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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
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @JamminJerry I’m old enough to remember when fics were posted on Usenet. They were split over multiple posts because there was a maximum number of lines for each post. So authors would say chapter 1, part 1 of 47.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@FreakyFwoof @JamminJerry It could actually be kind of a fun art exhibit. Like, the story of an author told entirely through author's notes on their fic. But the actual fic is never written.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@FreakyFwoof @JamminJerry The three of us should start a Harry Potter fanfic with a really interesting looking summary, and then just make every chapter a collection of author's notes. Just 150 thousand words of authors notes.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof Even worse when the author goes back, edits a chapter to remove an author's note, and then the next chapter has another author's note referring to the previous deleted one!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof My favourite are the chapters that are just an authors note and nothing more. (A/N: Sorry guys! I haven't updated this week. I promise the story isn't abandoned! I will update sometime in the next thirty five years, I promise!)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof They can. And answering questions in the author's note is actually against the rules, at least of fanfiction.net.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@FreakyFwoof @JamminJerry (A/N: I did my laundry before writing this chapter! Then after posting, I'm going to eat a cheese sandwich. Please comment, review, follow, admire my cat, sign up to my Patreon, join my Discord, and subscribe to my YouTube! Disclaimer: The author, hereafter defined as "me" or "I", does not own any of the intellectual property belonging to the original author, hereafter defined as "them" or "they". This story, hereafter defined as "the fanfic", is an act of fair use. The author requests that they indemnify me from everything everywhere forever.)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof Yeah, it's nice to find a fic where the chapters aren't like 250 words.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
So is it just not possible to play horizon anymore? I restarted, and now can't set a route to get past the opening, no matter what I do.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
AI discussion I went through the titles of my GPT chats from last year, hoping to find something funny to share with everyone. But it turns out I'm the worlds least interesting person. Some of the things I was interested in included:
* Ontario Dental Billing Codes
* HP LaserJet CM1415fnw Manufacturing
* Using Deck Wash
* The cost of sliding doors
* Connecting IPEX Connectors
* The Distance Between Madoc and Goderich

Good grief! When did I become a boring adult who does boring adult things in my boring adult life? Also, these are all questions that the old Google could have helped me answer. But now I use Chat GPT because googling them just results in endless ads and SEO spam.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Made some config changes to iceshrimp. Let's see if it breaks everything! For the curious, I switched to libvips for image processing, and now backfill users on follow.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@pvagner @mush42 I like kokoro much better than piper. It sounds more natural with fewer artifacts.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@pvagner @mush42 I'm not sure. I do kind of worry about a tts developed by and for blind people and if it can be kept up to date and maintained.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
apple juice, alternative sexuality, meta, dreams, death, political reference, trolls @dodecahedron @BorrisInABox In my dreams social media usually makes msn messenger sounds for some reason.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
apple juice, alternative sexuality, meta, dreams, death, political reference, trolls @dodecahedron @BorrisInABox Actually that person sounded a lot like an angry young Tara Strong. So you got the Canadian part right.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
apple juice, alternative sexuality, meta, dreams, death, political reference, trolls @dodecahedron @BorrisInABox Like a low rent Alex Jones. Just angrily yelling about the apple juice perverts ruining mastodon.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
apple juice, alternative sexuality, meta, dreams, death, political reference, trolls @dodecahedron @BorrisInABox Sure, who wants to play hard boy Brad? Lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
apple juice, alternative sexuality, meta, dreams, death, political reference, trolls So here's a bit of a cleanse after that last horrible I posted. Last night, of all things, I dreamed that I was writing a post! The post was apparently as follows: "I dreamed I was drinking apple juice and it was yummy." I posted it, and then everyone started criticizing me! One person said it was proof that I was a horrible racist because I was dreaming about apple juice instead of dead children killed by genocide. Another said that I obviously didn't care about climate change because I was sleeping. But the worst was someone called hardboybrad@crack.horse, who went on a multi-post rant about how he was sick of all these apple juice perverts on the fediverse, and why didn't I put a content warning on my juice pornography, and how he was sick of seeing it on his feed and wished people would just post about bestiality or necrophilia or something normal, and all these apple juice perverts are the reason Mastodon will never catch on or be respectable. I was about to block him when I woke up.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@tspivey Yup. And it's way easier to copy results than it is running Python directly on the command line. Just press f6.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
You know you're a long-time user when instead of opening a calculator app, you just open the NVDA Python console and solve your equation there. Is that just me?