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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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@lowrah It would help. But all of these solutions are stopgaps until fedi standardizes on a way to have alt text on profile images.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lowrah It was! I wasn’t trying to call you out in any way, though. It was just an interesting example of a wider problem. I’m happy to change your first name in my original post if you’d like.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel Nah, "the a ledged Taika Waititi" is how she'll be known forever more LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So here's a perfect example of the issues with . Yes, it's usually better than nothing. But here's a case where it isn't: I have Microsoft Edge set up to give me automatic alt text when it's missing. The alt-text it gave for a profile image reads "Appears to be: Taika Waititi." My first thought is: Huh? Who? I have no idea who this is, and the profile in question is for someone named Laura, so it's deeply unlikely to be Taika Waititi, whomever they may be. So now I'm left with the incorrect name of someone (hopefully a public figure?) I don't know, and no information about anything actually in the image. AI can't understand that I've never heard of Taika Waititi, that the name directly underneath the image reads "Laura", that the image is a profile picture, and put all these things together to generate contextually correct alt-text.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Yay, my commits to .net to improve some were merged! Now it's just the dropdown menus to fix. Not that I use the frontend myself; I'd rather third party apps like . Still, though, I enjoyed setting up a dev environment and learning a bit about , and think I'll use it for another project I'm half way through starting.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel Sure, Privaxy is the name of the 5g chip that Bill Gates put into the covid vaccine to track us all the time.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Does anyone have any experience with for ? Seems like a better solution than UBlock as all the browsers keep trying to kill it off. github.com/barre/privaxy
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Is the latest update crashing on load for anyone else?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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It did prompt me to notice and clean up a few silly mistakes, though. For a while there a postgresql database had its port forwarded to the Internet that absolutely should not have. It had a password anyway, but still.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Setting up Kubo via Docker to run an IPFS node in the data center rather than my house took way longer than it should have, and I'm still not a hundred percent certain I got it all correct.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@chris Personally I’m okay with threads banning it. They’re too big to effectively moderate contextually. This points to why the small instance mastodon model is a good one. Instances each get to decide how they feel about any given account.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@chris Well, the bot owner obviously made the bot for some purpose. Otherwise they’d just go look it up on a flight tracker app if it was just personal curiosity.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@chris Does it matter? Anyone could look up the info, but the entity creating a bot to post it to social media is communicating a message just by that act of creation. I’m okay with “Bill Gates is a hypocrite!” But less okay with “hey, here’s where Taylor Swift is, just in case you want to go abuse her.”
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel Don’t worry, soon it’ll be all AI generated.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@chris It kind of depends on who’s doing the tracking and who’s being tracked. A dude tracking Taylor swifts jet is a creep. An organization tracking bill gates to make a point about climate change is not. As with all types of communication, context matters.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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arachnophobia @mcourcel I prefer plastic ones.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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arachnophobia Why is there an email in my spam folder trying to sell me live spiders? I don't like it!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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The feeling when you're writing to someone and make a typo causing IOS to autocorrect "I consider myself a leftist." into "I consider myself a elf." Uh...well...I guess those things are basically the same, right?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence Apparently. One of these things is not like the other ones! LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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: I made detailed 3d printed models of my hands, and had them delivered to my enemies with a note reading "My punchers long for your face." In the dream I was extremely pleased with myself. My enemies in this case being my eighth-grade teacher, a girl I knew in university and haven't thought about for years, and Richard Nixon. Well, okay, then.