@fastfinge

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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

@Velveteen Edited this asshole

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@drwho It wouldn’t. It only works on known commands with regular output. Everything else it passes on unchanged.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@matt We already did: hyperlinks. But corporate social media has used apps and required logins and stolen them from us.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@plzupgrademe @modulux I just use the command line and sort by size.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@scruss @jaybird110127 A more natural sounding voice and you’d have a decent asmr generator.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@emassey0135 @TheQuinbox It could. It supports epub3 and mp3 audio. So if it doesn’t already it’s just a matter of adding a file extension.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@emassey0135 @TheQuinbox Audiobookshelf supports ebooks. I have several hundred of them in it, and the support is well documented.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@emassey0135 @TheQuinbox Whereas just using audiobookshelf would skip literally all of that complexity. Run it yourself or pay someone to run it for you. Expecting all that work just to avoid running a server seems unreasonable and entitled, to me.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@aedan @matt @emassey0135 @alexchapman That’ll never happen in capitalism. Fewer people will just be expected to work harder for less money.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@emassey0135 @alexchapman It would. If I don’t need to, or can’t, take action in the next 60 seconds, a notification is just spam.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@emassey0135 @alexchapman If you’re not at home, why do you need to know your package was delivered at all? You can’t do anything about it! If you are at home, they can ring the doorbell.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@garo The problem isn’t the numbers themselves. It’s the rug pull of promising numbers like that and then taking them away.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

Package Hero, a fun IOS idle game struggling with balance issues

While this game took off like a cargo rocket in the blindness community, some issues hold it back from perfection.

stuff.interfree.ca/2026/07/14/package-hero.html

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@clew @ppatel @gtbray Maybe? But thinking through the privacy implications would need doing. Maybe opt in? Like how could someone use that info against you? Publish unauthorized nudes of you maybe because they know you will react slower? I’m not sure.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@greengaybles @ppatel @gtbray The other thing that happens, and I've watched it happening to others with struggles that sound similar to yours, is that folks who must converse slower just get left out. By the time you've read something, and are able to reply, 763 other replies have already been posted, the conversation has moved on, and you're now totally excluded through no fault of your own.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@ppatel @gtbray Sure, but is that the case for everyone else in the chain? Maybe, maybe not. The notification system doesn't care either way. And I bet we're all less thoughtful than we would be if we were conversing by email, or some other less real time medium. Because even Mastodon, the least exploitative of all possible social media, is not designed to promote thinking about replies. Speed first. When I send an email, I spend 15-30 minutes proofreading. When I post on social media, I'm lucky if I read it over more than once. Velocity is the only thing rewarded. Again, because of real time notifications and multi-tasking. And that leads to a lot of completely avoidable drama, conflict, and nonsense.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@ppatel @gtbray And yet, here you are. Responding to my messages almost instantly. Even though they're not in any way urgent, or even important. I mean, I'm doing the exact same thing! Because that's how social media works now. But I'm not convinced it's a good thing. This conversation would probably be more productive, less distracting, and easier on all of us as a series of emails over several days. But that's not how the world works now. And that's not how any of the tools are designed to function. So we just don't interact that way. Even if it would be better for everyone involved.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@jscholes @ppatel I'd agree if it was "get fired". But usually it's "Get yelled at. Get no promotion. Get put on a performence improvement plan. Don't get the raise. Get called not a team player." If companies would just fire people for that it'd be way easier to fight in court. But they don't.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@matt @miki I mean I'm sure I was more productive in class with my Braille 'n Speak than modern students are with a laptop. Because I was actually taking notes. Well, I was actually playing battle.bas via run.bns. But I could have been taking notes. And I was absolutely crushing battle.bas because the only thing distracting me was the teacher, and she was far easier to ignore than modern social media.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@miki I dunno, apps open and close so fast that it wouldn't really be a problem. As long as they save state to disc before closing, it wouldn't be an issue.

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