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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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blog https://stuff.interfree.ca/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
seasonal music @jdking92 Ah, it just strikes me as stereotypically Jewish, at least in Canada.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
seasonal music Okay Apple, it's only the middle of November, and you've already had far too much eggnog. Whatever this abomination of a sexy sounding woman sensually covering The Chipmunks is, it needs to stop existing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
seasonal music @jdking92 And the name Leonard Cohen haha
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
seasonal music @jdking92 Well, the author was Jewish. So makes sense it would refer to the Old Testament and not the new.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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seasonal music @jdking92 Yes, and "David played and it pleased The Lord" right in the intro.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
seasonal music @austinnix Probably just filler. But apple music has every single Christmas song ever released to choose from! And I haven't heard Fum Fum Fum or Kinderly Is Coming even once! Or Martin Said to His Man! Or even Gaudete!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
seasonal music Whatever maniac on Music's hits station decided that Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is a needs to be fired. Then hired, so that they can be fired all over again! It's not Christmas just because it mentions a character from the Bible one time!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@jonathan859 Nope. I'm using it through the API.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
I do ironically enjoy it when a company releases a new and improved , and suddenly some extremely specialized and specific tasks that I use LLMs for perform drastically better. And suddenly they can complete the exact examples I used to provide in my prompt, all by themselves. And seem to perform the task in my exact style, even though I'm not giving them my prompt examples anymore. Hmmm, it couldn't be that they trained on my prompt data, could it? Even though they said they don't do that? Nah, of course not! They'd never!

Oh well, at least someone, somewhere, spent several billion dollars to make something I do once a week slightly easier.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
transphobia @andrew @bermudianbrit The way I first noticed it is when Voldemort started getting marked as spelled incorrectly using Microsoft Edge, when it never had been before. I then discovered that it couldn't suggest Dumbledore as a suggestion, no matter how close to the correct spelling I got. Then I noticed that modern terms like Kubernetes were also being considered misspellings. When I disabled AdGuard DNS and rebooted, the problems went away.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
So rblind.com didn't go down, and it isn't anymore broken today than it usually is. Cloudflare breaks . It always has, and it always will. Now the rest of you know how it feels to be locked out because you don't run JavaScript and can't solve a captcha. Will you stop using ? No, of course not! If it blocks , you're completely fine with denying that blind users might be human at all. As AI becomes more and more capable, the definition of "human" is going to become more and more restrictive, until everyone who isn't completely able bodied and doesn't have absolutely perfect vision, hearing, and cognition is completely excluded.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
TIL: when you use adguard or another privacy protecting DNS, spellcheck in all Microsoft apps gets significantly worse. Apparently the "good" spellchecker requires some service it was blocking, and the fallback is terrible.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@TheQuinbox Sorry, just walked out my door. Didn’t expect an instant response lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@TheQuinbox Uh, the new version identifies itself as 0.6 under about. And the update checker prompts to update on launch. Same for the dev build. :-)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@matt @alpuzz So on Windows 11, Edge WebView is always loaded into ram, because a bunch of parts of the OS depend on it. So you get an entire free browser.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@mcourcel @alexchapman @quanin Sure! www.marmaladefoo.com/pages/geminaut
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@matt @alpuzz But what does compact mean today? You can write a z-machine interpreter in pure JavaScript. It's tiny! But only because you're using the browser for accessibility and the user interface and everything else.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@alexchapman @quanin You can solve it with modern OCR or AI.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@alexchapman @quanin The most accessible client is MicroPlanet gravity: github.com/taviso/mpgravity
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
11mo
@alexchapman @quanin Nope. There are free text-only usenet servers available. The main one is eternal-september.org.
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