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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? December 16 in c/books@lemmy.world
[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 7 points 1 week 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)
 

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)
 

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)
 

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 6 points 2 weeks 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)
 

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

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database issues fixed in c/main@rblind.com
[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 2 points 3 weeks 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)
 

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 2 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 8 points 4 weeks 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 1 month 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.

What are some good RSS feeds that I should follow? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 7 points 1 month ago

Not OP, but I use miniflux on desktop, synced with Lire on IOS.

Genuine question about dreaming in c/main@rblind.com
[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 5 points 1 month ago

Born blind. I dream entirely in sound. People who went blind later in life, however, may still see in dreams.

Interac launches Konek to widen online payment options | Business News | thecanadianpressnews.ca in c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 2 points 1 month ago

For some reason I had Singapore in my head as being way larger like Japan or Korea.

Interac launches Konek to widen online payment options | Business News | thecanadianpressnews.ca in c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, though, we don't have the population of Singapore. While I would love this to work, I just don't see merchants implementing yet another payment provider.

Interac launches Konek to widen online payment options | Business News | thecanadianpressnews.ca in c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
[–] fastfinge@rblind.com -3 points 1 month ago

Right, but Canada is small enough that none of the large merchants are going to implement this, are they? Interac already has a payments API, and I've only ever encountered it used in the wild once.

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Designing for Cognitive Disabilities: Best Practices for an Inclusive Web (afixt.com)
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Accessibility Assistant for Figma is a game changer, not just a pretty rename (betruthfulness.medium.com)
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Chinese TV translations into sign language aren't going well (www.theregister.com)
 

Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ways

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[UK] Get paid to share your feedback on accessibility as a screen reader or magnification user (makeitfable.com)
 

I wanted to share an opportunity for folks in the UK who use screen readers or screen magnification. Fable, the company where I've been employed for the past eight years, works with organizations to make their digital experiences more accessible, and we're expanding our Community to the UK and are looking for new usability testers. It’s flexible, paid gig work you can do from home. You don’t need any previous experience – we offer paid training to get you started. You choose which projects you want to work on and set your own schedule. We also pay what we call a “technology wage” (which basically means better-than-minimum and recognizes the value of lived experience with tech). If you’ve ever wanted to have a say in how tech can work better for people with disabilities – and get paid for your time – this might be a good fit. Here's the link to apply: https://makeitfable.com/community/

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Episode 0: I can do What?! (www.youtube.com)
 

One of my closest and longest friends is starting a new YouTube channel documenting his journey to fulfill a life-long dream of his. Even though he's low vision, through a new program available in Ontario, he has the opportunity to gain his drivers license via the use of a bioptic telescope. If you love cars as much as he does, are just curious, or are a low vision person interested in what a program like this could mean for you, check out his first video on the channel! As far as I know, this is the first time someone has documented the journey of learning to drive with a bioptic telescope from day one, from the perspective of a person with a disability, rather than a doctor or other medical professional.

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Blind and low-vision students as surveyors of in/accessibility in technology-mediated formal education (www.tandfonline.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29537608

This study explores the experiences of blind and low vision students at K-12 institutions. The students interviewed expressed choosing classes based on the accessibility of the materials. Teachers were frequently insensitive to them. They needed to navigate accessibility barriers in and out of the classroom constantly. Institutions should be more proactive about digital accessibility and offer more teacher training. Check out the full article for more info. #accessibility

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Sam's Stuff - Some Pseudoscientific Sleep Solutions (stuff.interfree.ca)
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