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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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@anna Aww, I love everyone who captions images. It really does make a huge difference. Thanks for doing it!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@modulux All the things I host are hobbies. If I was a business I'd honestly probably go with the Amazon or Microsoft clouds. But I'm not, so why not spend the couple hundred bucks a month I spend on hosting things to vote with my wallet, as they say. I want to see more small businesses, I want the Internet to be less centralized, and going with small Canadian companies for my hosting is a tiny, probably insignificant, way I can try to make more of that happen.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@modulux They do. But they're not a Canadian company. I think they're in France? I want to both host in Canada, and do business with a company headquartered in Canada.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tspivey I'm fine with that, if support actually answers. I asked them about IPV6 at 2:45 AM in the morning last night, and they responded within 15 minutes and gave me a /36.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I'm in the process of moving to . They're in , but still have excellent connectivity to . If you're wondering why I moved from one provider you've never heard of to another provider you've never heard of: I insist on hosting in , and I refuse to host with big teck like or . I don't know the guys at ServaRICA, but...they seem...fine I guess. Then again, I was thrilled with for years. So I dunno.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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If you're curious, the data center in question is Accuris Hosting (accuris.ca). They've been down for a week now, and have been radio silent to all customers. I've heard from there upstream that they're in a payment dispute and were disconnected, screwing everyone leasing IP's or bandwidth from them.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I'm hosting on the new C# version of because I believe we need far, far more fediverse servers implemented from scratch than we currently have. Also, I like DotNet as a concept, enjoy C#, and it's just me on this instance, so running things that aren't yet battle tested is okay. I also like the first way they seem to work.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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If you're reading this, please so I can get back to being federated with the . Unfortunately, the data center I've been hosting with for years and years encountered some serious issues. I had to move suddenly, losing almost everything. I took the chance to change the software I use. But I've still lost all of my followers, all of my federation, etc! It's also taken down rblind.com, my passion project to get more folks off . I'll be bringing that back over the coming days. In the meantime, hi! I'm a blind guy who uses the , loves and works in the field, and reads tons of , , and and in my spare time. Nice to meet you!