#dev 2021-11-07
2021-11-07 UTC
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GWG I should stop filing PRs against IndieAuth, but... https://github.com/indieweb/indieauth/pull/107
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@shageman Make Your Self-hosted Website Come To Life By Connecting It To Your Social Media
Thank you, @thegreengreek! Also: @eleven_ty, http://webmention.io, http://brid.gy
https://stephanhagemann.com/posts/2021-11-06-social-media-on-website/ (twitter.com/_/status/1457183930206011398)
# @shageman Make Your Self-hosted Website Come To Life By Connecting It To Your Social Media
Thank you, @thegreengreek! Also: @eleven_ty, http://webmention.io, http://brid.gy
https://stephanhagemann.com/posts/2021-11-06-social-media-on-website/ (twitter.com/_/status/1457183930206011398)
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[tantek]1 whoa that's a fascinating POSSE-full-post-as-image to Twitter example. are there many folks doing that?
# [tantek]1 seems like a technique worth documenting (even if there's only "one" example, so far)
# [tantek]1 aaronpk, have you ever considered that ^ technique?
# [tantek]1 I've seen other examples of POSSE-full-post-as-image to Instagram, in particular as a /multiphoto, e.g. one paragraph per "photo"
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[KevinMarks] I manual until it hurts do that when the text won't fit in a tweet (and I paste the text in as alt)
# [tantek]1 ooh that's very clever. what's the length limit of alt text for a photo in a tweet?
# [tantek]1 manual POSSE-post-as-image still counts [KevinMarks], another good reason to document it
# [KevinMarks] 1000 chars I think
# [KevinMarks] So 4000 with 4 images
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# [tantek]1 Would be great to link to some docs on that
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capjamesg[d] I saw that Instagram on web allows you to add alt text too.
# capjamesg[d] I don’t know what the limit is.
# capjamesg[d] Instagram tries to guess the contents of images to make alt text too.
# capjamesg[d] Something like “may contain…”
# [KevinMarks] A good thread on why those kinds of alt text generators are useless https://twitter.com/Abebab/status/1456935291445518339?s=20
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@Abebab But not so fast. Automated image captioning suffers from the same kind of bipolar performance seen in language translation. When it’s good, it seems almost magical. But its errors can range from slightly off to completely nonsensical. #Mitchell https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDgS0PkWEAcynDX.png (twitter.com/_/status/1456935291445518339)
# @Abebab When I gave Microsoft’s CaptionBot the “soldier in the airport with dog” photo, the system’s output was “A man holding a dog.” Sort of. Except for the “man” part. #Mitchell https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDgUAwXWQAQJzPM.png (twitter.com/_/status/1456936527620198405)
# @Abebab But this caption misses everything interesting about the photo, everything about the way it speaks to us, to our experience, emotions, and knowledge about the world. That is, it misses the meaning of the photo.#Mitchell https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDgUIrbXIAMOJ2W.png (twitter.com/_/status/1456936770612994051)
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# [tantek]1 I don't understand the caption-related tweets KevinMarks, what point were they connected to?
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