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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
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @alexisbushnell They can. Depends on if you're using 5G or CDMA or what though, I guess. mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/simple-microwave-oven-leakage-test-using-wifi.1176492/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexisbushnell It would only explain wifi issues that happen while someone is using the microwave. If the issues start when the microwave starts, and go away as soon as the microwave stops, then it's the cause.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexisbushnell Okay, I don't have links to hand, but I'm a licensed ham radio opperator, and this is the kind of theory we learn. The danger from a microwave comes if it is failing to keep the actual waves inside. Microwaves are designed with an enclosure that blocks most of the energy from them. However, you might notice that when you run your microwave, your wifi and cell signal degrades. This is because your wifi/cell and a microwave use similar frequencies. But your wifi just uses a millionth or billionth of the power. So when those waves start leaking out of your microwave, they can drown out the wifi completely. The danger comes from just how much energy is leaking. You can stick a wifi antenna directly in your mouth for hours while it transmits, and nothing bad will happen to you. But if it was putting out the same power of a microwave, you would be cooked. In general, the test I use is this: place your cell phone inside the microwave, and close the door. DO NOT! TURN ON THE MICROWAVE OBVIOUSLY! Now, with the door completely closed, try to call your cell phone from another phone. If it rings while inside the microwave, I'd worry a bit. If it doesn't, I wouldn't. This works because your cell tower is transmitting at low power, and is far away from you. So if your phone can talk to the tower from inside the microwave, it means it's probably leaking more energy than you would really like.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg Also liking Robert with the 16 khz sample rate. Reminds me of the Toshiba TTS that used to come with old Toshiba laptops, if you've ever heard that one.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @jscholes @alexhall @Bri Yup. And when things are inaccessible, blind people should also be policed about our tone, and never ever make frustrated statements about the issue. I hope we'll all remember this standard that we must all be held to the next time an app breaks accessibility and doesn't follow accessibility standards.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @jscholes @alexhall @Bri And once again. I only became hostile when people started saying I was doing things that made me a dick and a jerk, rather than actually engage with the issue. Similar to how blind people become hostile when developers tell us expecting accessibility is just too much, and we should stay quiet and deal with it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @alexhall @alexchapman @Bri And before anyone says anything: I recognize we are all hobbyists. I recognize this is unpaid work on unpaid software. But I don't give sighted people a pass because of that if they develop inaccessible noncompliant software. Neither do I give blind people a pass if they develop accessible nonstandard software. For exactly the same reasons.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @jscholes @alexhall @Bri Fair enough. My issue was never with people needing to learn. That's something I do every day. And I, too, have giant bugs almost every day, in almost everything I do. But my response to not following a documented standard is not "Yeah, I'll see if I can fix it at some point. Not a priority. Anyone who's upset about this is a jerk, and they should really be bending over backwards to work around the issue, and blocking people who complain endlessly that they aren't doing nonstandard things to just make it work makes them a jerk."
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Bri @jscholes @alexhall @alexchapman And for the record, I did file an issue to the mastodon.py library you are all using. But was told it's an issue on the client end, not in there library. So this is, in fact, a battle I've been battling for literal years.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Bri @alexhall @alexchapman @jscholes Thanks, testing now.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @Bri @alexhall @jscholes Right, because I should bend over backwards for people with broken clients. Filtering it out would mean filtering out the words inaccessible, link, and a bunch of other things. Why is that suddenly my responsibility when it’s not my stuff that’s broken?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @Bri @alexhall @jscholes Right, because I should just put up with the endless complaints. Doing anything else is a dick move, apparently.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Bri @alexchapman @alexhall @jscholes Sure, because you’re not the only person in this thread.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Bri @alexchapman @alexhall @jscholes I didn’t. I only became hostile when two different people called me a dick and a jerk.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Bri @alexchapman @alexhall @jscholes @jdking92 @Rosalyn I offered. I even offered to make a PR, once you said what of four perspective solutions you preferred. But I never heard back. Because, as you have said repeatedly, this is not your priority.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @Bri @alexhall @jscholes @jdking92 @Rosalyn Right, but this is my point. “Want to” isn’t strong enough language. If you emailed someone, and they said, “Yeah, I want to follow the accessibility standards. I need to do that some day, if I can figure it out,” you would be furious, and rightly so. Thrive, and FastSM, and every other client using mastodon.py is not following the standards. In the same way that we as blind people will turn to a developer and say, “I’m sorry, that’s not my problem. You need to be accessible.” I can expect the same thing from my fellow blind developers.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Bri @alexchapman @alexhall @jscholes @jdking92 @Rosalyn Never said you were. I was responding to Alex. But you did say fixing it isn’t a priority. And that if you can’t figure it out, you’re not going to fix it. Meaning you obviously believe that following the standards is an optional, nice to have. If you can’t figure it out, I’ll just have to deal with endless complaints from your users, and blocking them makes me the jerk.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Bri @alexchapman @alexhall @jscholes @jdking92 @Rosalyn I’m sorry, but it completely is. I am sick and tired of being told that dealing with other people’s broken clients is my problem. And that I need to go out of my way to bend over backwards for people who have been told that they’re using an incompatible and broken client. It’s a bad look for blind people, who demand that everyone else follow W3C and WCAG standards, but then use apps that don’t do so themselves. And when I point this out, it’s my fault anyway, because I just shouldn’t use completely allowed and supported features that work literally everywhere else.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @Bri @alexhall @jscholes @jdking92 @Rosalyn Sorry, but if you’re so untitled to think that the entire world needs to avoid making standards compliant HTML formatted posts, because your client is utterly and completely broken, and you complain about it constantly, a block is all you deserve.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @Bri @alexhall @jscholes @jdking92 @Rosalyn No, I can’t. Because the complaints always come in the form of: “Your links don’t work and your posts are inaccessible. Fix it now.”
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