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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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@Jonathan @simon I think your instance has to support them.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@simon I’m using enafore. It’s fine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TSchulte I have a cousin named Emily. Maybe we could trade! There’s a strict Emily quota, after all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TSchulte Sarah? Maybe. But I really don’t feel like a Shannon! There’s a chance I could be an Emily. Or an Andrea, but only with the long e sound. But I’m no more a Shannon than I am a Tara or a Susan!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@moanos In the same way it’s always 4 o’clock somewhere, dns is always broken somewhere.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TSchulte I dunno, I think I could be a Cindy! Or maybe a Claire. Now I’m curious what name you think would fit my female alter ego lol.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cordova5029 Thanks for the compliment!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cordova5029 Uh, thanks? I guess? lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So in last night’s I got an email that the yearly renewal on the first name Samuel would be tripling in price. So I went to the website, you know the website where you pay every year to Renew your first name, to find a cheaper one. I calculated that even with the required gender change therapy, changing my name to Cindy would save me three hundred dollars a year! So I decided to change my name and gender. Uh, okay, then. I guess I know how much my subconscious values my gender identity?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@NVAccess Oh, also: in the OED addon dictionary, where word pronunciations are available, you can't press play with the keyboard. You have to route the mouse to the play emoji and left click it. Stuff like this is why I say it's "largely accessible". If you want to type a word, press enter, and read a definition and synonyms, you'll be happy. But things get dodgy when you venture off the beaten path.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@NVAccess So the issue was that the addon dictionaries open an Edge Web View to show the definition of the word. When every word is a link, you have to tab through every single link in the definition in order to get out of the web view and back into the rest of the app; there's no hotkey like f6 or anything. However, now that you can turn this linking off in settings, it's much easier to tab out of the definitions web view and get back to the other controls.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So As I keep using it, to make sure I'm giving it a fair chance, my impressions solidify: is for the normies, and the is for the weirdos. I think I'm okay with that.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes Yeah it's just calling psutil.Process(focus.appModule.processID).memory_info().rss
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes A random renderer, it looks like. It seems to grab whatever process is associated with the current window handle.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Now it's easy for me to see that notepad.exe in Windows 11 requires 126 mb of ram. Yay, I can become enraged with only a single keypress! Remember when Notepad couldn't even load documents larger than 64 kb?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Another random thing that made me happy tonight: I discovered that at some point added a feature to disable linking of words in addon dictionaries. That makes reading definitions with a much faster. It's a bit expensive, but if you frequently find yourself resorting to Google, or even worse , to define words for you, it's worth the money and is largely as well: wordweb.info
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Loving this addon; I'd love to see this feature as part of resource monitor, honestly. github.com/Ninjacoder42/programRAMReporter-nvda-addon
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TSchulte If I’m the smartest person in the room, it means I’m in the wrong room lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Smarter people than me share the same criticisms of that I do: How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin Right, but I have four other mods in different time zones. So I’m okay with letting a couple through because they usually only last two minutes. Whereas you Need to be a bit more careful. My goals mean I’d rather a spammer sneak through every few months than reject a real user. Whereas you’re the opposite.