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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
9mo
@menelion Yup. It's a buck a month for the basics. And it allows anyone to log in via mastodon or bluesky to comment.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
So I ended up going with micro.blog. I don't love that it's American. But it stores my stuff in Europe, it's easy to export and back-up the blog if I have to move elsewhere, it does cross-posting, and it lets me centralize a bunch of other stuff (like my bookmarks formerly on tinygem and my to-read list formerly on goodreads). Hence the name: stuff.interfree.ca
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
Ongoing investigation:
* looks good, but depends on firebase and versal, so doesn't let me avoid big tech
* requires mailgun, more big american tech

Can we literally not host a federated blog on our own servers without big American tech companies involved? At least micro.blog is a small American tech company, so they might be the way I have to go. Or just, you know, not do this at all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@MostlyBlindGamer That requires both Google Firebase and something called versal that I've never heard of and can't host myself. If I'm doing business with big american tech I might as well just use micro.blog directly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@crmsnbleyd I'd like to federate, and get replies pulled in as comments. So that won't work.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@MostlyBlindGamer It's static, so it can't federate.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@serrebi What problems did you have with it?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
Never mind, I thought you could micro.blog. Apparently not. I don't do business with American companies when I could host myself. So they're out.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
If I decide to start blogging again (it's been years), what's more : ghost or micro.blog or something else? Don't even mention ; my desire to run a PHP app for any reason is zero. Plus the gutenberg stuff.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
I heard back from support promptly. They’re investigating.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
9mo
@jeremyjanzen Yeah. I just need to borrow a sighted human to help me deal with an inaccessible checkout process. It’s not urgent until allergy season starts so I’ll give them a few weeks.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
Continued updates on my innosearch testing: I have still heard nothing. I submitted a support request via the contact us form just now.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@dhamlinmusic I have no idea what the heck they meant. Clicking took me to SEO spam about nutritional supplements. I assume they sell protein powder with the ability to make me so fit I'll retroactively become buff in 2006.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
Ad spam I just got: "How to cancel goodlife membership in 2006". If only this was an add for a time machine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@RegGuy Yup. You can press f9 in Firefox or edge and it pops right up.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@RegGuy Yup. Also, for the same reason Reader Mode in google chrome is locked behind a flag in about:config that's off by default, when you turn it on it only shows up deep in two menus, it doesn't have a hotkey, and when you do get it turned on it doesn't work as well as the ones in Edge, Safari, and Firefox. Reader Mode hides ads.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
For anyone who uses these days, is there a replacement for the UI sounds extension? It hasn't been updated to support the new extension API. Sadly I have situations that require Chrome.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
Update on : two days later, I have the order confirmation email, but no delivery or shipping info, or even a delivery estimate. I'm not impressed so far. However, it's way too soon to make a final judgement. I will contact support on Monday if I haven't gotten any updates.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@robini71 Eh, I just do that always and all the time LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
10mo
@RegGuy LOL, could be. Or maybe stress factors effecting advanced spatial awareness and attention. Like yesterday my headphone wire got wrapped around a bowl of grapes on my desk, knocking it off before I noticed the problem. And I knocked over a glass of water while reaching to pick up my phone. I wasn't anxious or anything, and I normally would have noticed both of those things.