Elena Brescacin

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2026-06-27 18:09:37 UTC

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As a woman, and blind person, I don't care that Mullvad's co-founder made a PERSONAL donation to that party. Because what he gets in his own pockets, comes from all disabled / lgbt / black / women... who rely on their VPN and other services, to feel safe.
In the hope to feel safer online, we literally have filled the wallet of a guy who has contributed "personally" to finance a very racist, ableist, homophobic, supremacist Sweden party.
That said... Hate speech is not free speech. Supporting politicians who think that homosexuality is immoral (or worse a crime), that non-white / migrant people have less rights than white, thinking of rolling back diversity and inclusion policies (including accessibility and disabled people's rights), well, these are not opinions. This is HARM, and no politician should support it.
I'm blind, I rely on accessibility, and, I use my freedom to speak, to say what I really think: instead of financing that crap, you should finance disabled people's safety on and offline.
You should replace a person who is in favor with those philosophies. I feel double betrayed by you:
first, because at the moment, as far as I know, Mullvad is the best VPN service for accessibility to blind and with the most substainable/affordable payment conditions.
But then, I discover that it's yet another accessible technology but who licks the boots of MAGA and similar. It means that we, blind folks, are basically leashed. "you have no one but me", and you know what it means? It means control. It means that those fascists could, one day (far or near) ask for our data. How could I trust a company this way?
If you care of your business and reputation, you should at least find something better to say, to get out from this shit. I won't be silent from here; I always suggested mullvad to blind people asking for an accessible VPN, now I won't do any more but I'll warn about this political matter.
I won't ask for refunds, I have no longer energy to lose from here. 15 euro don't make me fail. After the current payment expires, I'll simply go away.
#accessibility #ableism #boycott #disability #blind #inclusion #wtf

2026-06-24 19:39:02 UTC

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St. John, here we celebrate San Giovanni. It's the same. We also have a plant called "Saint John's herb" I have no idea if its name is international. Its Latin name is "hypericum perforatum", maybe you can find images on line.
They prepare infuses with it, because it's at its best at st. John.
There are superstitions, they say that if you pick up its flower between 23rd and 24th June night time, you get the best of its active principle. It's a medicine plant for MODERATE depression, but due to its liver actions, it can undo chemical meds effects.
We also have a pop singer called Sangiovanni. His name is Giovanni, and as he's been a naughty boy during childhood, so he ironically called himself Sangiovanni as stage name.

2026-06-19 22:48:23 UTC

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In my area (Italy) drinking wine while eating is very much used. No, not to become drunk. But there are several wines, which can be associated to food. Fish has white, meat has red, well I'm not the best person to talk about wine because I dislike it. And same for beer. I rarely drink something AFTER eating. It's a drink with lemon, or liquorice, or even ginger and it's alcoholic. But they are very rare occasions, happening when out for a pizza with friends.
Or, even more rarely, during summer I get Mojito or Moscow mule cocktails. But you can count them in a sawyer's hand!
I mean - those guys in old time cutting woods with a saw, with no security measures. Ending up with one or two fingers cut off...
Only time I got drunk was during a party in 2010. I had 3 glasses. Micro-glasses, of lemon-tasting alcoholic drink. It seemed like a cream, there was milk in it maybe. Btw, I started laughing for nothing, it lasted about 45 minutes, then I began crying when alcohol euphoria ended.
Never got sick, but since then I've always avoided strongly alcohol-based events.

2026-06-10 05:35:00 UTC

Self-hosting journey update, and WordPress: latest development from a super-newbie
@npub14uz…3umy
I must recap as I set my instance to delete 2-weeks-old posts.
Months ago, I talked about my very first journey with self-hosting my digital services, including my website.
As I'm not very skilled with sysadmin stuff, I use a YunoHost installation with all its pros and cons.
Having severe accessibility needs (I'm totally blind) I have limited choices for what concerns CMS software with related extensions if any. So after months of exploration and test, I've come back home. To WordPress.
Last time I updated Fediverse about my experience, I was struggling with multisite network giving an unpleasant error in the non-main site, such as "too_many_redirects"
Making it short, I discovered that YunoHost doesn't let me run a multisite properly when installed in a subdomain such as blog.domain.tld
So I had forcefully to install it in the main domain, and a subdirectory such as domain.tld/wp
Now I'm concentrating on my theme, I will clone it with the plugin "CreateBlockTheme" then activate it network-wide.
I need a multisite for multilingual, as all current multilingual plugins have poor accessibility support, and are mostly paid.
Then I may need a new taxonomy registered to organize stories, the glossary plugin, SEO plugin, ActivityPub, and I should be all set!
The last, hard, challenge I have, is the fact that now my site runs into "domain.tld/permalink-post" for Italian, and "domain.tld/english" for English
The new one should run "domain.tld/wp/post" and "domain.tld/wp/english/post"
YunoHost doesn't let me build a WordPress site in the root directory with multisite installed, so I must find the way to tell nginx I want the product to be physically on /wp/ but browser can point to domain.tld/post or domain.tld/english/post...
And if possible, this change to be in a file on its own, in order to be able to delete it without damaging the whole nginx conf.
Last detail, I'm on hostinger, kvm2 package. vps.
#experience #multisite #nginx #SelfHosting #WordPress #YunoHost

2026-05-07 23:45:05 UTC

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And glad to help you with the possibilities and resources I can!

2026-05-05 21:37:08 UTC

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Sorry, I was just scheduling iOS VoiceOver testing - you just opened the campaign and have already closed? Thankfully I haven't shared it, but I planned to. So let me know when iOS gets back

2026-05-01 08:28:14 UTC

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I wanted to translate but the weblate interface says it's blocked due to maintenance. Wtf!

2026-04-30 21:17:46 UTC

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I'd be glad to contribute with Italian - but I don't find the dictionaries you need (accepted and forbidden words

2026-04-28 22:22:44 UTC

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I hope to have Fedle game in Italian soon! Could community contribute to help? I've translated software. But I don't know about this wordle-like game. Could you please put an emoji explanation on the "how to play" screen? I have played Wordle in a blind-related community so I have known the meanings but you could place something like "🟩

2026-04-28 14:29:13 UTC

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meanwhile I have translated PureComments into Italian. I have the file downloaded from the repo and "it.php" resides into my local machine. Would like to share it with you but I haven't experienced git stuff well yet

2026-04-28 06:30:39 UTC

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It's important to have the blogs more integrated into open web. And to avoid that WordPress monopolizes activitypub driven blogging

2026-04-27 19:53:44 UTC

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Worked! I find this project very interesting and I'm going to study the PureCommons projects in-deep. Wondering if it can be integrated with ActivityPub (blog and pure-comments) but who knows

2026-04-27 18:35:12 UTC

Just found that @npub129e…3cyx repository has added @npub18xj…60gf #PureBlog platform on its apps catalog. But it's the 2.4.3 release while the main package is 2.4.9. Wondering how to update it to latest!

2026-04-01 15:51:55 UTC

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già parte male. Per la denuncia? Non solo. Perché OnlyOffice come accessibilità è il male. Contro l'european accessibility act ovunque.
Domani alle 15 tra l'altro ho una call con loro (quelli di onlyoffice) voglio vedere se hanno ancora il coraggio di dirmi che loro all'accessibilità ci pensano!

2026-03-21 12:49:27 UTC

I'm no longer updating my Self Hosting experience here on Fediverse but it doesn't mean I'm not working.
I'm currently facing an obstacle I didn't predict: many apps I'd like to try, aren't in the YunoHost catalog but can be installed through Docker container.
I have no full competence on how to set all this stuff up, no idea if YunoHost and Docker can live together, I just heard I should change some ports configuration. Hostinger provider with kvm2 vps, Debian12, YunoHost latest version.
I'd really like to install @npub1xw9…75ln 's MadBlog, it attracts me a lot, but I'm afraid to break everything. #blogging #docker #selfhost #selfhosting #yunohost

2026-03-12 15:28:57 UTC

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And guess what? No accessibility yet! Screen readers do not detect the text at all. Impossible to read or write in documents. Both on iOS, and on desktop. And don't say that you support accessibility because it is a lie. Arrow keys move the mouse pointer? WHAT? But it's seriously impossible to write, I don't know how to explain it technically. But in practice, screen readers detect textfield as a fake textfield.

2026-03-11 17:24:07 UTC

io ho fatto quello che ho potuto per @npub1xw9…75ln
https://github.com/YunoHost/apps/pull/3384

2026-03-11 15:59:31 UTC

@npub1xw9…75ln - Suggesting you to add MadBlog to the @npub129e…3cyx catalog so that it can be used in that environment.

2026-03-10 22:58:14 UTC

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Ma è proprio appena uscito! Vedo zero issues... Domani vedo se può far casino, io non ho docker, ho yunohost

2026-03-10 20:51:25 UTC

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Mi fai venir voglia di provarlo - domani mattina in caso guardo se c'è documentazione, preparati che se è, ti rompo un po' le tole sull'accessibilità!
Io su WriteFreely per esempio trovo mancante la possibilità di avere una searchbar, dei tag che puoi descrivere. Per esempio se io ho un personaggio che si chiama "cippirimerlo", gli metto il cancelletto davanti e lui lo linka. Però non posso fare che quella pagina tag, mi metta in evidenza il post in cui si spiega chi è Cippirimerlo. Escono solo tutti i post che lo nominano, la sua presentazione però è in tanta mona.
Con WordPress risolvo o con la tag description, o con un blocco QueryLoop sotto il testo. Sempre tenendo conto (questo me l'ha detto una persona vedente) del fatto che quando hai un testo lungo e poi i post col paginatore, chi vede non ha la volontà -giustamente- di rileggersi testo abbondante in ogni pagina...
Cosa a cui io (priva della vista) non ho mai fatto caso perché io skippo qualunque cosa non sia contrassegnata da heading h2, quando sono su una pagina dove dentro ci sono dei post!
E poi questo madblog, a livello di temi, come si comporta? Va da solo come write freely, o tocca papocchiare con la grafica? Quello, non lo potrei fare...

2026-03-10 19:36:15 UTC

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Voglio approfondire... capire se è meglio di writefreely...

2026-02-16 18:48:46 UTC

@npub168y…upza - hello, there's a quite serious accessibility issue in AltStore app: when updating or installing an app, and the confirm dialog pops up, into the "do you want to confirm installation?" The "yes", or "confirm" button, is detected by VoiceOver as a blank control. You can double-tap on it anyways, but it's not intuitive to find.
#accessibility #a11y #AltStore #blind

2026-02-11 23:07:49 UTC

Dedicato agli sviluppatori:
adesso ditemi se questo è il modo di scrivere le note di rilascio, quando si aggiorna un programma, per far sapere agli utilizzatori le novità.
Correzioni di bug • Abbiamo levigato le parti più ruvide dell’app per evitare le schegge digitali. Sapevi che esistevano le “schegge digitali”? In ogni caso, non te ne devi più preoccupare.
Io non so scrivere codice. Non in modo avanzato. Ma almeno so che non si prende in giro il cliente giocando col changelog!

2026-01-23 13:24:31 UTC

E qua in Italia abbiamo certi mona, e non lo dico in senso buono, che di fronte a Israele la Russia e L'iran, nonché Trump, dicono "a 'sto punto meglio i cinesi". Ma andateci in Cina, anche qua non metaforico. Perché in mona è troppo semplice mandarvi.
Cina, creano un’immagine AI con due panda gay. Arrestati per aver “sconvolto l’ordine del cyberspazio” https://www.gay.it/cina-arrestati-panda-gay

2026-01-16 07:47:33 UTC

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Poi mettici, all'epoca, i già diffusi instant messenger centralizzati. Msn, Yahoo messenger, ICQ, che poi utilizzavi con una sola app perché c'era Miranda. Già all'epoca avevo un account su jabber.linux.it che ormai ho perso. L'epoca in cui ZIOBUDDA era la mia home page principale. Prima del 2002, Microsoft era partita bene. Con Microsoft Chat che di fatto era un client IRC. Con tutte le volte che con /nick ci si cambiava i soprannomi al volo e si facevano gli scherzi (o le molestie) oppure con /sound si mandavano i rutti. La prima chat web accessibile che io e un paio di amici avevamo fatto in PHP, stand-alone, senza registrazione, l'avevo pubblicata nella sezione script php di html.it col mio sito personale come demo e... Ricordo al volo di due tizi, un uomo e una donna, che facevano sexting nella mia chat senza sapere che al log si poteva accedere senza crittografia né nulla. Pubblico. Bastava un link diretto.
Poi mettiamoci all'epoca io su IRC, già allora col nick "talksina" che mi sono tenuta per 23 anni. C'era un certo AlexPianoPlay nei canali informatici specie quelli dedicati all'hardware. Litigavamo ogni sera sulle solite questioni Windows-Linux e affini (lui winaro convinto) e ogni volta pareva che quasi ci cercassimo. Cercassimo di trovarci in chat, per poi litigarci. Una specie di stima travestita da antipatia reciproca.
Ed è finito che Alessandro, il mio amico più caro (conosciuto via mail e blog nel 2019) mi ha rivelato, mandandomi pure i log dell'epoca, di essere stato lui AlexPianoPlay. Me l'ha rivelato solo di recente. "avevo capito subito che eri la stessa talksina". In realtà ci beccavamo in chat ma gli insulti erano sempre mirati al contesto informatico, mai sull'aspetto fisico, sessismo, ecc.

2026-01-13 07:42:43 UTC

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Sono tempi che ho vissuto anch'io; internet dal 1998. Con tutte le molestie sessuali e il bullismo che ricevevo in chat e non c'era nessuna rete per difendersi, rimpiango quei tempi per molte cose, ma non per altre. Non c'erano algoritmi che davano fastidio, ma c'era shinystat che ti mangiava pure le mutande

2026-01-13 06:45:07 UTC

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Perché proprio io a usare altavista... 🧑‍🦯 🙈

2026-01-12 19:47:48 UTC

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ricordo all'inizio il primo motore che ho usato è stato altavista (simone non ridere!)

2026-01-12 09:56:40 UTC

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Se vi fischiavano le orecchie, è perché ho porconato in turco perché searxng non andava. Alla fine sono andata sulle preferenze, disattivati Google e Bing, e me l'ha sbloccato. Io stavo anche pensando di abbonarmi a Kagi, tagliando su altri servizi digitali. Però mi scoccia particolarmente dover abbonarmi per usare un motore di ricerca.

2026-01-09 10:56:09 UTC

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Gradirei mandarti in mona (doppio senso volutissimo) però questo è un client solo per piattaforme apple. La cosa scocciante è che diverse funzioni interessanti sono a pagamento; io me lo sono comprata perché è apertamente, nativamente, costruito per l'accessibilità; phanpy invece ahimè è tutto l'opposto a livello di accessibilità anche se è leggermente migliorato, nei mesi. Le notifiche? Sui social, le notifiche in tempo reale sono le prime opzioni che disattivo se no mi fanno perdere la testa. Leggo e rispondo quando ho voglia. E tempo.

2026-01-09 09:59:10 UTC

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Io come client uso Mona sul telefono. Anche su quello puoi mettere le istanze delle altre comunità mastodon, e le si trova poi sulla tab "esplora". E posso anche decidere di mettermi le tab (home, esplora, notifiche...) in ordine a seconda di come mi trovo meglio con l'interfaccia. Il bello del fediverso è che gli sviluppatori possono personalizzarsi le funzioni. Avevo anche provato un client che mi gestisse anche friendica, come utente friendica intendo. Ma su quello che ho (fedicat) non mi trovo granché

2026-01-05 09:13:08 UTC

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Hi, for Digital Independence Day I'd expected at least an English translation. My German knowledge comes from 1999 that's why I haven't shared the link around. Sorry!

2026-01-03 20:24:02 UTC

SelfHosting week 0, phase 2A, documentation.
There is one thing I find quite uncomfortable on @npub129e…3cyx documentation: the emojis at the beginning of every chapter. They are very annoying to read for a blind user when going back and forth heading by heading with a screen reader. And, worse, when you attempt to isolate links through the "link list" or "heading list", "element list" whatever name used by screen readers for that feature, you cannot choose an item by initial letter and get into it quickly, from the list that pops up.
The "element list" feature allows a user to press a shortcut and find items of the same type, organized in a list. Links, headings, form controls, etc. So, if it is the table of contents in a documentation website, you have all chapters ordered. You press down arrow in the list, till you find the desired element then press Enter. Or, better, in a normal situation, if you have to choose "domains" for example, you pop up the link list and type "d", then if Domains is the first, you press Enter on it. Or at least, links with that initial are isolated by pressing the letter over and over again till you find the desired one.
But this YunoHost docs are full of those emoticons which maybe are pleasant for sighted folks, but not for blind. Not at all.
#accessibility #a11y #blind #docs #SelfHost #SelfHosting #YunoHost

2025-12-13 20:02:09 UTC

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Come donna interessante nel Fediverso, c'è anche la fondatrice del DAIR (Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research) Institute. Si chiama Timnit Gebru, parla inglese; è una signora che hanno licenziato da google dopo che ha messo in luce rischi e problemi etici dei modelli linguistici conversazionali specie in merito a razzismo.
https://dair-community.social/@timnitgebru

2025-12-10 23:59:41 UTC

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/115697740732198587
I am observing from outside, what a mess America is experimenting. And let me share it with people who are trying to fight back in USA:
@npub1u0q…9mcc @npub1qmg…s6k5 - @npub10wn…f0qm @npub1vag…mjkp
#note12xq…m06l

2025-11-29 08:32:09 UTC

RE: https://poliversity.it/@elettrona/115521896852354624
IMPORTANT: are we really going to let this campaign fail at 90 percent of its goal? @npub1lzd…urpr needs our support. Rather than buying useless stuff for these holidays, I'd better suggest to give something to these folks working for community's good. We can't let it go at 27.12 euro let's do 30.000!!! #fediverse #community #tech #mutualaid #crowdfunding #help #FollowerPower
#note13xy…ysky

2025-11-14 07:49:19 UTC

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I even read your "screen reader instructions" but seriously... It has been made by sighted and tested by sighted only, how on earth could you say that this is accessibility? Maybe you see the mouse moving. But screen reader focus doesn't follow at all, no way to write text, no way to read, no standard command (such as alt-f10) to switch between toolbar and editor, it's really really unusable. And your so-called "accessibility" is there since 7.5 you said, we are at 9 and above, and you're still there.
I could even be available for an online demo with shared audio/screen with you so you realize what mess you made

2025-11-13 17:38:27 UTC

Finding myself again on #foss paradox: "made by the community for the community", excluding people with visual disabilities.
I found the @npub10cs…n44p suite in a blog I'm following, Italian-speaking space where they collect useful online apps for every need - @npub16xq…47q9
From explanations and reviews it's a very good suite and I would have no doubt on this. But, being totally blind, I noticed I can't use it either on desktop (web-based) or on iOS app, due to complete lack of accessibility features so I uninstalled it. Too bad.
Now, I found the new PCloud editor (PCloud is the cloud plan I'm using to store my texts) and I found same inaccessibility as OnlyOffice. I asked the support team, and they confirmed "yes, our document editor is a collaboration with OnlyOffice".
So I am taking the chance to "ping" the office suite's team in order for them to allow us blind users to enjoy their platform too - PCloud or not.
I'd even ask to the whole fediverse accessibility related spaces to take a moment and ask OnlyOffice to take this step and empower us to use their products as well.
Mention @npub19dn…3nvd and @npub12ar…ca5c together with @npub1wdl…trga
#accessibility #a11y #blind #foss #OnlyOffice

2025-11-09 21:37:36 UTC

Just supported @npub1lzd…urpr campaign. #fediverse needs some concrete steps forwards, a solid structure for communities, researchers, science, etc. We must get our backside off the sofa and do our best for the cause.
https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community