Elena Brescacin

@northernlights @selfhosted “re-using obsolete hardware that’s not obsolete” - I’m wondering how I could use my old (still working) macbook air, and my old Time Capsule. Instead of experimenting home lab with a new mini-pc, I was wondering if those 2 machines can be used somehow.
To be precise: I’m totally blind so I’d need at least something with audio or Braille working at boot, or right after. Such as BRLTTY running to set everything up and having then the machine being usable via ssh.

@1step I find comfortable when a bot is designed to describe images, such as AltBot, or Be My Eyes’s BeMyAI - you can also “chat” with the bot to ask questions in order to have further details on what the camera is focusing.
On web communities (forums and social networks) that should be comfortable if you tag the bot and it replies with the image description. But it should be temporary, as a 24/7 answering bot, replying to EVERY conversation in every moment or (worse) being set up for propaganda, makes the world a worse place - yes it can turn on flames (violent on line argues) so that you will not know if you are talking to a person, or punching the wall.
In my area we say “hey! Am I talking to the wall?” when someone is stubborn, does never understand what you say, won’t listen, does all the opposite of what you asked them to do.
We should change it “Oops, I’m talking to a robot”

@1step @selfhosted Frustrating to be treated as a non-human being. People thinking you are a machine commenting. Well, despite being 100% human, it’s almost 26 years I struggle with this (verify you’re a human) due to visual captcha’s. for us visually and/or auditory impaired, senses-based anti-bots (audio and pics) are an irreversible obstacle. And my strong scare is that interactive platforms like social networks, Lemmy included, will soon add some senses-based verifications to avoid bots.
Damn the bots!

@dandelion I’ll check my app’s settings then. Maybe it’s something wrong in them. I’ll adjust it, if so. Thanks for warnings (when many people say there’s something wrong, it’s the case to check our setup)

@dandelion @selfhosted NO! And it’s the third person, third time, who tells me this.
Maybe it’s Lemmy who marks as nsfw mentioned posts coming from outside its community?

@selfhosted @_elena Update again on cms experiments: I won’t install Lichen-markdown through YunoHost because that repository contains the 1.3.x release when the original devs have already published the 1.5.x. Then it’s not federated. So I would do double job.
My favorite concept is the one of BearBlog (with the text-based customization), too bad that it’s USA-based and centralized by one person only.

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@osanna Especially when you have commands. I was born with commands as I used ms-dos at the beginning of 90s. But now, I honestly prefer something semi-automated for the “dirty” activities, as for configuration files it’s very difficult to find the issue if you have a conf file made of dozens of lines, a long serie of indentations, punctuation signs and apostrophes everywhere, just forget one and you are screwed.
I’m not saying it’s impossible, I’m saying that this can take double time of work, than an ordinary sighted administrator. I’m somehow envious of those who create a self-host platform on their very own, starting from a blank page.

@osanna The problem in breaking the system and building it back manually, is documentation.
I am a visually impaired person and many instructions are provided by screenshots.
I can’t deny that lately AI has helped me through image description, but it allucinates often. So it means, AI or not, that for us (blind and visual impaired) a 5-minutes operation becomes one hour, and one hour becomes one day. Or week.

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