fastfinge

joined 1 year ago
[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 1 points 1 year ago

It's just as long and incomprehensible as Google's and Microsoft's. So I have no idea.

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

I like lire. It works with any of the popular feed syncing services, self-hosted, cloud-hosted, or it can just run locally on your phone. Also, when full text extraction works, it's a gamechanger. Unfortunately some websites (like bleeping computer) block it.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 3 points 1 year ago

That's what worries me. When companies get desperate for cash, they tend to do pretty terrible things.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So who are they sending our product browsing data to in order to provide this service? At least I know what Microsoft and Google are doing with my data (nothing good). But Pocket and cloudflare and there VPN provider and whatever other random companies Firefox partners with? Who knows! How do I opt out? Who knows! How secure are these companies? Who knows! At least using Edge or Chrome I only have to hand over my data to one evil corporation, instead of several. Plus I actually get things I want in return (for me: automatic image descriptions, reader mode, read aloud, and AI based page summaries). Nothing I get from the companies Firefox works with are things I even want.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 3 points 1 year ago

despite being probably only 1% the size of reddit.

I think they might be better because they're only 1% the size of Reddit. It's impossible to have a meaningful conversation with everyone, all at once. And a smaller website means less social pressure, less corporate influence, etc.

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

Thanks! Perfect. Wish I could award...Lemmy Gold? LOL

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can someone transcribe this for those of us using screen readers? As a server in Canada, We're also worried about the hosting risk of the piracy community and considering blocking it. I'd love to read the LW statement.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need more topical instances. Nobody found PHPBB's confusing. Let people sign up for an account on the blindness instance, and the cooking instance, and the gaming instance. Eventually they'll discover that they can use one account for everything, and it's just easier to do it that way. But in the meantime they're not confused. We're probably going to market rblind.com that way; a spot for blind folks to network. Eventually they'll discover the federated communities on there own, without us pushing it on them.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 1 points 1 year ago

Based on the links you gave, it seems that captions default to off when new servers are created.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, good to know! I don't use meeting platforms that aren't accessible by default for everyone. Looks like the problem, at least in Jitsi, is that enable captions defaults to off. It would need to default to on before I could use it.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How many of those support captions?

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 14 points 1 year ago

NVDA. Without it I literally couldn't use my computer every day, or do my job.

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