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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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Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So rblind.com didn't go down, and it isn't anymore broken today than it usually is. Cloudflare breaks . It always has, and it always will. Now the rest of you know how it feels to be locked out because you don't run JavaScript and can't solve a captcha. Will you stop using ? No, of course not! If it blocks , you're completely fine with denying that blind users might be human at all. As AI becomes more and more capable, the definition of "human" is going to become more and more restrictive, until everyone who isn't completely able bodied and doesn't have absolutely perfect vision, hearing, and cognition is completely excluded.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1w
TIL: when you use adguard or another privacy protecting DNS, spellcheck in all Microsoft apps gets significantly worse. Apparently the "good" spellchecker requires some service it was blocking, and the fallback is terrible.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@TheQuinbox Sorry, just walked out my door. Didn’t expect an instant response lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@TheQuinbox Uh, the new version identifies itself as 0.6 under about. And the update checker prompts to update on launch. Same for the dev build. :-)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@matt @alpuzz So on Windows 11, Edge WebView is always loaded into ram, because a bunch of parts of the OS depend on it. So you get an entire free browser.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@mcourcel @alexchapman @quanin Sure! www.marmaladefoo.com/pages/geminaut
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@matt @alpuzz But what does compact mean today? You can write a z-machine interpreter in pure JavaScript. It's tiny! But only because you're using the browser for accessibility and the user interface and everything else.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@alexchapman @quanin You can solve it with modern OCR or AI.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@alexchapman @quanin The most accessible client is MicroPlanet gravity: github.com/taviso/mpgravity
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@alexchapman @quanin Nope. There are free text-only usenet servers available. The main one is eternal-september.org.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@PuercoPop Thanks! Not quite what I'm looking for, but looks neat!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
question: Has anyone written a Bridge between , , , , or other fediverse software and ? I have access, and would be happy to bridge some of the various blindness groups on Usenet onto the fediverse.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@alexchapman @matt I think other things support it. Just not accessibly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
Some beta feedback: it should say translated before the post text with . That way we can set expectations appropriately before hearing the text and thinking it’s poorly written.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@FreakyFwoof @menelion I use edge. Am I going to mastodon jail?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@matt On windows adobe is still the only thing that supports fillable forms. So seeing as I’m forced to keep it installed for that I just use it for everything.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
Some drama for those of you who enjoy that sort of thing: www.reddit.com/r/Blind/s/6ZicOIjkg2
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@neurrone 1, I never noticed that. 2, it’s simpler, more like conjury than Dawncaster. 3, I dont remember, sorry! Haven’t touched that one in a while.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@neurrone The core game is complete. Documentation is lacking though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@mcourcel @svenja @quanin Yes. 8 gb of video memory will do.