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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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@stevenscott I’m using it myself and it’s fine. But I’m not on arm, and I don’t do audio editing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@stevenscott Are you running the 64 bit NVDA beta? This doesn’t work on the 32 bit one.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@guusdk @nicoco @martin I could. But I’m leaning towards just putting up with the subdomain. Especially because I discovered I can make a clickable url out of my jid. So it’s less bad.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Fragglemuppet Miranda ng on windows, Monal everywhere else.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@stevenscott Haha between us on the public Mastodon. I'm not worried about getting in trouble. I'm more worried about AMI or your podcast getting blowback from covering quote pirated unquote software if you mentioned it on the air. As far as I'm concerned, all blind people have purchased eloquence dozens of times over:
* in jaws
* in talks
* In Window Eyes
* in IBM Homepage Reader
* directly from code factory, when they were authorized to sell it
* from voxon, when they used to be the ones to sell it, before they lost the license and all users had to purchase it a second time from code factory
* it's on IOS
* purchasing it from code factory on 32-bit android
* purchasing it a second time from code factory on 64-bit android

I can't imagine a blind person who doesn't own eloquence many times over who would use my addon. You're almost certainly just using the thing you've already purchased many times. But the copyright overlords don't see it that way.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@stevenscott The addon has everything you need: github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/download/v8/eloquence-latest.nvda-addon
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@ginsenshi It's there now. Github decided it was a virus and deleted the binary.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@serrebi You still have to copy the .exe. NVDA won't do it automatically for security reasons. It can't be fixed without changes from NVDA themselves.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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If you use 64 bit with , v8 is out for you now. Here are the release notes. Written after just a single beer:
Everything in this release is thanks to pbsinnett, a brand new contributor! This restores dash pauses, prevents the double dash stutter, and makes dictionary entries with dashes work in the community dictionaries. Note that you must have the dash symbol in NVDA's "Symbol pronunciation" configured to "Send actual symbol to synthesizer only below symbol's level." If you're still having issues, please check that setting.
Do you want to be cool and amazing like pbsinnett is? Do you want to have your github username called out in these release notes? People who submit pull requests are up to seventy percent more attractive, according to statistics that I just made up! And these issues want your help:
• : adding the shorten pauses feature from IBM TTS
• : fixing unicode issues in the driver
• : the mystery issue! Nobody knows what's wrong or how to fix it. Could you be the one?
• : do you feel like going through the pitch setting code with a fine tooth comb? Because it's sloppy, and you will find bugs. Then you can stomp on them! Just think how satisfying it'll feel when you do.
github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v8
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@pvagner @zash Is there a way I could migrate my contacts though? Like how if I change mastodon instances I don’t lose my followers?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@pvagner Miranda ng on windows. Monal on mac and iPhone.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@zash Thanks for answering, anyway! Hopefully someone, someday, comes up with a XEP for this. Because having to host xmpp on a subdomain is going to be extremely common I think.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@zash Yeah, that's not what I want. I want to use the same username and password to get messages for fastfinge@interfree.ca and fastfinge@im.interfree.ca. I had to run xmpp on a subdomain because my primary domain runs other services.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@zash Thanks! I don't want to rename; if I set up the SRV record, can I just use both interchangeably?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@matt Thank you!!! That was exactly the answer I needed.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jonathan859 @FreakyFwoof @pixelate @MariahL You have to open miranda, go to the status menu on the menu bar, find the discord submenu, and set the status to online.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @jdking92 @FreakyFwoof @pixelate @MariahL @jonathan859 Yes. Then it can communicate with people who don't use thrive.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jdking92 @FreakyFwoof @pixelate @MariahL @jonathan859 Oh, I didn't realize it did. Sorry!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jdking92 @FreakyFwoof @pixelate @MariahL @jonathan859 Not all of them have one.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Hey and experts on Mastodon: my XMPP server is im.interfree.ca, and so my JID is fastfinge@im.interfree.ca. However, I would like to alias my JID to fastfinge@interfree.ca. That way my email, jabber, and fediverse id's are all the same. I control the DNS on the entire domain. How can I do this? A quick search isn't finding me a list of clear and straightforward steps.
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