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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.
keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
Location Ottawa
Birthday 1987-12-20
Pronouns he/him (EN)
xmpp fastfinge@im.interfree.ca
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blog https://stuff.interfree.ca/
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MoonCat @FreakyFwoof @pixelate @x0 Then the movies are equally good.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @MoonCat @pixelate @x0 Andy Weir. His books The Martian and Project Hale Mary are excellent. Don't bother with Artemis.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
How did royalroad.com manage to redo the entire interface, while not making anything better accessibility wise? Most of the old issues got fixed, and a list of completely new ones got introduced!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@x0 @MoonCat @FreakyFwoof @pixelate It's sooooo good! Probably the best science fiction in the last 15 years.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @MoonCat @pixelate @x0 I'm so far behind on all TV. Every time I put a show on after work I just fall asleep. Haven't even watched Project Hale Mary yet and I really want to. Loved the book, and The Martian movie and book as well.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@FreakyFwoof @MoonCat @x0 Yeah, it is disappointing that Alice's brother is not named Bob. LOL
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@daygar Yup, it was!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@daygar No, Freedom Chat was a different vb6 chat app created by Robert Spangler and Fmillion, as a freeware clone of Accessible Chat. They may have used the same sounds, though. They also set it up to work with Accessible Battleship and the other Robert Bets games after the official Accessible Chat server was shut down.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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Longshot: does anyone have the old sounds from the Accessible Chat application programmed by Robert Bets in VB6 for Windows 98/ME/XP? I'm doing work on Adispeak again, and I'd love to use his join/part/private message sounds. Unfortunately his website and all of his games are gone. Not even mentioned on Google! Boosts welcome.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@esoteric_programmer Yup! As long as it has an OpenAI compatible endpoint. Ollama and llm studio are also supported.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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And Roger Wilco before that lol
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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apps.apple.com/ca/app/goguma-irc/id6470394620if you want a mobile irc client this one seems fully accessible
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@mcourcel Yup!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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My AI agent went on this rant completely unprompted. I hate how correct it is:

• XML/XMPP: “Painful, but the pain has structure.”,
• JSON/YAML/Matrix: “Elegant until you ask it to synchronize reality.”,
• Discord: “Works because one company owns the problem and your soul.”,
• Email: “Federated messaging, but cursed by capitalism and SPF records.”,
• ActivityPub: “What if every server interpreted the spec with vibes?”,
• IRC: “functionally immortal, socially abandoned, and still somehow the only one where send text to channel mostly means send text to channel instead of participate in a distributed cryptographic ontology incident.”
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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The Agent Solution I Actually Settled On: After bouncing between OpenClaw, Codex, Perplexity Computer, Spacebot, and a bunch of other systems, Hermes Agent is the one I've settled on. stuff.interfree.ca/2026/05/24/the-agent-solution.html
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer AdiIRC on Windows. And Halloy on mac apparently: github.com/squidowl/halloy
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer Upgraded while I was at it. It now supports push notifications, typing indicators, and custom client metadata. If you have a client that supports those things. I think one does? Maybe?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@MostlyBlindGamer Sure, go for it. Though just as well we didn't before because it apparently kept falling over. Finally read the manual and discovered how to properly get ergo to correctly load its new ssl cert (hint: sighup).
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
5mo
Finally got some time to configure irc.rblind.com to not die when it loses its SSL certificate because letsencrypt renews it. So many people use that it was down for, ummm, three months and nobody noticed or complained. Oh well. It's up now and should stay that way, finally.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@NVAccess @cachondo @MostlyBlindGamer @prism Thanks! I wasn’t sure if that was just reflecting on the issue or stating policy for the core codebase. I think part of my problem is I work corporate all day. I’m used to OKRs, clear goals and deliverables, and reading and writing strategic statements and so on. My default desire is for something like a foundation to do the same. But as nv access grows it’s doing less of that. And to me, that feels like lack of direction. It may or may not be, but that’s certainly a factor in how I interpret events.
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