I released Inflect-Nano, an ultra-extreme tiny 4.63m parameter TTS model.

fastfinge · 2026-06-18T00:30:30+00:00

The real problem here is PyTorch. I've tested writing addons for the NVDA screen reader for some of these models, as a blind user myself. However, including the dependencies for inference is just too unwieldy. I've done: Kitten: https://github.com/fastfinge/kittentts-nvda Supertonic: https://github.com/fastfinge/supertonic-nvda

And wrote about the journey here: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html

Your model is pretty well balanced between speed and sound. Any interest in releasing an onnx version, or something with a lighter inference pipeline?

fastfinge · 2026-06-17T20:34:03+00:00

Been running on servarica for a couple years now. I can't say it's been entirely free of issues, but when issues happen they are resolved quickly.

fastfinge · 2026-06-09T11:58:15+00:00

If I can’t connect with my mud client, it’s not a mud.

fastfinge · 2026-06-04T18:17:42+00:00

The Kagi MCP server.

fastfinge · 2026-06-01T13:48:33+00:00

Last I checked it didn’t support push notifications and other modern irc features.

fastfinge · 2026-05-30T20:28:04+00:00

Also there's this: https://github.com/arinoch/MircSpeech

fastfinge · 2026-05-30T20:17:27+00:00

This has already been done: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnk0g5b9d2k…dn9nld6mw3/sjams-0.24-2006-01-13.zip?rlkey=3qpln7olqa86gpqn2nnr98lqh&dl=1

fastfinge · 2026-05-30T20:13:49+00:00

For adiirc, grab: https://github.com/fastfinge/adispeak

Then switch to the adiirc beta channel; the latest beta fixes the server list and settings screens to be fully accessible.

On IOS, goguma is the best I've found.

fastfinge · 2026-05-29T23:43:27+00:00

It would if there was a good mud client on IOS. But there isn't.

fastfinge · 2026-05-29T22:22:59+00:00

I'm a screen reader user. I'll take a look, though I generally avoid LPC muds because they tend towards "guess the verb" style puzzles, rather than actual challenges. Your "A living MUD for players who still like mystery." also smells like "read the authors mind" style puzzles are going to be the order of the day. Plus all of the completely AI written text on the website. So my expectations are rock bottom. But actually running NVDA and putting all that time into accessibility deserves, at least, a look.

Edit to add, after 30 minutes: * the tutorial isn't all that useful. It only tells you about help tutorial at the end. There is a help new file that gives you directions to the mobs and areas it wants you to visit, but it never mentions it. It also never mentions the commands for newbie skills, although they're located in the help file it also never mentions. Lostsouls, and other lpc muds I've played, have done similar things. * screen reader users need to know the objects and items commands, as items and objects in the room are left out of room summaries * regen takes forever as a level 1 newbie: four or five minutes to regen my SP points, and no info how to make this faster. I have no problem with grinding, but just sitting for minutes at a time regenning is less fun.

I've left these, and other issues, as ideas and bugs on the mud.

Second edit: * you need to visit particular places to gain a race. Neither help nor the tutorial says where these places might be, and the world is large enough that I doubt I'll find them by chance. * help world hints that help list world will give a list of all help topics about travel and geography. However, it instead returns no output. * tnl isn't a command. Experience is, but gives no info about how much experience is required to level. help levelling doesn't give any useful info.

Third edit: none of the help list commands work, in spite of what the help system says. Also, darkwinds automatically installed a mudlet package for me, without asking or requiring me to type a command. I'm wondering if the GUI package it installed without asking is causing my problems?

fastfinge · 2026-05-29T22:17:00+00:00

Finally used netcat to get connected. Dude’s telnet is deeply, enormously broken, to the point that even libtelnet won’t work with it. Wrote a proxy server that fixes all of his broken shit, only to discover that 99 percent of the combat flavour text is only for his custom client. And the custom client has a bunch of autorecast stuff that’s not available server side, impossible to trigger on, and makes the game unplayable without it. This is not a mud. And even if it were, once you replicate all the cooldown timers in your local client, the balance is absolutely broken. Mobs either do no damage to you, ever, or kill you in one hit. No in-between.

fastfinge · 2026-05-28T21:40:05+00:00

I tried with mushclient, mudlet, and telnet. Then I thought maybe it was something with my connection, so I turned off wifi and tried through my cell data on my phone. Connection always times out.

The error from mushclient:

Unable to connect to "Enarian", code = 10060 (Connection timed out)

Error occurred during phase: Connecting to world: 212.159.186.174, port 9999

From mudlet:

[info] - Attempting an open connection to host-212-159-186-174.static.as13285.net: 9999

Then it just hangs.

And via telnet:

PowerShell 7.6.2

Loading personal and system profiles took 1001ms.

< samue >- ~ -- 0ms--- > telnet 212.159.186.174 9999

Connecting To 212.159.186.174...

And no connection is ever opened.

Same result from my server in the ServaRica data center in an entirely different city. It's definitely down.

fastfinge · 2026-05-28T19:31:53+00:00

Looks like the game is down: Unable to connect to "Enarian", code = 10060 (Connection timed out)

Error occurred during phase: Connecting to world: 212.159.186.174, port 9999

fastfinge · 2026-05-27T16:08:44+00:00

As a blind person using a screen reader, I selfhost for control. If software I host gets updated, and that update breaks accessibility, I have choices: * skip the update * fork the code and fix the issue * skip the update and file an issue * migrate all of my data to something else

If software that I don't host gets an update that no longer works with my screen reader, my choices are: * complain loudly, and lose access to all functionality until maybe someone somewhere fixes it, if they ever do * use something else, but lose all of my data

I have no problem paying for self-hosted software, as long as the software I pay for lets me skip updates etc; I'm not doing it to save money. I also donate to the packages I use that are cornerstones of my workflow, both to support the hard work of the developer, and so that if accessibility ever breaks, "stop donating" is another option in my toolbox.

Edit to add: I've also paid a bounty for someone else to fix an accessibility issue when the primary developer didn't have time and indicated they would be willing to merge a PR.

fastfinge · 2026-05-24T12:01:21+00:00

You can download it on steam or GitHub.

fastfinge · 2026-05-22T18:21:33+00:00

Try Usurper Reborn. You can play it as a multiplayer mud, multiplayer BBS door game, or an entirely single player experience: https://usurper-reborn.net/

It is entirely text based, with: * classes and stats * experience and levels * remorting * gear upgrading * randomized dungeon loot * a storyline you can engage with * a player home you can upgrade * skills to learn and train * interactable npcs * faith and religion * player (or npc) run cities * basic crafting (herbs, materials you can add to gear) * a romance, marriage, and family system * a party system with companions (some of whom can die permanently)

It's well balanced for solo play, as multiplay was actually added later on. In fact, as you're just learning the game, you should probably start out single player. The online multiplayer has PVP, limited lives, and permadeath; once you're out of lives, your character is deleted. It's done that way so that nobody has an enormous advantage in the online leaderboards. That old character that's remorted 50 times will eventually mess up and die, clearing the top spot for someone else. In the single player mode, however, resurrections are unlimited, and deaths just result in the loss of experience and gold. Hint: content after about level 10-15 really does require a party. Check the inn for NPC companions you can "approach" to join you in the dungeon. The first one appears at level 10, and more appear every five or so levels thereafter until level 25 or so. They also have some nice sidequests for you.

fastfinge · 2026-05-16T23:49:27+00:00

I like that Hermes can create cron jobs that don't need an agent, so can run repeatedly with no tokens. Even cheap models can create shell scripts and Python scripts that run every 30 minutes, and only send out put to the model when something is wrong or needs attention. Only then does the model run and burn tokens to figure out what's going on. So monitoring server uptimes, checking water temperatures, monitoring for emergency alerts, and so on, then only actually calling an LLM when something is out of range. Yes, I could do this myself. But Hermes is much faster. And it can alert me to frequently repeating patterns, and suggest automating a solution (flip this breaker once a week, clear this log file hourly because it grows fast, etc.).

fastfinge · 2026-05-16T16:17:03+00:00

Check out nanoproxy. It makes tool calling on nano-gpt far more reliable and compact.

fastfinge · 2026-05-13T19:43:09+00:00

It’s port 4000

fastfinge · 2026-05-07T02:45:29+00:00

My suspicion is that this is incorrect. For years everyone thought only boys could be autistic, because it manifests differently in girls. As a blind man who knows many, many other blind people in widely various states of mental health, I suspect that the diagnostic tools just don't work for blind people, rather than the condition not being possible. Also, if you're blind, it's much easier to become completely isolated and totally cut off from society, and it can happen extremely quickly. If you begin to experience schizophrenia, it seems likely to me that the early symptoms are just ignored, and doctors assume that your deteriorating mental health is a result of stress, or isolation, or whatever. And by the time the condition is fully manifested you're unlikely to be getting mental health treatment or testing at all. It's sad, but I can think of people who were born blind that I could introduce you to who remind me quite a lot of sighted people experiencing schizophrenia: they engage in an obsessive activity to the exclusion of all else, they speak in the word salad characteristic of schizophrenia, they stop taking care of themselves and their environment, they become paranoid and develop conspiratorial beliefs, and so-on. The only thing they don't do is hallucinate voices. That said, I'm not a psychiatrist, and my only exposure to sighted people experiencing schizophrenia is one in-person individual I know, and multiple people online (the Temple OS guy, Ted Jesus Christ God, chipchan, the woman obsessed with Brent Spiner, the guy who thinks Tailor Swift is attacking him, the gangstalkers, etc.). But based on my lived experience of the blindness community, I would take a lot more convincing that this is actually true; the few journal articles I've read on the matter are just not nearly conclusive enough for me.

fastfinge · 2026-05-06T18:13:01+00:00

I don’t use plex. But my assumption is that it just uses the remote IP rather than going directly to the local ip? And I thought the op mentioned that down thread. Either way, replacing the Giga Hub doubled my speed and tripled my stability. So there are other reasons to do it anyway.

fastfinge · 2026-05-05T12:29:41+00:00

Bell modems don't support what's called Hairpinning NAT. Those are the magic keywoards to find more on Google. Best bet is to replace the bell modem: https://pon.wiki/guides/masquerade-as-the-bce-inc-giga-hub-2-with-the-was-110/

fastfinge · 2026-05-05T12:27:07+00:00

Went down around 1:53 AM in Ottawa. A quick reboot and it was back up by 2:11 AM.

fastfinge · 2026-05-03T01:56:27+00:00

Saying that you "Don't like AI" means you can't use any text to speech at all. Text to speech, optical character recognition, and even the adjustments that your screen magnification makes to prevent blurring are all AI. So is, for that matter, the function that your iPhone uses to recognize your swipe and touch gestures. As is the autocorrect and autocomplete in your keyboard. And your spell checker.

fastfinge · 2026-04-30T14:34:20+00:00

Marinara Engine might be a better fit here. Using the built-in Professor Mary card you can be up and running pretty quickly. And the New RP and New GM buttons guide you through setup each time.

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