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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
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@neurrone Glad you’re enjoying it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@sektor @storm Right but qt is native on Linux.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@sektor @storm Yeah, QT uses native GTK stuff on Linux doesn't it? So that might be the only time Linux accessibility is better.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@sektor @storm What OS? On Windows 11 you can't tab to previous messages, and a lot of buttons have no labels.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@serrebi It's still listed on their website but not their github for some reason. Then when you download it from the website it asks you to update to the old version again.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@serrebi Oh ummm they have the release year as 2024 when it should be 2025 ROFL!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@serrebi Ummm latest release I can find is v2025.03.08 on github.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@serrebi Oh, good to know! I wonder if it works with things other than Mastodon yet? I'm using iceshrimp and it didn't previously.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@serrebi Sadly I don't think its getting updates anymore. Your best bet is enafore.social.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@serrebi As I say in every thread, yes, they do. Tweesecake removes them because it doesn't understand HTML formatting, and isn't smart enough to find the text only version of the post that's included just for that purpose, because it's a deeply, deeply broken application.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Jami could be a skype replacement if only accessibility was cross-platform: Jami is a fully peer to peer chat application that supports text and video, but is only on mobile: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/08/jami.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tardis @FreakyFwoof I do post https. Your client removes it because I don’t use mastodon and tweesecake is deeply broken in many ways.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof Yup because most people use mastodon. If you follow people on iceshrimp or go to social or pleroma is when it breaks.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof Nope. I type https and they remove it lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@klittle667 Yeah, they're really good on desktop or with the web interface. They offer there own PVR app and IOS app as well, but those are less accessible. Use channels instead. Or VLC or Kodi or whatever else you like.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof No. It's fully clickable. It's just that the blindy clients grab the HTML version and convert that to text, removing the link in the process, even though a text version is fully available. They're just not smart enough to look for it. But if you check Enafore, or the Mastodon web interface, or Mona, or literally any normal app, you can click the link.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My Cordcutting Solution: I haven't paid for a cable subscription for years. This is what works for me as a watcher: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/07/accessible-cordcutting.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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is good because of the humans, not the AI
@InnosearchAI is an shopping solution, powered by . But it's the human support that makes it worthwhile. My review: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/03/innosearch.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence @atherjammoa Uh, sorry. I know your eyes are...well, I was going to say up there...but you're shorter than me haha. So down there, I guess. grin
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence @atherjammoa But how will I know she’s a woman if I don’t know everything about her boobs? Otherwise she’s just another man! This complaint applies to far too many female characters written by male authors.
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