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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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@tristan @simon I play Dawncaster daily!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Twitter, brand marketing This is the text of the best brand email begging for followers I’ve ever received. Company name intentionally removed so I don’t do there marketing for them:
A wise man once said: "Each day on Twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it." He gave good advice. A twice-impeached, once-arrested ex-President spent his final days in office sulking over a Twitter ban. Kanye West went "death con 3" on his own career with a single tweet. You don't even know who Roseanne "I was on Ambien" Barr is. Elon Musk spent $44 billion to become Twitter's main character for life - losing his carefully crafted facade of genius in the process. In short, Twitter is where careers go to die. Despite this, we've thrived on the platform. How? Long after Twitter is dead, scholars will still be trying to figure it out. While you're waiting for Elon's ship to sink, you may as well follow us. Who knows? Maybe it'll inspire your future dissertation.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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There we go. My username will also work as an email address. I wonder what exciting new types of spam I’ll get?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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TIL: just how few servers use . Mine was set up wrong, and almost everything worked fine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall Unfortunately, Dystopia isn't maintained. Once some IOS update breaks it, we're going to have issues sadly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@bob The reason I host my stuff in a data center is because my ISP doesn't offer IPV6 yet, but does place customers behind a carrier grade NAT. So I can't forward ports to myself reliably. I do keep the off-site backups in my basement. Unfortunately, Pleroma wasn't backing up propperly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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testing blind specific mastodon clients @stirlock @Orinks Ah, good to know they decided to go forward with it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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testing blind specific mastodon clients @Orinks From what I can tell, the issue is that they're both using the same Python library to access Mastodon. And that library is no longer maintained. So they can't add any features without a complete rewrite.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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testing blind specific mastodon clients @Orinks What's good on desktop these days? I'm just running Enafore as a PWA right now.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@courtcan I've had friends who have ADHD themselves say they suspect I have ADHD. But I don't get checked because it's expensive, and I don't identify that way because it's not really effecting me all that much. :-)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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testing blind specific mastodon clients So in the least surprising news ever, neither nor work with the new DotNet . I wasn't really expecting them to, as neither works with anything but absolutely standard . Both happily ask for an auth code, but then TWBlue just dies. Tweesecake actually pretends to receive posts, but all of the posts accept for mentions have no text in them, the same way they do with Pleroma or Akkoma. Enafore works perfectly though, so it doesn't really matter.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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The worst thing about being extremely tired is reconstructing everything the next morning after you zombied your way into bed. Why are my slippers THERE? How did my toothbrush get under my pillow?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Okay! That’s all for today. Fediverse is back. Rss is back. Tomorrow it’s email, my bookmarks manager, and then the Stuff I run for other people.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel The best thing about being an adult is that I can go to bed anyway! Lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall Honestly it's fine if you're reading and commenting. My bitterness comes from the way they screwed those of us who are moderators. If you post on /r/blind it now takes ages for your post to be approved. And that's entirely because of the way Reddit broke the accessibility of mod tools, and discontinued the Reddit API, so no third party app could make it better.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@modulux Thanks! Looking on the bright side, at least while I was redeploying everything from scratch, I could take the chance to do a split domain setup and have a cleaner looking username.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer Why do you assume I want to take an axe to it? Maybe I just want to pat it on the case and tell it it's being a good boy? Oh never mind, you've known me for years. You're not going to buy that LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@modulux Good to know! If I ever need a server outside of Canada, I'd probably pick them. I'd like to avoid doing business with an American hosting company as much as possible. So they'd be a good way to get a server in the US if I ever needed that.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@modulux I mean, based on some of the reviews I've read of OVH, I'm not sure if they're any less dodgy than the bigger companies. Then again, I was with Accuris for years, a company that I now find out has been doing everything in its power to screw there upstream peers and violate their peering agreements. So maybe I'm not a good judge.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer The sad thing is that Accuris was a five minute drive away from me. If I wanted to go see my new server, it'd be a two or three hour drive now. cries