I hope you each are very well. Cheers for now. 🍃
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I hope you each are very well. Cheers for now. 🍃
The web client for alttext.symm.app, as of like 15 minutes ago, is up & running again. I am honestly not sure if the Extensions work right now, but I will try to test again later.
The AI Opt-Out list & related posts have been deleted. It wasn't very effective, & was always intended as just a band-aid & an olive branch. I hope to build something robust with collaborators at @reducethenoise.org, but it may be ages before that is achieved.
Hello. I haven't checked this account in ages. My apologies. I haven't been able to maintain the projects shared here due to personal issues. I'm deeply sorry if you were using them. Most things have been & will remain offline/paused, but I hope to return to them. It'll just be a while.
Yeah. I know. I owe everyone & their mother a lot of money. I can't afford to keep it stable. I'm really sorry about that...
I really want to provide it but I am hitting walls. I feel terrible about it...
shit is it still broken? ugh. i'm sorry. i will be working on it more today & get some stuff done for you guys!!! promise!
hey, you should also come to rely on vidcrunch.app if you didn't see that project!! discord non-nitro users rejoice! hahahah
yo, i really gotta shift focus over to publishing the new version for ya. oy. gotta stop with one project & work on that today i think. 💪
i gave GCP some money & it should be going again!
fixing it!!! asap!!
yeah i am really sorry. i have an outstanding Google Cloud Platform Bill that I cannot afford at the moment....... bleh. it is going to be back up shortly, i promise.
yupp yupp yupp this is a buggy hot garbage pile half finished thing right now but thanks for taking the dive with it! the object you got is not a beta thing that will be wiped! it is yours! but the funnest fun part is sending this magical trash to friends for no reason! lmao
@etcetera.exchange pleasde gift my umbrella to @symm.social
@etcetera.exchange may i have a thing, please?
never will be, either. & the overhead to keep it running is like frickin' nothing, because it is operating on-device.
vidcrunch.app issues i am aware of to be fixed:
- not all listed file types are actually working.
- mobile layout is total trash & unusable, basically right now.
lmk if you find other things wrong with it!
Hello, friends! I am quite pleased to share with you all a tool I hope you will find quite useful across many different platforms, & not just here on Bluesky - please spare a moment to take a quick look at my latest thing. I don't think you'll regret it!
I give to you: vidcrunch.app ! 🤩💚👍
so very sorry for the long delay in reply!!!
all ya gotta do is unlike the post to be removed!
post link for convenience: bsky.app/profile/symm...
sorry for the delay! i added you! (cc: @astrra.space)
I mean... It is appreciated to share it forward!! But I really need to wrap up these stable version changes to the extension today. 🥵
k k. i'll keep cookin' it. it will keep changing for a long time, i imagine. like a star wars remaster nobody asked for with a really jarring CGI Jabba the Hutt, this project will have a blu-ray remaster with 10 more lines of instructions for it's 5th anniversary, i imagine.
well perhaps someone may one day find some value in my repeated meticulous refinement of the instructions, but beyond that, i am not sure how much they could actually use. idfk. i am an amatuer & i vibe coded all this like crazy, so i am basically an idiot who yells at code with AI agents. xDDD
all lasers should be #00FF00 green, like me. only green lasers please.
wait wait. you are saying that the web app is doing a worse job recognizing notable people than the extension version you are running? i assume it is v0.3.1 from the official publication on the add-on store, yeah?
huh. gotta look more into this.... that means i made it work less gewd.
i mean, i would love for them to do the same concept & make this obsolete, but i don't think it is a priority for them.
if you or anybody wants to kick in a few bucks, i set up a ko-fi, but no pressure, of course!!
lol but yeah, i didn't know that initially either & was previously stylizing alt text in a manner that was visually appealing to me. but no. it isn't supposed to be visually appealing because the people it is for can't fuckin' see it. lol. it is a script for a TTS engine to read. no line breakies. 💖
sometimes it just does a shitty job randomly & you should just try again & see if it goes harder. lol. it's just like a hiccup in it that i can't really stop in a way i understand. in the extension, you can just click generate again & it overwites the previous response cleanly. the web not so much.
Since there seems to be several very kind people who are actively relying on this thingie i made, i have allocated a Pocket on Revolut that is a designated place where I store some funds that are reserved specifically to be available when all these things try to charge me. So that should be better!
yeah the extension is not the best right now. i am trying to wrap up the new release for that which has loads of fixes.
also: previously i was not giving 2 fucks about maintaining things in a professional manner, & it would break because I didn't pay server fees & the backend shut down. lol BUT:
