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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
@quanin @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @mcourcel And by Linux, I assume you mean LinuxIO, the cloud-based agentic AI solution for autonomous 24/7 web 3.0 devops and rapid LLM deployment?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @quanin @mcourcel Yup. You need to whitelist facebook.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@pixelate @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin @mcourcel The obvious solution is just put every file on the blockchain and then something something cryptography hash mining something something distributed something something free market Yay! Success!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin @mcourcel I think that says more about how fragile and broken TalkBack is. I have an Android phone for work and I had to replace talkback to get anything done. And it's still not as smooth as IOS.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@quanin @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @pixelate @mcourcel DocuSign on IOS is fine if you're not using the app, and you click the button for screen readers. It's one of the only places on the internet where you should; it's not an overlay, it actually fixes things.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@pixelate @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin @mcourcel The problem PDFs still solve, that no other file format is even trying to do, is that it makes it obvious (if you know where and how to look) if a PDF file was modified after generation. That's why they get used for contracts.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@pixelate @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin @mcourcel You could also be thinking of survey monkey. It used to do that.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@lynessence @dhamlinmusic @pixelate @quanin @mcourcel I think it has to do with how they require the signature. If it's a button where you can click, it works fine. But they can require you to draw it on the document, or attach a photo, and those don't work.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@pixelate @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin @mcourcel But making accessible PDFs is possible! All you need is fifty thousand hours of training directly from Adobe, two software packages nobody has ever heard of before, and for making accessible pdfs to be your full time job. Either that or you could just hire one of the people from the thousands of ads I get in my Linkedin messages every day from companies nobody has ever heard of who specialize in pdf remediation.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@jonathan859 @Fragglemuppet @simon That and people who decide to just call you a nickname without asking. Does that annoy you, too, Johnny?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@crossgolf_rebel I don't know if people have changed, or if there are just more people worth blocking. I have about 50 spam accounts blocked, for example.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@andrew Also, I think there might be clients that will automatically split long posts into 1/N without them doing anything. And an accessible interface that's better than the visual one? Impossible! LOL JK
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@dhamlinmusic @lynessence @quanin @mcourcel Yup. But I'm on voiceover on IOS, and that's the most popular combo, so I tend to be fine.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@Rosalyn @jscholes @modulux As I reflect, one thing I notice is that the people I know who are best at BSI have had some kind of musical training. I wonder if something about finger positioning on a keyboard or instrument, or the different pressure forces used when playing keys, make BSI easier? I never learned any instrument at all, ever.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@Rosalyn @jscholes @modulux I find that if I lift my fingers up like that they get...out of position, though. Not right away, but after four or five words. Something about hitting the keys causes my involuntary nervous system to correct itself when a finger doesn't hit right in the center of a key, whereas that never happens on a touch screen.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@quanin @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @mcourcel Right. It's not the planet bumping us off. We're bumping ourselves off because we were too stupid and selfish to avoid the oncoming disaster.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@knwmoon Yeah, it's super communal. Accept for the blind people that I hate and am not speaking to for reasons that I will now spend the next seven hours explaining to you, but of course we haven't blocked each other because if we did, how could we tell each other just how much we're not talking to each other anymore?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@travisj I think that might be some of it, yes. That and a lot of blind people write lengthy messages even when chatting, and those can struggle to fit into a more realtime chat.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@knwmoon Yup. And just like every 90's chatroom, half the people are dating each other, were just dating each other and are now broken up, are cheating on each other with one another, or are about to date each other.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
4mo
@quanin @dhamlinmusic @lynessence @mcourcel It's a no-win situation because every second Taylor Swift's jet creates more emissions than you and I will in our entire lives. Never mind the rest of the big companies and ultra wealthy. But even if we eat the rich, all of them, right now, undoing the damage they've already done will take massive hardship and sacrifice. I stopped reading climate journals because the only conclusions that can be drawn from the latest data are just too depressing.