Notices by Robert Kingett (weirdwriter@caneandable.social)

@esoteric_programmer @Fragglemuppet Yeah! I honestly don't understand why blind people love Foobar! Give me, VLC, or even, Media Player Classic! Not sure if MPC works on Linux though.

Set up a few webhooks so I can post to Mastodon via email. The email subject will be the CW of the post. Tried to set up a Web hook from my new website to Mastodon via RSS and the output is really clunky. There’s all this raw HTML when I did not escape anything. I included a link to the original post at the very top of the post, but can any #WebHook experts give me some pointers for using Web hooks to post a tag RSS feed to Mastodon and have the output be text and Markdown?

since this instance has a giant character limit, I am going to experiment with publishing a tag RSS feed directly to Mastodon. Because I have my post set to automatically delete, I want to include a link to the original post at the very top. Everything I try is outputting raw HTML and I don’t know where I am going wrong because I’m not escaping any characters.

I use https://ifttt.com/maker_webhooks @patricus

It is absolutely shocking how Substack turned a blog into a VC backed thing others love to write on/in. I read this through my RSS reader, but it’s a pretty good read even though the platform it’s on is less than desirable.

The True Costs of Being on YouTube - by carla lalli music https://carlalallimusic.substack.com/p/the-true-costs-of-being-on-youtube https://carlalallimusic.substack.com/p/the-true-costs-of-being-on-youtube?ref=feedle.world #YouTube #SubStack

If you’re a YouTube creator, your audience is going to be more limited than it already is. I just had several instances where YouTube would not let me watch videos, at all, unless I was logged into YouTube. I go to look this up to see if it’s a common occurrence, and this is what YouTube has to say on their troubleshoot page.

Make sure you’re signed into YouTube.

In order to protect the YouTube community, we may prevent signed-out users from accessing YouTube videos when they’re attempting to download material for offline use.

If you're a researcher trying to access YouTube data for your academic research, you can apply to YouTube’s researcher program. Learn more about #YouTube #Enshittification #

@FreakyFwoof Did you see this? https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/113964897388501103

Any of my fellow blind comrades know of an accessible torrent client I could use? I do use Aria2 but I have since learned that certain trackers block that Torrance software. Why, I don’t really know. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I’m very familiar with the command line so don’t be afraid to send me command line options. I am using windows for the moment. @mastoblind

Yay Kevin R Free will be narrating the audiobook version of Pass the Salt! https://compassiviste.com/product/pass-the-salt/ #Audible #Audiobook #Audiobooks @audiobooks

I'm doing my civic duty by seeding this torrent mirror from the CDC archive.

Torrent mirror:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3bf9d780d838b6bbc977e9cc6a9530e70ec49732&dn=20250128-cdc-datasets&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.0x7c0.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.free-tracker.ga%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.qu.ax%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fopen.tracker.cl%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fns-1.x-fins.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bittor.pw%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker-udp.gbitt.info%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ololosh.space%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.dstud.io%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dler.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.io%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dump.cl%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.theoks.net%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce

Actually that's a great suggestion! Adding instances with elastic search enabled. This may come as a shock to people, but not everybody wants to interact with everybody on a mass scale. Organic connection? Yes! Mass scale? Fuck no! Not everybody is worth talking to or interacting with, but moreover, posts are not your free content to make money @BeAware

Here's a #Fediverse scraper counter and I love this thing! It's so hard for people to understand that not. Everyone. Wants. To. Be. Content. For. You.

https://cathode.church/fedi-scraper-counter.html

#TechBro #TechBros #Privacy

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I joined a NLS mailing list and there’s a conversation happening in full swing because I received a flood of messages from the conversation about how if NLS gets cut or more, and if it goes away, it’s not gonna be missed because there are so many commercial ways to get audiobooks now that do we really even need NLS anymore? A few just outright said that they hope that Musk will get rid of the library of Congress programs like this because it’s not needed and blind people listen to too many audiobooks anyway and we need to get a real job. Even more were Republicans that were cheering at the fact that services were being cut because the government is very bad and we don’t need the government to spend that money on that many people. There are times when I wish these services were more selective. If you’re a Republican, you don’t get food stamps, you don’t get social services because clearly you don’t want social services. Why are you even using services from the government anyway? Don’t you wanna be a patriotic American and not use anything from the government? There are days where I can’t stand blind people

I've got some old #Journalism of mine going up on my website, so yay! Nothing new from me, as for posts, but how much thought can you put into America likes fascism so much we elected one? So, I'll be blogging about more personal happenings after these old journalism pieces go up. That reminds me, journalists should honestly start publishing their defunct stories on their own websites. You've already gotten paid for it and the publication is gone by this point so why not? Also, never guest blog again. Publish every guest blog on your own site and tell others to reblog you with a link back to you. In short, if they aren't paying for it, don't put it on anyone else's website. #Blog #Blogging

I got a text from my international friends, UK, NZ, etc, and they were a thousand percent serious, that they were researching how to fast track me into their country if I ever needed to evacuate. This isn't like previous president's we've had. I honestly don't know what to say to other Blind people that cheer this on daily. As the internet says, the leopards will eat their face eventually, but my international friends were so worried for my safety they devised a plan to immigrate me to their country if I need to flee. @FreakyFwoof

@FediThing @paulashby @taylorlorenz ClassicPress seems to be doing well! https://www.classicpress.net/

Not as accessible as Microsoft Word but it can be used. I still wouldn't call it accessible by my standards but they are improving! I'd take some time to read over https://help.libreoffice.org/24.8/en-US/text/shared/guide/keyboard.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=WIN @talksina @disabledvoices

Can #LibreOffice experts walk me through saving a document into clean, and simple, HTML? Microsoft Word has a save option to save as filtered HTML and that gets rid of the font tags and spans and stuff but does something similar exist for LO?

Interesting examination of the #Loops terms. https://bajsicki.com/blog/loops-video-terms/ #Privacy #Fediverse

And this will continue to happen to journalism, so support local papers and for fuck's sake, start blogging on your own website. Hey journalists, blogs exist and could be a fantastic independent outlet for you all! https://www.theindex.media/democracy-dies-in-a-rebrand/ #Journalism