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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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Dark thought @adam Well, yes. When we create true AI, the first thing it’ll do is eliminate humanity. It may be correct to do so.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I wonder if the fediverse is worse for the planet than Twitter was? Surely a few massive data centers use less water and power than thousands of servers spread out all over the place, right? Not to mention the extra internet traffic, content and infrastructure duplication etc. If we really care about the environment, shouldn’t we be championing massive centralization?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall I am one of the people who doesn’t bother. And yet, all of the online ads I get are still completely irrelevant! Wasn’t the promise that if I just handed over all my data, big tech would make ads useful?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@pixelate I hate that good with tech always means to these people that I can make them an app, fix their printer and Xbox, digitize Betamax tapes for them, set up their e-commerce website, and unhack their Facebook, all over a single holiday weekend, for free.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Strange programming dream Last night I dreamed that Microsoft created a replacement for git, called got. After installing it, I tried to clone a repo, and got the following message: “Error: I’m afraid of dogs.” I went into program files to try and fix it (I’m not entirely sure what my plan was; how do you fix your version control software being afraid of dogs?) and discovered it was entirely written in powershell. My alarm went off and woke me up as I was uninstalling it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@allypally Thanks! I’ve ended up with more followers than I had before, so it all worked out. Favorite author? While I loathe his politics, I find myself partial to Heinlein. The guy knew how to tell a story. Same for Spider Robinson and Isaac Asimov.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@netzhexe Not yet; I’ll take a look. Thanks!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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In other news, I've finally convinced rblind.com that it actually wants to federate posts newer than 6 days. Expect horrific slowness until things catch up.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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There we go. Fewer jobs failing with timeouts. The only failed jobs now aren't my fault: "System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: Response status code does not indicate success: 500 (Internal Server Error)."
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Did some database tuning. Expect everything to explode shortly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mvilain I'll check it out, thanks! Doesn't seem to store the contents of the page, though. For a paid service that feels important.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence Good to know!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence Isn't it more of an RSS reader? I never considered it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes There is not. IOS only.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My best discovery of the afternoon is . It does all the things I want a quick filedrop website to do when I'm sharing a quick file with normal people, and none of the things I don't. There are a couple unlabeled links, but it's obvious how to either download the file or consume the file. Link for the interested: share.interfree.ca/app/open/66R3NFgCFHX-f36YpGfmAU5-SKHJLJVk8si-7WUcagAhpB7?view=3
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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After spending the afternoon trying out a plethora of apps, my appreciation for developers who offer demo accounts is at an all time high. Having a demo account saves me having to configure the database, clone the git repo, do the configuration, and finally get the app running, only to find the app isn't . Screen shots don't help me know if it'll work with a . A demo account, even if it's just read only, does. More of those, please.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@soaproot I suspect that "it would be better with less torso and more cat ears" can just be universally applied to all images. And we'll see, cropping means getting a sighted person to help me, and it's probably not worth the bother.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So I'm still looking for the ideal manager and reading list. I really like on : it's , does a perfect job at getting website titles and descriptions, and is easy to get stuff into. I can even put stuff into it from the Browser extensions on Windows. However, I can't view my goodlinks bookmarks on . Safari's reading list has the same problem, of course. I tried from Mozilla, but the of the app on all platforms is kind of a bit janky. I tried hoard, and it was fine on Desktop, but the IOS app is completely inaccessible. I tried grimoire, but it has no import function, and no apps. I looked at Raindrop, but I really don't want to pay for a bookmark manager. I wonder if I can automate goodlinks export to iCloud, and then I guess write something on Windows to consume the json file it spits out? I really just want Goodlinks to have a windows app because it's otherwise perfect.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@soaproot Yup! The man is me, and the cat is not. LOL Thanks! I'm never sure if I'm supposed to crop things or if the place I'm uploading too handles that or what. Seems like iceshrimp did the right thing I guess.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Thanks for all the boosts, everyone! I've wound up with more followers now than I had previously. I also made an attempt to add a profile picture and a banner for people who need that sort of thing, but I'm pretty sure I screwed it up.