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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So I’ve been sharing my Weird Dreams with the fediverse lately. Because I’m a bit of a nut, I figured: why not share my normal dreams as well? I’ll be doing that with the hashtag every morning. If you, too, find dreams interesting, feel free to join in! Some ground rules and background: as a teenager, I was extremely interested in dreaming. I practiced recall and put a lot of work into it, as the first step to lucid dreaming. While I never achieved it, to this day I can generally remember 1 or 2 dreams a night. I don’t believe dreams are supernatural, or have any deeper meaning.I just believe they’re fun, and sometimes an interesting way to get a glimpse of your own subconscious. Also, thanks to some medication I take, my dreams have become even more vivid over the last couple years. If I’m lucky enough to have any explicit dreams, I’ll be keeping those to myself! Will sharing my dreams with the world every morning get me any closer to my long abandoned goal of lucid dreaming? Will my subconscious get performance anxiety and stop dreaming entirely? Will the focus on writing up my dreams in something more than point-form for my dream diary make them even weirder? It’s a social experiment, bro! And you get to follow along on this journey of entirely unscientific and meaningless science! Yay! Yeah…feel free to filter out the hashtag entirely.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@JonathanMosen @nationsblind Thanks! In the meantime, if you find that text can be displayed on a Braille display in the new Microsoft Store app, I would love to know. I can borrow one for at least a few weeks if that will work around the problem at least temporarily.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@JonathanMosen @nationsblind No worries! It happens all the time. I'm hoping NFB still has contacts over at Amazon. I use Kindle on my Laptop to read research and technical material that's not available on bookshare. So the ability to check spelling character by character is critical to me. As well as selecting and copying text so I can make citations.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@JonathanMosen @nationsblind I tested with both NVDA 2026 and jaws 2026. I did not try with Narrator. I downloaded the new Kindle app from the Microsoft Store, ensured I had the latest version, and then opened a book that I knew worked correctly in the Kindle Legacy app. Once I opened the book, I found that I could read by line with the up and down arrows. However, pressing the say all hotkey did nothing. And when I cursored down to the end of a page, the text did not advance until I pressed page down. I checked the settings for an auto-advance, or other accessibility setting, but found nothing. The assistive reader is available and will read with your default SAPI5 voice. However, this is not nearly as nice as using say all. Also, there is no way to read by letter, so checking spelling is impossible. I do not know if the text of Kindle books in the new app displays on a Braille display or not, as I do not have one connected to this computer.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @JonathanMosen @nationsblind Yes. All of these things worked on the existing Kindle app for Windows. However, that app has been renamed to "Kindle Legacy" and is being discontinued on June 30th, and will no longer run after that date. The new app runs only on Windows 11, and is only available in the Microsoft Store.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Got my hands on a copy of the new app for Windows 11. You can read the text with a , but only line by line. Not word by word or character by character. Say all does not work. Pages do not advance automatically; you must press page down when you get to the end of a page. Find does not work. You cannot select or copy text. Alt text does not seem to work, though I'm unsure if this was a problem with my particular book. Hopefully Amazon gets these things fixed before Kindle Legacy is discontinued on June 30th. For now, this app is effectively unusable for long-form reading, or for research and study. @nationsblind @JonathanMosen
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Looks like the new app is out for Windows, but only in the US store for now. Has anyone had an look yet? Old app is going away June 30th. Yes, Amazon is bad. But they're the exclusive publisher for a lot of indi authors. apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p8jq0jjstll?hl=en-GB&gl=CA
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@remixman I prefer "she who must not be named".
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@HunterXWorld @remixman Please don't use my new name as your wake word. LOL JK
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Today's out of context quote from Lemmy: "You don’t have to go to Hollywood to start calling yourself Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler. You can just do that now, without even leaving your room."

I think this is the Friday inspiration we all needed.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 @admin I'd say this isn't ready for public use, yet. Still actively under development. The public instance and the dockerized version are wildly out of sync. Worth watching, but still needs to finish cooking.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@fasnix @WeirdWriter The dude is actively committing code it looks like. And has no staging environment; just deploy to production. And the docker and public deploy are wildly out of sync. Not just "one is newer". They have different features entirely! So...yeah. I'm hoping these are just "new project weirdness" rather than a sign of bigger problems.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 Also, between the multiple forks and handoffs, the Enafore code itself has gotten pretty messy. I wouldn't want to work on it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 Oh, interesting. He's running his own infra (git, etc) so I assumed that meant he was more experienced than average. Most vibecoders just use github.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@fasnix @WeirdWriter Huh, strange. it's working for me when I checked just now.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@fasnix @WeirdWriter I have no idea how Synology works, sorry. But you have to have the env files set correctly, and you have to store the docker-compose in the docker directory of the repo you cloned. Otherwise it can't find locales and things correctly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 Sorry. I didn't want to run a public client on my infrastructure without understanding the code a bit more.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 social.interfree.ca, but it's restricted to my instance.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 Maybe they only update that version on a major release. Whereas I'm running docker on latest.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 Huh. Just checked and the docker version is different from the deployed version.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 @WeirdWriter Press settings, then there's an "account" link.
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