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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.
keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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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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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Death, graphic images Yikes! It Seems the Nicole spam that’s been all over the fediverse recently is taking a dark turn. The end of Nicole - RBlind rblind.com/post/4866629
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
So another advantage of : it has its own browser extension, so it can actually bookmark the version of the page I'm seeing. While has a nice reader interface, it gets blocked by a lot of places, so it's not as useful as it could be.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@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
1y
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
1y
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
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@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
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@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
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@MostlyBlindGamer It's static, so it can't federate.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@serrebi What problems did you have with it?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
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
1y
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
1y
I heard back from support promptly. They’re investigating.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@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
1y
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
1y
@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
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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
1y
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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