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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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blog https://stuff.interfree.ca/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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OMG what am I even doing This is a huge project it's going to need Jingle and that needs WebRTC and then file transfers and voice messages and oh also localization and sounds and hotkeys and settings and multi-account support and Oh God. even with AI this will take fifteen years why did I get out of bed today and choose this for myself
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@plzupgrademe Personally, I'm using Snikket for end to end testing. If the Snikket server doesn't support it, or the Snikket client (just rebranded Monal) can't deal with it, it's not high on my list of priorities. Yes, I know that's a terrible way to implement an open standard. But Snikket is the server I use, and Monal is the client I and everyone I know uses on IOS. So a desktop app needs to work with them to be useful to me. And features they don't support are features I'll never be able to use.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@plzupgrademe Why did you intentionally not do OMEMO:1 in yours? Just curious.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So because I have gone temporarily off my rocker, I'm working on an client using 10 and WPF, with artalk-xmpp for XMPP, libsignal for , and prism for screen reader output where needed. I'm only an evening into it, and I can already tell that OMEMO is going to be the source of complicated, inexplicable, and unreproducible bug reports for decades to come. It's still not as overcomplicated as , though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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religion, hard drugs, blasphemy, dream @nycki96 @jackf723 I mean Ted Jesus Christ God might have done it. Or the Temple OS guy.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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religion, hard drugs, blasphemy, dream @nycki96 @jackf723 The sad thing is I really was just expecting that to be some mentally ill dude reading the Bible lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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religion, hard drugs, blasphemy, dream @nycki96 @jackf723 I don’t know what this is. But I also need it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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religion, hard drugs, blasphemy, dream Time for a after the weirdness of last night. I dreamed that I was attending an emergency church meeting to deal with the fact that after a sudden flash, every single bible in the entire world had been updated with a new page. The page was an angry rant from God, complaining that heaven had run out of meth, and telling humanity they'd better send God some more drugs or "I'm going to do a flood or something; you guys had better not think I forgot how!" The church meeting eventually settled on the solution: writing a new hymn with the chorus "God loves the gift of meth. clap clap clap". The questions from the eighty-year-old church ladies about how to buy meth for God were deferred to another meeting to give the board of elders time to investigate.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@Lino0876 @kellylford Hey, do you have an original email from an @home.com address, headers fully in tact? No, didn't think so! How about an email from compuserv? Or ibm.net? Or several universities that don't exist anymore? These are collectors items! Someday they're going to be worth...wait, what do you mean people don't collect and trade email headers like they do with stamps? Well, why not!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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You know your screen reader is too fast when you hear "The gamemaster will decide the turn order" as "The gay master will decide the turn order." I...didn't think I was reading the rules for that kind of TTRPG?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @NicksWorld I also have one of those cheap pill containers, with the days of the week for each pill. The braille seems to just be random dots. One is almost certainly a q. I guess I take that pill on quesday? Or qonday?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @NicksWorld Told to me by a classmate at the time. One of the Ryerson buildings had a large overhead sign in the lobby, about 30 feet over everyone’s head. It apparently appeared to have braille on it. No idea what it said; I didn’t have a ladder to climb up and find out!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tayarndt @alexchapman @mikedoise Thanks! I’ll take a look tomorrow.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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The best thing about quickmail by @kellylford is that it doesn't try to sync and search all of my email like thunderbird does. I'm a data hoarder who has every email I've ever sent or received since 1998. It does say "mail, connected, 2050591 unread" because it's counting messages I archived without reading them, or messages automatic filters move to other folders, and it would be nice if I could only count unread messages in the inbox. But at least it doesn't try to download and index hundreds of gigs of mail the way every other email client wants to, forcing me to race to the settings to fix it before the email client fills up my disc, crashes, or both.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexchapman @tayarndt @mikedoise It’s not high at all for the projects that pay me. If it feels high your under charging your clients. It is pricy enough I can’t consider it for my free open source work though. I’d love to see some sort of discount if I use it on a public repository and display the start testing logo. I can’t justify paying to use start testing if I’m working for free.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@tayarndt @mikedoise Ah! I didn’t explore milestones deeply enough. I’m used to setting dates directly on issues. My bad! I look forward to attachments! Once those are in I’ll grab a paid account so I can have multiple projects.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Super quick micro-review of StartTesting.net from @mikedoise. Note that I've only spent maybe an hour with it, so I may have missed features.

The Good:
* I love the "accessibility issue" type, complete with WCAG sections right there, easy to search and attach
* Has Jira fields like projects, milestones, features, etc. and is much more accessible and easier to use than Jira
* creating pages/views, complete with associated URL, is really handy
* Tailor (@tayarndt) is super quick finding and fixing issues; she fixed my problem within like 10 minutes

The bad:
* I can't attach images; especially when doing accessibility reporting and testing, screenshots are a huge part of what clients expect in results
* Similarly I can't attach log files or other traces to issues
* no "blocks" or "is blocked by" to help link bugs/issues together; this is one of two things missing to make this a complete project management solution
* no "due date", unless I missed it: this would be the other feature that completes start testing for project management

The nice to have:
* report templates: I'd like to be able to set up a template, then export a project based on that template. This would make Start Testing a full solution for report generation
* default issue type: It would be nice to change this. In some projects I would want "bug", but I'd rather "accessibility" in others

With a few months more work, and just a couple more features, I could easily see myself paying for this. Especially if I could export based on templates.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@SRAZKVT Of course. They'd start out with an enormous ascii art version of their logo. We saw that with smallweb stuff like gemtext. When you deny people formatting and images, they just replace it with ascii art and unicode symbols.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@SRAZKVT Hah, ODF? I wish. Try untagged PDFS. Or word documents with no headings or titles for any of the tables, and no alt text for any of the screen shots, and priority/ severity only indicated by colour.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@SRAZKVT Right. And nobody with a disability is going to work in the accessibility industry. Why would we be interested in doing something like that? :-(
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