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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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@mcourcel Yup! The github repo has all the documentaiton: github.com/jmdaweb/NVDARemoteServer
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Forgot to move my nvdaremote server onto my new architecture. Fixed, now.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes It might be possible to fix this by re-ordering the fields in the JSON object. I suspect what’s happening here is that Tweesecake is assuming the JSON has a guaranteed order, when it does not. Mastodon just happens to order it one way, and Iceshrimp orders the fields differently.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes For clients that support it, we provide formatted text, so the link is actually not just a url. Tweesecake is showing you the formatted version of the post, even though it only supports plain text.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@menelion @mcourcel Thanks!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@menelion @mcourcel Link?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@menelion @mcourcel Nope!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@menelion @mcourcel But? Like? I mean? He deserved it? You know? Totally?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel I hope you get 10 hours of a young woman with extreme vocal fry who ends every sentence with a question mark reading you an audiobook.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel I hope your YouTube recommendations are screwed up forever!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Oh good, this has python bindings now: GitHub - m1maker/SRAL: Screen Reader Abstraction Library github.com/m1maker/SRAL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel Yup, my cat is the same. She always asks to be fed at 8 AM. She’s never off by more than five minutes. Accept when the time changes and it takes her a week to adjust.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lowrah Also I don’t always remember to look for it, because only about 50 percent of people put alt text for profile images in there profiles at all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lowrah It would help. But all of these solutions are stopgaps until fedi standardizes on a way to have alt text on profile images.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lowrah It was! I wasn’t trying to call you out in any way, though. It was just an interesting example of a wider problem. I’m happy to change your first name in my original post if you’d like.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel Nah, "the a ledged Taika Waititi" is how she'll be known forever more LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So here's a perfect example of the issues with . Yes, it's usually better than nothing. But here's a case where it isn't: I have Microsoft Edge set up to give me automatic alt text when it's missing. The alt-text it gave for a profile image reads "Appears to be: Taika Waititi." My first thought is: Huh? Who? I have no idea who this is, and the profile in question is for someone named Laura, so it's deeply unlikely to be Taika Waititi, whomever they may be. So now I'm left with the incorrect name of someone (hopefully a public figure?) I don't know, and no information about anything actually in the image. AI can't understand that I've never heard of Taika Waititi, that the name directly underneath the image reads "Laura", that the image is a profile picture, and put all these things together to generate contextually correct alt-text.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Yay, my commits to .net to improve some were merged! Now it's just the dropdown menus to fix. Not that I use the frontend myself; I'd rather third party apps like . Still, though, I enjoyed setting up a dev environment and learning a bit about , and think I'll use it for another project I'm half way through starting.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel Sure, Privaxy is the name of the 5g chip that Bill Gates put into the covid vaccine to track us all the time.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Does anyone have any experience with for ? Seems like a better solution than UBlock as all the browsers keep trying to kill it off. github.com/barre/privaxy
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