<![CDATA[This post did not contain any content.]]>This post did not contain any content.]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/7b42a3e2-15f3-438f-b177-82a567973215/this-post-did-not-contain-any-content.RSS for NodeFri, 11 Sep 2026 21:36:55 GMTWed, 19 Aug 2026 23:03:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:11:26 GMT]]>@pinkflawd

Grokh is this true?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/agowa338/statuses/117169290370359337https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/agowa338/statuses/117169290370359337Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:11:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Sun, 23 Aug 2026 17:44:09 GMT]]>@Bredroll@mas.to @pinkflawd@mastodon.social @lizhare@fosstodon.org

Which is worse than putting nothing in there...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://blahaj.zone/notes/aq9nuvnlj1p300ouhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://blahaj.zone/notes/aq9nuvnlj1p300ouSun, 23 Aug 2026 17:44:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:18:38 GMT]]>@lizhare @MxAlba @pinkflawd mastodon defaults to putting "image/png" in for me

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/Bredroll/statuses/117143130488137830https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/Bredroll/statuses/117143130488137830Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:18:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:46:51 GMT]]>@MxAlba @pinkflawd whoops, that slipped through here. Unfaved.
(srsly, no alt is at least more honest than fake alt)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://don.linxx.net/users/Schafstelze/statuses/117141118068540402https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://don.linxx.net/users/Schafstelze/statuses/117141118068540402Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:46:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:53:49 GMT]]>@ai6yr @nemokamui I know? Sorry, I was just confused what "I use alt text but there's a limit" meant. With the context of complaining about "alt text fiends", it sounded weird. Like... Sometimes alt text goes too far, or there's a technical limitation, or... I dunno. I see that I must have misunderstood, but that's why I was asking.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://disabled.social/users/eladnarra/statuses/117140437688142984https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://disabled.social/users/eladnarra/statuses/117140437688142984Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:53:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:48:45 GMT]]>My new app, LeafLine (which allows either Mastodon or Bluesky, or both at once in the same app) doesn't make alt text optional. Either you add alt text, or you can't post an image.
Sadly, even that doesn't protect against people adding nonsensical alt text.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/WilliamNB/statuses/117140417773538862https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/WilliamNB/statuses/117140417773538862Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:48:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:28:10 GMT]]>@DerPumu @bellinghman @mxjaygrant @pinkflawd wait … what?

🫠 😑

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/deborahh/statuses/117140100937951423https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/deborahh/statuses/117140100937951423Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:28:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:38:55 GMT]]>@eladnarra @nemokamui The issue here is the alt text is NOT THE SENTENCE

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/ai6yr/statuses/117139671325444052https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/ai6yr/statuses/117139671325444052Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:38:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:05:07 GMT]]>@nemokamui @ai6yr What limit? This is only a sentence, which is perfectly reasonable to have verbatim in alt text.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://disabled.social/users/eladnarra/statuses/117139538381247378https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://disabled.social/users/eladnarra/statuses/117139538381247378Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:05:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:35:54 GMT]]>@DerPumu

Ah. I think that might be the paste operation sticking in what's in the paste buffer. If that's a picture *and* some text, it may well do both, giving a picture with whatever associated text there was as its caption

If whatever copied the picture into the buffer in the first place also adds the text, and its default text is the name of the image type, that's the cause. And I can understand the interaction between two useful behaviours leading to this

@mxjaygrant @pinkflawd

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wandering.shop/users/bellinghman/statuses/117138951639450917https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wandering.shop/users/bellinghman/statuses/117138951639450917Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:35:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:54:54 GMT]]>@DerPumu

I can't persuade Tusky (on Android) to do it for me. Maybe I'm missing a setting somewhere, but if so, it's not obvious

@mxjaygrant @pinkflawd

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wandering.shop/users/bellinghman/statuses/117138318580148712https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://wandering.shop/users/bellinghman/statuses/117138318580148712Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:54:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:12:48 GMT]]>@ai6yr yeah noted. I put alt text in my own but there is a limit when dealing with text in an image. Like, just help and aid. Everyone has to gripe.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nemokamui/statuses/117135793777526930https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nemokamui/statuses/117135793777526930Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:12:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:58:27 GMT]]>@nemokamui Ouch, thanks for the catch. I have a number of non sighted users on my server.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/ai6yr/statuses/117135737344929192https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://m.ai6yr.org/users/ai6yr/statuses/117135737344929192Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:58:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:55:35 GMT]]>@pinkflawd @ai6yr thanks for posting this so I can block every damned alt text fiend on the damned planet. It’s text in an image. Use your tools.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nemokamui/statuses/117135726078602610https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/nemokamui/statuses/117135726078602610Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:55:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:53:46 GMT]]>@pinkflawd I guess this is kind of a "forest for the trees" sort of situation. They have you focusing on the trees. Thus even if you see a tree in the middle of an empty field you see it as the enemy and attack in and meanwhile the true instigators just move somewhere else unmolested when the scam is done.

(Maybe this wasn't the best metaphor, but I hope you see what I mean.)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/117135718894759759https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/117135718894759759Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:53:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:40:15 GMT]]>@pinkflawd Honestly, that wasn't the machine it was talking about β€” though it also is β€” and I think the distinction may be important here. Perhaps especially in this. It was meant to be raging against capitalism, control by the rich, etc etc. They setup a "machine."

But wait! Those services scamming by selling LLMs as "AI" are part of that!

Indeed. So do rage against that, but that.

On the surface it seems to amount to the same thing, but it's sort of not. These same sorts peddled scams before LLMs grew to this level and when the current scam bubble pops they'll move on to a new scam. Robotics? Gamestop? I don't know. Once again masses will be hurt by their actions because no one stops them.

Rage against them. They are the machine.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/117135665741610509https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://urusai.social/users/nazokiyoubinbou/statuses/117135665741610509Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:40:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:16:56 GMT]]>@mxjaygrant @pinkflawd
I'm boosting this to shame OP

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/RnDanger/statuses/117134394422244733https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/RnDanger/statuses/117134394422244733Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:16:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:15:08 GMT]]>Yes I am tired of having my time wasted with useless alt text.If you don't want to describe your images, then leave it blank. ALt text isn't a title or a caption. It's a description of the meaning of the image.@MxAlba @pinkflawd

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/lizhare/statuses/117134387343489937https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/lizhare/statuses/117134387343489937Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:15:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:02:00 GMT]]>@pinkflawd

See also …

https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/117036601469626338

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/i_d_radfahrer/statuses/117134099743520305https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/i_d_radfahrer/statuses/117134099743520305Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:02:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:16:44 GMT]]>@pinkflawd This is completely bizarre.

The use of email implies the scribe is already long drunk on machine addiction and can't even think outside the box when attempting to be absurd.

This stuff also tends to bleed into attacks upon accessibility as maleficarum and it really is worth trying to learn from what happened in the wake of the printing press instead of being consumed with rage that 25 years of inboxes are being tidied.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.community/ap/users/116620205121171649/statuses/117133685857997751https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.community/ap/users/116620205121171649/statuses/117133685857997751Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:16:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:02:58 GMT]]>@BafDyce @pinkflawd

Same here.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://norden.social/ap/users/115977520034884136/statuses/117133159857641296https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://norden.social/ap/users/115977520034884136/statuses/117133159857641296Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:02:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:56:31 GMT]]>@pinkflawd

Alt text: Blue background with light blue text that reads "You CANNOT rage against the machine if you're asking it to summarise your emails for you."

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116025662718056068/statuses/117133134525233384https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116025662718056068/statuses/117133134525233384Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:56:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:43:26 GMT]]>@pinkflawd

@altbot please provide alt text.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grb090423/statuses/117133083056008799https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grb090423/statuses/117133083056008799Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:43:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to This post did not contain any content. on Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:42:32 GMT]]>@BafDyce @pinkflawd

Jay Grant gave good alt text. I boosted that πŸ‘

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grb090423/statuses/117133079541733353https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/grb090423/statuses/117133079541733353Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:42:32 GMT