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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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@jwcph Fear, probably. If there's an open edge onto, say, train tracks or similar, the accessibility feature will generally be placed much farther from the edge than people would normally walk, because the designers worry that blind people might step off by mistake.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld Yup. And it sure surprises apps using UDP, or doing any kind of NAT traversal. There's a reason I don't have my phone with them anymore.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld It sure does! Better hope your application can tollerate random connection drops and re-establish without you noticing anything. To be fair, the particular ISP I'm thinking of is a reseller. It seems to happen whenever the phone moves from one provider's infrastructure to another. Unfortunately, in my city, this can happen repeatedly while driving down the highway.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld Do mobile ISP's count? A couple in Canada do really screwy things with CGNAT, and changing the outgoing IP mid session.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@xssfox That would be a massive improvement. I can't even get hold of anyone at my ISP (Bell Canada) who knows what IPV6 is, or even what an IP is. Have I tried rebooting the modem? Yes, and it didn't help? Okay, A technician will be out between 2027 and 2030; will someone be home?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyHarmless @jaybird110127 This explains season 3.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@christydena You could make it a tough foot, covered in dirt and calluses. Depending on your message you could lean into the "humans are kind of disgusting" body horror vibe with the foot. Or make the gardener the sort of well-intentioned hippy who gardens in bare feet, yet is unthinkingly destroying the homes of all the bugs anyway, if you're going for a message about how just having good intentions isn't always enough.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@christydena Maybe a magnifying glass? Or is the "burning the ants" thing too dark? A lawn mower could be fun. Or a giant foot? With fun articulated toes.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@NightDrake I've read most of her books. Though I really didn't get on with her later stuff. It felt like she...started writing fanfic of her earlier, better work, if that makes sense? Arrows is her at the top of her game. Also the album Freedom, Flight, and Fantasy is excellent, if you've heard it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes Reminds me of some Windows XP software I had to use for a journalism class back in the day that liked to sometimes display the message "An unexpected error has occured. Please fix the problem before continuing." Yeah, uh, I'll get right on that!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@NightDrake Oh man. I read that series every time I'm sick in bed. Like, really, really sick, unable to hold down food for days kind of sick. I don't actually know why or how it started, but it's been something I've done every time I got that sick since I was 13 or 14 or so.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@talon If these people get their way, phones with cameras will soon be against the law. As well as hearing aids. But, of course, corporations will still be allowed to have security cameras every three feet.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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There were ten multi-counters on the app store, all of them full of ads, all of them with accessibility errors. If all you need is a couple counters, to track a score or whatever, here you go: counter.interfree.ca
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes Why should they? They're still getting our money.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jonathan859 Or if it’s somewhere. On the six foot poster on the wall. You find it; good luck! You can’t vote in the meeting, ask the presenter a question, or get the slides until you do!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@skyfaller @dpk One huge help would be to weight scores based on where developers spend most of their time or access most. A crappy experience I deal with once a month is far less of a problem than one I have to deal with daily. And any forge that uses captcha without audio and text versions available has to get a 0 across the board.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I hated absolutely everything about the process of designing this. What I really started out wanting was an entirely seperat system of triggers for aimud, because I personally find that way, way easier to conceptualize. But that breaks the planner completely, and has a bunch of other undesirable side-effects. After five hours, I now have this, and a broken brain that is still struggling with De Morgan's laws. I'm completely sure that I've missed things that I'll only discover months later, even with the dozens of things rubber ducking the design with Claude helped me catch. github.com/fastfinge/aimud/blob/master/docs/becoming-and-time.md
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ppatel Yup. I'm blocked on similar things with XMPP. There are too many inaccessible clients and servers that I need to test against and can't get hold of to make real progress. I'm going to need to find a sighted partner or drop the project. Letting it simmer on the back burner for now.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@pixelate I dunno, rocks are pretty valuable these days. All that copper ore, you know.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@pixelate Well, apparently vaccines are the work of the devil now. So I'm sure it's not too long before you can pay fifty thousand dollars for trepanation by a priest at your local hospital-church.
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