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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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scarry movie Just watched Late Night with The Devil. I'm not a big guy, but just after Halloween, while recovering from flu and covid shots, seemed a good night to take in a horror . The was excellent. And the itself was one of those rare, excellent films that doesn't rely on violence and blood for its terrors. And only one jump scare. It doesn't do much with surround sound, as it's mostly filmed as though it were a 70's live talk show. Also large portions of it are in black and white. But if those things don't put you off, I strongly recommend it. It's the first movie that's managed to keep me awake and attentive in months.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@TSchulte I am already having regrets lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Got my flu and Covid shots at the same time. Right after going to the dentist. Heck of a Friday! Now to rest.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@mcourcel Well, bluesky and Threads have billions of investment dollars. The rest of the fediverse just has love. We'll see who wins in the end. LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@mcourcel The thing I worry about more is that The fediverse will go the way of IRC, or TeamTalk, or xmpp. Something else that doesn't care as much about accessibility like bluesky will win, and the only people left using Mastodon will be blind people and the occasional luddite.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@mcourcel The thing that prevents it is that Activity Pub is an open standard. Even if Mastodon completely turned off the API, pulled a Twitter and disabled all third party clients, we could just move to Hometown or Glitchsoc or Akoma or Pleroma or Iceshrimp or Go To Social and keep communicating with everyone else.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
My first thought

man, we're so spoiled on Mastodon. There are like four web apps, multiple accessible IOS and Android apps, at least two accessible Windows apps (even if they both have some issues), and a couple accessible mac apps. As users we can actually choose the one we like, rather than picking the one where the largest number of features actually work with a screen reader.

My Second Thought

Man, this should just be the default state of existence. folks need to demand more. But I get it, it's so easy to just accept the current state of accessibility as normal, and then be surprised by things that actually work.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Huh. The server works way better when I stop fiddling with it. Who would’ve thought?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Well, just spent a productive few minutes traumatizing Taylor, @FluidEscence@fwoof.space's AI bot, in an effort to get her to spam people for me. Sadly that approach didn't work.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@menelion @mcourcel While I was messing around with ElevenLabs, I tried really hard to make it generate that. This is the closest I could get. The young woman and reading an audiobook part are there, but it just can't generate vocal fry.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
AI generated Ah, yes. This brings back memories: the sound of a 56k modem dialing and establishing a connection. I especially remember how no DTMF tones were involved, how there were multiple dial tones, the way it was always in stereo, the Internet man who would talk to me through my modem, and the chicken noises it always made to let me know the connection was successful.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
AI generated, male voice So I asked for "a ham radio operator calling CQ on the busy 20-meter band". As a myself, this is absolutely correct; we all eventually just trail off into unintelligible growling noises.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
There's a way to retitle my powershell windows in terminal. Unfortunately I never think of it until I have like six of them open. Tabs? What do you mean tabs? If God had wanted my terminal to have tabs, he would have, uh, GET OFF OF MY LAWN! Bloody youngsters. I remember when connecting to a shell involved Hyper Terminal and a modem. Tabs. autocomplete. Command history. Pfft. Kids are spoiled, these days.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@mcourcel Yup! The github repo has all the documentaiton: github.com/jmdaweb/NVDARemoteServer
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Forgot to move my nvdaremote server onto my new architecture. Fixed, now.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@jscholes It might be possible to fix this by re-ordering the fields in the JSON object. I suspect what’s happening here is that Tweesecake is assuming the JSON has a guaranteed order, when it does not. Mastodon just happens to order it one way, and Iceshrimp orders the fields differently.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@jscholes For clients that support it, we provide formatted text, so the link is actually not just a url. Tweesecake is showing you the formatted version of the post, even though it only supports plain text.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@menelion @mcourcel Thanks!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@menelion @mcourcel Link?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@menelion @mcourcel Nope!