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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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@bermudianbrit @FreakyFwoof And modern IRC servers have stuff like nickserv built in, and you can give your username and password to a modern client, so no more /msg nickserv identify nonsense.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@bermudianbrit @FreakyFwoof Mostly it's full of me and Tyler. Actually, IRCV3 now fully supports push notifications, and resuming mobile connections, plus message history and connections from multiple devices to one nickname. So with Discord's recent age verification nonsense it has, in fact, had a bit of a renaissance.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@bermudianbrit @FreakyFwoof It still lives...
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@modulux @FreakyFwoof Adiirc fully supports 99 percent of IRCV3 features. Documentation is in readme.html in the zip file.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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If you are and still use there's a new adispeak release for you! This one includes the latest adiirc beta, with the fixed and fully accessible settings and server list. It also includes sounds thanks to @FreakyFwoof. If you've never heard of adispeak, it's a script to make adiirc read out IRC messages, in the spirit of sjams or mircspeech, but supporting , and based on a more modern IRC client. Get it at: github.com/fastfinge/adispeak/releases/tag/v_0.4
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MariahL @jaybird110127 Honestly the default slider values are really bad. I just can’t figure out what the default should be. So I haven’t changed it. I’m a software guy, not an audio guy. I’m sort of hoping that someday someone musical will suggest some better defaults.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MariahL @jaybird110127 Try moving the wet and dry sliders.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 @Tamasg @amir I have no idea why that code works the way it does. I assume there's a good reason, and I assume I don't know what it is. So I won't merge it into my upstream.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @pixelate Huh, weird. They actually seem to be doing the same here; we get ads for something called BritBox, that seems to combine British programming from the BBC, ITV, and God knows where else.My understanding/hope was that the BBC wanted to cut them out.Because they’re an annoying middle man and don’t carry audio description. But maybe that reseller model is what they’re going to lean into? But that’s a silly way to go about it. Because BBC can (and should!) be able to sell me a service I pay for that includes British TV, podcasts, magazines, written news articles, etc. All of the above are good enough that as a non-British person I’d have no issue paying my share. Whereas I resent paying BritBox for TV, and Apple for podcasts, and someone else for the two good science magazines the BBC puts out, and Apple News for ad free BBC news, etc. All while BBC probably makes less money as I pay more.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @Orinks @pixelate The only problem I can’t figure out how to solve is detecting unique machines. Like if I upload the same report 7000 times it could mess up the stats.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @Orinks @pixelate You also don’t even really need powerful hosting. Like, you could make an account where the app uploads reports via FTP or something. Then run a script every hour that gets the new reports and regenerates the pages with all the statistics. That way you don’t have to worry about the security issues of running your own server all the time.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @pixelate At least from the outside, a lot of the changes actually make sense. The Internet means there’s no good reason for me as a foreigner to pay somebody else for BBC programming. They’re one of the few (only?) broadcasting organizations with a wide enough pool of content that I could be persuaded to sign up for a BBC subscription. But until recently, it was either free, completely unavailable, or only available through a service run by the Canadian cable companies. Similarly, I suspect most people listening to BBC podcasts every day aren’t British tax payers. So a move to ads and/or a subscription made sense. And once again, the BBC is one of the only organizations with enough content to pull it off.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @pixelate I mean I’m sure a lot of companies would also be interested. Including the place where I work. But all the companies would insist the data be private and belong only to us, because capitalism.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@jscholes @FreakyFwoof @pixelate Mostly they came to mind because the BBC and gov.uk are some of the few organizations publicly releasing any kind of accessibility data, outside of web focused organizations like webaim. If I want to know approximately how many PWD own a smart TV, or whatever, those are the only two places I would expect to have that sort of data. And the BBC cares about 4K and 8k streaming etc. So they were just the ones who jumped to mind as being interested in a project like that.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @pixelate It would also probably be super helpful to people like NVDA. Is it safe to stop supporting Windows 10? How many people have enough resources to run an AI model if they included one? How many people still have 32 bit machines? Etc.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @pixelate Thought I had this morning actually. You should make an opt in and totally optional thing, where people upload there system info to you, and then it builds like a website of the average machine configuration of your app users. I suspect most of us are screen reader folks, so it’d be interesting to compare with the stats from other places. Do blind people upgrade slower? Or faster? Do we all have 3 tb hard drives and no video card? Do we tend to have less available RAM and CPU because of screen readers? That kind of thing. I bet the folks at the BBC would be super interested. Maybe they’d even fund a bit of it.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @pixelate Now that you release your own app, isn’t it fun how angry you get to be at apps like YouTube that go out the door with bugs you wouldn’t let into an app release? Even though they’re a trillion dollar company?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Today 16 app updates were “bug fixes and improvements.” But I really enjoyed the one app that said “Bug improvements”. I really hope they didn’t just forget the phrase “fixes and” and the update really does consist of improved bugs. The same bugs, just now they’re worse!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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TIL: I’m apparently a massive sucker for female voices doing acoustic covers of songs. I listen to music in the background all day, and just reflexively hit the favourite button in Apple Music when I hear something I vaguely like. Then every eight months or so I go through the list of songs I favourited. Anyway, I have 14 covers of different women singing Iris. I mean, it’s a good song and all. But 14 different covers by 14 different women? Really, me?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@amir @Tamasg The one on IOS gives the voice a horrible lisp. So it’s pretty much useless.
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