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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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So another advantage of : it has its own browser extension, so it can actually bookmark the version of the page I'm seeing. While has a nice reader interface, it gets blocked by a lot of places, so it's not as useful as it could be.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@menelion Yup. It's a buck a month for the basics. And it allows anyone to log in via mastodon or bluesky to comment.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
So I ended up going with micro.blog. I don't love that it's American. But it stores my stuff in Europe, it's easy to export and back-up the blog if I have to move elsewhere, it does cross-posting, and it lets me centralize a bunch of other stuff (like my bookmarks formerly on tinygem and my to-read list formerly on goodreads). Hence the name: stuff.interfree.ca
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Ongoing investigation:
* looks good, but depends on firebase and versal, so doesn't let me avoid big tech
* requires mailgun, more big american tech

Can we literally not host a federated blog on our own servers without big American tech companies involved? At least micro.blog is a small American tech company, so they might be the way I have to go. Or just, you know, not do this at all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer That requires both Google Firebase and something called versal that I've never heard of and can't host myself. If I'm doing business with big american tech I might as well just use micro.blog directly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@crmsnbleyd I'd like to federate, and get replies pulled in as comments. So that won't work.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer It's static, so it can't federate.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@serrebi What problems did you have with it?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Never mind, I thought you could micro.blog. Apparently not. I don't do business with American companies when I could host myself. So they're out.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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If I decide to start blogging again (it's been years), what's more : ghost or micro.blog or something else? Don't even mention ; my desire to run a PHP app for any reason is zero. Plus the gutenberg stuff.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I heard back from support promptly. They’re investigating.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jeremyjanzen Yeah. I just need to borrow a sighted human to help me deal with an inaccessible checkout process. It’s not urgent until allergy season starts so I’ll give them a few weeks.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Continued updates on my innosearch testing: I have still heard nothing. I submitted a support request via the contact us form just now.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@dhamlinmusic I have no idea what the heck they meant. Clicking took me to SEO spam about nutritional supplements. I assume they sell protein powder with the ability to make me so fit I'll retroactively become buff in 2006.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Ad spam I just got: "How to cancel goodlife membership in 2006". If only this was an add for a time machine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
For anyone who uses these days, is there a replacement for the UI sounds extension? It hasn't been updated to support the new extension API. Sadly I have situations that require Chrome.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Update on : two days later, I have the order confirmation email, but no delivery or shipping info, or even a delivery estimate. I'm not impressed so far. However, it's way too soon to make a final judgement. I will contact support on Monday if I haven't gotten any updates.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@robini71 Eh, I just do that always and all the time LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Is it just me, or do other people find knocking things over comes in streaks? I can go nine months at a time without spilling or knocking over anything. Then over the course of a few days, I knock or spill something over once or twice a day. Then it stops and I'm normal again. I haven't changed my environment, or habits, or anything. Let's see if I can get back on track and not spill anything today.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Yeah, if it's on Amazon, I tend to just purchase directly; I have an Amazon Prime account, and I'm comfortable with how the website works. But in this case, the product was only available directly from the manufacturer, or from retailers like wayfair where I don't have an account. And I just don't have the time or mental energy right now to fiddle around with a new website I might use only once.
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