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.

@selfhosted I keep updating my thread. I’m currently studying lichen-markdown documentation -it is in te YunoHost catalog so it’ll cause no harm. I’ll keep the thread updated accordingly

@marzlberger @selfhosted @_elena Thanks. Now I’m fighting with WordPress on self hosting: I wanted a multisite but every attempt has failed, so I’m planning to have two installs (one for Italian and one for English) which will keep me busy in maintenance for double time. But my multilingual solution I have on my current production site, is yet more fragile.
And guess what, translation plugins are expensive or, in other cases, never satisfy accessibility needs.

@gabrielmarkley @selfhosted @_elena Sharing is caring. What I expect is to continue this thread, developing it, getting other worse or better experiences from other beginners and power users.

@WeirdWriter @selfhosted @_elena Already heard about that Eleventy but never tried; well, I have never had so many comments around my web site but sometimes it happens and I want people to choose - now I’m still planning my new web site version, but in the earlier one which is still on line on shared hosting, I’ve decided not to place a real contact form because they anonymously wrote bad stuff.
In this case though, having the comment ability (and until last year we had the facebook public page as well), before telling me and my best friend “HIV pervs”, they had to keep in mind nothing was private, IP addresses logged, and overall those hater folks’ destiny was to be mocked into “the agony ass” space (a parody of the agony aunt).
And, overall, with ActivityPub every dirty person would go public all over fediverse making a fool of themselves.
Guess what? No one had guts to say bad things as soon as I took private contacts away

@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.

@Fierro @selfhosted I mostly use YunoHost as I’m a beginner in self-hosting, but if needed I have command line. Ssh, then even one docker container or two. Mainly on Windows system with powershell or ordinary command line.

@irmadlad @selfhosted Tagging @yunohost for this.
-only fediverse app I have, is GoToSocial, didn’t find something broken. But @_elena had her PeerTube instance destroyed. And once I had my castopod down -luckily I’m using castopod just for tests right now. But a system born to make selfhosters’ life easier, shouldn’t be broken like this. I think more skilled maintainers should work there.

@mesamunefire @selfhosted I’m thinking the same: YunoHost has given me a very good setup, but despite being very easy to manage, its “app store” echosystem is quite slow - updates coming later than original maintainers, and not many new additions.
Currently I’m on a hostinger and there’s docker installed as well, but it’d be very expensive to manage both in 2 separate services.
I’ll write about my story on this Lemmy community soon