I’m a blind and gay romance writer that loves fiction podcasts, audiobooks, cookies, and cats! I follow more hashtags than people. Because I take frequent social media breaks, the best way to reach me quickly is via my website or email rather than here.
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Last Notes npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett There are elections coming up in my country, and since there's an election/elections coming up in my country, that means everybody must have discourse about woke one versus woke two and it is just as meaningless and vapid as you can possibly imagine. Guess what coalition is? It means working with and alongside all POCs and yes working class whites. It means working with and yes, getting along with, everyone of every race and of every none opposition political party. Learn about the white men and Trans people and women that joined the Black Panther Party as an example. And none disabled online political influencers should just not have any opinions until the elections are over. Instead, listen to this guy https://youtu.be/OPZEAusQVuw?is=wpLTwEl4iZOcl9IC npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…6x5d I love this! I wish more web developers would do a business like this. I’m about to email you soon because I need some assistance with CSS on my Eleventy website. I was hoping you could update the CSS. I was hoping you could fix the CSS so that it works better on mobile devices. Can I recommend you as a web developer to these business types? I have many small business type of clients that use Shopify themes, get regularly sued for accessibility, and then instantly slap on and accessibility overlay because they don’t know any better and they seem genuinely confused why everybody gets annoyed at their constant upsell tactics when folks want to checkout npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett While I was moving everything out of OneDrive to Nextcloud and Koofr, Microsoft decided to vibe code an update again that instantly deleted my ".kdbx" file and my Romance novel drafts that contained sex scenes because something something virus. But hey, vibe coding is awesome, am I right? I of course had backups on external drives but just *sigh* I will be so glad when these RClone commands can proceed without Microsoft vibe coding an update, deleting all my shit as I am actively trying to get away from them. #OneDrive #Koofr #NextCloud #RClone npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Web developers, you'd probably lose your payments for this, but any time a marketing person wants something on the website, tell them no. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett OMG! Do you have a beta reading team? If so, I'd like to be one of your beta readers! I do more developmental stuff, though, than copy editing! But this sounds amazing! Where can I buy/check out your other works? Are any of them in libraries? I am assuming you don't use Draft2Digital then? :) @nprofile…0nkk npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett ah yeah! Koofr can handle that with their sharing links, etc. I am not a huge fan of their interface, but they do not appear to get hacked often, yet, so that's a good sign! I am moving all my writing over there today so will let you know how it goes, but I used to do this with Google Drive, just share a link to the folder and have others download the folder. I am guessing you do educational writing? But if you know of anyone that does any Romance writing, Google and Microsoft are banning accounts for writing anything close to smut even if it isn't at all smutty so Koofr would be a fantastic alternative, and they don't train AI on your stuff either! @nprofile…0nkk npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Yes! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, but I've been messing around with also just basically using Git as cloud storage, but I am liking Koofr though! Thought about moving all my OneDrive stuff to it @nprofile…0nkk npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Was wondering for 2 days why I couldn't edit text files on my mounted Koofr drive with RClone, I could open the file just fine, but when I pressed, Control S, it kept opening the, save as, dialog box, then I remembered the "rclone mount --vfs-cache-mode writes" command. #RClone #Koofr npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett This shit writes itself. This is so beyond parody at this point I can't write about it. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett And again, the world shows that our accessibility needs don't matter, but when loser nerds need them, The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People #Accessibility #A11y #AI #LLM npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett For those that missed it, The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/ #Accessibility #Ableism #Disability npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Hey lovelies, look at how mad we are making them. This is a sign you’re doing something right/we should continue! I do think it’s incredibly hilarious that they need us to like and use the technology, but we really don’t need them. At all. on anti-ai crowd – anon-dev https://anondev.bearblog.dev/onanti-aicrowd/ #AI #LLM npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…r4ca I so love that! I will never understand why they don’t like Github, because you can publish all kinds of LLM slop on Github. It reminds me of those right wingers that hate leftist or anti capitalist politics, but they can’t survive without having left leaning friends around npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I am in a mood, so my only replied to this is, Cry harder, Tech Bro. This dude can’t even wrap his mind around the notion that #Codeberg is democratically operated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8cY1DEURtE&is=7fWt1sUTiUutiCcY npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The Ballot is a Doorstop, Not a Love Letter https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-ballot-is-a-doorstop-not-a-love-letter/ #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #Blogs npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Ebooks Are Coming to Libro! https://blog.libro.fm/ebooks-coming-librofm/ #Books #Bookstodon #EBooks npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Fuck my life. My country's social security system is the pits. I got survivors benefits because my abusive mother died. I didn't know social security counts that as extra income. I was getting the maximum amount on SSI. I was approved for survivors benefits but then they lowered my SSI payments because I'd have extra income. I know people don't like it when disabled people get things for free, but I wasn't going out and buying cars with it. Fuck. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I am amazed that an asshole figured out how to make it easy for users to paywall a blog and got a ton for reinventing the blog. I'm talking about #Substack of course. Makes me wish I knew more tech people back when I was a teen. I could have been rich! Oh and guess what Substack folks? Did you know you're blogging? I can follow via RSS and everything! Hell, that's also what #Patreon is. Can't believe they got millions for reinventing the blog. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett New post: The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you. https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/ npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Gonna read #Fanfiction for the day because the internet is bugging the piss out of me. To learn why I love Fanfiction so much, https://sightlessscribbles.com/how-fanfiction-is-literary-resistance/ #Reading #Bookstodon npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution. https://shieldfont.org/#hero #AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett No slop grenade https://noslopgrenade.com/ #AI #LLM #AISlop #NoAI npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Stranger: So what are your hobbies? Me: Watching 9 hour YouTube videos covering Fandom drama, what about you? Stranger. I bake brownies. Me. You are a far better person. :) npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett SOCIALISTS AREN’T NAIVE ABOUT HUMAN NATURE https://jacobin.com/2026/07/socialism-human-nature-morality npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett My pen pal neighbor and I are now gossiping about our newest neighbor that has every tech gadget known to man, including smart cameras and stuff. Every time loved neighbor knocks on my door to deliver one of our loved packages to each other, his fucking camera tracks this. For now, we're gossiping about how creepy his cameras are, but are there any lawyers on here that can defend me in court if I say, accidentally write a story where the protagonist sabotages one of these fucking cameras? For pure entertainment reasons, of course. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Rediscovering vanilla as a flavor and I am loving it, especially vanilla ice cream. How in the hell did I think vanilla was an uninspired flavor? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Woke up this morning to discover that, after an update, Microsoft no longer trusts me to edit my own files and folders on my own external hard drive. I was trying to update a portable application and the usual warning popped up that was asking me, was I sure I wanted to paste these files? And I better do it with administrative rights, even though I am the fucking administrator of this Gods damn PC, so I hit continue with administrative right. You do not have permission to edit these files. I am the fucking administrator, you dolts. I am not a casual user, endless screaming. Gods, I wish #Linux was... just better at screen reader accessibility overall, but just... *sigh* I am gonna be one of those seniors that movies love to mock where they know nothing of technology because I'll just stop doing new tech things. #Microsoft npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The Thief of Always, my first Clive Barker book. Loving it so far! And yes, this is DRM free! https://bookshop.org/a/77/9781301821709 #Horror #Fable #EBook #Bookstodon npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett This seems to have been blocked by #Patreon, but I've been looking for ways I can follow Patreon creators via RSS feed instead of email. I wrote to Patreon today, making the case that they could easily make RSS work for their model, even offering private RSS feeds for members, but we'll see. I wrote to higher ups and bypassed customer service. Shame they blocked this because I'd love to follow Patreon via RSS. https://github.com/nchlswhttkr/patreon-rss #RSS npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…mex6 Their back end nor front end isn’t very screen reader friendly. They also seem way to keen on selling authors AI services rather than their books but I do like their support while drafting method as well as their git upload workflow npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…77tp Right! I mean, you could link to the audiobook on Libro FM and that website is fantastic for consumers, but for developers, I imagine it’s a nightmare because they don’t have an official API. I think their website is some kind of CMS? I’m not really sure npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…77tp This brought to you by purchasing an e-book on Amazon because he authored doesn’t have a DRM free copy and I’m honestly getting account fatigue so I purchased on Amazon because it’s easiest rather than making an account at a random place I’ve never shocked at previously butIs there some technical way where royalties could be automated? And I would love it if a retailer would just say no to publishers wanting digital rights management on their titles or Geo restriction. I do really wonder if you could legitimately say no to Geo restriction and not getting in trouble? Or is it just about telling the publishers no. This is not gonna be Geo restricted npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I know a lot of developers are on my timeline, so let me give you a little bit of a secret. If you make a literal DRM free only bookstore retailer that only sells DRM free e-books, you would hit a gold mine without even trying to do so, and you must accept all genres. I know Smashwords exists, but there’s a reason why independent authors continue to publish work via Kindle. It’s easy. In fact, it’s so easy that even the upload process doesn’t need a lot of formatting involved. This is the key. Make it very easy to host e-books, and let authors set their prices and let publishers set their prices, and you would have a money making machine. Also, make it global. Even if publishers Geo restrict it. The design doesn’t have to be a torture either. Have an HTML page from the 90s that displays the book cover, the title, some buttons that do various things like choose a book format, E pub, PDF, about the book, about the author, reviews, and that’s it. It doesn’t need anything more than that. Anything more and it’s just a bloated waste of code #WebDev #Bookstodon npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Under capitalism, it's very normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be a little less rich is considered radical and unhinged. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…qwvz @nprofile…xc4c There’s a way you can completely get rid of the Gutenberg editor. If you would like, direct message me and then I could use remote incident manager to help you when I have a minute or two, but are you hosting it on the hosted version of WordPress? the wordpress.com domain? Or are you hosting it at a third party host? I know you’re using WordPress, but just in case you wanted to try another accessible platform, check out https://bearblog.dev/ npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The one email etiquette rule I break is the one about line wrapping. Everyone says you should wrap your email lines 72 something something, but I disabled line wrapping when sending emails and when I receive emails, and honestly? No one’s complained, and I do tend to write lengthy paragraphs. I'm guessing for sighted folk it fits to their screens anyway, so all is good. And disabling line wrapping when someone replies to me makes it far easier to copy code, URLs, etc. I know it's supposed to respect the folks reading emails in the terminal, but this is an instance where I say, nope, sorry! I'm never line wrapping again because your terminal email client displays long lines horribly. #Email npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett By @nprofile…p9u9 Every Reason Why I Hate AI https://malwaretech.com/2025/08/every-reason-why-i-hate-ai.html #AI #LLM #AIHype npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett In my quest to get others to visit my website to see what I am up to instead of wondering why I am not posting or interacting on Facebook, I got this reply, which just made me sad. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Is there an open source contact management program, very lightweight, no AI bullshit, that allows me to edit VCF files in a very simple GUI interface? With native controlls? I use Windows but I am very comfortable editing text files and working in the terminal. #OpenSource npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The reason I keep an email around is because, frankly, the more obnoxious tech dorks are using chat because they can't write in paragraphs. I, on the other hand, actually send lengthy novels to very close people. That's why I continue to use email in this chat bubble push we are in now. I don't use email for newsletters anymore. Spam isn't as huge of a problem for me after blocking email addresses outright. #Email npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Shit. This is on the calendar, and yes, it is the national book banning bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7661/text #Censorship #Books #Book #Piracy npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett You all, my Python script isn't working, can anyone assist? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…9kds Ah thank you! Is version 2 built with the same accessibility care for the front end? If you need a consultant or someone to test, https://sightlessscribbles.com/contact/ npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Watching techies learn that their favorite artist isn't in love with LLMs will never be boring to me, online or offline. The best part? The techs act all shocked their favorite artist would hate something that plagiarizes from them by the minute. Of course, the rebuke always is, well, artists don't understand how tech works anyway so they shouldn't be listened to. But still, the initial reaction is priceless, every time. #LLM #AI npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Thinking about using #Faircamp for my future blog post narrations and audiobooks. I know it’s a music first static site generator, but has anyone else used it for spoken word? And I haven’t read the documentation in a while, but can I do a pay what you want style via Stripe API? I assume so but I figure nerds can answer faster than I can sift through documentation #WebDev npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett How Fanfiction is Literary Resistance https://sightlessscribbles.com/how-fanfiction-is-literary-resistance/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett > I can’t understand how we got to this place with “app culture”! Software companies are happy to make their lives harder (and more expensive: deploying to the big app stores isn’t free!), in order to deliver HTML content to fewer people and with fewer features https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/ #WebDev #Programming npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Hey #Grammar people, I see this all the time when reading published books. The ellipsis spaced out, like this. ". . ." npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Oh yes, I *love* using #DeltaChat with Miranda NG! I use JMP as a VOIP number and that's how I can SMS with people via PC but I do wish there was a more modern XMPP client for Windows that is screen reader friendly. @nprofile…ruwx npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Just saw that quote of a quote of a quote of a quote of a quote that eventually lead to 2 blog post nonsense on here, which is exactly what I came here to avoid. I don’t understand why people think that is a good user experience. At least when I quote I dive past all the quote of a quote of a quote of a quote nonsense to bring you the original toot or include all the blog post links. I don’t really understand why other users think this is a superior experience then just sharing links to the original blog entries themselves. If I quote anybody on hear, it is with the utmost intention, paying attention to where the trail of 99quotes leads, and what information is provided, and what information is left out. #FediMeta #Fediverse npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…fcdr Like, maybe it's the stutter? I have the kind of stammar where words are blocked rather than repeating, so, mom, stretches out into mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmom, but like, I don't get it. I tell them I'm blind and they think OMG NEEDS ASL INTERPRETER! npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The number of times I get an unasked for sign language interpreter as an escorting accommodation when I say I'm blind and need assistance navigating is just wild to me. I know I have a stutter but come on people. I have Deaf friends that decided to just bring me along because it's become an ironic happening they'll get a sign language interpreter faster if I'm with them. #Ableism npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I was in conversation with a person that blogs on Facebook. When I said I write on my own website, she was endlessly baffled as to how I have readers. I Explained my RSS fee gets submitted to directories, and people share my stuff in forums and indie social media and she just could not comprehend it. Since my audience is not a built in audience with an algorithm, she doesn't understand how I can maintain an audience. She kept asking me, if there's no algorithm, how do people find out about you and keep up with what you do? I explained that I have a mailing list for the folks that don't use RSS. She asked me how I monetize my content. I said, for the things that's on my website, I don't aggressively monetize it. I ask for donations if people like it. But your work is open for everybody to read it? She asked. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…r70g Looks like an interesting channel! I tried to see if it was in podcast apps and could not find a native feed, so I turned the channel into an audio podcast with https://podtube.me/index.html npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Just finished the legally blonde audiobook, and this is one of those times where I think the movie is just a little bit more dimensional than the book. I do highly recommend the book though! If you love the movie, the book will be a huge treat! https://www.audible.com/pd/B0GVN5JPJP?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp #Bookstodon #Romance #AmReading #ReadingCommunity npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Can we retire from the expression “the kids are okay?” Because I am at my morning coffee shop and I just met and hated a 20-year-old cis het white guy, Let’s call him Brad, that believes emotions are an inefficiency that only inhabits stupid people and I tripped the bastard with my cane because he was explaining the optimum way a woman should sit at her Linux laptop computer so LLM systems can't malfunction because of her “bigger than average breasts.” She bought me a drink after she saw me trip the bastard. We're exchanging anime shows we like. I'm telling her I'm new to anime and that I'm a Romance writer. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett LMAO! npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…5lhv I was thinking like for the beginning mode have like, the most mainstream distros? I think he wanted a central Linux hub where he could go get stuff from, from *all* distros. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Loving these ideas, actually! If this central installer were community owned, better! https://reedybear.bearblog.dev/which-linux/ #Linux npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Love this thread! #BandCamp npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett The Weight of a Voice https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/71513517/the-weight-of-a-voice #Audio #Podcast #Podcasts npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett If there's one modern slang I absolutely hate more than anything else in the world, it's this phrase. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…eh70 Yeah, the best I found so far is Google Gemini but it sucks having to verify it's output and correct it and I figure I'd do far less correcting if I had a dedicated OCR service, but Matt just said try Scribe because they just upgraded their engine so will give it a shot npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Any blind folk know a good OCR web tool that can OCR handwriting I can use from a computer? I already know about Be My Eyes and I use all the blindness LLM interfaces, Aira Access AI or whatever it's called, but I'd love to move away from those and move to a more dedicated OCR tool since basically that's the only thing I use any of these LLM things for anyway. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Today, in 2013, Google reader was killed. In honor of it's service, share and add your favorite RSS feed to your friend, and share your favorite reader! All my RSS feeds are at https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow/ #RSS #IndieWeb #Feed npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Updated my PeerTube RSS feed so it should work in your podcast app again. I moved PeerTube servers https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow/ #PeerTube npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett One of my beta readers thinks I have invented a new romance trope, but I can assure you I did not. In my book, a partner clips the protagonist toenails with such care and tenderness that it is an act of love and non-sexual intimacy. She wants to call it body care but i’m pretty sure there’s an official, industry standard, name for this existing trope. Does anyone know what this is? I can assure you I did not invent this trope. #Romance #RomanceLandia npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…8epu Nailed it! Meanwhile I can’t tell you how much fanfiction I read that’s better than some original IP npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Thinking about every dehumanization of bloggers I’ve seen growing up. To me, it seemed like pop culture hated, and I mean hated, bloggers. I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s. Now however, I get more information, news, personal perspective, and even educational material through people running blogs on their own websites but when I was growing up, you weren’t a real writer if you had your own blog and website. You were the laughing stock of the Internet if you had your own blog and your own website. Imagine if we encouraged blogging and website ownership decades ago. To put things into perspective, the dehumanization of bloggers and website owners is almost the same as the pop culture dislike of podcasts today. #IndieWeb npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Even though I really don’t quite understand web rings yet, and I am much more partial to directories, I thought others would like to see this. warp point: a gaming blog webring for the modern age https://www.warppoint.games/ #IndieWeb #Gaming #GameDev #WebRing npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett My Refrigerator Thinks I'm in a Cult https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/episode/635a3d6c/my-refrigerator-thinks-i-m-in-a-cult npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…l0xh @nprofile…0dn2 I don’t know how long you have been on the internet but Fedi works better than Google because Fedi is not a SEO wearhouse npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I wrote to the Electronic Frontier Foundation to enable an RSS feed, or at least make it far easier to find. Seems endlessly strange to me that they do tech activism and won't enable their RSS feed or otherwise make it easier to find. I am *not* joining their mailing list. I only use email for communication. @nprofile…eexk #RSS npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett And yet, blind people will buy it anyway because we love Tech Bros for some reason npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Sad news! What other alternatives can I use to remove the DRM from my Audible books? I shop Libro FM but there are authors that only have audiobooks on Audible . Libation announcement : r/audible https://www.reddit.com/r/audible/comments/1ucssl8/libation_announcement/?solution=25e3aab3ddb08ffd25e3aab3ddb08ffd&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ecbb842de0b7d91bc4fa74d559c38fdb45&jsc_orig_r= #DRM #Audible npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Wow! This #NoAI list of things that don't use it at all has grown massively! https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html #Programming #Software #WebDev npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Was unironically dubbed an internet genius today by people younger and older than me that were amazed that I could find things, research things, locate links and other information that their LM/agent could not locate/determine/find/comprehend. Gonna put basic research and comprehension skills in the special Skills section of my resume. Based on these soft skills alone, I am going to be overqualified for most jobs in the future. #GetFediHired #Skill #Skills npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Thought about reading The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow and just… didn't, because I don't have to. The synopsis gives me enough to where I don't need to read the book. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Looking forward to the day #Mastodon gets a native toot scheduling UI so I can tell all my offline friends, dates, and lovers to check my profile at the exact right time, ordering everyone to buy me cookies so I can have an endless stream of cookies arriving at my place. #Fediverse npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Please, use a link! https://idiallo.com/blog/use-a-link-please #WebDev #Internet npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Yet another study shows that giving people no strings attached basic income doesn't make everyone crime junkies and boosts the economy. How many of these do people have to do before it sinks in? https://www.positive.news/economics/imagination-and-creation-are-products-of-time-and-space/ #Money #Economy #Economics npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett People say ninite is dead because of things such as Winget but I frankly use them all the time to install some must have things on a new PC https://ninite.com/ #Ninite npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…2m4r @nprofile…r5yj What about SourceHut? See https://sourcehut.org/ npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett recently posted A Humble Welcome Note Without Cookies https://sightlessscribbles.com/welcome-note/ #Blogging #Blog #NoPaywall npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Substack writers, you need a website! – Elizabeth Tai https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/ #Substack #IndieWeb npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett What I can't figure out is, what will happen to my .kdbx file. Can I just use something else with my .kdbx file? @nprofile…e46s npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I don't have links on me at the moment but I've seen *multiple* studies that basically say the same thing. People are not as lazy as others like to pretend they are. I have a Black MAGA friend, likes me a billion times more than I like him, and he constantly says that shit too, that if given the chance, people will choose to be lazy so we need to make sure people stop living off the GOV. *sigh* @nprofile…lh70 npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett We're obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…zx6n Upon thinking about it some more, I do like the fact my focus isn’t stolen when composing a toot. Let me see if I can’t review them another way. One other tiny UI quirk is I think there’s a conflict with keyboard commands. If I type, G, then, N, to go to the notifications area, it takes me to the, compose a new toot edit field. Could the, compose a new tooth, keyboard command, N, be moved to C? Or something else to avoid conflicts? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…5dxw I really liked this video! I haven't checked yet, but is there a playlist of these tutorials? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Again, The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/the-web-is-being-made-accessible-for-ai-not-people #AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Aside from the fact that this is why I do not get along with most blind leaders, because they beleive accessibility is different from intersectionality, how come every sociological and privacy and non accessibility point disabled critics of LLM companies talk about are ignored? npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Not alone. I call desktop programs what they are, programs, and I call websites websites instead of apps. It pisses off the tech enthusiasts, but I can Github better than they can so, shrug. :) @nprofile…gt80 @nprofile…40t9 npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I am unsure! It just has this endless loop or checks fail. I have cookies enabled, but I do have the privacy setting enabled where social media embeds are blocked and honestly have no clue how I did that one but it's been really nice! @nprofile…vh37 npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Does anyone know how to allow those silly CloudFlare checks on websites without getting rid of UBlock Origin? I have it disabled on 1 of my browsers but if there's a way I can keep UBlock but allow for those checks, let me know! Example? The login page of https://bearblog.dev/ #Privacy #UBlock #UBlockOrigin npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett If someone online uses the term, “dark woke,” you should know they will most likely hold sexist and racist and even homophobic/transphobic/ableist/ oppressive views under the mask of financial liberation. Basically, they are class reductionists. Calling themselves dark woke is an attempt to make class reductionism cool online. npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I have no clue if this maintains the accessibility of its predecessor but it appears to be an active fork of Enafore. Dome/Zocial: A beautifully refined fediverse client — built for the edges of the Mastodon ecosystem. - Zocial - Zeitfresser Gitea Server https://git.ztfr.eu/Dome/Zocial #Enafore #Pinafore #Mastodon #Fediverse npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett @nprofile…sptg @nprofile…l9dg The closest thing to the format is their excel export. If you just change the file format to CSV at the end, it will work npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett I’m not sure what to call this phenomenon, but it’s very unique to non disabled or tech people. It’s kind of like a person sees that a curb doesn’t have a curb cut for a wheelchair, so rather than fixing the problem, they order a private jet to take the wheelchair user anywhere they want to go. Tyto - a voice-first email app built for blind and VI users. Many new updates! | AppleVis https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados/tyto-voice-first-email-app-built-blind-vi-users-many-new-updates https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados/tyto-voice-first-email-app-built-blind-vi-users-many-new-updates #Email #Disability npub1qmm80eujtltwymfws2w8v92krpw827hcgen92xv6d80q8r4hhgus0t5gzf Robert Kingett Best summary of the last few days rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/03/rsync-goes-ai-slop-breaks-your-backups/ #RSync #AI #LLM
