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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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Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@tael Aren’t they still having my browser connect to the source website and thus revealing my user agent, ip, etc to them?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tael @matt Clicking through is a far better solution. Browsers shouldn’t even agree to load resources from anything other than your current domain without you having to click.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@tael @matt Ah. I leave previews off for security, so I don’t pay much attention to open graph. And I run iceshrimp.net and a blog built on statiq. So I’d be surprised if any of my stuff supports imbedding Like that.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@tael @matt But they’ll load whatever the page your imbedding has, including JavaScript won’t they?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tael @matt Until the source website ads malicious JavaScript to the imbed.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@tael @matt Yes, but readers should click through to read someone else’s content. Copying it on to your own website is just theft, and autoloading it is a security incident waiting to happen, and a privacy violation. There’s a reason email clients don’t display images by default anymore.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@tael @matt Heck no! If a link dies I can check archive.org. If an imbed dies I can’t. And if the website I imbedded from becomes malicious, Now all my readers were exposed to it. My personal rule is that my blog should never ask the browser to load a resource I don’t directly control.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@Velveteen Edited this asshole
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@matt We already did: hyperlinks. But corporate social media has used apps and required logins and stolen them from us.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@plzupgrademe @modulux I just use the command line and sort by size.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@scruss @jaybird110127 A more natural sounding voice and you’d have a decent asmr generator.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@emassey0135 @TheQuinbox It could. It supports epub3 and mp3 audio. So if it doesn’t already it’s just a matter of adding a file extension.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@emassey0135 @TheQuinbox Audiobookshelf supports ebooks. I have several hundred of them in it, and the support is well documented.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@emassey0135 @TheQuinbox Whereas just using audiobookshelf would skip literally all of that complexity. Run it yourself or pay someone to run it for you. Expecting all that work just to avoid running a server seems unreasonable and entitled, to me.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@aedan @matt @emassey0135 @alexchapman That’ll never happen in capitalism. Fewer people will just be expected to work harder for less money.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@emassey0135 @alexchapman It would. If I don’t need to, or can’t, take action in the next 60 seconds, a notification is just spam.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@emassey0135 @alexchapman If you’re not at home, why do you need to know your package was delivered at all? You can’t do anything about it! If you are at home, they can ring the doorbell.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@garo The problem isn’t the numbers themselves. It’s the rug pull of promising numbers like that and then taking them away.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
Package Hero, a fun IOS idle game struggling with balance issues

While this game took off like a cargo rocket in the blindness community, some issues hold it back from perfection.

stuff.interfree.ca/2026/07/14/package-hero.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2mo
@jscholes @ppatel I'd agree if it was "get fired". But usually it's "Get yelled at. Get no promotion. Get put on a performence improvement plan. Don't get the raise. Get called not a team player." If companies would just fire people for that it'd be way easier to fight in court. But they don't.
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