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@thosch @manton I don't really know about the difference between Quick Answers and FastGPT, to be honest. I just thought perhaps doing the custom bang would be even more reliable. And wouldn't you be able to make a custom bang to the Assistant as well, if you want every browser search field to be a portal there?
I don't use Kagi's AI stuff, really, though, as I always have Raycast AI accessible with a hotkey. So I don't subscribe to the Assistant. (Also, I'm still weary about using LLMs for facts that I don't intent to check somehow. So I'll usually do web searches for those.)
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@jarrod Nice! I'll check it out. I can contribute back if I figure something out. :)
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@jarrod Thanks for reading! BTW, do you have any idea about why it doesn't work with videos..? If I give your shortcut a video, it will just upload an image. =/
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@amerpie Internet Good Guy is a great description of @jarrod. 🫶🏻
I used this shortcut previously, but I found that I almost always wanted to edit the alt text. The alt text itself is good, but it doesn't know about the context the image is in.
So one of the edits I did to Jarrod's excellent Micro.blog uploader shortcut, is to just give me a text prompt to write a manual alt text. And I think of it like "if I was reading the blog post out loud to someone, what would I say about the image? Nothing more, nothing less."
I feel like these AI alt text generators often fall into the trap of being "very competent, but missing the point". That being said, they're much better than nothing, and I also think they are great to give a starting point (that sometimes can be used as is).
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@eivindtraedal.bsky.social Write.as er absolutt i den sjangeren. Kan også anbefale å ta i bruk det at du gjennom dem også kan få gratis Mastodon-konto på writing.exchange. (Jeg vet du, med rette, blei irritert på ham som var admin på Snabelen tidligere. Men det greiene slipper du der. ☺️) (2,5/4)
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@eivindtraedal.bsky.social Man kan fint følge bloggen din fra RSS. Jeg fant den med å bare søke på domenet ditt, men URL-en er: eivindtraedal.writeas.com/feed/
Man kan også følge den gjennom apper i Allheimen (som Mastodon, Pixelfed og Micro.blog), ved å følge @eivindtraedal@write.as. 👌🏻 (3/4)
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@eivindtraedal.bsky.social Du er velkommen til å ta kontakt hvis du lurer på noe angående Write.as! Er litt siden jeg hadde konto der, men kan kanskje være nyttig hvis du ikke kjenner noen andre norske med erfaring akkurat der. 🙂 Kontaktinfo: havn.blog/kontakt (4/4)
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@eivindtraedal.bsky.social Jeg skreiv nylig om det å frigjøre seg fra de store plattformene i Medier24, som kanskje er av interesse: www.m24.no/150225-debat... (2/4)
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@eivindtraedal.bsky.social Stas at du har fått deg blogg – også på Write.as og greier! 👌🏻
Jeg hadde bloggen min der tidligere, og likte det godt. (Bytta til micro.blog etterhvert, siden det er litt mer fleksibelt, men likevel enkelt. Tror det også hadde passet deg, men tror også Write.as er strålende for ditt bruk.) (1/4)
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@drose Mona is my favourite for Mastodon as well! And I really like Micro Social so far, @gregmorris. I wrote about it, with some early feedback, here.
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@havn.blog @slngshot-dvnngrod.bsky.social Here it is, BTW! havn.blog/2025/02/11/t...
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Thanks, slngshot! Yeah, I'm working on a blog post about how I would love it if the Paper dev would give their take on a tot styled app. 🤓 I have some concrete ideas.
Thanks for the tip on Safari! I use the native Micro.blog way of having comments – so ping @help. (Have you heard of others having issues with Safari?)
@numericcitizen Yeah, I used Raycast before I went to Tot – back on Raycast Notes 1.0. (It only had one note.) I considered going back when 2.0 got released, but then I already had Tot, heh. 2.0 does have more features than Tot, but not features that I need for this, I think. (I don’t need more than 7 notes, and I like iCloud sync and the colours.) But it looks like they did a great job with 2.0! I edited the blog post to mention it. 👍🏻
BTW, have you tried Antinote?
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@teisam Yeah I just found it! Have edited the post now. (I searched for things with Dynamic Type – so I think that's why I didn't find it. Also, I looked in Accessibility settings, not Control Center.) 🙃
Most of my criticism still stand, though. And now my Tapestry menus have comically small text…
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@fabriziorom.bsky.social X getting banned on more and more Subreddits, which I assume provides you with some traffic. Would recommend posting here – at least in addition to X.
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Hi, @patrickrhone! I just wanted to share that I stole this quote (while linking back to you) for a post just now. 🙂
Thanks for sharing!
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@amerpie @markstoneman He could quite easily put a personal spin on it (without promising more than he can deliver) by saying something like: "I will work hard to make sure it's a safe place – and please let me know if I can do more." (But I'm not claiming that Manton's heart isn't in the right place.)
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@Havn @Manton Adding to my own post above:
This part, from Vincent's latest post is a much better apology:
I'd like to apologise what has happened from the bottom of my heart. I have grossly overstepped the trust and respect of you specifically, the community and all people that identify as LGBTQ+. I made a mistake by my own doing and disregard of other people’s feeling and identity. It was incredibly stupid, childish and disrespectful of me to make that comment, which I realised on the day as rightly pointed out by the community. It was irresponsible, insulting and insensitive to all — and rightly have been called out for. It was never my intention to hurt you or make you feel this way. It is, and was, very out of character of me to say what I said and there is nothing I can say here to make you feel better. I made a terrible mistake. I ask for your forgiveness.
Too bad it's from an email from June. This is what should've been public.
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I'm not outraged by this post, @Manton – but I am disappointed.
Some people have accepted the twisted narrative that Vincent is a bigot and fascist. If they truly believe that, his post won’t be enough of an apology. But it’s enough for me.
Let me speak for myself: I have serious questions about whether he supports LGBTQ+ people, and why he supports Musks. And he must've known that's the questions people had. Then why didn't he address them? The first he only did in a roundabout way – but the second not at all. And I haven't "accepted" any narrative yet, but I still don't think that was a proper apology.
In a similar way, you also failed to properly address the most pressing question head-on. Did you not understand what was asked, or do you, for some reason, just don't want to answer it? You must've known that what several have been asking about, and not only Adam, is about your beliefs. Not just Micro.blog's. Then, and I ask this from a place of love, why on earth won't you just take the words into your mouth?
Micro.blog is a good place for LGBTQ+ people. It’s a good place because we have been trying to lay the foundation for a safe community for 8 years. It’s a good place because we are passionate about understanding why communities work and how to make them better. I know there are LGBTQ+ people who have been happy here, who have found the perfect place for their blog and a community that respects them, and I hope they stay with us.
Why isn't there no humbleness in this paragraph? Why nothing about what people can do if they experience not being safe? Why no personal passage like "If you're an LGBTQ+ person: I will work hard to make sure it's a safe place – and please let me know if I can do more."?
To be clear, I'm not questioning your beliefs. I'm questioning why you keep them obscured.
I ask again: Did you not see that people wanted reassurance from Manton the person (and not only Micro.blog the service)? Where you to proud to provide it, or what? I don't get it… You might feel like it's performative – but you're not doing yourself any favours here. 😕
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@SimonWoods I also don't use Pixelfed, and I agree that he has some traits I don't love… But I still think it's unfair to lump him together with Dorsey and Zuckerberg. Going in on Pixelfed (being ActivityPub and all) is so much better than Instagram/Threads/X/etc.
I'm absolutely not saying it's not OK to criticise him! But let's not lose all perspective here…
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I have encouraged that.
Good! 👍🏻
I expect it's hard to blog about it when the last time you were raked over the coals.
Yeah, I totally get that… One idea here, could be to ask someone knowledgable about the subject to read a draft. "Hey, I'm trying to get this across. Am I hitting the mark?" The burden of teaching is greatly lessened with a humble and willing learner.
At the end of the day, we are not Zuckerberg, with money and assistants.
Hehe, yeah… And the fact that you're not is one of the reasons why I invest (both time and money) into this ecosystem!
Others calling into question my integrity has hurt me deeply.
Yeah, I get that… And even though I am challenging you a bit, I hope it comes across as coming from a place of love, and not a pile-on. 🙂
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(…) but I think it would be wrong to contrast my opinion with anyone else's unless they wanted to blog about it.
I don't think I understood this sentence… 👆🏻
Vincent's heart might absolutely be in the right place. But that doesn't change the fact that he has said things that are hurtful. Now, this can happen to anyone (myself included!) – especially if one simply doesn't know better. But what you want at that point is humbleness in understanding why the thing was hurtful. Not be annoyed at the people who you hurt. And especially when they're part of a marginalised group.
The highlight in the community guidelines seems like a good one, and is indeed a concrete action that holds some value. 👍🏻 Changes in the discover emoji is another. Stuff like this is some of what was asked of you.
If someone has been misunderstood, I strongly believe in giving people the chance to say what they really mean – and not imprison them in my impression of what they've said previously. Whether you want it to or not, products (like Micro.blog, but also Meta products) is linked both to its leaders, and the people working on it. And the reality is that enough people is questioning whether one of your associates thinks there should be room for transpeople. (Which might include having to type a pronoun every now and then.) Here's my recommendation to you: If this is a misunderstanding, you should, as a leader (and perhaps friend) advise him to clear up that misunderstanding. (And I think Vincent has built a bunch of cool stuff, and I'm a Tinylytics customer myself – so I want it to be a misunderstanding, heh.)
And if you don't truly get why this ordeal has hurt and disappointed some, I want you to really try to understand it.
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@patrickrhone Eloquently, indeed. 👌🏻
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@Denny @pratik Yeah, I want to add that I agree with this as well, @manton… Sure, Adam could've been more polite about it and stuff – but it's a critical time in the states for marginalised groups. That means that the importance of support from others, especially from people with influence (like yourself), has increased.
It's not a good look that you're dodging, and trying to make it about things like X, when that's not the central part of the criticism. I haven't been paying attention to Vincent's writing, so I can't comment on it directly. But, I'm sorry, you kinda have to deal with this, and either say that his stances are aligned with what Micro.blog stands for (and then explain why), or take action if not… (Again, don't know what he's written – but this what you're being asked to do.)