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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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@NVAccess @dhamlinmusic Huzza!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@virtulis I got multiple messages from Nicole. And I’m a single person instance with a trivial follower count.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Interesting: q and 8 are the only letters that don't have something to autocomplete when I type them into my browser's address bar. Every other letter and number does.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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How come when a bird sits on my roof and makes its mating calls, everyone says it’s beautiful. But when I sit on my roof and yell “sex! Sex! Anyone? Sex?” everyone says they’re going to call the cops.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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fiction based on the work of a transphobic author @JamminJerry You’ll be surprised!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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fiction based on the work of a transphobic author An excellent Harry Potter ; I expected this would be a crackfic, was surprised when it wasn't, and even more that I enjoyed it anyway:
The Long Game: ""I know things have been hard on us all since your mother's tragic death, and no one could ever truly replace her," Arthur Weasley said. "But I have met a truly wonderful woman, and we got married this weekend! She works at the Ministry, just like me!"
Percy, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny looked on as another person entered the room—a woman of toad-like appearance, wrapped in a pink cardigan.
"Meet Dolores, your new stepmother!" their father said happily."
archiveofourown.org/works/63657226
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel Oh! I remember: a speech library I use added support for it, while removing support for window eyes.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel I forget where I heard about it first. It's one of those things that's been on my list to investigate forever. The installer comes up in English, and there's English help files, but the website is Chinese only, so downloading it is a pain.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Tried the free edition of the because I was curious. I will say that for my use-case, if was fully documented in English, it competes a lot more directly with than does, runs fine in a virtual machine, and has a bunch of stuff built in that I use NVDA addons for. If it had an English website I'd probably grab a copy for the entirely reasonable price. But I'm not willing to purchase through translation.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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audiogame by a Russian developer @JamminJerry Way fewer misses than me. I just find the ball so hard to predict! We same to both struggle to get perfects though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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audiogame by a Russian developer @JamminJerry I think you have the number of objects upgraded for starters lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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AI, cursing Ah, yes. The joys of asking an a simple question, but forgetting I'd changed the temperature settings for some work I was doing earlier.

Me: "How do I set up something like python's venv for NodeJS?"
deepseek R1 (after about 30 seconds of increasingly unhinged reasoning): "You can't do that fuckwit."

No further context. Well, okay then! I can't wait until budget cuts replace nurses and doctors with AI; I'm sure that's gonna go just fine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@luciledt Good to know!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@remixman @cary5871 Nope. It doesn't even touch either of my GPUs.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cary5871 @evilcookies98 Buy the upcoming ebook LOL JK
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cary5871 Yeah, like I say, it's playable. But the point of stardew is to be cozy and relaxing, and I'm just not getting that from the experience.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 I have no idea; I don't really use jaws for much. But 1.4 of ball bouncer apparently fixed jaws support.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 LibreOffice works pretty well with NVDA, and can output all the same formats. And it's free.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 Yeah, true. But maybe just link out to the existing stuff; it might change based on updates to the mods or the game. But your tips probably won't. Let me know if you want an editor/play-tester lol.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@evilcookies98 I'd buy it! And best thing is, the process for, like, installing and setting up the mod is well documented. So you don't have to cover any of the boaring stuff. Just the actually interesting tips for really playing the game.