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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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Birthday 1987-12-20
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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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@clv1 @cachondo @Tamasg @jscholes @FreakyFwoof @pixelate @ZBennoui @amir And also UX researchers, probably. I can't articulate why eloquence is better than dectalk, for me. Neither, I bet, could Andre articulate what makes Orpheus better than Eloquence, for him. So to get something that makes the largest number of people as happy as possible is a classic UX research problem, probably involving massive surveys, rating and ranking of samples, and so on. I work with the kind of people qualified to do this, and it's a unique skill-set in and of itself.
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@MostlyBlindGamer But I'm not disappointed that the package description does nothing to explain why the package exists, why it's better, or why it should be used over the dozens of other ORM-like options.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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You cannot just write "potato is being blocked on my laptop" as the subject of your support request, and then just leave it at that. I don't know, either. Knowing computer people though, there are probably seven different incompatible versions of potato, and "potato" could be anything from a word processor to a network diagnostic tool. You thought I was joking, huh? So did I! But googling for potato software reveals an AI tool for biologists, some kind of audio mixing tool, an instant messenger, a text annotation tool, a background transcription tool, and more. All of these programs are all called just "potato". Also, the AI answers above the search results happily tell me, with no context: "Start using potato in your project by running npm i potato. The children components of your potatoes may themselves have components and your potatoes might rapidly look like small tree-like structures of components." I'll...get right on that. Potatoes that look like trees and have children is the one thing all of my projects are missing!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@NicksWorld This is exactly what the Germans said during world war II. If you don't believe Alligator Alcatraz, and the detention centers ICE is running in Honduras, are concentration camps, you are just like the germans who claimed they were "just following orders". Your president is actively planning an armed invasion of my country of Canada, so don't expect any simpathy from me. Let's hope there will eventually be an equivalent of Nuremberg trials, and all of you enabling the modern SS will also get the justice you deserve.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@NicksWorld But I wouldn't be in ICE. This is the equal of Hitler's SS, and these people deserve exactly what the SS Officers got.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@foxyloon @PepperTheVixen Best way to do it is with tweezers and using the fingertips of your other hand to check the alignment as you go.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof Shite.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@rmcpantoja Also, I'd love to hear if and when you release anything!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@rmcpantoja The issue with not using Espeak is that it makes it impossible to have user dictionaries. When we use a neural network, linguistic rules are no longer deterministic. So it might say a word correctly with one voice, at one time, but not with another voice, or at another time. This makes it impossible for us to correct mispronounced words in a reliable way.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@rmcpantoja Yes, the only way to avoid messing with the NVDA Python environment would be to do an IPC server. But at that point, you're really just rewriting SAPI and it seems pointless.
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@jpellis2008 @FreakyFwoof Check the thread. It was found. :-)
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@jscholes LOL nope. They were trying to age up the characters so the teen author wouldn't have to do historical research about what things were like in the 1980's, and could just give them all cell phones and have them listening to real music, rather than whatever medieval chanting they used to do in 1988.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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If your summary starts off "All characters were bornded in 2008 instead" I'm not reading any further. Bornded? Really? I can't even...how do we get to bornded? Born is already the past tense! Okay, but if you didn't know that, I could see borned. I don't like it, but not everyone speaks English, and that's totally okay. But if you're using some kind of translation dictionary, wouldn't it give you the word "birth" and so then you'd write "birthed"? Birthed isn't my favourite, either, but it's fine. It's a real word. I've been sitting here for several minutes trying to figure out how anyone, anywhere, gets to "bornded". I would even accept "gived birth to", especially if your native language isn't English; it's a good try.
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@Kingslayer Right, and unless it was really bitter chocolate, it'd go terrible with any kind of meat.
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I also have no idea why I just...decided to come for the state of California? Sorry, California followers. I'm sure you...know about chemicals. I dunno.
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Oh! Posting late because I forgot about this, but it fits . My dream journal last night said (cleaned up quite a bit from the transcript): "Listening to the radio. Heard an add like in OTR. But it was for choco-sausages. Yes, thanks to modern technology, Campbells soup has been able to create sausages, with chocolate chips embedded in them! That's right, now you, too, can enjoy having a sausage with chocolate chips in it. And it's all thanks to Campbells, producers of theoretically consumable products since 1900. Remember, choco-sausages contain chemicals that are unknown to the state of California. Campbells does not claim any medical benefits for choco-sausages, that choco-sausages may treat or cure any medical condition, or that choco-sausages are food or a suitable part of any meal." I have no other context. I guess I dreamed this? Or did I just...partly wake up and think this idea was so good it had to be recorded? I have no idea. My mumbling made it obvious I wasn't really awake.
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@Jonathan @FreakyFwoof @jonathan859 Yes! This is it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jonathan859 @FreakyFwoof Thank you! I just walked out the door. Andre, could you test this and stick it somewhere for the world to have and enjoy if it works?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Hey fediverse! At one point one of my followers posted a .reg file or script that added exclude this folder from Microsoft defender to the explorer context menu. But I’ve lost it. Can anyone help? boost okay @FreakyFwoof
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@Tamasg @clv1 @jscholes @cachondo @FreakyFwoof @amir @ZBennoui @pixelate If you knew the technical requirements well enough to do it yourself, AI could do it for you slightly faster. But if you couldn’t have done it on your own, AI won’t help.