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Federated Goodread ? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The problem is that most data about books (ISBNs, DDC and LOC classification, cover images, synopsis, etc) are owned by either Amazon or Worldcat. So if you read anything even slightly off beat, you’ll be entering all of that data yourself. That also means recommendations aren’t really a thing. If you just want to track and share your reading, and don’t mind entering all the data yourself, bookwyrm is fine. But if you want to just search for a book and add it to your shelf, or get recommendations of new books, it’s nowhere near there.

Nametag: Self-hostable personal relationships manager in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Any way to sync with contacts on mobile? I’d love one source of truth.

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The State of Modern AI Text To Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users (stuff.interfree.ca)

submitted 4 weeks ago by fastfinge@rblind.com to c/main@rblind.com

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The past year has seen an explosion in new text to speech engines based on neural networks, large language models, and machine learning. But has any of this advancement offered anything to those using screen readers?

What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? December 16 in c/books@lemmy.world

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 7 points 1 month ago

I'm currently enjoying The Art of Diploma-Bee: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG, The Bee Dungeon, Book 3 by Icalos on audible. I really enjoy his humour, and Savy Des-Etages is one of my favourite narrators of all time. If you've never read any litrpg, this could be a good series to introduce you to it.

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Accessibility, The Origin of Innovation (stuff.interfree.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by fastfinge@rblind.com to c/a11y@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://rblind.com/post/17753100

In this article, I will discuss the details of 10 innovations throughout history that were only possible through unlocking the power of accessibility and including the voices of people with disabilities. In the disability community, it is a deeply believed and often repeated fact that improving accessibility leads to innovations that improve the world for everyone. Necessity is the mother of invention is, after all, a proverb so frequently quoted that it has become a cliché. And yet, people with disabilities still find ourselves left out of research and design, and all too often we don’t get a seat at the product development table. This leaves our inventions overlooked, unrecognized, and sometimes unrealized.

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Accessibility, The Origin of Innovation (stuff.interfree.ca)

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cross-posted from: https://rblind.com/post/17753100

In this article, I will discuss the details of 10 innovations throughout history that were only possible through unlocking the power of accessibility and including the voices of people with disabilities. In the disability community, it is a deeply believed and often repeated fact that improving accessibility leads to innovations that improve the world for everyone. Necessity is the mother of invention is, after all, a proverb so frequently quoted that it has become a cliché. And yet, people with disabilities still find ourselves left out of research and design, and all too often we don’t get a seat at the product development table. This leaves our inventions overlooked, unrecognized, and sometimes unrealized.

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Accessibility, The Origin of Innovation (stuff.interfree.ca)

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cross-posted from: https://rblind.com/post/17753100

In this article, I will discuss the details of 10 innovations throughout history that were only possible through unlocking the power of accessibility and including the voices of people with disabilities. In the disability community, it is a deeply believed and often repeated fact that improving accessibility leads to innovations that improve the world for everyone. Necessity is the mother of invention is, after all, a proverb so frequently quoted that it has become a cliché. And yet, people with disabilities still find ourselves left out of research and design, and all too often we don’t get a seat at the product development table. This leaves our inventions overlooked, unrecognized, and sometimes unrealized.

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Accessibility, The Origin of Innovation (stuff.interfree.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by fastfinge@rblind.com to c/main@rblind.com

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In this article, I will discuss the details of 10 innovations throughout history that were only possible through unlocking the power of accessibility and including the voices of people with disabilities. In the disability community, it is a deeply believed and often repeated fact that improving accessibility leads to innovations that improve the world for everyone. Necessity is the mother of invention is, after all, a proverb so frequently quoted that it has become a cliché. And yet, people with disabilities still find ourselves left out of research and design, and all too often we don’t get a seat at the product development table. This leaves our inventions overlooked, unrecognized, and sometimes unrealized.

Fun/interesting things to self host? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 7 points 1 month ago

If you want to get straight to the fun, I might recommend: https://cosmos-cloud.io/

It will handle all of the uninteresting stuff like docker, reverse proxies, ssl certificates, etc. You can get straight to adding apps either by pasting in a docker-compose, or getting them straight from the cosmos marketplace.

Also, it works with standard tools, so other than the reverse proxy, it's easy to migrate away from if you want. I think the reverse proxy is just caddy, but I don't know where the caddy config file goes or how to pull it out of the funky cosmos config format.

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New haptic display technology creates 3D graphics you can see and feel (news.ucsb.edu)

submitted 1 month ago by fastfinge@rblind.com to c/main@rblind.com

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cross-posted from: https://blackneon.net/post/94922

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The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 7 points 2 months ago

Or: maybe we can just keep paid influencer scams off the fediverse entirely? IMHO we don't need or want paid content creators here. As soon as someone can make a buck from it, the entire network will be flooded with clickbait, AI generated posts, and worse.

Lemmy Development Update November 2025 in c/announcements@lemmy.ml

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 15 points 2 months ago

Thanks, the Backwards compatibility is huge for us! We have a bunch of users who depend on mlem or thunder, so I was assuming I'd have to wait until updated versions of both of those apps was released to upgrade rblind.

database issues fixed in c/main@rblind.com

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 2 points 2 months ago

Bonus third fix: If you notice that your pict-rs is using a lot of CPU or doing an unreasonable amount of IO, convert from using SLED (the default image repo) to using postgresql. The documentation for doing this is provided in the pict-rs crate.

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database issues fixed (rblind.com)

submitted 2 months ago by fastfinge@rblind.com to c/main@rblind.com

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Good morning, everyone:

After months of troubleshooting various performance issues, we're pleased to announce that all of the outstanding back-end issues we are aware of are fixed. You should no longer receive errors on browsing user profiles, and posts should load much faster.

If you're not technical or interested in the gritty details, you can stop reading, now, in the knowledge that everything should now work as expected. For those of you who are technical, the problems were caused by two things. First, a lack of indexes on the users and posts tables. Analysing logs revealed some database queries were taking upwards of 8 seconds, especially when loading user profiles. If you've landed here from Google, because lemmy-ui is giving the unhelpful message "an error has occurred on the server" without actually showing you the error, and you're seeing enormous queries referencing dullbananas's or i_love_jesus in your logs, get into your postgresql database and add some indexes:

CREATE INDEX idx_post_aggregates_creator ON post_aggregates (creator_id);

CREATE INDEX idx_post_aggregates_scaled_rank ON post_aggregates (scaled_rank);

CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY IF NOT EXISTS idx_post_saved_person_post ON post_saved (person_id, post_id);

CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY IF NOT EXISTS idx_community_moderator_community_person ON community_moderator (community_id, person_id);

CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY IF NOT EXISTS idx_local_user_admin ON local_user (admin);

Second, be careful when increasing your shared memory size in docker. If you have shm_size specified as "48 gb" or "48gb" in your docker compose, your shared memory will not increase, and you won't get an error message of any kind. Shm_size must be "48g", no space, and no b. For some bonus fun, shm_size only updates if you recreate the entire docker image. Restarting is not enough! You should always use df on the docker you're working with, to insure /dev/shm is actually the size you think it is. Because it probably isn't!

Happy holidays, everyone. Here's to a 2026 of stability and new features.

Can't send Emails from Joplin Server in c/joplinapp@sopuli.xyz

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The connection to the SMTP server is timing out. Are you sure the port and SSL config is correct?

Do you think standard batteries like A, AA, AAA, C, and D, 9V etc will eventually become obsolete? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These are the way. They usually come with a cable that splits from one USB A to four or more USB C. So you have a spot to charge them normally, but you can also give them a quick charge when you're out and about with any random cable you have if you can't find the splitter. And they charge much quicker than using a battery charger.

How many instances have you been orphaned from? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 7 points 2 months ago

Same. Although sometimes I set up a public instance, because I'm setting one up for myself anyway, right? And then I have regrets LOL

What do you think about post longevity on lemmy in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 3 points 2 months ago

If Lemmy got as big as Reddit, this would be an even larger problem. As a server admin, I'd like not to store several hundred gigs of text per day because someone subscribes to an active community. Unlike Reddit, Lemmy servers are not run by a company that can endlessly lose venture capitalists money.