Thanks! I'm happy with what I hacked up for our Lemmy, but if it ever stops working I'll probably move. Although, using something that's not the number one most popular solution might actually be an advantage, I guess.

Unfortunately, economics are working against you. Most of the smaller clients are just using one of the big website builders, or using AI themselves. So the days when someone could run a small business with maybe fifteen or twenty little clients and make a living are almost over. Today, you have to get a good four figure contract, or work for an agency.

Does your local university have a job board? That might be your best bet. Folks working towards a degree are often looking for jobs that won't be full-time, as they want to focus on their studies. So if you're a small organization of doctors, who remember what the university grind is like and are willing to work yourselves around exam season, that might be your best bet. Compsci students are also looking for work experience, and as with many young people are often more interested in advocacy than their elders. And if you get a third or fourth year student, you know they're at least getting some sort of education in the craft, rather than just being a guy off the street with no knowledge, but an AI and a desire to make money.

Yes, that's what I meant. I have the experience to do it. I just see no point because of the issues with the standards.

The issue is that if you don't give people imbedded images, they re-invent them with inaccessible ASCII art. If you don't give them the ability to change fonts, they reinvent it using those awful Unicode hacks. Etc etc etc. From my experience working in the industry, you have to give people a standard way to do all of the things they want to do. Otherwise they'll invent nine different ways of doing them, and not a single one will be accessible. When I looked via a proxy, like half the pages I encountered in gemspace had ASCII art. An accessible browser would take maybe a day or two. I just can't think of any reason to bother.

Ah, good to know. Based on the level of fury from the people complaining, I'd assumed it was pornographic.

Oh, as long as it never displays a page that requires user interaction, it works. If you go to rblind.com directly, you'll find I'm doing something similar. I didn't use anubis because of some controversy about the logo, and the logo has no alt text for me to judge if I care about whatever upsets people. So I just decided not to use it.

No. Anubis displays captchas with no audio or text alternative. https://anubis.zehuti.com/docs/captcha

{cries in screenreader} try not being able to solve any of the checks. Half of the modern web is now just blocked off for blind folks.

I suspect "slop" will come to mean anything the speaker, personally, doesn't like. It's already slowly heading that way; a lot of the anti-AI people already accuse any writing they hate as being AI generated, while giving a pass to whatever they personally appreciate. Recent studies show that a person's intuition about if text is AI or not is approximately as accurate as a coin toss.

It's useful for sharing links over the phone, in person, or on a powerpoint or whatever, though. Or putting links on a business card. I use one for all of the above.

Ah, I wasn't going to ask. So thanks for answering. :-)

Really? Then why does puke smell so awful? Is it all just stomach acid making it stink like that?

The point when it goes from food to vomit, yeah. I’m not sure when it goes from puke to poop, though. Maybe that happens in the intestines?

Umm no? Have you never vomited? I'm not sure I'd call that "food". I guess, maybe, it's still food after you've finished chewing it; you could spit it out into your hand instead of swallowing, and someone else could choke it down. But it stops being food long before it hits the intestines. At some point when it starts mixing with stomach acid, probably.

I'm surprised nobody hasn't already posted the inevitable: “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”

And this is why anything that tries to block AI scraping will always, in every case, block screen readers. It's not a side effect. It's a natural outcome of the design.

So glad you're showing me the path where your code is stored, and the name and username to access the postgresql database. As a user, this does me no good at all. As an attacker, this is the first step I need to hack into the system.

This is a problem with Lemmy on the admin side. I set up retention, and any post here is automatically deleted if it's more than a year old and nobody has interacted with it. But I had to write a lot of custom scripting to handle that, and it still screws up: I was somehow counting profile photos as posts, deciding they got no interaction, then deleting everyone's profile photos. I fixed it, of course, but that isn't something admins should have to handle from scratch, by hand, on every server. No instance owner can afford to store everything, forever, for free, for users. Especially in this market where memory and hard drives are soon going to cost as much as my house. This instance is funded entirely by me, at about $200 per month, located in a Canadian data center. But $200 is a hard cap; I need to find ways to ensure we stay within that monthly amount, or try and raise money from a collection of my fellow blind users, who likely have nothing to spare. This isn't a beg post, just trying to give you insight into the realities of instance hosting. Right now Lemmy expects that all admins are okay with media and database storage that expands for ever and ever, infinitely. Most of us are not. Meaning that if we're technical enough, we can write our own custom solutions to handle it. Or if we're not, our only recourse is banning users to force Lemmy to delete whatever's filling the disc.

I'm a well federated instance, so I guess I could make a contract to sell all the data I get to an AI provider, and that would allow me to afford to store everything forever. But I'm not willing to do that, and I suspect if I tried every other instance would defederate us anyway.

Interestingly, on my instance LiveThreadBot's edits were way behind. I'm an admin, so I could check our incoming queue and see them building up. We're on quite a large server (quad-core, 64 gigs of ram, etc) in a data center with excellent connectivity. So if we were having that problem, I assume a lot of instances were. For sports a backlog of five or six edits that your instance hasn't processed yet just won't work.

Edit: autocorrect

Another problem might be lack of algorithm. No, hear me out! Sure, the Algorithms on big social media lock us all in our little bubbles. But even there, I often have a moment of "Why on earth is that in my recommended?" I personally don't care about e-sports, so I had absolutely no idea it was even happening anywhere on fedi, and would be unlikely to find out unless I went looking. I wonder how many sports enjoyers are on Lemmy, all assuming "Lemmy isn't a sports place", so they never look for sports content, and thus never find any? I enjoy a couple twitch streamers and some VTubers, so occasionally youtube goes "yolo" and throws some kind of e-sports thing my way. I never click it, but I am vaguely aware that DOTA2 is an esports thing that exists and people care about it, and sometimes a big event or tournament or something happens, and I could follow it on YouTube or Twitch if I wanted to. But because Lemmy has no algorithm and I would never subscribe to an e-sports sub myself, I'll just never encounter it here.

PS: I'm not old and out of touch. I'm completely blind and out of touch with esports because it intersects in zero ways with anything I can perceive, participate in, or care about. LOL