completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those. keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
Hey @adam I'm hearing reports that Bell Fibe now issues IPV6 addresses via PPPOE over VLAN 37. I'm not set up to easily test this. Have you heard these rumblings? Can you test it? So that would make it vlan 35 for IPV4, vlan 36 for TV, and vlan 37 for IPV6 I guess.
@tynstar It was 45 minutes after midnight, and I'd been up since 6 AM. I also have powershell and oh-my-posh installed on all of my machines, so that doesn't help me.
Pressing control+c on the wrong keyboard, in the wrong terminal window, connected to the wrong server: the ultimate sign it's time for bed. Just as soon as I do a bit of troubleshooting; I seem to have broken "sudo shutdown -h now" on this Debian machine. It says: "sudo: The term 'sudo' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again."
Me trying to explain a book I read to an offline friend: "Okay so, it's about, like, a robot vacuum who gets summoned by priests into a fantasy video game world with stats and skills." All The Dust That Falls probably shouldn't be someone's first introduction to hearing about litrpg LOL
@modulux Right, but compare the price of that to the price of a raspberry pi 500! The only difference is that the BT Speak supports Braille input and it's much smaller and Linux is already installed and configured so you don't have to do it yourself and it comes with decent customer support and it has dectalk. But otherwise it's the same thing! I mean, it doesn't even support the old BNS basic games that I spent hours playing in class on my Braille 'N Speak when I should have been paying attention. So what good is it, really? No good, that's what!
@modulux Yeah. It's just a raspberry pie with a nice case and a bit of custom software. If I want that I could build it myself. If I haven't it means I don't want it that badly. Right?
Right now, I'm using #shlink to generate a unique URL for this purpose. So I publish a #joplin note, then put that URL into shlink, and give my person the shlink url. Then I can see if they clicked it or not. In theory, Joplin allows plugins and I could automate this workflow somehow but I have no idea how Joplin plugins actually work.
I love #joplin so much. I find myself using it to publish long documents that I want others to read that are well formatted, but in plain HTML so can't be edited, and live on my server. Better than a PDF by far, and markdown makes including tables and other complicated layout easy. The only improvement I'd love is the ability to see how many visits a published note got. I don't need browser and IP and location and all that stuff. Just a number, so I can know if a link I shared with a single person was viewed by them.
@cachondo I only have had two bank accounts in my entire life, though, and neither of them use it. I mean it's obviously giving me a code for...some useful purpose. I just have no idea what that purpose was.
I was cleaning out my desk, and I found a mystery thing. It's a thing that generates numbers, probably as two factor codes. But I have no idea what the codes are for, where I got the thing, who made the thing, or if I can somehow reset the thing or do anything else with it. Based on where I found it, the thing has to be at least four years old, if not older. Being a blind person, I of course recorded the thing. Do you have any advice about what I could do with my mysterious thing other than throwing it out?
I'm glad to say, however, that Chat GPT and Meta AI are utterly terrible at MSTing. Though Meta did just start making up its own novel to make fun of. Looks like Google wins at solving this particular problem that nobody has. And I lose, because none of this output is interesting enough for a blog post.
