@fastfinge

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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

@x0 Sorry. I didn't want to run a public client on my infrastructure without understanding the code a bit more.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@x0 social.interfree.ca, but it's restricted to my instance.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@x0 Maybe they only update that version on a major release. Whereas I'm running docker on latest.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@x0 Huh. Just checked and the docker version is different from the deployed version.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@x0 @WeirdWriter Press settings, then there's an "account" link.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@fasnix @WeirdWriter I think it might be under settings? I use a native app on mobile, so I'm not sure.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@x0 @WeirdWriter You can set that under settings, account. Filter replies from the home timeline.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@x0 @WeirdWriter Yup: zocial.ztfr.eu

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

Thanks to @WeirdWriter for sharing Zocial, a modern Enafore fork. #accessibility remains good, and I was able to set it up for my local instance with two commands and five minutes. Much easier than Enafore. git.ztfr.eu/Dome/Zocial

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@bermudianbrit @amir You need to restart NVDA

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@feld @phnt That’s actually where my username came from. I wanted fastfingers, but that Unix system only allowed 9 character usernames. But the username stuck. I discovered I could put files in a special hacker folder called cgi-bin and if they ended in .pl I could “trick” the internet into running programs! At 9 I was sure this was some sort of illegal loophole I’d discovered.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@feld @phnt Yeah, the ones we had usually offered 3 or 4. We always used the small local ones. We lived in Toronto so there were a lot of small fly by night options. I’m pretty sure my dad would ask for 2 more emails and they’d agree. Sometimes I even got a whole 3 megs of web space! Once I even had a shell account. No background processes though.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@feld @phnt I’ve actually never used webmail. When I was growing up my dad always insisted everyone use the ISP email offered by whatever dialup isp we had because “we’re paying for it!” And he’d change isps every few months for a better deal. And most of them only offered only pop3. And we had limited dialup minutes so we had to download or email and disconnect. So even today I just don’t think of a mail server as a place that will store things for me. In my head once I download the email the mail servers job is done.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@feld @phnt I have every email I’ve ever sent or received going back to 1996! Data hoarders unite! I just keep 90 percent of it in mbox files in cold storage that I check on either once a year or whenever I want something.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@feld @phnt But if your paying fastmail anyway, why not just use it? IP reputation is the exact opposite of fun. Not to mention that if someone hacks anything else I host they can annoy me and make life miserable. If someone hacks my email they can empty my bank account, steel my other accounts, mess up my taxes, get my healthcare info and worse.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@feld @phnt If my choice is to selfhost email, or go to prison, I’ll take prison. Okay, I’m joking. Mostly. But I ran an email server for 10 years. You can have a perfectly clean IP and Microsoft or Google or someone will just decide to drop your email. Even when their own delivery reports say everything is fine. And now there’s DKIM and SPF and reverse dns and dnsec and on it goes. I own everything else, but not email. Never again. I’ll happily pay someone for that. They’re earning every penny.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@feld @phnt CBC rss feeds are an example of rss behind cloudflare. I did the email thing for years. But I follow a hundred or so feeds, and even with whitelists email providers would send the emails to spam.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@feld @phnt But they all work with Miniflux’s full text extract. Especially if you selfhost Miniflux on your local connection. If you have it in a data center or use the miniflux.app paid one you have to put a cloudflare solver proxy in front of it. Though half the time you have to do that to get the RSS feed at all anyway because cloudflare, and every other WAF, is a blight on the universe.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@dhamlinmusic @FreakyFwoof LOL you think it has a Russian voice? Nope! This was the 90’s. As far as developers were concerned, only the English alphabet existed. When support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean was added, it worked by first converting everything into the English alphabet. Then reading it that way.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@dhamlinmusic @FreakyFwoof That’s why the British Eloquence voice sounds so bad. It was, in fact, the US governments opening attack on Britain to provoke another war. Obviously.

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