Public Work Uses AI Tagging to Organize Over 100,000 Copyright-Free Images
By Shiori Chen via @mymodernmet
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So Mozilla has apparently just reconsidered their stance on JPEG XL! That is, going from ‘nope lol’ to ‘rust ftw lol’. Which reads like a rather ungraceful turnaround, but it is a turnaround, so… kudos to Mozilla for correcting some of their wrongs! 
(They say the requirement is for memory safety, which seems fair enough, but I do wonder why they needed three freaking years just to decide this was their main concern. Yay for efficiency, I guess.) 
#lang_en #browsers #codecs #Firefox #formats #images #JPEG_XL #JXL #Mozilla #news #technology #web #WWW
As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.
#appreciation #accessibility #altbot #alttext #blind #blindness #fediverse #gratitude #images #inclusivity #peoplewhocare #pictures #technology
Beautiful things to look at and enjoy in this @surf feed. To view more sign in using my code Surf+JanetteSpeyer to jump the queue https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jgm31bbkn7k8dxkkva1gzm3k #art #design #architecture #images #sculpture #surffeeds #surf
In this month’s Writer Newsletter, Zulie @ #Medium shares alternatives to AI #images for #illustrating stories, popular story topics, #DraftDay2025 stats, a request for editor recognition, and more.