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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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@rmcpantoja Yes, the only way to avoid messing with the NVDA Python environment would be to do an IPC server. But at that point, you're really just rewriting SAPI and it seems pointless.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jpellis2008 @FreakyFwoof Check the thread. It was found. :-)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes LOL nope. They were trying to age up the characters so the teen author wouldn't have to do historical research about what things were like in the 1980's, and could just give them all cell phones and have them listening to real music, rather than whatever medieval chanting they used to do in 1988.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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If your summary starts off "All characters were bornded in 2008 instead" I'm not reading any further. Bornded? Really? I can't even...how do we get to bornded? Born is already the past tense! Okay, but if you didn't know that, I could see borned. I don't like it, but not everyone speaks English, and that's totally okay. But if you're using some kind of translation dictionary, wouldn't it give you the word "birth" and so then you'd write "birthed"? Birthed isn't my favourite, either, but it's fine. It's a real word. I've been sitting here for several minutes trying to figure out how anyone, anywhere, gets to "bornded". I would even accept "gived birth to", especially if your native language isn't English; it's a good try.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Kingslayer Right, and unless it was really bitter chocolate, it'd go terrible with any kind of meat.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I also have no idea why I just...decided to come for the state of California? Sorry, California followers. I'm sure you...know about chemicals. I dunno.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Oh! Posting late because I forgot about this, but it fits . My dream journal last night said (cleaned up quite a bit from the transcript): "Listening to the radio. Heard an add like in OTR. But it was for choco-sausages. Yes, thanks to modern technology, Campbells soup has been able to create sausages, with chocolate chips embedded in them! That's right, now you, too, can enjoy having a sausage with chocolate chips in it. And it's all thanks to Campbells, producers of theoretically consumable products since 1900. Remember, choco-sausages contain chemicals that are unknown to the state of California. Campbells does not claim any medical benefits for choco-sausages, that choco-sausages may treat or cure any medical condition, or that choco-sausages are food or a suitable part of any meal." I have no other context. I guess I dreamed this? Or did I just...partly wake up and think this idea was so good it had to be recorded? I have no idea. My mumbling made it obvious I wasn't really awake.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Jonathan @FreakyFwoof @jonathan859 Yes! This is it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jonathan859 @FreakyFwoof Thank you! I just walked out the door. Andre, could you test this and stick it somewhere for the world to have and enjoy if it works?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Hey fediverse! At one point one of my followers posted a .reg file or script that added exclude this folder from Microsoft defender to the explorer context menu. But I’ve lost it. Can anyone help? boost okay @FreakyFwoof
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Tamasg @clv1 @jscholes @cachondo @FreakyFwoof @amir @ZBennoui @pixelate If you knew the technical requirements well enough to do it yourself, AI could do it for you slightly faster. But if you couldn’t have done it on your own, AI won’t help.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@clv1 @jscholes @cachondo @FreakyFwoof @amir @ZBennoui @pixelate @Tamasg AI coding is nowhere near advanced enough for this.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TheQuinbox @NVAccess @alexhall I suspect, based on what I've read, the issue is that nobody is sure what's causing the problem. So it could take hours or days of developer time just tracking down the actual cause before it can be fixed. The terminal works fine in jaws, sure. But Freedom Scientific isn't exactly going to tell anyone what they had to do to make that happen.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TheQuinbox @NVAccess At least they fixed the issue where explorer crashes every time NVDA restarts. But yes, the terminal is also a huge issue for me. I already donate monthly, but I'd be happy to throw in $500 if NVDA had some kind of bug bounty program. If this issue was solved the money would be paid back within three months or so thanks to increased productivity. I had hopes that the 64-bit alphas would fix this. But I'm sad to say they do not.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@RakowskiBartosz I read the first few volumes of Wandering Inn and enjoyed it. But it started to feel like...it was getting long and vast just for the sake of it? And didn't have any focus.

Agreed about Cradle! Good fun for the first while, though.

Added the others to my TBR pile, thanks!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@RakowskiBartosz Yeah, it's not so much that I want to read on Kindle, as that I want authors to get money, but can't afford to individually pay every single author I read.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jaybird110127 Yup. That and the fact that the sourcecode isn't getting updated; just getting it to keep compiling is a huge effort. There is a 64-bit build, but it doesn't actually work. I consider dectalk pretty much dead, even though the source is available.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
@cachondo I always regretted not bringing the big_pervert in for an interview, just to see what would happen LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@cachondo Not as bad as the Resume I got from an email address that started out "big_pervert".
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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I hate reading someone else's username, and desperately wishing I was cool enough to have thought of that username.
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