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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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blog https://stuff.interfree.ca/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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According to the warnings on archive of our own: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex @SeveraSnape @FreakyFwoof I assume it's in the archive now? LOL JK
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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According to the warnings on archive of our own: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex @twynn @SeveraSnape @FreakyFwoof It's because every chapter is different. If they were all like chapter 1, it would have been much smaller. But they're not, because this author is a strangely dedicated human being. Also, I think epub uses the lowest level of zip compression so it works on e-readers and other memory/cpu constrained devices.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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According to the warnings on archive of our own: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex @FreakyFwoof @SeveraSnape If you click the author, they have...a bunch of weird sex fics that they wrote (one called "Asshole destroyer 5000"), and a complete copy of the first Harry Potter novel, uploaded chapter by chapter. I...admire the determined trolling.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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According to the warnings on archive of our own: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex @FreakyFwoof @SeveraSnape It's not even AI! Someone had to...write the entire thing. And upload each individual chapter. And publish it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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According to the warnings on archive of our own: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex @FreakyFwoof @SeveraSnape Wait until you get to chapter 3, and discover the cheese.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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According to the warnings on archive of our own: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex @FreakyFwoof @SeveraSnape How do you feel about watermelons?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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According to the warnings on archive of our own: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex tagging @FreakyFwoof and @SeveraSnape because I'm absolutely certain the fanfic in this thread isn't in the archive.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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According to the warnings on archive of our own: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex This may be the most surprising , , , One Piece, Breaking Bad, Stranger Things, Star Wars, and Sonic the Hedgehog I have ever read in my life. I promise that if you click, you will be absolutely surprised and astonished by this 4 million word opus of text: archiveofourown.org/works/68860766/chapters/178377056
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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pinging you @DavidGoldfield as this sounds like something your community might like to hear about: "Are you passionate about accessibility in tech? The Open Source email client Thunderbird is starting a new Accessibility Standards & Compliance Committee, and we’re inviting one community member to be part of it.
We’re looking for someone who cares about inclusive design, development, or content and wants to make a real impact. You’d help review features, share ideas, and make sure accessibility stays front and center in how we build Thunderbird.
If that sounds like you, send an email to community@thunderbird.net with "Design Committee" in the subject line to request more information. We’d love to hear from you!
Let’s make email better for everyone." www.reddit.com/r/accessibility/comments/1mkdt8q/want_to_help_make_thunderbird_more_accessible/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@twynn @blindndangerous Sorry about that! Assuming a sampling rate makes things much easier and faster than having to resample in real time.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@blindndangerous Waiting for addon store approval now. github.com/nvaccess/addon-datastore/issues/6333
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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TIL: Google Gemini is significantly better at reading the kinds of colourful graphs you see on server monitoring dashboards than are any of the other leading models from and . Why yes, I do, in fact, resent that I had to learn this. Because tools don't make data visualizations to (even on the terminal) sometimes the things I to get rid of big tech just mean I have to use big tech anyway to fix them when they explode. But never the less, Google is the only AI that doesn't tell me about the menus and other Windows I captured by mistake in my screenshot, doesn't make unhelpful recommendations, and actually provides the data without cluttering it up with Emoji. But I did appreciate metta telling me "This graph shows CPU use on the X axis, RAM use on the Y axis, network use on the Z axis, and time on the fake axis." I mean, open source UI is famously terrible...but I don't think it's that terrible...yet! Shhh, don't give the data visualization people any ideas!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall Palace uses openal. It’s just nicer if only it worked on windows.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall Linux only though
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall I was looking at palace actually
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So here's an game I found. It's text based, with audio. It's not for me; you need to know stuff about franchise's and division's and moves and belts and things. But if you're a person who enjoys wrestling, this might be for you:
Step into the ring and take control! Welcome to GRUNT - The Wrestling Game, the ultimate text-based wrestling simulation where you are the booker, the promoter, and the wrestling god of your very own universe!
Tired of wrestling games that limit your imagination? GRUNT WRESTLING hands you the keys to the entire promotion. From creating a rookie in a local gym to running a multi-division global powerhouse, every choice is yours. Witness epic five-star matches, shocking betrayals, and the crowning of new legends—all brought to life through a detailed, moment-to-moment simulation engine.
This isn't just a game; it's a sandbox for your wrestling stories. Build your dream roster, book the matches, and watch the chaos unfold!
nmercer1111.itch.io/grunt-the-wrestling-game
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall Yes. But its python support is Linux only.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@pixelate Who took the number sign? C'mon, guys! The entire fediverse only has one and we have to share! Fess up and put it back where it goes.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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For those of you who use the addon, I pushed fixes to it for the latest version of NVDA. I also filed an issue documenting the current state of the addon, and why it's going to continue to suck well into the future, unless we can find a developer who's comfortable with and other audio techniques, or get Python bindings to steamaudio or something similar and modern. github.com/masonasons/Unspoken/issues/16
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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AI, sex, racism, scat The worst thing about mass adoption of is that it gives us even more insight into people’s perversion than ever before. For example, the AI role play website character.ai has 11 different bots, all by different users, described as Japanese girls who “love pooping. It’s the first time I can say i hope AI is taking someone’s job. No shaming, but if you’re a Japanese looking girl, surely you can find more fulfilling sex work than doing poop role play for horny American men who probably can’t even tell that your Thai or Vietnamese or from New Jersey or something.
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