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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
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Lino0876 @Rosalyn Nah. I had a family member rushed to the hospital with dizzyness and trouble breathing. All is well now, but things were pretty chaotic for a while there.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Rosalyn The good thing about it is you can customize it to meet your exact needs. The bad thing about it is you have to customize it to meet your exact needs. There are always tradeoffs. :-)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Rosalyn Hermes Agent, if you have a space to host it and the willingness to maintain it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@researchfairy This has been tried. But you thought moderating social spaces where we just type text at each other was hard? Wait until people can actually grief each other. And cheating is possible. Even cheating on a meaningless leaderboard where the points are made up and don't matter. Not to mention the content moderation issues: can I take my dildo of +1 elfslaying onto your family friendly server? If not, what happens to it; does it stay in my inventory, or get destroyed, or what?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@TheQuinbox Also, pull requests that include more than one change, and are unclear about what they're trying to fix. These days, I only accept a pull request that marks an existing issue as closed. File the issue first, then open the PR right away, that's fine. But I do! need to see the issue first, for documentation, and so I know both you and I understand what your PR does. Also, there could be a better way to fix your issue. If I refuse your PR, I at least still have the issue.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@CritterCub Sure, but the things you need to know to make public policy decisions about computers, or understand what the dangers are and what they are not, don't require you to understand programming. But the only way anything gets explained today is in clickbait, and breathless newsbites between commercials. It was perfectly possible to explain to her what was going on and why, without getting into programming concepts.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So last night an 80 year old family friend asked me "What are they going to do about the huggy face escape? How will they find it?" She had been left with the impression that something called huggy face had escaped, and was now running wild all over the internet, and might even be hiding on her computer, like some sort of zoo animal. Computers and AI aren't complicated. They're only complicated because journalism is dead and refuses to do its job.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Elizafox Local models could already replace meta glasses for blind folks. The primary issues are UX and protocol ones. There is no glasses connectivity standard, like for bluetooth headphones. So every pair you purchase locks you into a particular app. New phones are already powerful enough to run them, but Apple and Google lock everything down so the only models that are allowed to run in the background are the cloud ones provided by them. Will this ever be fixed? No. The people who could fix it are too busy hating all AI, so blind folks will continue to use AI from Facebook and Google. Because once AI that is good enough exists, they take away the humans and other services we used to depend on, forcing us all onto the AI, like it or not.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@spacepup Wow, I am the roxburg! How did you know? I am also the low earth army of terror. ROFL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@spacepup LOL you first. I tried a couple things this afternoon, but I just got robot moaning. What it makes is either really interesting or really blah, and I haven't been able to figure out how to predict what kind of samples will make an interesting one.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@spacepup Hah, let me know if you get anything actually worthwhile out of it. I just did it as a silly little art project, and because I wanted to know "What happens if I do this?"
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Mudb0y @nick @amir I think we'll always need dictionaries though. We already have two sets, because people can't always agree on what's correct. I think there are certainly some issues that should get fixed in OpenEVV. But some should remain for dictionaries. I'm just not sure how that line should be expressed. Amir, do you have thoughts about this? Is there a way to make a systematic decisions about what rules are so general and useful they should get fixed in OpenEVV, and what should be left as a dictionary?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir @nick Can eloquence dictionary files have comments? If so, I would suggest adding some way to have a dictionary entry that OpenEVV would process, but eloquence would ignore.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@nick @amir This is exactly what's needed. Should be easy for whomever has the tokens first to get this into AI, have it create test plans for all the issues, then start working on fixes. Test plans should probably involve generating samples for humans to listen to and compare, as well as its own testing. I'm out of Claude tokens until Monday, sadly. So it won't be me yet.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir @Mudb0y @nick Best thing would be that list of ViaVoice regressions. Once that exists one of us can set Claude to work. A description of each plus a simple test case would help. We can then only mark each item as fixed when the provided test matches ECI.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@Mudb0y @nick @amir I’m open to it. I just am focused on finding a job. But once I do I’m happy to put time and attention to this.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@nick @amir Another thing a dll file would solve is the nonsense around using the addon on secure screens. NVDA will copy dll files just fine. Okay, sleep, now! LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@nick @amir Oh God when did it become midnight? I, too, should sleep.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
2w
@amir @nick Your AI agent could honestly look at how eloquence_64 loads OpenEVV now to understand the calls and hooks it needs to provide. Once it makes something compatible all I have to do is put it in the combobox as an option, and configure my build process to pull it from your github.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@nick @amir It also means you could update the contours without needing or waiting for eloquence_64 changes. Just a matter of replacing a dll.
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