Blind geek, fanfiction lover (Harry Potter and MLP). Mastodon at: @[email protected].
From a Mashable article published at the time, quoting the CEO in his own words:
In an interview, Prince expressed doubt about his decision to remove The Daily Stormer from Cloudflare, and conveyed concern over companies like his own, and their ability to pull a lever, and knock a website offline.
In my opinion, folks should avoid Cloudflare at all costs. They’re free speech maximalists with a history of defending NAZI’s and other terrible people. They only discontinue service to white nationalists when the media attention gets too hot. Then they turn around and let them back in once things have died down.
Also, speaking as a screen reader user, if they think your IP address is suspicious (maybe because you’re using Tor or a VPN), they present an inaccessible captcha and don’t offer work-arounds. Then because the entire website is blocked behind the captcha, screen reader users can’t even get in contact with you to let you know what’s happening.
You might want to mention that these days SillyTavern tends to be up to date and have more features.
I also think it is the greater good to let AIs train for free.
I’m not entirely sure about this. Freely available AI’s, sure, maybe. But corporate closed source AI’s that charge per token? I’m not saying no, but I’d love to hear someone justify the thinking behind why this is “the greater good”.
Testing a lemmy instance to see how it might work for the r/blind community. There will be a bunch of accessibility issues fixed in the next release it looks like, so it’s a bit early to judge. Also, it’s pulled me, personally, into the world of being a sysadmin for other people. Now I get to figure out why email doesn’t work and why when you search for a community you need to press search nine times before anything shows and all kinds of other niggles like that before I feel ready to open an instance to the general masses.
Getting a decent VPS is pretty cheap. Email is the enormous problem. Even if your VPS provider allows outgoing email, your IP address will be flagged and blocked by all mailservers everywhere for the crime of not being Google or Microsoft, or not having a full-time person working 24/7 to satisfy the people in charge of blacklists. You can pay someone else to send your email, but that’s going to cost you as much or more as the VPS you’re using to host your entire app.