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📣 Announcing Altbot 2.0: The Privacy & Green Update 🔒💚

Exciting news! After months of development, Altbot 2.0 is officially launching with major improvements to privacy, efficiency, and description quality.

What's new in Altbot 2.0:

• 100% local AI processing for true privacy - unlike Google Gemini which saves data for training, Altbot 2.0 retains ZERO information about you or your images using the powerful Ovis2:8B model running on my custom AltTron server equipped with an A5500 GPU and expansion capacity for two additional GPUs
• Full GDPR compliance with clear informed consent - I've implemented comprehensive privacy measures including transparent data handling policies, user rights protection, and minimal data collection practices that exceed GDPR requirements
• Better quality descriptions across all 11 supported languages thanks to a newly developed translation layer specifically optimized for local LLM models
• Significantly more energy efficient with a new feature that shows you exactly how much energy was used for each request! This efficiency comes from using a server-grade GPU optimized for lower power consumption, and 36% of the energy consumed is from clean sources mainly nuclear power (thanks to being based in Georgia)

The only data Altbot 2.0 records:

• That a request happened
• How long it took to complete
• What type of media it was (image, video, or audio)
• What language was used

No images, no content, no personal data saved - ever.

For those who don't know, Altbot has been helping make the Fediverse more accessible by automatically generating alt-text descriptions for images. The project has grown beyond anything I imagined, now serving thousands of users across the network.

Support Altbot's Future 💝

To bring these privacy and efficiency improvements to life, I had to invest in a more powerful server than initially planned. The server costs exceeded my budget by around $900, which I've covered out of pocket. Who woulda thought that competing with a $1.98 trillion dystopian mega corporation would be expensive? Shocking, I know.

I've set up a Ko-fi fundraising goal to help recover these costs and support ongoing development: Ko-fi.com/micr0byte

Your contributions will help ensure Altbot remains:

• Free for everyone
• Continuously improved
• Sustainably maintained

Even small donations make a huge difference and motivate me to keep enhancing accessibility across the Fediverse!

This milestone represents a commitment to ensuring accessibility doesn't come at the cost of privacy or environmental impact. I'm incredibly proud of what we've built together.

As Altbot continues to grow, I'm open to sharing more about this journey with anyone interested in accessibility, ethical AI, or Fediverse projects.

For press inquiries: inquiries@micr0.dev

Feel free to boost or reach out!

#Accessibility #Fediverse #AltText #EthicalAI #OpenSource #Privacy #Altbot

@rick @mametsuko Rick you know I paid 200€ for my used 3+

Cool photos of lil Mars moon Deimos against a background of Mars, as photographed by the ESA Hera mission during yesterday's flyby.

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera_asteroid_mission_spies_Mars_s_Deimos_moon

Missed Thursday's total lunar eclipse? No problem, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission has you covered. The lander took a quick break from its science operations on the Moon to capture this stunning image of a lunar eclipse. From our perspective, we see the Earth's shadow fall on the Moon, eventually turning it red when the light from the world's sunsets falls upon it simultaneously. But from the Moon, it's the Sun that disappears behind the Earth.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54386246629/

@mia @rick wieder was gelernt

@mia Hast du grad ernsthaft Schweinestall auf english übersetzt? Klasse.

Ich werd dennoch ein bisschen aufräumen bevor @rick dann nächste Woche kommt (auch wenn er kein Fedigirl ist I guess :3) . Aber es wird Karton rumstehen bleiben.

@SnoopJ The Text you wrote just makes this way to funny Might make a for some funny Comic I guess

Program goes to Operating System, tears in eyes, says "my state, it is very bad"

Operating System says "is no problem, have good error reporting facility, detailed but concise report, contextual information included. you will submit bug there"

Program sobs loudly "but Operating System, I *am* error reporting facility"

@volpeon "Da liegt der Hund begraben". Lovely sentences xD

@epsi Swaxe can be tough true. just practice and you will "git gud" eventually

@epsi epsi can never buff or heal anyone again. You are now lone wolf.

But it seems like the horn is dooting good for you

I’m really happy with how this one turned out.

Watercolors.

@puniko @Erpel puni very famous. Alone for "weird german instance name" yes yes puni famous.

@fristi cute indeed