@fastfinge

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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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blog https://stuff.interfree.ca/

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@earthtoneone I always wake up with the wire around my neck. Not surprising brain.fm works for focus better than for sleep. I’ve never tried it for focusing as I have no issues in that area.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@lynessence @atherjammoa At least he recognized women exist. Lord of the rings didn’t.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@atherjammoa @lynessence Yeah, but it draws a lot from lord of the rings, with a bit less racism and including women.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@thenexusofprivacy Yup. Right now someone who stumbled on one of my posts later would have a hard time commenting. They'd have to have a fediverse account, and know how to search for a post by URL on that service. I really really don't want to run and moderate my own comment system, though. I'm thinking maybe the solution would be to create some kind of account on my instance (webanon@fed.interfree.ca or something) and then build a form that uses that account to submit replies to the thread from web commenters. But I'd have to figure out how to keep the spammers from filling out the form, and now I'm back into captchas and everything else that makes me not want to run my own comments system.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

Hey, #fediverse experts: I have a question. On my blog, I embed comments from the #fediverse. I also link to the comment thread on my instance. However, nobody else is using my instance. Is there a service where I can pass it a URL to a note, and it will ask the user what instance they use, then direct there instance to go get that note so they can respond? It currently looks like this, comments at the bottom; I'd like to replace the "this post on the fediverse" link with some way for users to pick their instance: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/02/sleep-solutions.html

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

Some Pseudoscientific #Sleep Solutions: These are some of the weapons that are working for me as a #blind person in my on-going battle against #insomnia. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/02/sleep-solutions.html

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@lynessence Especially considering most of that clutter didn't actually do much.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@lynessence Yeah. Sadly the microblog books and links features weren't doing what I wanted, and the comments system wasn't letting people log in with Mastodon. So couldn't justify paying for it.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

DotNet does mean it takes an entire 12 seconds to generate and deploy the site, though.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

Moved The Blog to Static: My adventures in continuing to fiddle with my blog. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/01/moving-to-statiq.html

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@patricus Fixed. Blah.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@lynessence It could also be that because you’re reading intentionally, you’re only getting the “good” Asian fantasy. If someone asked me to recommend western fantasy, I’d probably give them wheel of time, not xanth or a Minecraft novel.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes I hate it.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes I see it every time I go to the homepage or load any forum or post.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes I wish the admin would just come back, period. Eleven cloudflare challenges per visit seems to be an easier solution than actually updating the forum software.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@jscholes @blindndangerous But without audiogames, where can I post space bang? It's my new release written in BGT that goes "bang!" whenever you press the spacebar! How many times can you press the spacebar? Soon there will be a scoreboard and an online account system that costs $18 and goes down three times a week! Just click this dropbox link!

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes You absolutely should play one of them, at least once. What's living without playing at least one pornographic RPG?

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes Sounds like you've never played Flexible Survival. Or Lessons in Love. Or Endless Summer. Or inheritance. Or corruption of champions. Those are just the ones off the top of my head that have at least some mechanic that could be described like that LOL.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@jscholes @blindndangerous Nah, they like incomprehensible space muds that you can only play with a sound pack and that are based on stolen codebases. I find they actually have pretty good taste in choose your own adventure pornography, oddly enough.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes I wouldn't call it "bad". Ranger Legend I might, but this one isn't nearly as buggy, doesn't crash, the interface and translation are better, and it overall feels a bit more polished. I've noticed AG is highly xenophobic; I wouldn't trust most of what they say about anything. Warshovel is a better game when it comes to progression, story, and mechanics. But Call of Fate sounds nicer. So take your pick, I guess.

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