🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

I think darts might be my sport because their training regimes, according to the announcers, include “eating fewer crisps” and “working a bit in the garden”

An aborted journey into accessible flight simulation:
It's been quiet here for a couple of weeks because a project I was hoping to begin fell through.
stuff.interfree.ca/2025/06/22/f...
#gaming
#games
#audiogames
#fsx
#simulation
#flight
#accessible
#screenreader
#accessibility
#blind

Android Days Five and Six: let's get appy!
Probably the final entry in this particular series.
stuff.interfree.ca/2025/06/01/a...

a woman with red hair is wearing a suit and tie in front of a wall of plaques Alt: Annie Lennox with short short orange hair, wearing a suit and tie and black gloves standing in front of a bunch of golden records asking "who am I to disagree?"

five year old asked me "What are the rest of the lyrics to 'sweet dreams are made of beans'?" so I asked them which they knew and they whipped out an Annie Lennox voice and sang "Sweet dreams are made of beans/Shadow and I are commissary"

Android day Four: Equality Achieved
I complete Android customizations bringing me what feels like equality with IOS, at least for the base system.
stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/28/a...

“We gotta work fast we can’t make it accessible” in 2025 this says so much more about how little you know about doing your job tbh

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 (@fastfinge) Android Days two and three: There has to be a way to make this better. Where I become frustrated with the out of the box experience and try to improve things: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/27/and...

Android Days two and three: There has to be a way to make this better. Where I become frustrated with the out of the box experience and try to improve things: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/27/a...

Android Day One: How do I go home?
The phone arrives, and I unbox and turn it on. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/24/a...

Day Zero On My Android Journey: Wherein I talk about what I tried to buy, and why I don't have it yet. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/22/a...

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 (@fastfinge) Jami could be a skype replacement if only accessibility was cross-platform: Jami is a fully peer to peer chat application that supports text and video, but is only #accessible on mobile: https://stuff...

Jami could be a skype replacement if only accessibility was cross-platform: Jami is a fully peer to peer chat application that supports text and video, but is only #accessible on mobile: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/08/j...

My #Accessible Cordcutting Solution: I haven't paid for a cable subscription for years. This is what works for me as a #blind #TV watcher: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/07/a...

So much code out there is a duct-taped house of cards and the longer I work in this industry, the more I think that the longevity of your career is wholly dependent upon how little that fact bothers you.

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Innosearch is good because of the humans, not the AI: InnosearchAI is an #accessible shopping solution, powered by #AI. But it's the human support that makes it worthwhile. My review: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/03/i...

Some Pseudoscientific #Sleep Solutions: These are some of the weapons that are working for me as a #blind person in my on-going battle against #insomnia. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/02/s...

Moved The Blog to Static: My adventures in continuing to fiddle with my blog. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/01/m...

Call of Fate - Accessible Game for Visually Impaired Users Call of Fate is an accessible mobile game for visually impaired users, offering an immersive experience with audio cues and voice navigation.

Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/30/call-of-fate-a-tour.html

Call of Fate is a Chinese audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be accessible to both blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts ...

The New Dawn: A Humorous Isekai LitRPG (Terminate the O…

Review: The New Dawn by Icalos: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/24/review-the-new-dawn-by.html

readers who enjoyed the other four books in this series will find this is a satisfying conclusion, offering closure, and ending the journey nicely.

Long lines at polling stations as Canadians turn up for advance voting | CBC News Canadians reported long lines as polling stations opened for advance voting on Friday. Advance polls will be open again 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. nationwide Saturday through Monday.

They’re not joking: Long lines at polling stations as Canadians turn up for advance voting | CBC News. I arrived at 8:55 AM, five minutes before voting even opened, and the line was already out the door. It moved fairly quick... https://stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/19/theyre-not-joking-long-lines.html

A vintage Easter card showing an army of rabbits riding cockerels into war

For those who celebrate: may your #Easter weekend be as strange and random as this vintage postcard.

The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG (The Bee Dungeon…

Review: The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG by Icalos: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/16/review-the-beeginning-a-dungeoncore.html

A positive review, recommending it to readers who enjoy litRPG or dungeon core especially.

Astounding Science Fiction 1955-03: Vol 55 Iss 1 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Astounding Science Fiction 1955-03: Volume 55, Issue 1.Digitized from IA1533722-02.Previous issue: sim_astounding-science-fiction_1955-02_54_6.Next issue:...

Can AI help me read scans of golden-age science fiction magazines?: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/15/can-ai-help-me-read.html

I try multiple AI tools to attempt to get an accurately transcribed and formatted version of the Astounding Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy from 1955. This s...

NVDA 2025.1beta1 available for testing Beta1 of NVDA 2025.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…

NVDA 2025.1 beta 1 is now available! Includes NVDA Remote, OneCore, SAPI 4 & 5, OCR, Office & Add-on store improvements, Braille updates, new tables + more! Download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-20...

To read "What's new" please run the installer & open what's new from the NVDA menu.
#NVDA #NVDAsr

Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

modern websites:

thanks for buying a screwdriver

[two days later]

hey so do you need more screwdrivers

Roko's Basilisk - LessWrong Roko’s basilisk is a thought experiment proposed in 2010 by the user Roko on the Less Wrong community blog. Roko used ideas in decision theory to argue that a sufficiently powerful AI agent would have an incentive to torture anyone who imagined the agent but didn't work to bring the agent into existence. The argument was called a "basilisk" --named after the legendary reptile who can cause death with a single glance--because merely hearing the argument would supposedly put you at risk of torture from this hypothetical agent. A basilisk in this context is any information that harms or endangers the people who hear it. Roko's argument was broadly rejected on Less Wrong, with commenters objecting that an agent like the one Roko was describing would have no real reason to follow through on its threat: once the agent already exists, it will by default just see it as a waste of resources to torture people for their past decisions, since this doesn't causally further its plans. A number of decision algorithms can follow through on acausal threats and promises, via the same methods that permit mutual cooperation in prisoner's dilemmas; but this doesn't imply that such theories can be blackmailed. And following through on blackmail threats against such an algorithm additionally requires a large amount of shared information and trust between the agents, which does not appear to exist in the case of Roko's basilisk. Less Wrong's founder, Eliezer Yudkowsky, banned discussion of Roko's basilisk on the blog for several years as part of a general site policy against spreading potential information hazards. This had the opposite of its intended effect: a number of outside websites began sharing information about Roko's basilisk, as the ban attracted attention to this taboo topic. Websites like RationalWiki spread the assumption that Roko's basilisk had been banned because Less Wrong users accepted the argument; thus many criticisms of Less Wrong cite Roko's basilisk as evidence t

the three AI tools in my accessibility toolbox: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/14/the-three-ai-tools-in.html

These are the three AI tools I use as a daily part of my life, and a list of five tools I’m still trying.

AmpliFi | Faster, Whole-Home Wi-Fi Not Just a Wi-Fi Router, It’s a Mesh Wi-Fi System.

Review: The Deco BE95 from the perspective of a voiceover user: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/13/review-the-deco-be-from.html

My review of the Deco BE95 Wifi7 Mesh Router as a blind VoiceOver user.

AI and the Sound of Disability: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/11/ai-and-the-sound-of.html

Attempting to use an AI sound effects generator to generate sounds related to disability.

My Accessible Self-hosting Tech Stack: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/10/my-accessible-selfhosting-tech-stack.html