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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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Birthday 1987-12-20
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir I read wirecutter, and full-text works there, and it's part of the NYT. I don't read WSJ at all as it's way too right-wing for me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir If I were you, I'd install miniflux under WSL. Then you get its full text extractor, on an IP address you choose, and you can set up your own custom rules.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir I wonder if it's because Apple News is based on the Magazine rather than the website?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir The CBC, and my local Ottawa newspapers, are especially bad about using cloudflare and trying to block not only full text extraction, but even the reader mode in Safari. They really really want you to see those ads.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir It should do? If you follow the publication anyway. Odd.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir Yes, I use my own selfhosted miniflux. It's the only way to get around websites that use cloudflare to get full article text.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir The issue is that Lire uses its own server to do full text extraction. So it frequently gets blocked, because all the extraction requests come from one server that a website can just block by IP. Miniflux does it on your local server, so you're less likely to get your IP blocked by the website.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir I read wired via Apple News, so I can't speak to that. But it succeeds with Arstechnica where Lire generally fails. And miniflux does support adding extraction rules, where Lire doesn't have quite as much advanced support there.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir I've had Lire's full-text extraction turned off for years, as it was frequently blocked and conflicted with the better job done by Miniflux.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir Yes, it is. Miniflux supports full-text extraction, and does a better job than Lire. Especially on RSS feeds that block Lire's extractor.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir As I mentioned in the article, it can if you use miniflux. Otherwise, no.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Replacing Three Social Media Apps with One Using Skyscraper

Skyscraper is an app that supports Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and standard.site in a single app that runs natively on IOS, Mac, Apple Watch, and more. But can it replace all the different apps I use for these purposes?

stuff.interfree.ca/2026/10/24/skyscraper-review.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Testing out skyscraper for iOS: apps.apple.com/ca/app/skyscraper-social/id6754198379
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@seedy60 Oh! Woosh. I need more coffee lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@seedy60 You followed me for a while.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@seedy60 Well, that sounds extremely secure!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Adding Comments From Bluesky To This Blog

This blog can now pull in comments from bluesky, as well as the fediverse.

stuff.interfree.ca/2026/10/22/comments-from-bluesky.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mm Hopefully they stay! I've done it a couple times, only for them to bounce within a week because they wanted a constant social media drip fed to them without the work of finding and following things themselves.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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In unrelated news, publishing to via standard.site is working perfectly. My own data, on my own PDS. Unfortunately, I can't find a way to pull in comments from without running an entire app view myself, or depending on someone else's. So I'm not pushing blog posts to bluesky yet. Yes, I depend on external services for webmentions and pubsub. But I trust the folks running those services in ways I do not trust Bluesky. I post to LinkedIn for self-promotion, but I don't auto-post there or pull in comments from them for the same reasons. So comments, sadly, remain only.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Investigating Model Context Protocol as an Accessibility Interface

Can Model Context Protocol (MCP) have accessibility benefits for humans with disabilities, beyond just enabling AI? I built a tool we can use to find out!

stuff.interfree.ca/2026/10/21/mcp-accessibility.html
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