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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
9mo
@jscholes @blindndangerous Nah, they like incomprehensible space muds that you can only play with a sound pack and that are based on stolen codebases. I find they actually have pretty good taste in choose your own adventure pornography, oddly enough.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@blindndangerous @jscholes I wouldn't call it "bad". Ranger Legend I might, but this one isn't nearly as buggy, doesn't crash, the interface and translation are better, and it overall feels a bit more polished. I've noticed AG is highly xenophobic; I wouldn't trust most of what they say about anything. Warshovel is a better game when it comes to progression, story, and mechanics. But Call of Fate sounds nicer. So take your pick, I guess.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@jscholes I'm pretty sure you need eleven golden chess pieces and a heavenly star phoenix level of at least five to unlock vomiting.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@lynessence Thanks! Honestly I was a bit worried I might be revealing a bit too much cultural ignorance/internalized racism LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes: Call of Fate is a Chinese released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be to both and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/30/call-of-fate-a-tour.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
Review: The New Dawn by Icalos: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/24/review-the-new-dawn-by.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@kaveinthran Oh, these look neat! Kind of what I was thinking of doing but better.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@neurrone not really. It’s about a terminator cyborg who gets transported to a fantasy world with stats etc. it’s good fun! Just beware that the stat sheets take up maybe 25 percent of the book in the first two.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes now I wish it was, though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@mcourcel I do. But Tweesecake strips them out because it incorrectly displays the HTML formatted link.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
Review: The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG by Icalos: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/16/review-the-beeginning-a-dungeoncore.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@simon @KaraLG84 The context contained:
* 250 lines of CSS
* a hundred or so lines of HTML
* The question "Why isn't the footer working?"

I also had web search checked, and in the customization section of my profile, I have that I'm blind and use NVDA and Voiceover.

I've noticed that chat gpt has been a lot more random recently. I'd assumed it was the new model release. But after a bit of investigation this morning, it's actually the new memory feature! Setting a chat to Temporary brings it right back to normal. I think what's happening is it's putting too much weight on previous conversations, and learning to copy my writing style from them. Also, I frequently test AI for content and work, on top of using it in my personal life, so it's got some unhinged stuff in its memory. Then, of course, as its responses become more unhinged, that encourages future responses to become even more extreme. This is making me worry that Chat GPT having memory might create the same sort of problems with radicalization and extremism that the YouTube algorithm has created. I also suspect we'll see a lot of people sharing Chat GPT absolutely go off the deep-end for them, not realizing how much effect the memory is having.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@aardrian I'd be happy to collab if you wanna make this happen.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
I feel like this is something someone like @aardrian should do. Have a blind person closely follow AI's advice to make a good looking website theme and layout. Then when it inevitably all goes wrong, it's an excellent example; good-looking websites are way more common than accessible ones. So if AI can't help a blind person with no visual experience make something look good, how can you expect it to help someone with no accessibility experience make something work well.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
Today in attempting to be helpful with a thing I'm building: "Consider bumping the font size in your CSS so NVDA/VoiceOver don’t make you squint your ears." I, uh, I'm not sure is ready to do yet. I mean, I should bump the font size for reasons...those just aren't the right reasons. I can't wait until we have completely designers building CSS with nothing but AI. Anyway, back to squinting my ears!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
Can AI help me read scans of golden-age science fiction magazines? stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/15/can-ai-help-me-read.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
Sigh. Spending 20 minutes troubleshooting why NVDA isn't reading the terminal, only to realize that I had report dynamic content changes off. So that's how my evening's going.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@BorrisInABox @neurrone @jscholes I have a Mikrotik gateway from back in my bitcoin mining days. They do their own thing, in their own way. If you don't mind taking a course because you're planning to manage hundreds of the things, that's not a problem. But you do need to take the course, and if you're just using one, that seems like a waist of eight hours.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@lynessence If I wasn’t working I would. All the pieces exist, it’s just a matter of integrating them all. That’s really all micro blog did is build a really nice front end on top of open source stuff.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@lynessence Some day I’m going to figure out how to self host so I can stop paying Americans. But the existing solutions are all flawed in one way or another.