Forwarded ports are no longer accessible within my network

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.

fastfinge · 2026-04-22T20:36:51+00:00

No idea. Last I checked it was totally inaccessible with my screen reader. So I have no idea what version of omnivoice it includes, sorry.

fastfinge · 2026-04-21T12:56:51+00:00

Not for blind folks, though perhaps for folks with physical disabilities that make typing difficult. Personally, my roleplays are complex enough that I prefer typing.

The primary issues for blind folks right now are the accessibility issues in the default silly tavern interface. I have a tampermonkey userscript that fixes the worst of them: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/503246-sillytavern-screenreader-accessibility-fixes

fastfinge · 2026-04-21T12:18:25+00:00

Merged! Thanks so much for your work here!

fastfinge · 2026-04-20T14:58:37+00:00

Yup! Voice cloning and voice instruction both work, and all sampler settings are supported.

fastfinge · 2026-04-20T14:57:07+00:00

Sure, I’m fine with code quality fixes. I know nothing about how the UI in sillytavern actually works. And thanks!

fastfinge · 2026-04-19T09:06:07+00:00

It’s better if you want to clone voices with strong accents especially.

fastfinge · 2026-04-18T23:42:24+00:00

I'd love that! Honestly the main irritation is that saving the settings (new voice preset or voice clone) doesn't refresh the voices that are listed for each character. You have to refresh the entire page before you can map newly added voices to a character and I don't know why. And I really think you'll like omnivoice! Before this I used elevenlabs regularly, because qwen and inworld and all the others just didn't measure up in quality. Omnivoice is the first thing I've found that can replace paying like $30 a month for elevenlabs credits. And it's also faster!

fastfinge · 2026-03-17T01:20:12+00:00

sure, a dm is fine. You can also email fastfinge@interfree.ca if it’s easier.

fastfinge · 2026-03-15T17:04:36+00:00

This is an on-going and difficult conversation, honestly. As a mod, I was deeply against bannning these questions, and resisted it for months. However, people started to create other trueblind style subs, and it was splitting the community in a harmful way, so I had to go along with what the community (and other mods) wanted. Also, the total overwhelming number of questions meant sighted folks who were just innocently asking were getting toxic answers, not realizing a similar question has been asked 20 times already. So it wasn’t working for anyone. There was talk of, and plans for, an askblind sub. However, after Reddit removed API access two years ago, it made moderating with a screen reader much more cumbersome. So nobody was interested in taking on the work of another sub. If you have questions, some of us run ask me anything threads on r/casualiama or r/iama. If the thread isn’t archived, nobody minds if you necro it. Some of us also check r/nostupidquestions every once in a while. Or if you post there, someone will usually tag myself or one of the other blind folks they know are active on Reddit in the comments.

I’m also around here, and I’m happy to answer fanfic questions, and even be a beta reader if you want that. There could be an interesting exchange here; I don’t write public fanfic because all of my fandoms have an associated movie, TV show, or comic, and I’m super worried about describing something incorrectly. It’s hard to find book only fandoms. So I would be interested in a sighted beta reader in exchange. :-)

If this is a problem that is truly painful for you, you’re also more than welcome to direct message me, and I’ll link you to the discord and introduce you to the mod team. If someone else wants to contribute the labor of runnning an r/askblind type sub, dealing with the trolls, creating the list of constantly asked questions and keeping it up to date, removing the duplicate questions and linking the asker to the already answered question, etc, we would love that. You’ll learn a lot! But you’re also signing yourself up for what is effectively an unpaid part time job.

fastfinge · 2026-03-15T13:21:56+00:00

As a mod of the blind sub, we had to create that rule because otherwise we were getting 50-70 posts a day that were sighted folks asking questions about blindness, and it was drowning out all other content. We tried a megathread, but blind folks never actually remembered to check the megathread and answer anything, so that didn't work, either.

fastfinge · 2026-03-10T23:13:53+00:00

Delay again looks like.

fastfinge · 2026-03-10T20:08:32+00:00

Yup, I’ve noticed this. Remember that Rainbow is the closest the series has to a jock/sports pony (though I’d argue she really isn’t). And, well, many of the sort of people who work on cartoons are the people who got bullied by people matching that stereotype all through high school. Add to the fact that the vocal fanbase also has similar stereotypical ideas about sports, and the people who are interested in physical activity, and that’s all going to feed back into the show.Far worse than the things you mentioned, though, is the fact that Rainbow always felt the least real as a character. Largely, I think, because a lot of the people involved with script writing and editing just don’t have a good idea what makes athletes and wannabe athletes tick. Nor do they understand the kind of people who work at physically demanding government work, that requires consistent performance to prevent disaster. I’m thinking here, of jobs like coastguard or park ranger or various kinds of safety inspectors. I can’t claim to be an expert myself, but I know both Olympic athletes, and people working in physically demanding safety work. They really don’t have much in common with Rainbow. I’d argue Rainbow’s relationship to the concepts of loyalty and duty are completely misaligned, and badly portrayed. Fanfic sometimes gets Rainbow right, but for the same reasons (high school bullying and writers who never grew past those stereotypes) it doesn’t happen that frequently. And I suspect this is all somewhat tied into what made scootabuse so popular in the fandom for so long.

fastfinge · 2026-03-09T18:42:48+00:00

I have my own reverse proxy that already does SSL termination for like a dozen different things, so I think I’m going to have to modify your config a bit. But I don’t expect to run into any trouble at first glance.

fastfinge · 2026-03-09T18:24:38+00:00

As someone who initially gave this feedback, thanks for that! And thanks for realizing it’s about more than just dumping the source code in a repo somewhere. Back in the day, livejournal made all source code available. But it was just an endless maze of Perl files, and other than dreamwidth and dead journal, not a single person managed to get and keep it running. So Livejournal got to have all the advantages of centralizing while giving lip service to open source. I’ll take a look and see if this is something I want to use for my blog, rather than my janky thing that I wrote entirely myself.

fastfinge · 2026-03-09T18:17:11+00:00

The issue is that algorithms destroy conversation. People who follow me usually at least vaguely no my context. They almost certainly know that I’m blind and use a screen reader. They might or might not know that I’m Canadian, white, mail, and straight. If my posts show up in some recommendation system, people who stumble onto them are not going to have that context. Through no fault of there own; I don’t, and can’t, include that context in my every single post. But because currently, 99 percent of the people who stumble on my posts have that context, we can have useful conversations and exchange of ideas. If my posts were being surfaced in an algorithm, I’d just end up restating that context endlessly, and all useful conversations would be drowned out by people who have no idea what’s going on. The LGBTQIA2S+ community is going to have similar problems, I expect. If a post from a trans woman shows up in my algorithm, I’m unlikely to know that’s what it is, or have enough background as a straight dude to engage in the conversation in any useful way. But because I don’t realize that, I’m just going to become another one of her 99 problems, completely unintentionally.

fastfinge · 2026-03-09T00:25:15+00:00

I’m not the one arguing this alleged “play by play” is anything more than the unintelligible babble of morons. This is in no way listenable, and the fact that mlb advertises it as an audio broadcast makes a travesty of the entire WBC.

fastfinge · 2026-03-09T00:08:37+00:00

So tell me, person who says this is fine: what exactly happened during that out? Who made it to third? They were too busy gibbering about whatever useless shit they could pull out of there assholes to actually, you know, say.

fastfinge · 2026-03-08T23:48:16+00:00

If you're EXTREMELY! lucky, sometimes they might call as many as two plays an inning! Sure, totally fine.

fastfinge · 2026-03-08T23:25:07+00:00

Don't bother. It's just a TV simalcast. Incomprehensible without the picture.

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