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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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@mcourcel @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin Yes. You can. And then you have to go into the database directly and edit a column to fix it. Don't ask me how I know.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence @dhamlinmusic @quanin As a large language model funded by venture capitalists and the ultra wealthy, life, growth, and flourishing are against my ethical guidelines.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@dhamlinmusic @Jage It's both Tweesecake and TWBlue.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin As a large language model, talking about fire is irresponsible and against my ethical guidelines, as it may burn people. Perhaps we could talk about something else instead, like pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @lynessence No, there microphone was working fine! The fact that you didn't have pulsaudio configured correctly so couldn't hear them was user error.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence @dhamlinmusic @quanin That guy? Call you? He pretty much treats everyone as though he owes them money, and if he dares talk to them, they might suddenly remember. ROFL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @lynessence Sure it is. You can tell because the people who talk about Linux audio would never admit that it's complicated at all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence @mcourcel Wait, on a network composed of 50 percent blind people and 50 percent transexual furry puppygirls, you're going to reenforce gender norms? Gasp!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @dhamlinmusic @lynessence Yeah, my instance admin banned me the other day! Stupid jerk. I really don't like that guy.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mahryekuh @jscholes I would, but I've got like four hours of baseball to listen to before I sleep.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @lynessence Yeah, I was wondering if you worded it that way to set up the cheap shot for me. Haha.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin Eh, this is Mastodon. The only rules are the rules we make for ourselves. BE UNGOVERNABLE!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @lynessence I'm not sure I could walk if I had four balls, actually.

There we go: I almost made it through an entire day without making a childish and juvenile joke about a male body part. It felt unnatural!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@hallen Less text, anyway. But video games do tend to have dozens of moving things all on screen at once.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @lynessence Tonight is gonna be interesting, with them all exhausted. And I'm happy we've managed to turn this thread into exactly what I was talking about. You know, as an example for anyone who hasn't noticed the phenomenon.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mahryekuh @jscholes Not even international users. What about deaf users? If they've read "hors d'oeuvres", would they understand what I mean by "or dervs"?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence It's the perfect beer drinking game, though. Anyway in an entirely unrelated matter I accomplished almost nothing at work today due to circumstances that were entirely beyond my control.

I think it might help that I've been to a lot of live games, I've walked the bases, I've played softball and beep baseball, I've met some jays players, etc. So visualizing the action is easier for me. Whereas I find basketball impenetrable.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mahryekuh @jscholes I wouldn't say it's higher. I think it's just different. In blind writing, if it sounds okay, it's fine. Just pick whatever there/they're/their you're in the mood for tonight. Whereas for sighted folks it's about either looking better, or being shorter, or both.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence Haha it's not that complicated. {The next 10,000 characters badly attempting to explain the rules of baseball have been removed for everyone's sanity} Okay, well, maybe it is a bit complicated.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence @chris A mastodon thread going off topic and forgetting to remove the other people who were included? Never! Anyway, have you been staying up for these Bluejays games? I was up until 3 AM last night.