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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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Man, I'd hate to be named Nicole on the with the recent spam wave going on. Looking at Lemmy modlogs, there are multiple accounts banned with the ban reason "for being Nicole."
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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As a guy who considers myself a ally, I really struggle with how much more I discriminate against online these days. If you present as a woman in her 20’s and you message me for any reason, we’re starting from the assumption that you’re actually a 40 year old dude with a crypto scam he wants to get me involved in. Not because I have negative feelings towards women, but because as an obviously straight white dude, that’s the pattern that every single scammer who contacts me uses. So if a man contacts me for something it’s far less likely to make my scam radar go off. I really don’t know what to do with that. Maybe this is what equality feels like? I can only assume that every time I talk to any woman online she’s assuming I’m a creep who eventually wants to send her unwanted dick pics. Even if I, like, just think her fanfic is cool or whatever.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam It works.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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writing based on the work of a transphobic author This is really similar to Harry Potter and the Summer of Change. It's not quite plagiarism, but some plot items happen beat for beat. However, it's still a fun read!
Incomplete. "Returning to Privet Drive after Sirius's death, Harry realizes the stakes have changed. He must take charge of his life, even if he doesn't know how. Thankfully, Tonks is able to show him a path forward- though it won't be easy. In the face of prophecy, Hermione, Daphne, and Tonks will make sure that Harry doesn't just survive- he'll Live." archiveofourown.org/works/58357921/chapters/148632583
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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The app for the TP-Link Deco mesh system is nice and if you're in the market for a router. More than can be said for Linksys Velop. Amplifi was okay, but the TP-Link app is actually better, at least on with . I haven't had the system for long enough to give a review, other than that setup was quick and all the apps joined without issue. Also the default DHCP settings are weird. Who wants to start at 192.168.68.1? Changing it isn't obvious. First you have to change the lan address. Then it will change the gateway for you as part of that. Only then can you change the DHCP allocation. And even then it wants to start allocating at 192.168.0.1. That's too weird for me when the router lives at 192.168.1.1. And even after fiddling, it's still randomly assigning devices in 192.168.2. and 192.168.3.. But at least it let me reserve the devices that I need to be static. I probably have to go somewhere and do something incomprehensible with netmasks, but whatever. It's fine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Is it my Internet or is the update server no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late server! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Does anyone have the 6.1 dlls with Korean and Japanese support? I can't use 6.6 in this context because it needs to be portable and so I can't register the dll files. Maybe @Tamasg perhaps?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ivory Ah, got it, thanks! That does make the decision between Ivory and Mona harder.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ivory I want to filter out all boosts from a particular user from my home timeline. And I never want to see replies in my home timeline. But I can't find anywhere in Ivory settings to do these things.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ivory No, I'm a new ivory user. Sadly, Ivory doesn't quite meet my needs for other reasons: no per-user boost filters and no way to filter replies from my home timeline. Good app otherwise, though! Just not for me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ivory how do I make ivory see that my server allows more than 500 characters?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Testing ivory. It can’t seem to see increased character length though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Extremely short and stupid from just as I was waking up this morning. I got on the bus (the 53 Steeles East from Finch Station in Toronto, if you want to be exacting about it). Someone sat down next to me and said "Hi, I'm bubbles!" I answered, "Wow, bubbles? That's a stupid name." So she punched me in the face and I woke up. Uh...okay.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer It's also listed on the page if you expand specs. ducky.global/products/one-x-wireless
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer I was going by the press release announcing the one x.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@dannycolin How long will they respect that setting, though? How many times will a quote unquote bug turn it all back on after an update, without me noticing?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam They were links to open protocol stuff like Matrix channels and friendica instances. So I could use the API's to check what they were sending with command line tools. I just had to know! Is this the least mainstream catfishing attempt ever? I'm still not sure.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes LibreWolf updates the fork within a week of a new firefox release. The main difference is removal of advertising features and better defaults. So I'm not too worried about bugfixes. I'm more worried about what they are and aren't removing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Is anyone else getting this baffling spam from Nicole, who wants to be called the fediverse chick? I thought it was porn spam, but it links to a matrix room, an abandoned Discord, a friendica, and other equally baffling places. Eventually there are confusedly trolling neonazis, but at no point do I get sold anything, or exposed to pictures of breasts, or whatever.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer I am terrified of C. If I even think too hard about buffer overflows and memory pointers I'm afraid I might create a bug that causes my keyboard to explode while also sending all of my personal data to Outer Mongolia.
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