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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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Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I feel like this is something someone like @aardrian should do. Have a blind person closely follow AI's advice to make a good looking website theme and layout. Then when it inevitably all goes wrong, it's an excellent example; good-looking websites are way more common than accessible ones. So if AI can't help a blind person with no visual experience make something look good, how can you expect it to help someone with no accessibility experience make something work well.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Today in attempting to be helpful with a thing I'm building: "Consider bumping the font size in your CSS so NVDA/VoiceOver don’t make you squint your ears." I, uh, I'm not sure is ready to do yet. I mean, I should bump the font size for reasons...those just aren't the right reasons. I can't wait until we have completely designers building CSS with nothing but AI. Anyway, back to squinting my ears!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Can AI help me read scans of golden-age science fiction magazines? stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/15/can-ai-help-me-read.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Sigh. Spending 20 minutes troubleshooting why NVDA isn't reading the terminal, only to realize that I had report dynamic content changes off. So that's how my evening's going.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@BorrisInABox @neurrone @jscholes I have a Mikrotik gateway from back in my bitcoin mining days. They do their own thing, in their own way. If you don't mind taking a course because you're planning to manage hundreds of the things, that's not a problem. But you do need to take the course, and if you're just using one, that seems like a waist of eight hours.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence If I wasn’t working I would. All the pieces exist, it’s just a matter of integrating them all. That’s really all micro blog did is build a really nice front end on top of open source stuff.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence Some day I’m going to figure out how to self host so I can stop paying Americans. But the existing solutions are all flawed in one way or another.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence I wonder if it’s only on the free plan? I paid so I could do cross posting and upload audio.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence It’s also possible there was a footer and I broke it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence No, tiny never had one.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence Yup! I started with the tiny theme under plugins, then edited to ad landmarks.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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the three AI tools in my accessibility toolbox: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/14/the-three-ai-tools-in.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@neurrone The iCloud drive app on Windows actually works really well these days! The problem with a public folder is I dump copies of files to share in there, then forget to ever delete them, and my storage fills up with useless junk.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @neurrone @BorrisInABox Is it still a Java app though? I thought you had to install some kind of controller app on a server somewhere.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@neurrone Unfortunately I just use iCloud for syncing stuff to IOS. I'm part of an iCloud family, so there isn't really any cheaper option. What I mean about being intentional with sharing is: I don't really want explorer intigration. If I share a random file, now I have to remember that file is shared, and never move/change/delete it. If I upload a file to sharry, I can make the link expire in a month or a year or whatever, and then forget about it. I know the person gets there file, the file will get deleted to free up server space at a reasonable time, and if I want to update it, I can give them a new link, rather than modifying it, and then suddenly realizing I'm sharing modifications that I didn't intend to share yet.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@neurrone For syncing BTSync or whatever it's called now seems like a lighter and more secure solution? And for sharing I'd rather just have a thing where I upload a file and people download it. Makes sharing more intentional, means I can expire the links, and the other person doesn't get nagged to download a random app.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@neurrone I believe @BorrisInABox has a bunch of these. He'd be the guy to ask.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Review: The Deco BE95 from the perspective of a voiceover user: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/13/review-the-deco-be-from.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@neurrone Just took a look at seafile. There's no way all those organizational features can be accessible, is there?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@neurrone Kubo is more of a command line app useful for moving files between servers. Joplin accessibility is perfect. Thanks for the monitoring tip!
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