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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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@NightDrake It has a moderate amount of sex, so be ready for that. A good book, though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@NightDrake What's annoying me is that the library in Canada is slowly going through and replacing the NLS recordings with commercial ones. I assume to avoid depending on The United States government who could take away our rights to use them at any point as part of the on-going war.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@NightDrake I never even bothered trying the audible one I like her so much. Both in that and Friday by Robert Heinlein. She just does sarcasm so well. And listening to the audible preview...eww this sounds terrible. Christa Lewis pauses so weirdly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@NightDrake The bard version is the one narrated by Madelyn Buzzard isn't it? Because that's the only correct answer. Or at least that's the one we get from the library in Canada.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Tonight I learned that if I press function+left control+left shift+left capslock, it'll reverse my control and caps lock keys. Seeing as I use capslock as the NVDA modifier key, this became a problem. Other special things about this keyboard include that pressing right control+right windows is applications, pressing function plus right windows turns off the windows keys entirely, and pressing left shift+right shift+backspace resets all bluetooth paired devices and even unpairs the keyboard from its USB dongle. Anyway, folks, don't let the cat lie on the keyboard. I'm told by a sighted person that "the lights are all weird" as well. Although I don't know or care about that last one.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@plzupgrademe I just want free beer, please.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@nick @amir It sounds like regular eloquence, but while it's talking, someone else has shown up to do horrible whispering ASMR directly in your ears overtop of it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@nick @amir Second commit to work around openEVV bugs that could crash all of NVDA. It's in and working, and sounds absolutely horrible to me. github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/commit/838b9eb116a5e70e379f760e7eb96a377ee740b8
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir Done. github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/commit/cd13e1fc0858f94bfa10988f518f33413fffa5b0
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@nick @amir Okay. I'm in the middle of some work stuff this afternoon, but I'll get to this tomorrow morning, unless one of you gets to it first. When building for any purpose other than release, eloquence_64 already automatically downloads the latest openEVV commit artifact. And the samplerate code is already there. So it's literally just a matter of adding the ECI setting and rebuilding. Then waiting to do an actual release until OpenEVV gets the feature into a release on there end.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@nick @amir Okay, sounds good. I was just checking to see if there was some reason I should that I hadn't thought of.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir @nick My worry is that too many checkboxes will confuse 99 percent of users, and then we get to spend the rest of our lives answering questions about why resampling doesn't work, or what that checkbox is for.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir Is there any reason this has a checkbox? I'm struggling to understand why anyone would set a sample rate above 11025 kHz and want wideband off? I don't even understand why openEVV made this a setting. Is there any reason to not just have it always on?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I haven't done a for a while, so here's one from last night. I dreamed I had started a business making and selling plush octopuses, under the brand octo-pussies. Unfortunately, my plushies were so ugly that everyone who saw them screamed and threw up. So many customers complained that the police came and arrested me for "being bad". Like, that was the actual charge. I went to court, and the judge decided that anyone who makes plush octopuses that ugly should be given the death penalty. I was being electrocuted just as I woke up to my arm tingling because I'd fallen asleep with it in a weird position.

Anyway: does anyone want an octopus plushy?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof Yup. I grew up in a heavily Chinese/Korean area. It's a popular supersticion in these cultures that you shouldn't leave fans running in a closed room for too long, because they'll suck out all the oxygen. So if the classroom was hot, but it was raining so the windows couldn't be opened, the portable fans also had to be turned off. This was a thing believed by both teachers and students. Nobody could comprehend that the fan was blowing out the exact same air it sucked in. It was making the air cooler! So obviously the fan was changing the air somehow. Saying otherwise is just silly, apparently.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir @nick It did. New release is out: github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v23
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tcikoritys Here you go. It is really an MVP. Documentation only sort of exists. It's only tested to run on my one Windows machine. If it breaks, you get to keep all the pieces: github.com/fastfinge/audai
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof I doubt you'll be able to get anything non-stupid out of it. More of a silly art project really. If I was an artist I'd put it in a giant radio with flashing lights, knobs, and a fake antenna. Exhibit it somewhere as the alien radio.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@KaraLG84 There is. It's playing fine from here.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof Okay, here you go. Note that this is tested to work on one windows computer of mine. It may or may not work on mac? The documentation is...probably enough for your AI? Maybe? Absolutely nothing else is tested. github.com/fastfinge/audai
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