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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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blog https://stuff.interfree.ca/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@simon @ZBennoui Oh I figured it out! Pressing enter will summon blind people who use screen readers!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@simon @ZBennoui What do blind people who do not use screen readers do? What about sighted people who use screen readers? Also, I’m on my phone. Do I have to go get a keyboard so that enter can be caused to have been pressed?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Jage You have to roll your own if your not in the addon store.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tiefling @purplerabbit @VulpineDruid Honestly, have her put “no alt due to disability” in her profile. People who want to boost can add alt text as a quote post. And so long as it’s clear she can’t include me, and I follow her anyway as a blind user, that’s on me. Personally I filter out and auto block people who regularly don’t use alt text on my server. And I know a lot of people do it client side as well if we’re blind. Unlike on big tech social media, Mastodon and the fedi provide lots of ways for blind folks to avoid having our timelines spammed with stuff we can’t engage with.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@WilliamNB Never a good idea. As a screen reader user who depends on alt text, I can say from experience that every time you force people to do it, those who don’t want to will put “todo” or “n/a” or “a picture” or some other text just to make the field go away. And bad alt text is worse than no alt text: I filter out all media that does not contain any alt text at the server side, and auto block people who regularly don’t include it. So now if I have a bunch of filler text, just to satisfy a field, I can’t filter out the things that are useless to me. Also, it means people who only want to boost images with alt text can’t depend on the indicator anymore. Now they have to check to make sure the field wasn’t just filled with garbage. Adding a “you forgot to add alt text” reminder is fine. It should even be on by default. But please let people leave the field empty. If you don’t, they’ll just fill it with junk. And that’s even worse than not filling it at all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @minazukimidnight Plus slow compilers let programmers relax and pretend to be working hard while they wait. Whereas AI takes the easy programming work away from stackoverflow code monkeys. So AI is the only problem obviously.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld They should rewrite it in rust. Then it’ll take 2.5 weeks.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@rooktallon @jcsteh I’d prefer it wasn’t an option. It adds pointless complexity. Use something else if you want that. You have Choices. Those of us who don’t want it have none.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jcsteh Same. I hate it. Why on earth are they adding that? Not having it was a primary selling point to me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jfayre It sure can. It's one install command for them all: hindsight.vectorize.io/sdks/integrations/coding-agents
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jfayre Ah, that explains it. I was having other issues with hindsight, so I already migrated it to a server running in docker. That way I can use it from hermes, as well as have codex and claude store memories there. Plus it's one less thing for a hermes update to break.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jfayre It really is. Hence my lengthy article.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jfayre That might be it. Have Claude or another AI take a look. I’m only familiar with the issues on Linux.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jfayre Odd. What os?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jfayre Xmpp was updated to fix this issue on Friday.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jfayre It’s one of your plugins that hasn’t been updated to handle how environment management works. Update your plugins manually. Then disable them if that doesn’t help.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@garo Aww, thanks!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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How to correctly perform automatic updates for Hermes agent

Updating Hermes agent on an automatic schedule is much, much harder than it should be.

stuff.interfree.ca/2026/09/27/hermes-agent-automatic-updates.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@newbyte @dumpsterqueer @WeirdWriter I agree. But that’s not the claim the original post is making.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@newbyte @dumpsterqueer @WeirdWriter Nothing in particular. But it is AI. So you can’t claim iceshrimp doesn’t have any AI.
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