🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
Blind geek, fanfiction lover (Harry Potter and MLP). keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
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Blind Main@rblind.com•Scheduled Maintenance Aug 18 2026, 7:00 AM EST to 5:00PM ESTEnglish
1·8 days agoThis is now complete. All services are back up, though expect slowness for the next 4-6 hours.
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Fan Fiction@literature.cafe•I built a fanfiction archive that saves, reads, searches, and recommends — with a community roadmap you get to vote onEnglish
1·14 days agoHow much AI was used here? And how is it used in analysing fics? You’re going to get a lot of backlash and attacks from fanfic authors if you don’t disclose that.
No issues here! App or website? Often if one is down the other works.
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Blind Main@rblind.com•WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #11English
1·2 months agoAgreed. This is the only free survey I complete every year.
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Progressive Christian@sh.itjust.works•Do you find "Kpop Demon Hunters" offensive?English
2·4 months agoNo. It’s explicitly anti-demon. I don’t like it, because I’m not the target market, but it’s fine. IMHO Hazbin Hotel is both much more offensive and much more dangerous. It twists pseudo-scriptural myths about Lilith and Lucifer into a pro-demon and pro-hell narrative. Even that would be fine if everyone realizes it’s just for fun. But it’s much closer to the line where these ideas can become part of the cultural understanding via osmosis, in the same way everyone thinks there were three wise men even though scripture doesn’t back this up in any way. But the kind of Christians who get offended by kpop demon hunters don’t care because the title isn’t shocking, so they let the things that are actually problems slip right past them without comment.
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.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Nametag: Self-hostable personal relationships managerEnglish
12·8 months agoAny way to sync with contacts on mobile? I’d love one source of truth.
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Books@lemmy.world•What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? December 16English
7·8 months agoI’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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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Fun/interesting things to self host?English
81·9 months agoIf 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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Fediverse@lemmy.ml•The Fediverse and Content Creation: MonetizationEnglish
92·9 months agoOr: 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.
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Announcements@lemmy.ml•Lemmy Development Update November 2025English
15·9 months agoThanks, 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.
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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Joplin@sopuli.xyz•Can't send Emails from Joplin ServerEnglish
2·9 months agoThe connection to the SMTP server is timing out. Are you sure the port and SSL config is correct?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you think standard batteries like A, AA, AAA, C, and D, 9V etc will eventually become obsolete?English
5·9 months agoThese 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.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•How many instances have you been orphaned from?English
8·9 months agoSame. Although sometimes I set up a public instance, because I’m setting one up for myself anyway, right? And then I have regrets LOL
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you think about post longevity on lemmyEnglish
41·9 months agoIf 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.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What are some good RSS feeds that I should follow?English
7·9 months agoNot OP, but I use miniflux on desktop, synced with Lire on IOS.
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Blind Main@rblind.com•Genuine question about dreamingEnglish
5·10 months agoBorn blind. I dream entirely in sound. People who went blind later in life, however, may still see in dreams.
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Buy Canadian@lemmy.ca•Interac launches Konek to widen online payment options | Business News | thecanadianpressnews.caEnglish
2·10 months agoFor some reason I had Singapore in my head as being way larger like Japan or Korea.








Part of me says some sort of meta tag in the page header might be better, defining what sort of activity this is, and then users install browser extensions made by the fediverse apps they use to interact with them. That way if a non-fediverse user clicks the link, they can still access whatever it is. But a fediverse user would get a prompt like “Open this (thread/user/hashtag) on your own instance so you can interact with it?” Or they could set the extension to just do that automaticly for them.