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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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@neurrone Kubo is more of a command line app useful for moving files between servers. Joplin accessibility is perfect. Thanks for the monitoring tip!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lowrah I guess you could run two crossposters? Crosspost to bluesky on this account, then pull the bluesky posts on the other account? You're more than welcome if you want an account here btw.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@lowrah Nothin' wrong with a good explosion! I assume you're trying to get an account around fediblocks?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lowrah Yeah, the issue with RSS is that it can't authenticate. So you could only sync public posts that way. And I'm, uh, not sure what would happen to boosts. I think they'd either not post and/or the synced post would look like it came directly from you and/or everything would explode.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel www.innosearch.ai
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lowrah Mastodon has rss feeds for a users public posts. Just stick .rss on the end of the username. So you could achieve this with one of the many rss bots. However, rss feeds for users is a mastodon specific thing. Pleroma, or hint hint iceshrimp, don’t offer the feature.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@serrebi The item I ordered is a replacement filter for a model of air purifier that's no longer manufactured. If I could've easily gotten the item off Amazon Canada, I would have. So if I actually get the item, and it's the right thing, it'll be a huge win for innosearch. And a justification for why I should use them for all my orders. Honestly, if I get an item, and it's incorrect, I'll still give them a second chance and order something slightly easier. It's just if I never get anything at all that I'd jump to not recommending them based on this first experience.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So emailed me today to let me know they found another seller for the item, and asked if I wanted them to order it from there instead. I suspect I know what seller they're talking about, but that seller only ships to the United States. I said sure anyway, so let's see if they can get it to me. This feels more like having a personal shopper than an AI; I'm not complaining!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
AI and the Sound of Disability: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/11/ai-and-the-sound-of.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam @admin Lemme send out some emails and see if anyone other than me wants this
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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We should have a relay for all the blind owned and operated instances to join. @adam it feels like you could maybe make this happen? Could we get @admin and @admin@caneandable.social interested in joining? It'd be a way to make sure everyone's accessibility related timelines are as complete as possible. Happy to kick in a few bucks if there's interest.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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The best thing about : my feedreader generally grabs the article close to publication, so I get the headline the journalist actually wanted to put on it, rather than what performed best in A/B testing or what upper management demanded.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@jaybird110127 They actually do. But they’re formatted as html and tweesecake grabs the text instead of the url.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer I don't mind well documented instability. But Hugo is written in go, a language I'm entirely ignorant of, so I can't even consult the code. Also, it's dealing with my least favourite part of development: the user interface. When something in the backend goes wrong, consulting the logs and figuring it out can be kind of fun. But for front-end stuff, it's just frustration.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My Accessible Self-hosting Tech Stack: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/10/my-accessible-selfhosting-tech-stack.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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continue to follow up. Apparently the seller is back ordered. However, it seems innosearch is doing AI right: lots of qualified human oversight when needed. If I had ordered directly on the seller’s inaccessible website, the product would still be back ordered. Worse, I might not even be able to contact the seller and figure out what’s happening, depending on how accessible the contact form is. It’s worth using innosearch just for the time savings of having them deal with it, so I don’t have to.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer Oh my God I'm so glad I didn't try to build an entire thing in hugo by myself. I find hugo utterly, utterly baffling and incomprehensible. I've spent like four hours trying to figure out how to get this shortcode to paginate...or at least only display 50 books or something...and not dump 500 book links on the page where I put it. It might actually be impossible. Google Gemini fixed the bookmarks shortcode, but I just copied the magic letters. I have no idea why that worked. Or why it won't work for this shortcode. github.com/kottkrig/microdotblog-bookshelf-shortcode/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Open Protocols and APIs: The Overlooked Key to Accessibility: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/09/open-protocols-and-apis-the.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@citro Hah. I did mine in ogg. Then I discovered lossless so redid it all in .shn shortin audio, a format nobody has ever heard of.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Death, graphic images @mcourcel New Nicole spam has an image of the same girl in the previous profile pics, but this picture is of her badly beaten dead body.
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