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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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So I’ve been sharing my Weird Dreams with the fediverse lately. Because I’m a bit of a nut, I figured: why not share my normal dreams as well? I’ll be doing that with the hashtag every morning. If you, too, find dreams interesting, feel free to join in! Some ground rules and background: as a teenager, I was extremely interested in dreaming. I practiced recall and put a lot of work into it, as the first step to lucid dreaming. While I never achieved it, to this day I can generally remember 1 or 2 dreams a night. I don’t believe dreams are supernatural, or have any deeper meaning.I just believe they’re fun, and sometimes an interesting way to get a glimpse of your own subconscious. Also, thanks to some medication I take, my dreams have become even more vivid over the last couple years. If I’m lucky enough to have any explicit dreams, I’ll be keeping those to myself! Will sharing my dreams with the world every morning get me any closer to my long abandoned goal of lucid dreaming? Will my subconscious get performance anxiety and stop dreaming entirely? Will the focus on writing up my dreams in something more than point-form for my dream diary make them even weirder? It’s a social experiment, bro! And you get to follow along on this journey of entirely unscientific and meaningless science! Yay! Yeah…feel free to filter out the hashtag entirely.
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@MikeGorse @tristan Matrix is godawful. I wouldn’t touch it if you paid me.
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@tristan The only thing I'd want is the alt+number and moving of the windows to ctrl+number behind a config flag. It's all I could really see breaking people's mustle memory. Everything else are nice additions!
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@Elizafox And good point about the Overton window. I do find myself doing more with AI these days, both because of how society is, but also because when I consider not doing it (or not using AI for it) there is absolutely an element of "Fuck these people. They're going to hate me if I use AI for even one thing where I can't avoid it, so I might as well use it for fifteen things; they won't be any less abusive."
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@Elizafox Trouble is, the most abusive accounts (as a blind person who uses AI because it's the best or only option and gets abuse from many of them) have been active and participating for far too long on Mastodon to be set up by some sort of bot farm.
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@Elizafox Yeah, I'm aware of the history of this happening in various places. Though not aware enough to know what that actually looks like on the ground, or how it might look different in a movement that's largely distributed and online.
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@Elizafox The main reason I don't actually think so is because none of us have enough influence for them to bother with a false-flag op. Plus, of course, absolutely no proof. But when did that ever stop a good conspiracy theory?
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@Elizafox If I were just a bit more conspiracy minded, I would wonder how many of the "anti-AI" people are just paid false-flags by Anthropic and Open AI to make the side look bad.
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@tristan Happy to take pull requests.
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@FreakyFwoof Ah, okay. Of course, I'm running in docker, so I don't have easy access to the folder structure. Maybe a fix would be to make the page at clip.interfree.ca say "running with 3 buckets" or whatever? Then people would know if there are unexpected buckets. But it could be that logging already does this. I'll test in a bit.
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@FreakyFwoof Yeah, client-side is probably the only way to do it. Either that or make the server log every time it creates a new bucket. So if someone was troubleshooting, they would see logs like "Sam's Framework joined the server and created a bucket. Sam's mac joined the server and used an existing bucket. Sam's iPhone joined the server and created a new bucket." So at least then, when something wasn't working, someone who checks the server logs would understand that iPhone did join the server, it just created a new bucket for itself.
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@FreakyFwoof Yeah, I think that's right. The main thing is to know if you're joining an existing bucket, or if a new bucket was created. If a new bucket was created, and you did not expect that to happen, it's on you to figure out why. But now you know what happened, so you don't waste time trying to figure out why machine 1 isn't syncing the clipboard, when it is, just not in the same bucket is machine 2.
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@FreakyFwoof So one small issue with this design. Doesn't it mean if I make a typo on one of my machines, and enter an incorrect password, it suddenly won't share history with all the others, and I won't know why? I might suggest a message when first setting up a machine alerting if it's creating a new database bucket instead of joining an existing one. It's not an error, of course, but it's good to know that what happened might not have been what I intended. Maybe it already does this; right now I have my dad on a different server instead, so I haven't tried that yet.
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@FreakyFwoof Oh! I assumed giving a different encryption password would just mean the devices with the wrong password gave back an error. I didn't realize they could just create things with that password.
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Edit: All of the below has been fixed. Docs are updated, the bug with the conf file is fixed. And see the reply in this thread for how to share a clipman server. Plus it was clarified in the manual. Gotta love quick updates! Clipman by @FreakyFwoof is one of those things I’d had on my list to set up ever since the IOS app came out. I finally did it. Should have done ages ago. The only weirdness involves running servers in docker behind reverse proxies. If you do that, a few things to know: first, it writes files you will need access to later. So don’t use bind mounts. Second, the importable config file it writes is wrong. You have to enter it in to the apps yourself. And the format has to be clip.example.com. If you use clipman:// examples like in the manual, it will try to use plain text and fail. When saving settings on IOS,you have to specify the port, even if it’s the default, because it requires a specified port or the settings won’t save. Lastly, it’s one server, one database. I thought I could add tokens for family members, but no. They need there own clipman server on there own host.
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@dhamlinmusic Mac actually lol
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Because I know you all wondered (that's sarcasm: I know none of you care), this is the work happening to aimud this week. These are steps needed before I start building the OLC systems for players next week. github.com/fastfinge/aimud/blob/master/docs/rulesets.md
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What have they done to the apples? Like, the food ones. That you eat. I got myself an apple for lunch, and it's huge! Like, larger than my hand. WTF? I have never seen or experienced an apple this large in my life. This can't be natural, can it? Is AI involved, somehow?
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@8 I beat my meat. How should I vote?
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@jwcph Fear, probably. If there's an open edge onto, say, train tracks or similar, the accessibility feature will generally be placed much farther from the edge than people would normally walk, because the designers worry that blind people might step off by mistake.
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@feld Yup. And it sure surprises apps using UDP, or doing any kind of NAT traversal. There's a reason I don't have my phone with them anymore.
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