fastfinge

joined 1 year ago
[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For those of us using screen readers, this is a way bigger deal. Honestly I probably shouldn't use a bluetooth headset and a bluetooth keyboard for my banking. We focus so much on SSL/HTTPS and wifi security, but I wonder how much effort goes into wireless keyboard security? Not nearly as much, I'd bet.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 1 points 5 months ago

Problem was that I usually only discovered the issue when I went to read the book lol

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I never did that, my connection was too slow to want to take up someone's DCC slot for like a day to get an entire movie. Remember all the frustrating idiots who would share .lit files, but forget to remove the DRM from them?

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 14 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Ah, good to know. Back in my day, when we had to walk a hundred miles to school in the snow, up hill both ways, IRC was the only place to get ebooks. I'm guessing it's just the old users clinging on now.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 22 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Man, I’m getting flashbacks to my days running omenserve on undernet. I had no idea people were still doing this! How does the content compare to places like Anna’s archive these days?

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 2 points 10 months ago

Good to know; thanks! I’ll keep an eye on it.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I was having issues with outgoing federation to Mastodon on 0.19.0. I just did the update five minutes ago, so we'll see if that fixes it. If you're seeing this comment I guess it's working at the moment.

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

I run the RBlind.com Lemmy instance at Accuris Hosting. Decent Virtual Machines, easy IPV6 support, and everything works fine. Prices are a bit on the high end, but it's worth it to me to use a provider located in my country, where I understand all of the associated laws and can pay in my own currency via my local bank. Also, I'd rather not give money to big tech if I can help it, and support local business instead. This isn't sponsored or anything, I'm just a mostly contented customer.

Also, of course, the fact that the control panel is screen-reader accessible is super important to me, though I doubt anyone else cares. But unfortunately that's not yet the case with most of the larger cloud providers like AWS. And if they do deploy an inaccessible update, the company is small enough that I can send an email and get an answer from a human who has actually read what I wrote, rather than a corporate AI.

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 2 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 7 points 1 year ago (2 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 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. I already have to pay for a VPS, for a domain...nothing wrong with paying for an SSL cert. At least I can pick my vendor.

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

So require paid ssl certificates or something. I just can’t sign on to any system that requires me to establish personal friendships with other instance admins so I can beg them for endorsements. Begging Reddit to improve accessibility didn’t work. I have no interest in a system where my instance now needs to beg other admins for the right to federate. Even email doesn’t work this way.

 

As far as I can tell, my instance is nowhere near max database connections. However, after about two hours, I always get errors like "WARN Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request: lemmy_server::root_span_builder: Timeout occurred while waiting for a slot to become available" if we're under any load at all. Does anyone know what's going on here? This doesn't seem to be a resource use issue. It happens with the default docker configuration as shown in the docs. It happens if I spin up a test instance and generate a bunch of load, so it seems perfectly replicable.

Edit: The solution for me was building the docker images myself. Didn't matter if I used the official releases from dockerhub, the development images, whatever. It still crashed with this error eventually. I've been up with the images I built myself for eight or so hours, and we seem fine.

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