Writing alt texts is essentially an exercise in summarizing relevant information. If you post an image, think about what aspects of it are necessary to understand what your post is about.
For instance, if I post a comic, I usually describe what characters are involved and what they say in each panel, possibly adding expressions and gestures. But I won't describe their position in each frame, what they're wearing, their body shape, their hair color, etc. (unless it's a relevant fact in the comic itself).
A screenshot's description may end up different depending on whether I'm showing off my desktop or whether it's to pull a joke. I recently made a joke response with Mastodon's user menu and my cursor hovering the "Block (user)" option. And would you look at that, the description I just gave you was pretty much the alt text! I didn't describe what the user's profile image was, what their bio says, or what other menu items there were, because it didn't matter.
But if I'm showing off my desktop, I won't laser focus on one part of it. Instead, I will give a rough overview of everything shown, but I won't describe the UI layout of all programs in detail, and I especially won't repeat all the labels. I'll only provide more details for parts I want to direct people's focus on. I would write something like "Screenshot of my desktop, showing the taskbar at the bottom and a music player on the right half. The wallpaper is a digital painting of a meadow in Autumn. The taskbar shows the current time and some music playback controls on the left, an icon list of all running applications in the center, and small status icons on the right. The music player shows a playlist and is currently playing (song) by (artist)."
@chirpbirb Always makes me think back to university when I had a shitty Windows tablet that couldn't run Linux at that time. I brought it to a team assignment once and some of the members went "ew, Windows" when they saw. Like, my dudes, I prefer Linux as well, but it runs like shit on that thing and Windows doesn't. Fuck off with your superiority complex.
@pixel The animation itself looks good to me, but I think it goes for too long, which puts it into irritating territory. Half the duration should do the trick
OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI
Well yeah, the strategy so far was to feed it more and more data, but if even "the entirety of human knowledge on the internet" isn't enough things get a bit spicy.
@Erpel@puniko@Johann150 It showed up in your home timeline because you follow me. That's normal behavior when your instance fetches an old post it hadn't received before
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