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Elena Brescacin

@ elettrona @poliversity.it

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  • Self-Host Weekly (7 August 2026)

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  • @sytone I am more than happy to contribute to the discussion; this is my first experience with on-demand code generation and believe me, if a coder has the frustration of a comma or a bracket missing in thousands of lines, I have the worst frustration when it tries to solve a bug and creates other 3.

  • Self-Host Weekly (7 August 2026)

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  • @sytone @selfhosted Hello, let me contribute with my 2 cents of experience in automated generation of code, I won't say "vibe coding" as it means nothing and marketing always uses meaningless words to make concepts more appealing.

    I started it the last week of July and for my YunoHost based selfhost echosystem I'm building a multilingual framework for WordPress.There are so many plugins, paid or free, for this CMS but I'm totally blind and most of them don't cover my accessibility needs. So, I'm experimenting AI use to create what I personally need. This on-demand code generation, lets me be self-determined on what I want, because I guide the machine with words. Text only. And it responds.Am I a developer? No. Unfortunately I don't know how exact the code is, if something written in 10 lines could be managed just with two.But I have something working for my own project, still in development in fact it's called MARS (Multilingual Accessible Rudimental System), used "rudimental" without hiding anything, to signal that it's not hardcoded by a very experienced dev. And chose the acronym "Mars" because this planet is the longest and most difficult human ambition, full of obstacle, exactly how my web experimentation journey is.I can't deny I'm trying to study ways to share it with other devs, when it's ready, I have no ideas of dates and I won't ask for any money back, if it will ever be shared. But my most relevant thought is not to share it as I've got no first-hand verification on vulnerabilities.

    Last but not least, I'd invite to read this article on blindness, AI, and also coding.

    https://mosen.org/ai/

  • PSA: The Tesseract frontend includes a hardcoded hidden instance blacklist with all leftist and trans-friendly instances.

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  • @null @fediverse I'm blind and have used OCR systems since 1990s. Computer at first, with scanners. Then camera-driven devices.OCR products pre-llm, were very poor - it's not the first time they detected "O" letter instead of "D", "m" in place of "rn" and vice-versa, Llm has brought some improvements in that approach. The one I'm currently using, called "BeMyAI" inside the "Be My Eyes" desktop and mobile app, provides better information; it's OpenAI API trained with blind people's need and it corrects possible errors. Is it always right? No. It always needs human verification especially for sensitive data. But to read names of a food or a medicine they're OK. Never used those, to read a paper book. It's not worth the effort, buying paper when there's a high risk of error, if there's the digital.

  • PSA: The Tesseract frontend includes a hardcoded hidden instance blacklist with all leftist and trans-friendly instances.

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  • @zqps I'm afraid discrimination has become mainstream. Against queer, against black, against people with disability...

  • PSA: The Tesseract frontend includes a hardcoded hidden instance blacklist with all leftist and trans-friendly instances.

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  • @Quokka Sorry, and thanks for explanation. It's a serious situation anyways. This kind of devs shouldn't be accepted into open source community; maybe I'm too extremist

  • PSA: The Tesseract frontend includes a hardcoded hidden instance blacklist with all leftist and trans-friendly instances.

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  • @Quokka Wait a moment. Is it the same tesseract that develops the OCR? Because I sometimes use that OCR for NVDA screen reader (non visual desktop access). If so, I'll take it off immediately! This kind of hardcoded deny list, is an abuse. Worse than the one I noticed 25 years ago on MSN messenger where you couldn't label yourself as "John Doe - webmaster of [project]" but then if you named yourself "I'm the drill for young asses" (said it less rude than it was), Msn messenger let you place that display name upfront.Let me say that if you develop a software where you deliberately block pro-trans, pro-sustainability or topic you dev potentially dislike, your software shouldn't be distributed to the public.

  • WordPress and ActivityPub: my first fail

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  • WordPress and ActivityPub: my first fail

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  • @juri @selfhosted the only issues is that the activitypub client (posting from mastodon clients) doesn't work and gives no errors

  • WordPress and ActivityPub: my first fail

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  • @juri @selfhosted I've activated fediverse now, but it's a very basic instance with base WordPress. I must rearrange my whole multilingual experience. Damn.

  • WordPress and ActivityPub: my first fail

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  • WordPress and ActivityPub: my first fail

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  • @juri @selfhosted It didn't work. The "redirect" app as explained in the forum, doesn't work, because despite my WordPress resides in "domain .ext /wp", if I install redirect on the "/" URL, it stops, saying it can't be installed. I think I'm going to try writing on YunoHost forum

  • WordPress and ActivityPub: my first fail

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  • @juri @selfhosted I'm afraid I have screwed my YunoHost service. I tried to follow the forum's rules (no idea if they can help me with the ActivityPub problem) I was just logging in to get my admin interface. But ... [POST] "https://plusbrothers.net/yunohost/portalapi/login": no response Load failed I think tomorrow I'm going to perform a regen conf

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Elena Brescacin @poliversity.it

    WordPress and ActivityPub: my first fail

  • The spam campaign attacking Writefreely instances is out of control. Can you contact the admins you know?

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  • Journey with self hosting for personal blog and fediverse

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  • @selfhosted SelfHosting journey stopped for a while, now continues...

    I stopped for a while working on my personal website as I had to translate another big project from English to Italian; but now I took it in hands again, and guess what - the redirect from "/wp" to the domain does no longer work. Reachable just via domain . ext / wp / page-name. But I configured nginx differently.I'll check what happens...again...

  • WordPress multisite in selfhosting: one fail, one success

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  • @irmadlad The huge problem is that most documentation is in video format or full of information conveyed just by colors. In this, I have to admit, AI helps. As I can ask it to find what I need, and explain strings in human readable language. Well, of course if I have an idea of what I'm doing at least as principle. Such as "explain in words why this nginx rule doesn't work, why test has failed"

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Elena Brescacin @poliversity.it

    WordPress multisite in selfhosting: one fail, one success

  • Hardware recommendations for running OpenSense as a Firewall?

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  • @bytepursuits @selfhosted I've tried one mini-pc about 10 years ago; what a disappointment! It was a small jewel, touching it. It ran Win10, 64GB hard disk. For a couple years it has been my emergency portable aid - I installed NVDA (non visual desktop access) screen reader in it, as JAWS for Windows, the commercial one, is very heavy. So, after a few updates from Win10, this poor machine literally became so, so slow. And, hot. It seemed to have a little oven in my hands.Now, I don't find anything interesting; those machine, low-priced, sold in extra-EU e-commerces, don't seem trustworthy. The second one I bought was bigger, about the size of an iPad mini. But it arrived with broken LCD screen. As a blind user, I was relying just on audio. But in the end, gearbest said "you have broken it" - money thrown in the toilet.

  • Journey with self hosting for personal blog and fediverse

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  • @selfhosted @elena First fail:apps requesting REST API access, don't accept the "/wp/" configuration. Tomorrow I'll try again with a more reliable machine, smartphone can't be used for this purpose. I'm so disappointed by the first fail! As it is now, I can't rely on mobile and external clients such as #quill and #ulysses

  • Journey with self hosting for personal blog and fediverse

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  • @selfhosted @elena

    DONE!!! FINALLY! Multi-site works, and fun can begin!

    Our presentation page is up, and I'm impressed as the site seems super-fast. I won't try activitypub at the moment, maybe next week.Content for now, no visuals, it's still the default WordPress theme; I'll however continue using Gutenberg block editor for site design, sighted lady will help me with styles, sizes, colors, flags, logo. For now I have what I need: my best friend in POSITIVE (pun very intended) mood ☣️ and my intermediate web dev technical skills, let me build nav bar and HIV glossary before anything else, testing new multi-language echosystem.

    Before starting involving the sighted designer I want the interface to work properly.

    ENGLISH https://plusbrothers.net/english/about/

    ITALIANO: https://plusbrothers.net/cosa-facciamo

    Detail: I had to create a solo Nginx conf file to instruct it to accept main URL, placed on /etc/nginx/conf.d/plusbrothers.net.d/; I can't deny or hide that for this, AI helped. And precisely, the Hostinger embedded chatbot, trained with main provider base configurations.

    Unfortunately YunoHost has a limitation and wants WordPress to be installed into a subdirectory such as domain dot tld slash wp.

    And leaving it as it is, with its /wp/ at the end of each content, would have generated 404 errors to folks searching for old posts. I wanted to have at least the presentation page published, within July 3rd - the day where New York Times in 1981 talked of HIV for the first time, identifying it as an untreatable disease affecting 41 homosexual men.

    And the weird destiny is that my best friend, and content writer for this project, was born July 3rd 1975. 6 years later AIDS come out in the USA. He's gay, and turned poz (HIV+) in 2013 due to a cheating partner.

    selfhosting #yunohost #wordpress

  • Journey with self hosting for personal blog and fediverse

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  • Journey with self hosting for personal blog and fediverse

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  • @selfhosted @elena Journey with self hosting, part 2.

    I'm in the second phase of the experience. Domain transferred, DNS zone editor adjusted accordingly, letsencrypt set, YunoHost running "success!" in every aspect.

    In a few hours, I'll place WordPress multisite and try my new experiments on my VPS.

    PlusBrothers, poz world, the Agony Ass, and Fernando the sentient virus, will come back home.selfhosting #wordpress #yunohost

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Elena Brescacin @poliversity.it

    Self hosting: real game starts today

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Elena Brescacin @poliversity.it

    Self-hosting journey update, and WordPress: latest development from a super-newbie

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Elena Brescacin @poliversity.it

    Journey with self hosting for personal blog and fediverse