Nostr notes by Robert Kingett

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117529462580279085 Demand ...

2026-10-31T18:50:49Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117529462580279085

Demand your money back. That is the only way these tech people will learn. Challenging the charges at your bank is the best way

You should read this. You know that you can still criticize LLMs ...

2026-10-31T02:01:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…wrhn
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You should read this. You know that you can still criticize LLMs company while holding this position, but you should read this. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-ai-writing-witch-hunt-is-idiotic

I'd say the framing around this should be more about paranoia ...

2026-10-30T20:37:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…h5lp
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I'd say the framing around this should be more about paranoia rather than hysteria since would I see more of his hypervigilance that a pattern matches LLM writing because it has some of these preconceived notions that's entirely arbitrary and subjective

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117518311002072172 more ...

2026-10-30T03:06:52Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/117518311002072172

more should see this. If you gave them money because you thought they were anti-AI, #AI #Email

Still remembering when the CEO of #Substack called me a loser ...

2026-10-28T13:40:40Z

Still remembering when the CEO of #Substack called me a loser blogger in a forum for keeping this list. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/substack/

I feel like pissing off tech losers today so could you all spam ...

2026-10-25T18:17:47Z

I feel like pissing off tech losers today so could you all spam this link on LinkedIn for me since I don't have an account on there? https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/disability-dongle/ #Tech #Technology #Disability

What A Board Game Can Teach Us About Disability Inclusion ...

2026-10-24T12:28:56Z

What A Board Game Can Teach Us About Disability Inclusion https://reframingdisability.substack.com/p/what-a-board-game-can-teach-us-about #Disability

Blocked a disabled Tech Bro that unironically said with his full ...

2026-10-24T09:40:03Z

Blocked a disabled Tech Bro that unironically said with his full chest in another thread not by me that LLMs are amazing, and that humans deserve to lose their jobs, and then equated his justification by saying no one cried when washing machines were invented to replace people that washed clothes and otherwise by hand. I'm here to remind you that disabled people do not think alike, and it is OK to not listen to every single disabled person with the same velocity that you would not listen to, for example, a gay Nazi. Disabled people can be Tech Bros too. Obviously, hear them out before assuming but I'm here to remind you it's okay to block the minute they crossed that line with your morals.

Artists of all industries must continue to also fight this wave ...

2026-10-23T14:25:10Z

Artists of all industries must continue to also fight this wave of being attributed to an LLM made thing but they, the artist cited, never made the LLM thing. Gods I hate this timeline. ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/ #FuckAI

Bad News Monday: We Are Losing Linux ...

2026-10-20T03:18:03Z

Bad News Monday: We Are Losing Linux https://drglowcatsdebuglog.bearblog.dev/bad-news-monday-we-are-losing-linux/ #Linux

Is #LibreOffice starting up remarkably slow for anyone else ...

2026-10-20T00:17:03Z

Is #LibreOffice starting up remarkably slow for anyone else running it portably? I am trying to move away from Microsoft Office but LO, at least, the portable version, feels infinitely slower than Microsoft Word, which is installed. Would installing it fix the infinite slowness? Word feels hugely snappy compared to my portable version of LibreOffice and I'm wondering if having it installed makes a difference?

Everyone loves shitting on the Romance genre, but quite frankly, ...

2026-10-19T17:24:52Z

Everyone loves shitting on the Romance genre, but quite frankly, if the men paid at all any spec of attention to the consent happening in those novels, the world would be a far better place. “is this comfortable? Can I touch you here? I need your full consent before we do this. Does that feel good? How do you feel?”

You can find all those empowering questions, and more, in Romance novels everyone hates so much.

#Romance #Bookstodon

The Open Source Accessibility Framework helps open source ...

2026-10-19T16:47:02Z

The Open Source Accessibility Framework helps open source projects turn accessibility goals into public, trackable progress. https://open-source-accessibility.github.io/Open-Source-Accessibility-Framework/ #OpenSource #Program #Programming #Accessibility #A11y

AI is not our future. https://procreate.com/ai #NoAI

2026-10-19T11:01:08Z

AI
is not
our future. https://procreate.com/ai #NoAI

Right? And not even a fucking local model, at least. Tech was a ...

2026-10-18T14:52:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…6668
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Right? And not even a fucking local model, at least. Tech was a mistake. It's funny, ironic funny, but when I was a teen, I'd make fun of seniors for wanting to stay offline, but they're the ones safer than I am, sadly! Ugh! Marisa (npub1n88…v8rj)

How many times does this have to happen before people start ...

2026-10-18T08:18:02Z

How many times does this have to happen before people start understanding that tech hates you and hates all of us? https://www.rawstory.com/no-kings-2678101228/ #NoKings #SocialMedia

That #IndieWeb irrelevant post by StarBreaker is looking more and ...

2026-10-17T23:28:57Z

That #IndieWeb irrelevant post by StarBreaker is looking more and more apt right now. Major IndieWeb Services Now Have genAI and Claude Built-in. What Do We Do? https://brennan.day/the-indieweb-now-has-genai-and-claude-built-in-what-do-we-do/ #AI

Tried to recover someone's DOCX files, even unzipped them and ...

2026-10-17T13:33:53Z

Tried to recover someone's DOCX files, even unzipped them and everything, but I guess they got moved/copied so many times over 3 decades they just... faded and became broken? They were moved/copied so much too much data was lost to where they cannot be recovered. Yet another reason why writers, especially, should move to writing in plain text and converting to anything later. #WritingCommunity #PlainText

It will never stop being ironic to me that the one place I am ...

2026-10-17T13:03:44Z

It will never stop being ironic to me that the one place I am certain never to stumble on LLM slop is piracy websites. I use piracy websites like the best catalog ever and then I go check out media from my local library. I am sure people have tried to upload LLM slop to piracy websites, but the pirates aren't sharing it, buddy. #Piracy

Why We’re Banning AI ...

2026-10-16T02:03:45Z

Why We’re Banning AI https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai #AI #NoAI

recently posted The Hostage Negotiation of the Front-Facing ...

2026-10-13T01:22:00Z

recently posted The Hostage Negotiation of the Front-Facing Camera https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-hostage-negotiation-of-the-front-facing-camera/ #Blogging #Blog #NoPaywall

The Hostage Negotiation of the Front-Facing Camera ...

2026-10-12T05:22:00Z

The Hostage Negotiation of the Front-Facing Camera https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-hostage-negotiation-of-the-front-facing-camera/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall

AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive ...

2026-10-09T22:14:17Z

AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents. https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure #AI #OpenAI

I got a $10.00 usd donation! If you'd like to donate because ...

2026-10-06T01:22:00Z

I got a $10.00 usd donation! If you'd like to donate because you like my writing or otherwise, visit https://robertkingett.com/donate/

So #Buffer shit the bed for me, does anyone else have things to ...

2026-10-03T13:42:53Z

So #Buffer shit the bed for me, does anyone else have things to where I can pipe my RSS feed into and it spits out stuff to my Fediverse account when I am sleeping? I already got Webhooks set up via IFTTT, but also does anyone know of #Fediverse things that has native RSS imports? Like, to where I rely on IFTTT less? Because IFTTTs Enshittification is starting to happen. #AskFedi

There’s a good reason why I choose to never attend blindness ...

2026-10-01T12:08:23Z

There’s a good reason why I choose to never attend blindness conventions, or assimilate myself with a lot of the blindness groups here in the US. I prefer hanging around a smaller contingency of blind people rather than the larger groups. Aside from the fact that the blind community is often extremely racist towards disabled people of color, trans phobic and homophobic to the disabled LGBT plus members, ableist to other disability groups, the community as a whole participates in techno ableism. The community chides others for choosing to not willingly participate in capitalism any longer. The community values independence rather than interdependence. I do not see eye to eye on many of the single disability issues the community at large advocates for, especially as it relates to employment and accessibility access at the risk of my and others privacy. The community is too focused on getting others to assimilate and comply with a hostile capitalistic system rather than encouraging others to live their best blind and or disabled lives even if they do not work.

This is also why I prefer to hang around other disabled people and other disability groups outside of my blindness. They do not follow these same rigid desires.

I haven’t even touched on the internal discrimination I have seen from blind people to other blind people. I have repeatedly witnessed workplace discrimination that was a lot worse than none disabled bosses.

And that isn’t even the half of everything else.

#Disability #Ableism #Blind #Blindness

Hell, even with the LLM they couldn't even think of a better ...

2026-09-28T15:06:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…6vzv
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Hell, even with the LLM they couldn't even think of a better insult! [@bright_helpings](https://mspsocial.net/@bright_helpings )

Oh no, the AI Bros are calling our human stuff. HUMAN SLOP! oh ...

2026-09-28T14:58:23Z

Oh no, the AI Bros are calling our human stuff. HUMAN SLOP! oh no, what ever shall we do? LMAO! How will we ever recover from being called, HUMAN SLOP? Oh no! The horror! I've never seen such a bunch of desperate crowd before. Yet again, showing they can't leave us the fuck alone. #FuckAI #NoAI

Keep this #NoAI website, featuring software, communities, and ...

2026-09-28T14:46:56Z

Keep this #NoAI website, featuring software, communities, and more, without the use of any AI in the code bases or have an openly NoAI stance and policy https://noailist.org/ #AI

Pretty solid resource for #NoAI as in, why shouldn't I use ...

2026-09-27T20:23:54Z

Pretty solid resource for #NoAI as in, why *shouldn't* I use it, with links and such. https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware/src/branch/main/why_not_llms.md

I’m considering putting my foot down with my friends that just ...

2026-09-25T11:57:03Z

I’m considering putting my foot down with my friends that just can’t seem to quit using Facebook messenger, even when I give them numerous other ways to get a hold of me. Sure, it’s a lot more effort to ask me what I’m up to rather than reading it online but I have my own website, I have my Fedi account.

The messenger app is slowly becoming unusable, the facebook app has so many problems I find it a chore to keep up with friends even when I am looking at their profile exclusively, and a whole canyon of other things.

I’m considering just leaving my friends with a final message and then deleting my account and if they can’t SMS me or send me an email, then they like Facebook more than me.

#SocialMedia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@HendrikPreuss/117327973974468474 ...

2026-09-24T21:02:38Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@HendrikPreuss/117327973974468474

Yes! #Privacy

I was waiting on this day and I am frankly amazed it didn't ...

2026-09-23T15:31:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…rvj2
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I was *waiting* on this day and I am frankly amazed it didn't happen sooner. I got that email too and I wished I would have read it because now I wanna know who the fuck instigated this offer? If it was Spotify/FindAWay Voices or whatever they are calling themselves now, then not many registered as they would have hoped. If D2D initiated this... Um... *sigh* Lili Saintcrow (npub18gh…dn7p)

As I continue to use my Git workflow for beta readers, I am ...

2026-09-23T15:26:27Z

As I continue to use my Git workflow for beta readers, I am realizing Git just isn't for fiction prose and everything I am doing is tricks and hacks to work with it.

I ended up hiring someone to build me a python script that is interactive.

The common frustration I ran into was,

let's say Jason edited a paragraph in Chapter 1.

Jane edited the same paragraph but a different section.

I wanted Git to smartly present these as changes and have me reject, accept, and or set them aside for later.

It couldn't do that with Git. I'd eventually have to open files and compare myself, which defeats the reasoning. I was contorting Git to the point it stopped making sense to hack and contort.

I gave up and just use Git as glorified Cloud storage and for tracking my own changes to my own MD files.

My trial and errors to turn Git into more of a track changes system that was screen reader friendly wasn't cutting it, so I just decided to pay someone money to make me a non-vibed Python script that includes multiple things such as Critic Markup support, Pandoc's Track Changes support when I convert DOCX to MD using --track-changes=all,

and other goodies that compare comments, compares insertions, deletions, and far more inside of text files and MD files.

I *could* use Google Docs and Track changes, but I like working with local text files, and I have more than five beta readers.

#Git #ReadingCommunity #Beta #BetaReaders #Python #Programming

Did some light investigation into how much AI is used in ...

2026-09-22T16:40:46Z

Did some light investigation into how much AI is used in publishing and publishers beyond that video I shared the other day, and in short, publishers love LLMs and it is so ingrained into the modern publishing process that if an author says they do not want LLMs to touch their book, they do not have any agency, they do not have the right to not consent, it’s impossible to avoid. Publishers also will mark you as uncooperative and hard to work with. If you see an author not getting publish today, it’s very likely they said no to LLMs. #WritingCommunity #Authors #AI #LLM

I just now realized why there are table of contents at the ...

2026-09-20T12:35:04Z

I just now realized why there are table of contents at the beginning of some blog posts. Sighted folk don’t have a way to jump to the first heading level 2 or 3 on the page, nor do they have the capability of bringing up a list of headings on the page and then jumping to a chosen heading the way we do. Gods, how do you all use such a limited form of navigation? I would think scrolling would get tiresome after a while.

If I sit here and think of all the ways that screen reader users can navigate easier around a web page than a sighted person, because the screen reader user can access more symantic things, it makes me actually want browsers that borrow how screen readers are able to extract and use symantic information. Like I think it would be cool to give you all the capability of jumping to a particular heading on the page, or the capability of extracting a list of links in the browser, things we have. The mouse just clicks and scrolls. How do you all handle such limited forms of navigation?#WebDev

If you really want to tell disabled people to use an open source ...

2026-09-19T22:23:00Z

If you really want to tell disabled people to use an open source or alternative thing instead of the proprietary thing, you better make damn well sure that open source or alternative thing is at least screen reader friendly as a bare minimum when it comes to disability access if you're the developer.

If you're a user of the open source or alternative thing, encourage the developer to do better than the proprietary developers on all disability developments, even when the developer tries to make the excuse that they are not a large corporation and can't afford the accessibility developments.

If you can't figure out why disable people continue to use proprietary thing when open source or alternative thing exist, shut the fuck up and do a lot more reading instead of replying.

#OpenSource #Accessibility

Went to the ER recently because my country is so garbage ...

2026-09-18T14:21:10Z

Went to the ER recently because my country is so garbage that's the only way I'm gonna be seen, medically, by someone, and The thing that pissed me off the most wasn't the EMTs assuming/joking I was fat because *sigh* I'm not, but the fact this woman kept insisting I must have Munchausen syndrome because, after the pain went away, the stutter returned. I had to patiently explain how the brain works even though she was the medical professional. I had to explain why pain can actually stop stuttering entirely. If you know a stutterer, and they suddenly don't stutter for minutes at a time, that should be a warning sign they are not fine even if you think they are fine. #Disability #Brain #Medical #Medicine

I need to find a new term for the cool nerds. The loser nerds are ...

2026-09-17T12:59:59Z

I need to find a new term for the cool nerds. The loser nerds are fascist and are people that work in tech and they can make a python script in under 20 seconds, and they can constantly explain to you why you’re using open source wrong but they can’t relate to the joys of flying on a dragon for the first time, or what it’s like to intricately collect all kinds of jiggly puff toys in ones own room. There needs to be a word for the cool nerds that don’t have strange little hangups about their tech stack and instead can passionately info dump about all the cool hidden/less known lightsabers in the Star Wars universe, underrepresented dragons in Fantasy, that can create a TTRPG campaign that finally gives minorities the opportunity to experience their own adventure without any prejudice. #Nerd #Nerds #Geek

Other blind people, or sighted people that can get over looking ...

2026-09-17T00:27:24Z

Other blind people, or sighted people that can get over looking at things for tactile recommendations I guess, what Bluetooth speaker is small, still has buttons, and has at least somewhat latest bluetooth technology? I want a new one for my shower where I listen to all the audio described TV shows. Tried a few JBL ones but they had what I call fake buttons on them. They feel like buttons but they sure don't press in or click or do anything, really. #Bluetooth #Hardware #AskFedi

A dipshit Tech company emailed me this morning, so I replied, in ...

2026-09-16T14:49:38Z

A dipshit Tech company emailed me this morning, so I replied, in order to process future emails, I'll need $500 from you before proceeding. Please use your connected payment information to send me a PayPal payment to <PayPal EMAIL> and, well, I got some extra Pizza money today folks! #AI #LLM

By j @npub1faz…vc22 On embracing solarpunk in my stories ...

2026-09-15T12:10:40Z

By j Dilman Dila (npub1faz…vc22) On embracing solarpunk in my stories https://www.dilmandila.com/embracing-solarpunk-in-my-stories/ #Books #Bookstodon #Book #SolarPunk

recently posted LOADING CARTRIDGE: THE_PURR_PARADOX.EXE ...

2026-09-05T22:22:00Z

recently posted LOADING CARTRIDGE: THE_PURR_PARADOX.EXE https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/loading-cartridge-thepurrparadoxexe/ #Blogging #Blog #NoPaywall