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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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Did some database tuning. Expect everything to explode shortly.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mvilain I'll check it out, thanks! Doesn't seem to store the contents of the page, though. For a paid service that feels important.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence Good to know!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence Isn't it more of an RSS reader? I never considered it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes There is not. IOS only.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My best discovery of the afternoon is . It does all the things I want a quick filedrop website to do when I'm sharing a quick file with normal people, and none of the things I don't. There are a couple unlabeled links, but it's obvious how to either download the file or consume the file. Link for the interested: share.interfree.ca/app/open/66R3NFgCFHX-f36YpGfmAU5-SKHJLJVk8si-7WUcagAhpB7?view=3
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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After spending the afternoon trying out a plethora of apps, my appreciation for developers who offer demo accounts is at an all time high. Having a demo account saves me having to configure the database, clone the git repo, do the configuration, and finally get the app running, only to find the app isn't . Screen shots don't help me know if it'll work with a . A demo account, even if it's just read only, does. More of those, please.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@soaproot I suspect that "it would be better with less torso and more cat ears" can just be universally applied to all images. And we'll see, cropping means getting a sighted person to help me, and it's probably not worth the bother.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So I'm still looking for the ideal manager and reading list. I really like on : it's , does a perfect job at getting website titles and descriptions, and is easy to get stuff into. I can even put stuff into it from the Browser extensions on Windows. However, I can't view my goodlinks bookmarks on . Safari's reading list has the same problem, of course. I tried from Mozilla, but the of the app on all platforms is kind of a bit janky. I tried hoard, and it was fine on Desktop, but the IOS app is completely inaccessible. I tried grimoire, but it has no import function, and no apps. I looked at Raindrop, but I really don't want to pay for a bookmark manager. I wonder if I can automate goodlinks export to iCloud, and then I guess write something on Windows to consume the json file it spits out? I really just want Goodlinks to have a windows app because it's otherwise perfect.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@soaproot Yup! The man is me, and the cat is not. LOL Thanks! I'm never sure if I'm supposed to crop things or if the place I'm uploading too handles that or what. Seems like iceshrimp did the right thing I guess.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Thanks for all the boosts, everyone! I've wound up with more followers now than I had previously. I also made an attempt to add a profile picture and a banner for people who need that sort of thing, but I'm pretty sure I screwed it up.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@gyptazy It would be, if every website in the world didn't decide I'm a bot in a data center and give me all the CAPTCHAs.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@gyptazy I used to run a bunch of stuff V6 only. Then I changed ISPs, and I no longer get IPV6 addresses at my home. So annoying!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@gyptazy Oddly it seems to be the smaller ones running IPv6, while the larger ones aren’t.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@daygar Sad thing is I can think of several human narrators this could describe.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @lynessence Nope. She’s not.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence Yikes, feel better!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence Are you okay? Covid? I probably missed something in the week my server was down.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@soaproot @quanin I wonder if that’s the reason it’s off? To run my fedi server, I have a container for the backend, one for the front end, one for email, one for backups, and one for the reverse proxy. The only one I want to have a public IP is the reverse proxy.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin I mean I’m not desperately poor or something. But selfhosting comes out of the hobby budget.
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