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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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@Tamasg The problem with character.ai is they wanted to be a family friendly AI chat platform. Doing that is a lose, lose, lose. If a character says something inappropriate, you get lawsuits from parents. If you sensor the characters, the people who want adult chat all go elsewhere. The primary markets for AI companions are either pornography or roleplay. So sensoring both sex and violence kills both use-cases. When I tried them, character.ai wouldn't even allow a basic dungeons and dragons type roleplay where you and your character kill monsters. I feel pretty strongly that self-hosted roleplay is the only way this can be done in a way that's safe for users, and not overly risky for companies.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@paculino @AlSweigart Until YouTube follows Reddit's example and disables RSS entirely. But good to know! Default YouTube search is full of shorts and "other people also watched" and other random nonsense, no matter what you do.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@vitallie Glad it works for you! As much as I love open source, it's nice to see an indipendant developer releasing a capable app at a fair price.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes Uh. And to clarify if anyone else reads this thread; I know James probably already knows. But this is a starting point. Not an out of the box solution. At absolute minimum, you need to edit deploy.ps1 and settings.yml, delete the content of the output folder, and set the appropriate github secrets and environment variables. This repo is "see how I do it", not "this solution will do it all for you".
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes Feel free to grab my blogs sourcecode if you want a place to start on building a static blog. GitHub.com/fastfinge/stuff
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Is there some standard for publishing my blog roll as or something? Nobody uses xfn.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@johann Yup.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@johann It’s a setting when you add a feed to miniflux.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@AlSweigart YouTube just ignores your actual query and shows you whatever it wants, though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir I guess in short I'm just glad I get to live in Canada. For however long it continues to exist, anyway. At least we're keeping Alberta.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MLE_online If you had a microwave that ran Linux, you wouldn't have this problem. It's your fault for not running Linux and you deserve it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir Whereas Trump just takes away the healthcare, the support, and the vaccines, and lets them get sick and starve in the streets. And he would absolutely do the same if he could; ICE and his detention camps are his first attempt at it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir I mean from the outside, I'm not sure who's worse: them or Trump. At least you can generally trust the Iranian dictators to do what they say they're going to do, and not to do moronic things just because they can. Doesn't make them good. But it might make them better, or at least more reliable, than Trump.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir I wasn't particularly shocked. The way he keeps threatening war with Canada, of all places.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir Hopefully. I guess the ones still alive and in power have to be the smart ones; the stupid ones would have been killed already.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir Good luck!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir I mean, in a campaign speech he came out and told Iran it would be okay if they bomb Sanfransisco or LA. He says he was joking, of course. But i think it was like "ha ha only serious".
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir Not really. If he can provoke Iran or someone into launching an attack against the US, he gets to either cancel the midterms entirely, or use it as fuel for his right-wing base to get them focused on revenge.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir Sigh. Probably. Trump needs a win during the midterms. Or at least a war to distract everyone.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir You could run it on your local machine and have it get articles via a VPN if you wanted. You just have to configure WSL on windows, then run miniflux inside it.
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