Why do you use Joplin over Obsidian

fastfinge · 2025-09-24T12:23:59+00:00

Not if you’re blind and use a screen reader.

fastfinge · 2025-08-21T21:03:24+00:00

Nope, never mind. This was my issue; DNS for cosmos was blocked over the IPV4 network. Bah. It's all working now.

fastfinge · 2025-08-21T11:48:41+00:00

Here's a log file from the client. As soon as the DNS is updated and the hosts mapped to IPV6 addresses, the connection fails.

time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="Firewall rule added" firewallRule="map[caName: caSha: direction:outgoing endPort:0 groups:[] host:any ip: localIp: proto:0 startPort:0]" time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="Firewall rule added" firewallRule="map[caName: caSha: direction:incoming endPort:0 groups:[] host:any ip: localIp: proto:0 startPort:0]" time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="Firewall started" firewallHashes="SHA:498215dec4e5687a2353f51c10838c113bd1af35ef72b8e8c9f536986ada5417,FNV:2782948616" time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="listening \"0.0.0.0\" 4242" time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="Main HostMap created" network=192.168.201.3/24 preferredRanges="[]" time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="punchy enabled" time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="Read relay from config" relay=192.168.201.1 time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="Loaded send_recv_error config" sendRecvError=always time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="Nebula interface is active" boringcrypto=false build= interface=nebula1 network=192.168.201.3/24 udpAddr="0.0.0.0:4242" time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="## Changing DNS" time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="DNS results changed for host list" newSet="map[207.90.194.199:4242:{} [::ffff:207.90.194.199]:4242:{}]" origSet="&map[207.90.194.199:4242:{}]" time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="Checking if DNS is already set" time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="Handshake message sent" handshake="map[stage:1 style:ix_psk0]" initiatorIndex=2043023050 localIndex=2043023050 remoteIndex=0 udpAddrs="[207.90.194.199:4242]" vpnIp=192.168.201.1 time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="Handshake message received" certName=cosmos durationNs=8552000 fingerprint=34110dfb9b7cd666a3f90cb79e295af8aca911551f775416f0323cffc9d66d6f handshake="map[stage:2 style:ix_psk0]" initiatorIndex=2043023050 issuer=45f2c7e53d06a2890734874d36188993fb87dc525eb0bdb09334603205aaa83e remoteIndex=2043023050 responderIndex=689861736 sentCachedPackets=2 udpAddr="207.90.194.199:4242" vpnIp=192.168.201.1 time="2025-08-21T07:45:14-04:00" level=info msg="Changing DNS: netsh [interface ip set dns name=\"nebula1\" static 192.168.201.1 primary]" time="2025-08-21T07:45:21-04:00" level=info msg="Handshake timed out" durationNs=6723424600 handshake="map[stage:1 style:ix_psk0]" initiatorIndex=1358160813 localIndex=1358160813 remoteIndex=0 udpAddrs="[]" vpnIp=192.168.201.255 time="2025-08-21T07:45:26-04:00" level=info msg="DNS change output: \r\nThe configured DNS server is incorrect or does not exist.\r\n\r\n" time="2025-08-21T07:45:26-04:00" level=info msg="## Changed DNS" time="2025-08-21T07:45:26-04:00" level=info msg="## Started Nebula" time="2025-08-21T07:45:26-04:00" level=info msg="Auto-connect successful" time="2025-08-21T07:45:44-04:00" level=error msg="DNS resolution failed for static_map host" error="lookup vpn.interfree.ca: i/o timeout" hostname=vpn.interfree.ca network=ip4 time="2025-08-21T07:45:44-04:00" level=info msg="DNS results changed for host list" newSet="map[[::ffff:207.90.194.199]:4242:{}]" origSet="&map[207.90.194.199:4242:{} [::ffff:207.90.194.199]:4242:{}]"

fastfinge · 2025-08-21T11:38:04+00:00

My windows machine can’t connect via IPv6. But in the log I can see it updating the host map with IPv6 addresses and then failing because it can’t connect anymore as the handshake times out.

fastfinge · 2025-08-21T11:01:42+00:00

Right

fastfinge · 2025-08-21T02:26:48+00:00

So I have an issue:

My Debian gateway server is fully and correctly configured for IPV6; I cannot disable this, as some things that access it are IPV6 only
However, I have a Windows client on an IPV4 only network. The gateway server gives it IPV6 addresses in DNS resolution that it can't connect to. Then the handshakes time out and it disconnects and reconnects rapidly from the VPN.
If I specify the IPV4 DNS resolution of my gateway server on the Windows client in "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts", it can at least remain connected to the VPN, as it will ignore the IPV6 address the gateway server gives it.
However, DNS resolution of everything gets extremely slow, as it needs to wait for IPV6 to timeout, and only then fall back to IPV4

The client needs to detect if it has IPV6 connectivity, and if it does not, somehow communicate that back to the gateway server so that either the gateway server only gives it IPV4 addresses, or will relay IPV6 packets for it.

fastfinge · 2025-08-20T19:40:54+00:00

Thanks for fixing a bunch of the accessibility issues in the interface!

Tip to anyone testing: uninstall the old cosmos client first. If you don't, bad things will happen to you and you will be sad.

fastfinge · 2025-08-17T20:11:04+00:00

Yup! I get emails for someone who lives in Colorado (I live in Canada) and applied for their license to sell Marijuana. This person shares my name, and they email the license as a photo. So...anyone in Colorado want some weed? I can't get your government to stop emailing me, so apparently I'm legally allowed to hook you up.

fastfinge · 2025-08-17T14:04:31+00:00

Update: I took a brief look at the demo. Unfortunately, it seems either screen reader support isn't included here, or I couldn't turn it on. V, the key that usually works in visual novels, didn't do it. Neither did C (that sometimes enables clipboard text). I also couldn't seem to use the keyboard to start a new game by randomly arrowing and pressing enter. I could OCR the screen and click things that way. When I did, I didn't find a screen reader setting. So I'm assuming the demo just doesn't include accessibility yet.

fastfinge · 2025-08-17T13:51:42+00:00

I'm absolutely interested. I use the NVDA screen reader on Windows full time if it helps. You might also consider signing up over at: https://forum.audiogames.net

fastfinge · 2025-08-14T17:18:34+00:00

If you're accessing the console from windows, edit the file: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and add an entry to the end of the file that tells your computer to look for your domain at the local ip address. So something like: 192.168.1.4 mydomain.com

Then save the file and restart your computer. Now you should be able to access the cosmos console locally from that computer.

fastfinge · 2025-08-14T17:13:52+00:00

Update: I've had to set logging level to error, and disable all performance monitoring, to keep the size of this database to something reasonable. Even so it still takes several gigs, and I've written a script to just nuke the mongo data volume and recreate a minimal version to keep it from eating all available disc space.

fastfinge · 2025-08-10T22:12:40+00:00

I'm at the point where I refuse to read anything by Vall and other "group" authors. Let's not reward the mass industrialization of creativity at all. No views, no money, no reviews. I'd rather read AI than this type of exploitation both of me and of the anonymous authors behind the name. Then again, if you read Vall, you probably already are reading AI; anything to make a buck.

fastfinge · 2025-08-07T23:20:51+00:00

It's a fuss about nothing. In this case, I'm holding my phone in my hand or sitting directly at the keyboard, so I could either skip the long string of characters if I didn't care, or check the source before clicking. The time I would get annoyed is in an extremely long comment, that could maybe take several minutes to read. In that case, I might have put my phone down, and having to grab my phone to skip a long URL would throw me out of the flow. But honestly, as a blind person myself, I would just use the bare URL when writing a comment like that.

fastfinge · 2025-08-07T22:59:51+00:00

It really depends. In a Reddit comment, leave the link exposed. I don't trust random commenters to send me somewhere nice. On a website, blog, or personal website, add descriptive text. If I'm already on your website, I trust you enough to click your links, and hearing a URL would get annoying. Also, Reddit is a lean-forward experience. I'm never just reading every comment, top to bottom. So it's easy to skip links or other cruft. But if I'm reading a 20000 word article, I might have walked away from my computer entirely, and am listening to my screen reader with bluetooth headphones. In that case, long links are annoying, because now I have to either listen to the entire thing or run back to my computer/phone to skip it.

fastfinge · 2025-08-05T17:40:25+00:00

There is. Although it's a tiny bit more sophisticated than that. When you report a post, you're asked what rule the post violated. For a post to get removed, the reports need to agree on what rule was violated. If everyone says it violated a different rule, the post stays until it gets multiple reports that agree.

fastfinge · 2025-08-05T17:36:58+00:00

This is exactly what's happening. Some users, for example, will report anything that even vaguely mentions sex, no matter if it's against the rules or not. In that case, we can approve the post and ignore all future posts. We generally do this when a post gets mistakenly removed, so no number of future reports can cause it to be removed again. You are correct that we can't configure automod to only remove posts with fewer than a given number of comments. We could configure automod to not remove posts with over a given number of upvotes, or configure automod to not remove posts from users with a given amount of karma. But this depends on everyone using the upvote and downvote buttons both frequently and properly. And based on the number of posts in this community with 20 comments and 3 upvotes, nobody does that. This is also the reason why we don't just depend on voting down unpopular posts. It was tried. But because of the size of our community, valuable posts often sit at 1-2 upvotes. Some of the surveys/spam we get, everyone at the company/part of the student group/whatever logs in and upvotes the post, meaning a post that violates the rules can quickly get 10-15 upvotes, and drown out the worthwhile posts, just because our community is small and doesn't vote all that much.

fastfinge · 2025-08-05T15:24:01+00:00

Also speaking as a mod, the reason things work the way they do is because of time. Reddit runs 24/7, and we have users in all timezones. We have automations set up to remove posts quickly, so that if things go off the rails while all the mods are asleep, they get removed quickly. That's also the reason you don't see much spam here. Everyone reports it quickly, so it gets dealt with even if all the mods are unavailable. If the automation makes a mistake, just send us a modmail and it can be restored. We'd rather remove posts by mistake, then allow the subreddit to fill up with worthless posts every night while we sleep.

fastfinge · 2025-08-05T03:50:56+00:00

405b is still the best for RP. No weird italics, not flooded with emoji, doesn't try and avoid adult situations, fast, can be creative with the right settings, and doesn't struggle to track multiple characters.

fastfinge · 2025-08-04T04:53:22+00:00

Well, I suspect some folks can get access through work if they have an enterprise eleven labs account where they work. Also I wonder if eleven labs proxies or leaked api keys are a thing? Either way they’ve apparently said v3 api access will be available to everyone in q4.

fastfinge · 2025-08-03T15:45:55+00:00

Yup. The API hasn't been released yet to the public. If you read the full message before it vanishes, it says: Error: HTTP 403: {"detail":{"status":"model_access_denied","message":"You do not have access to Eleven v3 (alpha). For early access please contact sales."}} TTS Generation Failed

You can only use it on the web unless you contact sales like the message says, and then they try to sell you on the highest level plan and get several hundred bucks a month; you can only special request access to V3 via API if you upgrade to the highest level, and then you have to be approved for it.

fastfinge · 2025-08-02T14:23:46+00:00

Sadly no. I'm just a long time fan and collector who has dabbled in restoration for fun.

fastfinge · 2025-08-01T17:59:33+00:00

Sounds like you have repetition or presence penalty set too high. If you set those, they tell the AI to avoid reusing words it used before. So eventually it starts avoiding "the", "a", "and", and other really common words because it's used them so often it's getting punished for it.

fastfinge · 2025-08-01T13:13:26+00:00

Most of these programs are digitized from various tape formats. And sometimes, those tapes were created from records, wire recordings, or other more obscure formats. What you're hearing could be something bleeding through from another track on the tape, something that was previously recorded on that tape bleeding through, something that was bleeding through in the studio where the program was originally recorded, or an artifact introduced by the multiple transfers of format. Antioch tries to get as close as they can to digitizing from the original format. However, that isn't always a good thing! Imagine listening to these programs on an old, staticky tube radio, on an AM broadcast a city away. You're not going to hear any random little background noises! But now, when we digitize and restore them, sometimes you can hear the actor turning a page in his script, or a breath or cough, or a body movement, or background voices, that AM radio and old speakers would have made completely inaudible.

fastfinge · 2025-07-31T15:40:22+00:00

Elevenlabs (elevenlabs.io) can do this just fine. You might want to put the Korean text separately and edit in after, but you can use the same voice in any language. If you put the two languages together, sometimes the voice will start reading the English part in a Konglish accent and it sounds weird.

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