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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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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.
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Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So I’ve been sharing my Weird Dreams with the fediverse lately. Because I’m a bit of a nut, I figured: why not share my normal dreams as well? I’ll be doing that with the hashtag every morning. If you, too, find dreams interesting, feel free to join in! Some ground rules and background: as a teenager, I was extremely interested in dreaming. I practiced recall and put a lot of work into it, as the first step to lucid dreaming. While I never achieved it, to this day I can generally remember 1 or 2 dreams a night. I don’t believe dreams are supernatural, or have any deeper meaning.I just believe they’re fun, and sometimes an interesting way to get a glimpse of your own subconscious. Also, thanks to some medication I take, my dreams have become even more vivid over the last couple years. If I’m lucky enough to have any explicit dreams, I’ll be keeping those to myself! Will sharing my dreams with the world every morning get me any closer to my long abandoned goal of lucid dreaming? Will my subconscious get performance anxiety and stop dreaming entirely? Will the focus on writing up my dreams in something more than point-form for my dream diary make them even weirder? It’s a social experiment, bro! And you get to follow along on this journey of entirely unscientific and meaningless science! Yay! Yeah…feel free to filter out the hashtag entirely.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cordova5029 They're like...flat discs like on a gramophone, but instead of played from the outside, they're played from the inside. And instead of using a disposable needle, they use a shiny steel ball that bounces along the grooves and makes the sound that way. So no needle to replace. And the grooves are cut up and down, rather than side to side. Also, the ball places less wear on the record than a needle would. Unfortunately it didn't catch on outside of Europe. While it was a better system, before electronic amplification, the ball meant it was quieter than systems with a steel needle. So it just lost out because all anyone cared about was volume.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I got to Pathé discs reading about the , a much less interesting, yet much better covered, machine, that isn't really a format of its own.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Wow. Tonight I discovered Pathé discs. This might be the only rare audio format that techmoan hasn't covered! Anyone got a good video or podcast on 'em?
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@phil Running a go to social server must get him...an extremely specific type of nookie, I guess.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Today is audio ducking day here at interfree! If you use the 64-bit , there are a couple small releases for you:
* eloquence: audio ducking now works thanks to akj: github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v5
* unspoken-ng: if you use this addon, you also need to update, or audio ducking will remain broken, because someone (glares at himself) didn't quite understand NVWavePlayer: github.com/fastfinge/unspoken-ng/releases/tag/v1.0.3
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Sigh. Set up a firewall rule that banned my own ip, because I didn’t realize how hard Mona and lire hit the server. It’s gonna be one of those days.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jessamyn @Tooden Yup. There is a place for content consumption. I’m not on peertube for that reason. I turn on YouTube before bed and I just want a machine to insert content into my sleepy ear holes.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@rimu @brasil For now, I've gotten my Lymmy cleanup scripts doing things properly, and I've brought the server load down from 36.7 to around 5.4 on an 8 core box. And I thought AWS was required by piefed for images. Lemmy uses pict-rs and that can handle storage on the local filesystem, until I find a provider of object storage that's actually accessible and not evil (I'm not holding my breath).
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@brasil @rimu Yes, we're keeping an eye on it. Once it does become possible, we then have to rewrite our Theme, etc. Based on the roadmaps I've read, I don't think migration to piefed will happen any time soon.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@brasil @rimu So there are some big reasons we can't move to piefed. First, there's no migration path that I can find documented anywhere to move user accounts, local posts, etc. Second, a lot of our users depend on apps that they find more accessible, like Thunder. Piefed doesn't have a Lemmy compatible API. Third, last I checked, Piefed really assumes you're just using Cloudflare and AWS. The AWS Console isn't accessible, and cloudflare presents inaccessible captchas, so neither of those are options for us.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@brasil @rimu And far, far more of my traffic comes from federation than from any bots. If your traffic blocked that much, I suspect your filters are preventing other servers from federating correctly. Remember that every upvote or downvote on any post anywhere is a federation event that your server needs to receive, in order to keep the vote counts up to date. So if you have even tens of active users you should be getting sometimes a hundred of these per second. Then there's stuff like LiveThreadBot, that edits posts when socur games are going on, updating them with every single play.
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@brasil @rimu I run rblind.com. We started several years ago. And every federated post ever, even if nobody locally interacted with it in any way, stays in the database. I had to set up LPP, as Lemmy doesn't have it built in: nowsci.com/lemmy/lpp/
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@brasil @rimu No, it’s a hundred percent Lemmy. A database that’s over 1 tb because old federated posts never get cleared won’t be fast no matter what you do. Lemmy has no built in tools to clear this. It’s also really bad at clearing the pict-rs thumbnail cache. I don’t block crawlers, I just rate limit anyone who hits the server too often, no matter who or what they are. The Internet shouldn’t become a walled garden; as long as you’re not consuming more than your fair share of resources, you don’t need to prove your identity for access.
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@brasil @rimu I don’t use cloudfail. If I wanted to depend on inaccessible big tech I’d just use Reddit.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin Nope. It has an api and you get to build it yourself.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@rimu I wouldn’t expect that any time soon, as there’s no migration path.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Am I finally done with these horrible, no good, verry bad performance issues? I think I might be. Lemmy federation requires a lot more...everything...than does Mastodon style microblogging. People vote constantly. Posts and comments are longer. Everything has multiple images. And by default lemmy wants to cache everything all the time forever.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam Yup, all the time. Sigh.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam Haha no. I’m on the rc and it’s not fixed.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@neurrone @jscholes @datajake1999 @Bri @amir It does, yes.