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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
4mo
@alexhall This was off by default for me. Or maybe I changed it years ago or something.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
So am I the last person on earth to learn that windows+up arrow maximizes a window? Kind of means that I don't really need alt+space for anything anymore.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
lewd, sexuality, male genitals Tonight, in things I will not be reading despite what the AI recommendation systems think of me, we have the following example. Who is this even for? Lonely moms? Teenaged boys? The harder I think about it the more upset and baffled I become.

Oops! I Banged My Bully’s Mom
"A boy’s reputation is thrown into the trash because others are intimidated by his large dick. His bully’s may resent and despise him, but their lonely moms see him in a different light."
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
Right! Been a while since I did a . So: last night, I dreamed that my work created a new security policy. All employees must use bloodlock on any device that contains work related data. What's bloodlock? Glad you asked! Obviously, it's a feature that requires you to prick your finger and deposit a drop of blood on the sensor every time you want to unlock your device. In the meeting this was announced, we were told that we would be supplied 60 needles and bandages a month for this purpose, and if we needed more, we'd have to pay for them ourselves. Also, the "auto-lock" policy would be reduced from 60 seconds to 15 seconds. Lastly, Microsoft, Apple, and Google would all use our DNA (as collected from our blood) for AI training purposes. So I did this on my work device. However, I got a meeting scheduled with our HR team. They told me that "Your first and last name are work related data. Any device that contains your first and last name must comply with the bloodlock policy." So then I had to put it on all my personal devices, too. The dream ended with me trying to log into my work device for a critical meeting, but it wasn't working! I had pricked my finger so many times to unlock my devices that no blood would come out! I woke up to find my left hand had fallen asleep. Obviously that was the trigger for...all of this nonsense. LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@alexchapman @pixelate Never heard of thrive. I was thinking about twblue and tweesecake.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@pixelate The problem is the blind made mastodon apps are buggy, incomplete, and abandond. They are nowhere near sighted apps. I don’t want the same thing for my desktop.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@Fragglemuppet Or the musicians can set a minimum price if they want.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall I had the same thing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@oriol_gomez92 @kevinrj In my ideal world, it imports a zip file, unzips it into a folder named after the zip file, and deletes any non-audio files it finds. This would pretty much get you free daisy audio support based on how most libraries do it. Also, big zip files are how many TV show seasons come out of a large website you're probably familiar with.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@oriol_gomez92 @kevinrj If we could import zip files it’d be perfect.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam I know vergin rolled out IPV6, and they're just a bell reseller entirely owned by BCE. But I haven't managed to figure out how, yet.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam I got myself a heatsync I'm gonna stick on there with a thermal pad, and a little five volt fan, as I happened to have a USB plug nearbye to run it. I'm kinda worried about the heat from the PFS port causing the switch to throddle itself.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam @mrkrabs No worries! If I wanted it to be private, I’d have sent a dm. What Adam says aligns with my experience. The plug on the modem was extremely stubborn; I had to tug on it harder than I like pulling on any connector, and I had nearly resigned myself to giving up before it finally came out. Even then I was scared I had broken it. As for touching the connector, I was cowardly and had the rubber cover in my hand and ready to go. I put the cover on until I was ready to plug it into the new module.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@adam I was already using Ppoe pass through, so it’ll be interesting to see how much of a difference this makes. My god these are hot little bastards.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam I’m running whatever FIBERMALL put on it. It claims to be 8311 community firmware. And its web updater says it’s up to date with the latest release from 2024.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@adam I only have one. Do firmware updates happen often? How critical are they?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@adam You might be interested to know that I completely replaced the Bell Gigahub modem without any issues this morning. The process is perfectly accessible, other than needing someone to read the ONT ID off the back of your bell modem. You need a router or switch with an SFP+ port. You also need a fan or other active cooling for the fiber module; they run at about 90 degrees. Then I purchased my x-onu-sfpp from fibermall. Once you have these things, you can use these instructions: pon.wiki/guides/masquerade-as-the-bce-inc-giga-hub-with-the-was-110/#purchase-a-was-110-or-x-onu-sfpp
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
The apps are fairly with , just FYI. As is the interface for AdGuard DNS. I haven't tried VPN because I don't need that, and I don't run AdGuard home because I want to run my own DNS about as much as I want to run my own email.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
Just for the heck of it, I decided to try to fix an addon to run in the latest alpha. I knew exactly what was wrong with it: it was importing a module included for 3.11, and new alphas of NVDA are built with Python 3.13. I gave chat GPT the addon file, with this instruction: "In the latest alphas of NVDA, NVDA is now built with Python 3.13. That means this addon won't work. Please fix it." The simple solution would be to go get the right precompiled module from pip. But I didn't know if it would even be able to figure out what a .nvda-addon file was or how to fix it. Turns out it did. It spent six minutes, unpacked the addon, did things to the python code, then gave me back a new .nvda-addon file. But instead of just getting the right version of the module, it...rewrote the entire addon to not use that module. And its rewrite included some new features, while removing some existing ones. I'm kind of both impressed that it was able to handle the entire task on its own, and baffled that it did it in the hardest possible way. It even updated the manifest file correctly. It also left commented out sections of code, and created some Python files it never wound up using for anything. You could kind of see it doing something, forgetting what it was doing, then going to do the same thing a different way, but not deleting the half-completed evidence of the first attempt it abandoned for some reason. If more and more people use AI, code is going to get really, really weird and organic, y'all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
@ppatel No idea. In this case it was a replacement part for a medical device. Even with the invoice they decided it was worth more than declared.