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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
7mo
@bermudianbrit @jscholes @J3317 Wait, were you working for Palantir? LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@J3317 @jscholes I also have a network share running on Debian named \\windows-server. Because it was too much trouble to update all the network mounts.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@J3317 @jscholes I assume it's actually an iPhone? ROFL JK
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@jscholes Eh, my current iPhone 16 pro max is currently named "Samuel's Ipod Touch". Because that's what iTunes named my first iPod touch for me when setting it up. And the name just follows from iCloud restore to device transfer.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@jscholes It is interesting, though, how no blind people seem to humanize our screen readers. I know a type of blind person who names her cane, Brailler, etc. But nobody does the same with a screen reader or Braille display.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
I'm surprised nobody has made a Steeve's Talking Clock voice out of this yet: github.com/ryanmonro/george
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
seasonal music @jdking92 I think because the female Jewish names from the Bible are more used in the modern day. Other than David, of course. But you don't encounter too many Ehud's today.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
seasonal music @jdking92 Ah, it just strikes me as stereotypically Jewish, at least in Canada.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
seasonal music Okay Apple, it's only the middle of November, and you've already had far too much eggnog. Whatever this abomination of a sexy sounding woman sensually covering The Chipmunks is, it needs to stop existing.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
seasonal music @jdking92 And the name Leonard Cohen haha
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
seasonal music @jdking92 Well, the author was Jewish. So makes sense it would refer to the Old Testament and not the new.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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seasonal music @jdking92 Yes, and "David played and it pleased The Lord" right in the intro.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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seasonal music @VE3RWJ It's about exactly the sort of thing I don't want to explain to the children at the Christmas party after several eggnogs.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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seasonal music @austinnix Probably just filler. But apple music has every single Christmas song ever released to choose from! And I haven't heard Fum Fum Fum or Kinderly Is Coming even once! Or Martin Said to His Man! Or even Gaudete!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
seasonal music Whatever maniac on Music's hits station decided that Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is a needs to be fired. Then hired, so that they can be fired all over again! It's not Christmas just because it mentions a character from the Bible one time!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@jonathan859 Nope. I'm using it through the API.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
I do ironically enjoy it when a company releases a new and improved , and suddenly some extremely specialized and specific tasks that I use LLMs for perform drastically better. And suddenly they can complete the exact examples I used to provide in my prompt, all by themselves. And seem to perform the task in my exact style, even though I'm not giving them my prompt examples anymore. Hmmm, it couldn't be that they trained on my prompt data, could it? Even though they said they don't do that? Nah, of course not! They'd never!

Oh well, at least someone, somewhere, spent several billion dollars to make something I do once a week slightly easier.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
transphobia @andrew @bermudianbrit The way I first noticed it is when Voldemort started getting marked as spelled incorrectly using Microsoft Edge, when it never had been before. I then discovered that it couldn't suggest Dumbledore as a suggestion, no matter how close to the correct spelling I got. Then I noticed that modern terms like Kubernetes were also being considered misspellings. When I disabled AdGuard DNS and rebooted, the problems went away.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@VE3RWJ @NicksWorld He'll sign it. He's also ordered the justice department to open an investigation into all democrats named in the documents, but no republicans. Once an on-going investigation is underway, the documents can no longer be released because it would be prejudicing an active investigation. So Trump gets to have his cake and eat it to: he can vote for and sign the bill, and still not release the documents.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
7mo
@gooba42 Yup. Though your post reminds me of the time a childhood friend of mine got banned from a game for being a bot, because she was Neurodivergent and played too regularly for too many hours. This sort of thing has been happening since the dawn of statistics. I think the game was runescape or neopets or one of those 90's browser games all the cool kids were playing back in the internet stone ages.
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