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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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Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jstark @lerven @mcourcel To clarify, I do use AI to help with my eloquence addon. But just as a time-saver. All the code it spits out is read, understood, and approved by me. If I don't understand some part, it gets removed, explained, or re-written until I do.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @jstark @lerven Yes, it is. It rewrites the 32-bit bridge in rust, and does upsampling. I refused to accept the upsampling PR because it's vibe coded and I couldn't understand how it works, as well as bringing us too far from original eloquence to make me comfortable. I didn't accept the rust rewrite because I can't read rust at all, it was AI coded, and so I can't understand or proof it. Nothing against AI coders; more power to them. But I refuse to release code under my name that I don't fully understand and can't explain if asked.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir I'm not entirely certain that being known as "The TTS piracy screen reader" will be good for NVDA in the long run. All it would take is for one company to get really, really mad and DMCA the entire NVDA codebase as "a tool that enables (or tends to enable) piracy". Because NVDA doesn't have to break any laws itself to get pulled off github sadly; the corporations rule the world.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jfayre Yup. I’m using ergo.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jfayre apps.apple.com/ca/app/goguma-irc/id6470394620
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jfayre Goguma
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jcrabapple I built my home server 13 years ago. It’s still fine, and only ever needed one broken hard drive replaced. To be fair it was top of the line back then. But that means today it still handles 4K without issues.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MLE_online @BorrisInABox I recall thousands of folks on mastodon angrily demanding that Mozilla remove translation when it was first added. And the outcry when they tried to add image descriptions for blind users was so loud they scrapped the feature. I still don’t use Firefox because I do, in fact, want that. So from where I sit Firefox is giving its users exactly what they screamed they wanted.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld At least on iOS that’s a default you can change.
My wifi settings screen offering choices off, fixed, or rotating for private address.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@nick I kind of hope not. I’d rather they focus on the delta system decompiler and compiler, fixing all the outstanding eloquence bugs, and getting it to build everywhere. Leave the platform specific code to others.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@nick I’ll keep eloquence64 going. Once the new engine is fully feature to feature compatible, I’ll rip out the 32 bit bridge and replace the DLL files. My guess is they’ve got a year of work to get there.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@dhamlinmusic @jscholes That’s just mastodon with some extra code.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes It’s also possible iceshrimp and mastodon are different. I refuse to use mastodon because monocultures are bad, and I want to do my tiny part to keep the fediverse open.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes To be fair, Mona misuses it in exactly that way, to my endless frustration. I keep forgetting I’m allowed to boost posts from protected accounts when I’m using Mona.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes Huh. On my server “approve follow requests” is a different setting. Protected means the server won’t even tell non followers any info about the account like bio etc, and all posts are hidden and boosts and quotes are disallowed. I assumed mastodon was the same.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes I’m confused. Protected means only followers can see your posts. A public post on a protected account can’t be a thing can it?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MLE_online @BorrisInABox I mean translations are AI. Not using an LLM doesn’t mean it’s not machine learning, or not AI. If you don’t want any AI, spell checking, translation, ocr, dictation, grammar checking, smooth scrolling, text to speech, phishing protection, autofill, and autocomplete also have to go.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld Not using the MAC address is to avoid hostile dhcp servers tracking your device. It’s the same reason all modern devices rotate MAC addressing. If you need stable addresses, dhcp is the wrong tool.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@clv1 @jscholes @jcsteh Just as soon as someone invents an ipa keyboard that doesn’t require three hands with seven fingers each.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@clv1 @jscholes @jcsteh Why? It uses the Latin alphabet, a silly and flawed writing system. If we are forcing everyone to change why keep it? And why keep a language designed by white Europeans to privilege themselves? It’s no easier or neutral to learn than English for Chinese or Japanese speakers. Leave it to die with the other outmoded 19th century ideas that inspired it.
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