As far as I can tell things seem to be back to normal now. Care should still be take so proceed with caution

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[email protected] appears to be tracking the issue through https://lemmy.ml/post/1896249

and updating the community at large through a PSA here https://lemmy.ml/post/1895271

if those threads get too much activity they may switch to new threads or start using another medium so do not count on them remaining up to date until things are fully resolved.

lemmy.blahaj.zone appears to have been affected as well.

Right now working theory is some combination of admin account compromise and code injection through the markdown processor used prior to 18.1 but that could change over time. Looks like we're on latest so hoping we're good.

Would continue to avoid lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone until there is a better understanding of what happened and there is a good consensus all is resolved.

Gotta sleep soon so wishing us all luck

There is a more technical discussion about a related issue that mentions the servers we know about https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/696053

Now really good night

Correction. They are definitely not clear yet

Will give this a look. See how hard it is to install and use when using a screen reader. Really like that there's no telemetry

Two types of light receptors in retina.

One, called cones, addresses color. Distinguishes gross changes in color across entire visible spectrum. More durable, mostly in macula (central vision), and slow to detect change.

The other, called rods, address intensity (brightness). Distinguishes fine changes in light intensity normally presented in gray scale (shades of black and white). More fragile, mostly in prepheral retina, quickly detects change.

RP and Choroideremia tend to kill off the rods in the peripheral retina first eventually moving on to the cones centered in the macula. Fewer rods mean less ability to discerned between changes in shades of color. For example it may be difficult between ruby red and infra red crayons when right next to each other but much easier when separated by florescent yellow.

Or at least that's the gist of the what I remember from a conversation with a low vision occupational therapist. Can't really see enough to test it any more.

High contrast is key for anything you need to see right now.

Be careful trusting what you see. Movement, distance, and definition (shape) perception could be off as well

You probably can

Do they both have Thunderbolt ports? Windows, Mac, or Linux? Wired or wireless networking?

If they both have thunderbolt 3/4 and you have a cable you can connect both to the cable and use Thunderbolt networking. MSI has a pretty good how to

Otherwise:

• Transfer over network (buy usb ethernet adapter if necessary $10-15 on amazon)
• Buy USB transfer cable and use it to transfer
• Remove HD from old laptop, buy compatible external HD enclosure, put it in external HD enclosure and connect it to new laptop
• Copy files from old laptop to existing external drive, then connect external drive to new laptop

Photonic tensor CPUs and analogue iterative machines show a lot of promise. However I think human assisted AI or even AI alone are more likely to take over Assembly level programming before photonic computing has that much of an impact

Yes.

We are all very likely doing it now with most of what we believe to be the laws of physics. While they may seem to reasonably explain the phenomena we have been able to observe that represents such an infinitesimal fraction of the universe that the margin for error is astronomical.

We will see what happens. Reddit is hard to let go especially for people in othe r/Blind community that fills a very real need. Plus they have been making a lot of cosmetic changes that may help appease some people and bring them back into the fold. Between that very real need we were filling and those cosmetic changes some of us are very likely to be drawn back in.

As for me, a short visit there yesterday proved to me that I cannot allow myself to go back. The r/Blind subreddit was what brought me to that site in the first place and was the one community I was a part of there that was largely resistant to the toxicity so prevalent through the rest of the site. Yesterday's visit was heartbreaking, showing me how much the toxicity of the rest of the site had infiltrated r/Blind...and even so, the urge to dive back in was very strong. I felt like a recovering gambling addict walking into a casino for the first time since giving it up. I just cannot afford to go back to that.

While I hope that we will all continue to be a part of building something new, and hopefully better, we will have to see how may of us resist reddit's siren call.

The need in the fediverse is at least as strong as the need r/Blind on reddit. I cannot imagine that building up this community will take any less time and effort than building up r/Blind on reddit originally did bit it should prove well worth it in the end.

A note to the admins and mods of rBlind.com and its communities:

Thank you for getting this started and providing a community for those of us with no place at reddit can support one another in our blindness and our visual impairments.

we are not redditors anymore, we don’t belong there

This is something that became very clear to me when I made the mistake of going back for a visit yesterday and found a lot of that "fear, derision, doubt, apathy" in one of the last places I expected to find it. It was heartbreaking but did make it clear that we (or, at least, I) really do not belong there anymore.

It is time to help build something new.

Is 22 too old to start...

Nope.

Am a heck of a lot older...and have gone blind. I'm still learning things all the time. If it is firing your curiosity it is worth giving a shot. By all means go for it!

...and thank you for the post. You have convinced me to try something new myself. Enjoy!

Cane. Which, now that I think about it, most sighted people I know think is stupid. They all seem to think that there’s tiny portable magic radar, sonar, infrared, VR stuff that’s widely available and actually works.

Over the course of my life I have had the chance to support a lot of tech, including a couple of medical prototypes that were supposed to have that kind of magic. Yet after my vision loss it was what amounted to a long white stick that had the most beneficial affects on my life. Sometimes low tech is the best tech.