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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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@amir @Tamasg Personally, I didn’t even start using it for that reason. I use Eloquence on IOS, Mac, Apple TV, Android, and my Apple Watch. Those platforms will never get this feature. So I’d rather not be spoiled by it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir @Tamasg While we both do use AI to generate code, one of us always reads all the code before we merge a PR. I have no issue with AI code. But I do believe the maintainers of a project have to be able to understand all of the code in a program, what it does, how it does it, and why it does it that way. If a programmer with more knowledge in audio processing (Tamas? LOL) wants to commit to loving, understanding, and maintaining that feature, our position could change.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir @Tamasg We opted not to do that because the code is quite complicated, and appears to have been fully AI generated. Neither myself nor AKJ feel we understand it well enough to fix any bug reports about it, or maintain it going forward. As you can tell, we have enough problems with the bugs we already have! :-)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Fragglemuppet Why not both? Mix them in a bowl!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir @Tamasg There’s also an issue on the GitHub about smart quotes that only seems to affect some people. In short, NVDA stops reading with eloquence when in say all and encountering an em-dash followed by a closing quotation mark. But it works for me LOL. I wonder if these have a common cause? github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/issues/111
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Orinks @amir ETI 6
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@remixman No idea! Though after moderating a community full of toxic blind hackers I don’t blame him lol.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jackf723 Perfect! Exactly what I was hunting for!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
Ummm. Does anyone know why randomly just decided to stop refreshing my timeline?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Windows application developers who see relative folder paths in a config file, and save them back as exact paths whenever the application changes anything, are infuriating! I understand why this happens on Windows. But I still hate it so much. I move apps from machine to machine, you know.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @MoonCat @pixelate @x0 I figured; would have been surprised if you missed out on those. They were all anyone could talk about for like a year.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MoonCat @FreakyFwoof @pixelate @x0 Then the movies are equally good.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @MoonCat @pixelate @x0 Andy Weir. His books The Martian and Project Hale Mary are excellent. Don't bother with Artemis.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
How did royalroad.com manage to redo the entire interface, while not making anything better accessibility wise? Most of the old issues got fixed, and a list of completely new ones got introduced!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 @MoonCat @FreakyFwoof @pixelate It's sooooo good! Probably the best science fiction in the last 15 years.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @MoonCat @pixelate @x0 I'm so far behind on all TV. Every time I put a show on after work I just fall asleep. Haven't even watched Project Hale Mary yet and I really want to. Loved the book, and The Martian movie and book as well.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @MoonCat @x0 Yeah, it is disappointing that Alice's brother is not named Bob. LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@daygar Yup, it was!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@daygar No, Freedom Chat was a different vb6 chat app created by Robert Spangler and Fmillion, as a freeware clone of Accessible Chat. They may have used the same sounds, though. They also set it up to work with Accessible Battleship and the other Robert Bets games after the official Accessible Chat server was shut down.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
Longshot: does anyone have the old sounds from the Accessible Chat application programmed by Robert Bets in VB6 for Windows 98/ME/XP? I'm doing work on Adispeak again, and I'd love to use his join/part/private message sounds. Unfortunately his website and all of his games are gone. Not even mentioned on Google! Boosts welcome.
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