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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.
keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Now it's easy for me to see that notepad.exe in Windows 11 requires 126 mb of ram. Yay, I can become enraged with only a single keypress! Remember when Notepad couldn't even load documents larger than 64 kb?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Another random thing that made me happy tonight: I discovered that at some point added a feature to disable linking of words in addon dictionaries. That makes reading definitions with a much faster. It's a bit expensive, but if you frequently find yourself resorting to Google, or even worse , to define words for you, it's worth the money and is largely as well: wordweb.info
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Loving this addon; I'd love to see this feature as part of resource monitor, honestly. github.com/Ninjacoder42/programRAMReporter-nvda-addon
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TSchulte If I’m the smartest person in the room, it means I’m in the wrong room lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Smarter people than me share the same criticisms of that I do: How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin Right, but I have four other mods in different time zones. So I’m okay with letting a couple through because they usually only last two minutes. Whereas you Need to be a bit more careful. My goals mean I’d rather a spammer sneak through every few months than reject a real user. Whereas you’re the opposite.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin Also our goals are wildly different.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin I use them myself to cut down on spam and protect my privacy. So it’d be kind of hypocritical of me to reject them.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin Accept the people who use disposable email addresses. iCloud generates gibberish addresses for real users for example.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin Most spammers are. Most of the obvious spam I reject had verified the gibberish email address. I think they just click every link in every email they get with a script. I should try adding a link in the footer that bans every ip that clicks it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin My interfree instance is just invite only. But rblind is intended as a community resource so it’s trickier.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin In that case I check the email address these days. Does it have a LinkedIn or iMessage or something? What lives at the domain? Does googling the username bring up other profiles? That kind of thing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin In the past six months AI has fooled me twice and I let a spammer in. The biggest clue is answer length. Most humans can’t even be bothered to answer with a full sentence. AI will give an entire paragraph with no spelling or grammar mistakes. So now I’m in the weird place where the guy who answers “Im blind aprov my act plz” is Less suspicious.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin AI can guess. Without context from me other than the name.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin Yes. But ai can guess the purpose just from the name rblind in my testing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin I don’t have a question like that. We explain the purpose of the community and ask why you want to join. There is no question that chat gpt can’t reliably answer but a human reliably can. Captcha has the same issue.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin It’s harder for sites like rblind.com. We get spammers using AI to answer the question.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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dream, racism, historical inaccuracy, strangeness, long post, anti-black and anti-Irish prejudice @lynessence I practiced a lot as a teenager. Dream recall is the first step to lucid dreaming. I still remember one or two dreams a night even though I never managed to lucid dream. I just only share the interesting ones. Last nights was something stupid about getting a job at a gym called Hanks happy hangout, that was some sort of dungeons and dragons themed fitness membership. It was deeply incoherent. My primary job was coaching people who wanted to turn into elves through the appropriate workouts. Sadly I no longer remember the training routine guaranteed to turn you into an elf in three months or your money back.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
Every time I update the iOS beta it resets my audio ducking settings. Annoying. But it is a beta, after all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence @tjolsen The vibe on Bluesky is...okay. Because of how it works, nobody ever really gets banned. So there are lots of blocklists and moderation services you can subscribe to, and it comes with one by default. But it's really not possible to just defederate entire servers full of idiots the way it is on Mastodon/the fediverse.
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