As far as I can tell things seem to be back to normal now. Care should still be take so proceed with caution

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!lemmy_support@lemmy.ml appears to be tracking the issue through https://lemmy.ml/post/1896249

and updating the community at large through a PSA here https://lemmy.ml/post/1895271

if those threads get too much activity they may switch to new threads or start using another medium so do not count on them remaining up to date until things are fully resolved.

lemmy.blahaj.zone appears to have been affected as well.

Right now working theory is some combination of admin account compromise and code injection through the markdown processor used prior to 18.1 but that could change over time. Looks like we’re on latest so hoping we’re good.

Would continue to avoid lemmy.world and lemmy.blahaj.zone until there is a better understanding of what happened and there is a good consensus all is resolved.

Gotta sleep soon so wishing us all luck

There is a more technical discussion about a related issue that mentions the servers we know about https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/696053

Now really good night

Correction. They are definitely not clear yet

Will give this a look. See how hard it is to install and use when using a screen reader. Really like that there’s no telemetry

Two types of light receptors in retina.

One, called cones, addresses color. Distinguishes gross changes in color across entire visible spectrum. More durable, mostly in macula (central vision), and slow to detect change.

The other, called rods, address intensity (brightness). Distinguishes fine changes in light intensity normally presented in gray scale (shades of black and white). More fragile, mostly in prepheral retina, quickly detects change.

RP and Choroideremia tend to kill off the rods in the peripheral retina first eventually moving on to the cones centered in the macula. Fewer rods mean less ability to discerned between changes in shades of color. For example it may be difficult between ruby red and infra red crayons when right next to each other but much easier when separated by florescent yellow.

Or at least that’s the gist of the what I remember from a conversation with a low vision occupational therapist. Can’t really see enough to test it any more.

High contrast is key for anything you need to see right now.

Be careful trusting what you see. Movement, distance, and definition (shape) perception could be off as well

Yes! That was it. Thank you so much.

Was driving me nuts. Amazing how something little like that can bug you to distraction.

Darn! I did it again!

I colored your situation with my own instead getting more information about what you really needed and answering your question. It is a bad habit and I apologize.

NFB had what’s now a booklet that helped me a lot at the time: Cane: Instructions in Cane Travel for Blind People

• I particularly found section 3 Actually Walking Around pretty useful in the short term but in the end it has all proved useful so the entire thing was a good read

It looks like it could be a useful read for a sighted person trying to spot you as well

There have been a number of things I have listened to and read since that have provided some help as well…but it was harder to remember where I found them. If I hadn’t remembered originally finding the NFB one above on the page for their Free White Cane Program I might not of known where to find that either.

As for my situation, that is good advice that I will be following until I can make my trip and get that in person training. I can do well enough with the day to day now. My end goal, if I can manage to afford it, is to independently travel as much as I can. I never took the time to do that back when I could still see and am regretting it a bit. My O&M skills could use a bit more finesse for unfamiliar areas that I may not have as much time to learn as I would like.

Good vibes are always welcome and send some of mine back at ya.

Cannot speak for the group at large but a nice to have from a personal standpoint would be stickied How Tos hosted in your community for things like alt text that we could use links to refer people to.

Otherwise it is still too early to have a good idea where the needs are. A lot of time still going into figuring out how things work and where things are. Sure I will have more to bring up as I learn more.

Thanks for keeping us in mind and have a great day!

Was able to get there and subscribe but it was a bit of work to get there…Does not help that I am new enough to Lemmy that I am still figuring out how to do things.

Don’t see any content yet and a no easy way to post there either (no Create a post button yet). However I know a lot of instances are overloaded right now so I understand there could be delay. Will try again after a bit.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/kebtranscriparchive is good for when you want people from outside Lemmy to create accounts on your instance. !kebtranscriparchive@lemmy.blahaj.zone might be better for people with existing account to subscribe to your community.

Would better walkability and affordability let you save enough money to visit another town that does have O&M specialists available?

This is something I am considering for myself now.

The worst of my vision loss happened at the beginning of the Pandemic when there were no in person services available in the area. At that time my O&M training consisted of 3 hour long phone calls. I had a little remaining vision at the time and no one was really supposed to go anywhere at the time anyway so it was enough. Now that I have almost no useful vision remaining and things have improved enough that they are doing in person training again I have been trying to get in person training. Unfortunately, even though there are specialists within the normal travel distances I live in a notoriously high crime area so no one is willing to come to me.

To get in person O&M training I will have to travel to a neighboring town so I am in the process of saving enough money to spend a few days some where I can get it. Not easy because there is not a lot extra right now.

We will see what happens. Reddit is hard to let go especially for people in othe r/Blind community that fills a very real need. Plus they have been making a lot of cosmetic changes that may help appease some people and bring them back into the fold. Between that very real need we were filling and those cosmetic changes some of us are very likely to be drawn back in.

As for me, a short visit there yesterday proved to me that I cannot allow myself to go back. The r/Blind subreddit was what brought me to that site in the first place and was the one community I was a part of there that was largely resistant to the toxicity so prevalent through the rest of the site. Yesterday’s visit was heartbreaking, showing me how much the toxicity of the rest of the site had infiltrated r/Blind…and even so, the urge to dive back in was very strong. I felt like a recovering gambling addict walking into a casino for the first time since giving it up. I just cannot afford to go back to that.

While I hope that we will all continue to be a part of building something new, and hopefully better, we will have to see how may of us resist reddit’s siren call.

The need in the fediverse is at least as strong as the need r/Blind on reddit. I cannot imagine that building up this community will take any less time and effort than building up r/Blind on reddit originally did bit it should prove well worth it in the end.

A note to the admins and mods of rBlind.com and its communities:

Thank you for getting this started and providing a community for those of us with no place at reddit can support one another in our blindness and our visual impairments.

Cane. Which, now that I think about it, most sighted people I know think is stupid. They all seem to think that there’s tiny portable magic radar, sonar, infrared, VR stuff that’s widely available and actually works.

Over the course of my life I have had the chance to support a lot of tech, including a couple of medical prototypes that were supposed to have that kind of magic. Yet after my vision loss it was what amounted to a long white stick that had the most beneficial affects on my life. Sometimes low tech is the best tech.