Italian, progressive, non-religious; blind since birth, accessibility consultant, WordPress blogger and Fediverse ambassador, HIV awareness advocate. Creator of @plusbrothers fiction/satire project. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🦮🦯 #a11y #blind #WordPress #accessibility #hiv #fedi22 #fediverse #advocacy #activitypub #StopStigma #UEqualsU

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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/




  • @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.