hardcover book with its dust jacket titled "Vein of Iron" with the subtitle "The Pickands Mather Story" by Walter Havighurst.

Book Details:
The dust jacket features a coral/salmon pink upper portion with white lettering

Below is a black and white photograph showing an industrial Great Lakes scene

The photograph depicts a cargo ship (ore carrier) passing under a large industrial loading dock or bridge structure

The subtitle reads "Seventy-five years of Great Lakes …
J Economic History 19:2 June 1959 p. 295 

Vein of Iron: The Pickands Mather Story. By Walter Havighurst. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1958. Pp. 224. $4.00.

A study of Pickands Mather & Co., organized in Cleveland in 1883 as a partnership for the purpose of mining iron ore in the northern lake states and then transporting it to the huge furnaces in the southern lake states, seemingly should be of interest to readers of The Journal. But the company, celebrating its seve…
@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2026-02-21 04:00:05

RE: infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115
Puppies and cats are always fun to watch

Video of four golden retriever puppies jumping up and trying to lick and play with a fluffy cat on a stone bench by a fence. Unfortunately for thr kitty, who just wants to sit on the bench, one puppy gets their tail and eventually brings them down. Face lick ensues, and the cat, who is being gentle to the little doggies despite the tail tugging, eventually breaks free to return to the stone bench. Tail swishing from the cat shows slight irritation, but the smartly position their tail away from …
@david@boles.xyz
2026-02-20 15:35:49

The Conceit of the Clock: Aristotle, Time, and the Hunger That Devours Us
Aristotle opens his investigation of time in Book IV of the Physics with a question so destabilizing it threatens to collapse the inquiry before it begins: does time even exist? His reasoning is not coy. The past has ceased to be. The future has not yet arrived. The present, the "now," is not a duration but a limit, a dimensionless boundary between what was and what will be.

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-01-21 09:03:24

There's a lot to like in this government initiative but concerning that improved heat-tightness (chiefly via insulation) doesn't get the leading emphasis it should have. Instead a lot of emphasis on solar, but the EROI of solar isn't great in the UK.
Skip past the copious puff to the bottom, notes to editors, to find a bit of detail.
Families to save in biggest home upgrade plan in British history - GOV.UK

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-20 16:20:51

Claude's C Compiler shows AI elevates the role of human judgment and vision; it's a milestone, but closely mirrors LLVM/GCC, and hard codes things to pass tests (Chris Lattner/Modular Blog)
modular.com/blog/the-claude-c-

@scott@carfree.city
2026-02-20 04:05:30

If I were voting today in D4 I'd rank Jeremy Greco first because he's the only pro–Sunset Dunes candidate and seems cool generally; he's a longtime co-op worker at Other Avenues and wants to make it easier to start co-ops.
I'd rank Natalie Gee second. It sucks she wants to turn the park back into a highway, but so do all the non-Jeremy candidates, and she's the only one I trust to tax the rich to build affordable housing.

Vladimir Putin has been attempting to influence Donald Trump to seize both Venezuela and Greenland since at least 2017. The effort, rooted in Putin's ambitions in Ukraine, hinged on American embrace of the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 policy framework that focused American influence within the Western Hemisphere.
Putin's reasoning, according to witnesses familiar with the proposals, is simple: if Trump would agree to disengage in Ukraine, Putin would agree to give Trump control in …

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2025-12-20 03:59:10

i found these two gems at the record store up the street and, at twelve bucks each, couldn't resist. i listened to these LPs (and dream weaver and forest flower) a ton in high school.
#jazz #vinyl #vinylrecords

I am holding a vinyl record album cover for "The Journey Within" by the Charles Lloyd Quartet. The album is on Atlantic Records (catalog number 1459) and is labeled as stereo.

The album cover features vibrant, psychedelic artwork typical of the late 1960s era, with colorful concentric circles in pink, yellow, green, blue, and other bright colors creating a swirling pattern across a black background. In the center is a circular photograph of the quartet members - four musicians smiling at the c…
This photo shows another Charles Lloyd Quartet album, this time a live recording titled "The Charles Lloyd Quartet Recorded Live at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco." It's also on Atlantic Records and marked as stereo.

The album cover features similarly psychedelic 1960s artwork with vibrant concentric circles and swirling patterns in hot pink, orange, and black. The design forms a heart-like or double-circle shape in the center, which contains a photograph of the quartet performing li…