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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
11mo
@quanin Isn't that what the poop emoji is for?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@tewha 🙄
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@tewha So what you're saying is there's at least a couple guys in the group message waiting hopefully for the day when someone, somewhere, mentions an octopus. They'll finally get to use that one!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
I must be old. I really don't understand emoji reactions. If I say "I'm on the bus and will be there in half an hour" to the group message, why do five people need to react with the bus emoji? A thumbs up or a heart or a smile I get. It communicates some sort of information. You like it, or you're happy, or whatever. But all reacting "bus" communicates is that...the word bus was in the original message, and you recognized it! Yes! Good for you! You recognized the word bus! Do you want a cookie or something?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@b Yes, the blind community is quite strong, and almost all of us moved over from Twitter when they discontinued the API and broke accessibility. It wasn't like in sighted communities where some percent is on Mastodon, and some is on Twitter. Nearly a hundred percent of the blindness community who was active on twitter was forced to move.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@cachondo @FreakyFwoof It's not a matter of affording, for me. If it wasn't for NVDA I'd have to come up with the money for jaws. So I give that money to NVDA instead. I just never stopped setting money aside for a screen reader.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@FreakyFwoof TYup. The anual jaws price increase is just a reminder for me to up my NVDA donation.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@jscholes @jaybird110127 Yup, I love uv. It just feels like huge overkill for anything but the machine I actually develop on. And I think uv needs you to modify the path, in order to do everything it does, but I could be wrong. Also, don't modern Python packagers do some tree-shaking so they're not including the complete Python environment in every single build? I know that NVDA's environment, to my sorrow, doesn't include multiprocess, for example, because NVDA doesn't use it. So if I want it in my addons, I have to include it myself, even though it's a Python builtin.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@jscholes @jaybird110127 You're assuming I want to install uv and modify the path and keep uv up to date and have multiple python versions on the machine. And in one particular case, that the machine has an internet connection at all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@jscholes @jaybird110127 I often package them up if they need to run on a different machine from the machine I developed them on. Saves dealing with setting up a virtual environment and so on.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@MaryAustinBooks I mean if I went, I'd just spend all my time wishing I was dead, and/or actually die when I have to watch the drunk guy from I.T engage in acts of sexual harassment because my social anxiety is far too deep for me to actually do anything about it. So we might as well just front load it, right?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@MaryAustinBooks Where is the option for "just dropping dead the second I hear anything about it"?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@jscholes @bermudianbrit @J3317 I'd rather that than a lot of the places I've scene, including my own home, where names never get changed, so toronto1 is in Montreal, and lanbackup is the print server.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@bermudianbrit @jscholes @J3317 Wait, were you working for Palantir? LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@J3317 @jscholes I also have a network share running on Debian named \\windows-server. Because it was too much trouble to update all the network mounts.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@J3317 @jscholes I assume it's actually an iPhone? ROFL JK
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@jscholes Eh, my current iPhone 16 pro max is currently named "Samuel's Ipod Touch". Because that's what iTunes named my first iPod touch for me when setting it up. And the name just follows from iCloud restore to device transfer.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@jscholes It is interesting, though, how no blind people seem to humanize our screen readers. I know a type of blind person who names her cane, Brailler, etc. But nobody does the same with a screen reader or Braille display.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
I'm surprised nobody has made a Steeve's Talking Clock voice out of this yet: github.com/ryanmonro/george
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
seasonal music @jdking92 I think because the female Jewish names from the Bible are more used in the modern day. Other than David, of course. But you don't encounter too many Ehud's today.
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