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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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Angry ranting about a terrible song with terrible sexual themes Why did everyone get upset about baby it’s cold outside, but playing funky cold Medina is still okay? I hate that date rape anthem more every time I hear it! “You must be sure that the girl is pure for the funky cold Medina. Ain’t got no plan with a man. It’s the 80s and I’m down with the ladies.” Well, it’s the 2020s and I hope tone LOC is locked up.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@tjolsen @lynessence No, nothing accept Mastodon works with Tweesecake. Not even Pleroma or Akkoma or Firefish.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@lynessence @tjolsen Assuming you're using the bluesky.social account, it works fine with Mona and Enafore. You can read your feed, post, follow, boost, etc.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@lynessence @tjolsen So it actually works fine if you're using bluesky.social. But it doesn't allow you to log into selfhosted services, yet.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@tjolsen There's a service called SkyBridge that's supposed to let you use any Mastodon client with bluesky, but I'm just about to try it now.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@soaproot I've followed it now. No idea how long it takes, though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Anyway, I'm fastfinge.interfree.ca on bluesky. Follow me. All that work for one person I know who uses it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
So now that allows for self-hosting, I spent the last five hours setting it up. Yikes! That was TERRIBLE! Subdomains make it cranky. DNS makes it cranky. Reverse proxies make it cranky. Sharing a domain with the makes it cranky. It requires the ability to send email, even for admin users. Their default docker-compose is really annoying and then you have to do a bunch of silly things to make the admin shell scripts (that just call curl) actually work. And then you don't even get a cool handle out of it, so nobody is going to bother.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@cachondo You might also enjoy the prequel called the lonely dungeon. Though it’s not quite as strong; it’s mostly world building for this one.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
If you’re looking for a that does a good job of balancing fun slice of life with asking difficult thoughtful questions, and is actually complete, give this one a go! I binged it over the last few days. An Unbound Soul | Royal Road www.royalroad.com/fiction/38292/an-unbound-soul
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Test poll to check something.
Santa 2 votes9%I’m hungry 7 votes33%Intel 1 votes4%Only on Friday 11 votes52%
21 users voted - Ended
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@adam Huh. Might be a software issue; I’ll investigate and file a bug if so.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam Maybe because it’s a split domain setup and that’s confusing it? The instance lives at fed.interfree.ca, but my username is just at interfree.ca.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@adam Nothing I did! lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Taking part in several lengthy threads and watching my database memory use creep slowly up. It feels rewarding, somehow.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Looking at my jobs queue, it's amazing how many misconfigured fediverse servers are out there. And yet, the network still mostly functions.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@FreakyFwoof @cachondo I feel like I read a story like this at some point? But now I can't remember. Must mean it's ready for a reread, if I've already read it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Came across some spam with the subject "Verified Damsels". Now I want a short story about the government department in charge of verifying and licensing damsels, and punishing the hero for rescuing an unverified and unlicensed damsel. And/or a damsel who has to rescue herself and go on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment because she can't get properly verified.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
My bed has far too much gravity this morning. How do I turn down the gravity?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@daygar @quanin Used easydns.com for years and love them.