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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
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4w
@Tamasg Huh. At first I thought I'd found a speechbox bug. Then I learned that Espeak also cannot pronounce chitin. Only eloquence with the community dictionary says it correctly. Weird! I'd have thought that was a pretty common word. Guess it shows just how spoiled we are with eloquence. New speechbox sounds really, really close, though! It's not stressful to listen to anymore. Just a bit mushy for pleasure reading.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4w
@TheQuinbox @FreakyFwoof I can give you an account here if you want. Then you can also access the nice swagger API documentation at fed.interfree.ca/swagger. Lets you view the iceshrimp API, the mastodon API, and the federation API, and make test calls to all the things to see how they work.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4w
@ppatel @TheQuinbox Paperback already does it. You just have to use a webview2 component.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4w
@alexchapman @TheQuinbox I also just like having it the same in the reply box as on the post. And I need to know your instance at all times so that I may judge you! LOL JK
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TheQuinbox The only reason I'd want a dialogue is if it was a web view that just showed the HTML version of the post content. Because everyone but Mastodon lets people format posts with lists and links and stuff. At least FastSM will actually recognize formatted links now. But it along with every other accessible client just gets rid of all other formatting. Whereas Fedra will actually let me write formatted posts if I want, seeing as my server allows that. God this is so good I can finally stop using enafore for things.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4w
@TheQuinbox OMG I can read multiline posts with the NVDA review cursor no need to open a silly view post dialogue. Yes!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TheQuinbox Yay! While I'm complaining, applications key or shift+f10 should probably open the posts menu on the selected post, instead of having to go to the menu bar. But that's just niggling haha.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TheQuinbox FYI Fedra works fine with Iceshrimp.net. The only thing I'm missing is a way to display people by username. People change their names far too often; I'd rather just see everyone as whatever at whatever dot net, no display name at all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4w
@stevenscott If something is broken, it’ll definitely get either you or Sean! LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@stevenscott I’m using it myself and it’s fine. But I’m not on arm, and I don’t do audio editing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4w
@stevenscott Are you running the 64 bit NVDA beta? This doesn’t work on the 32 bit one.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4w
@guusdk @nicoco @martin I could. But I’m leaning towards just putting up with the subdomain. Especially because I discovered I can make a clickable url out of my jid. So it’s less bad.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@0x0 @zash They both need port 80 to manage let’s encrypt certs. So yeah.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Fragglemuppet Miranda ng on windows, Monal everywhere else.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@stevenscott Haha between us on the public Mastodon. I'm not worried about getting in trouble. I'm more worried about AMI or your podcast getting blowback from covering quote pirated unquote software if you mentioned it on the air. As far as I'm concerned, all blind people have purchased eloquence dozens of times over:
* in jaws
* in talks
* In Window Eyes
* in IBM Homepage Reader
* directly from code factory, when they were authorized to sell it
* from voxon, when they used to be the ones to sell it, before they lost the license and all users had to purchase it a second time from code factory
* it's on IOS
* purchasing it from code factory on 32-bit android
* purchasing it a second time from code factory on 64-bit android

I can't imagine a blind person who doesn't own eloquence many times over who would use my addon. You're almost certainly just using the thing you've already purchased many times. But the copyright overlords don't see it that way.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@fireborn @stevenscott Correct.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@stevenscott The addon has everything you need: github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/download/v8/eloquence-latest.nvda-addon
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
@ginsenshi It's there now. Github decided it was a virus and deleted the binary.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@serrebi You still have to copy the .exe. NVDA won't do it automatically for security reasons. It can't be fixed without changes from NVDA themselves.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1mo
If you use 64 bit with , v8 is out for you now. Here are the release notes. Written after just a single beer:
Everything in this release is thanks to pbsinnett, a brand new contributor! This restores dash pauses, prevents the double dash stutter, and makes dictionary entries with dashes work in the community dictionaries. Note that you must have the dash symbol in NVDA's "Symbol pronunciation" configured to "Send actual symbol to synthesizer only below symbol's level." If you're still having issues, please check that setting.
Do you want to be cool and amazing like pbsinnett is? Do you want to have your github username called out in these release notes? People who submit pull requests are up to seventy percent more attractive, according to statistics that I just made up! And these issues want your help:
• : adding the shorten pauses feature from IBM TTS
• : fixing unicode issues in the driver
• : the mystery issue! Nobody knows what's wrong or how to fix it. Could you be the one?
• : do you feel like going through the pitch setting code with a fine tooth comb? Because it's sloppy, and you will find bugs. Then you can stomp on them! Just think how satisfying it'll feel when you do.
github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v8