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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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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@spacepup Monal on iOS and Miranda on windows. I host my own server.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@opentoe @spacepup Get better friends.! lol jk
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@pixelate They also shortened pauses in eloquence. By a lot. I’m not sure how I feel about it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@bermudianbrit @lynessence @pixelate It's DMA stuff: www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-delayed-in-eu-for-ios-27-and-ipados-27/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence @pixelate Based on how Apple said "our most powerful devices" at the end there, though, I suspect we don't get the new dictation or text to speech stuff.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@lynessence I suspect it's a monopoly issue. It's an agreement with Google, after all.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall I suspect it's because of the EU's anti-monopoly stuff. And because they want to punish the EU for forcing them to open up iMessage and switch to USBC.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Todays out of context quote: "The chosen one must wait three to five business days before receiving prophecy approval from the ministry of destiny."
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @KaraLG84 I’ll just leave this here: squigly.link/song/shark-tank/out-for-a-rip
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @KaraLG84 Not as annoying as the way they just randomly pluralize words for no reason in Alberta. "So I tells buddy, right, I tells buddy after I goes for a dart, y'know, I tells him we's all gonna go out to cowtown fur a rip, eh? So as I knows if you's all are gonna reach, right?" Honestly everything about the way they talk in rural Alberta and parts of the Ottawa Valley is annoying LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel @KaraLG84 I thought hey was just a Halifax thing. Only place I’ve ever heard it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@KaraLG84 You hear it more on the west coast. I’m not sure why everyone thinks that a giant country like Canada would have only one accent, when the UK changes accent every eight feet or so. Canada has at least a dozen accents depending on class and location.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld I’ve had my .ca address rejected. It needs to be a 3 letter tld. And it can’t have a subdomain; addresses at mail.example.com are also frequently rejected. I’ve also encountered three or four websites that whitelist mail providers and claim that everything but Gmail and Microsoft and the other big providers are disposable email addresses and can’t be used.you’ll also have a bad time if your username is a single letter, or contains characters other than letters, numbers, period, and underline.1+@feld.me is a perfectly valid email address. Good luck getting anyone to accept it though.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@JonathanMosen @nationsblind Thanks! In the meantime, if you find that text can be displayed on a Braille display in the new Microsoft Store app, I would love to know. I can borrow one for at least a few weeks if that will work around the problem at least temporarily.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@JonathanMosen @nationsblind No worries! It happens all the time. I'm hoping NFB still has contacts over at Amazon. I use Kindle on my Laptop to read research and technical material that's not available on bookshare. So the ability to check spelling character by character is critical to me. As well as selecting and copying text so I can make citations.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@JonathanMosen @nationsblind I tested with both NVDA 2026 and jaws 2026. I did not try with Narrator. I downloaded the new Kindle app from the Microsoft Store, ensured I had the latest version, and then opened a book that I knew worked correctly in the Kindle Legacy app. Once I opened the book, I found that I could read by line with the up and down arrows. However, pressing the say all hotkey did nothing. And when I cursored down to the end of a page, the text did not advance until I pressed page down. I checked the settings for an auto-advance, or other accessibility setting, but found nothing. The assistive reader is available and will read with your default SAPI5 voice. However, this is not nearly as nice as using say all. Also, there is no way to read by letter, so checking spelling is impossible. I do not know if the text of Kindle books in the new app displays on a Braille display or not, as I do not have one connected to this computer.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@feld @JonathanMosen @nationsblind Yes. All of these things worked on the existing Kindle app for Windows. However, that app has been renamed to "Kindle Legacy" and is being discontinued on June 30th, and will no longer run after that date. The new app runs only on Windows 11, and is only available in the Microsoft Store.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Got my hands on a copy of the new app for Windows 11. You can read the text with a , but only line by line. Not word by word or character by character. Say all does not work. Pages do not advance automatically; you must press page down when you get to the end of a page. Find does not work. You cannot select or copy text. Alt text does not seem to work, though I'm unsure if this was a problem with my particular book. Hopefully Amazon gets these things fixed before Kindle Legacy is discontinued on June 30th. For now, this app is effectively unusable for long-form reading, or for research and study. @nationsblind @JonathanMosen
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Looks like the new app is out for Windows, but only in the US store for now. Has anyone had an look yet? Old app is going away June 30th. Yes, Amazon is bad. But they're the exclusive publisher for a lot of indi authors. apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p8jq0jjstll?hl=en-GB&gl=CA
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@remixman I prefer "she who must not be named".
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