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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆSamuel Proulx๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

@fastfinge.interfree.ca

Blind computer geek, lover of #litrpg and #sciencefiction. aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ

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Latest posts by fastfinge.interfree.ca on Bluesky

I think darts might be my sport because their training regimes, according to the announcers, include โ€œeating fewer crispsโ€ and โ€œworking a bit in the gardenโ€

23.07.2025 02:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sam's Stuff - An aborted journey into accessible flight simulation

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

22.06.2025 13:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sam's Stuff - Android Days Five and Six: let's get appy!

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

01.06.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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"

31.05.2025 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Sam's Stuff - Android day Four: Equality Achieved

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...

29.05.2025 01:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œWe gotta work fast we canโ€™t make it accessibleโ€ in 2025 this says so much more about how little you know about doing your job tbh

27.05.2025 16:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 56    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆSamuel Proulx๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@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...

27.05.2025 14:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sam's Stuff - Android Day One: How do I go home?

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...

25.05.2025 01:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sam's Stuff - Day Zero On My Android Journey

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...

22.05.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆSamuel Proulx๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (@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...

08.05.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sam's Stuff - My Accessible Cordcutting Solution

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...

07.05.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

05.05.2025 20:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 71    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

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

06.05.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33566    ๐Ÿ” 5310    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 648    ๐Ÿ“Œ 319
Sam's Stuff - Innosearch is good because of the humans, not the AI

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...

03.05.2025 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sam's Stuff - Some Pseudoscientific Sleep Solutions

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...

02.05.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Samuel Proulx's Blog - Moved The Blog to Static

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

01.05.2025 16:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 ...

30.04.2025 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The New Dawn: A Humorous Isekai LitRPG (Terminate the Oโ€ฆ

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.

24.04.2025 17:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

Theyโ€™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

19.04.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A vintage Easter card showing an army of rabbits riding cockerels into war

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.

19.04.2025 12:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2339    ๐Ÿ” 463    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73    ๐Ÿ“Œ 43
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The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG (The Bee Dungeonโ€ฆ

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.

16.04.2025 23:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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...

16.04.2025 00:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 yoโ€ฆ

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

15.04.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. Itโ€™s always โ€œwhatโ€™s that noise?โ€ and โ€œwhoโ€™s that stranger?โ€ which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

15.04.2025 01:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17041    ๐Ÿ” 2107    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 513    ๐Ÿ“Œ 152

modern websites:

thanks for buying a screwdriver

[two days later]

hey so do you need more screwdrivers

14.04.2025 13:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 579    ๐Ÿ” 111    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Roko's Basilisk - LessWrong Rokoโ€™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 Iโ€™m still trying.

14.04.2025 17:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AmpliFi | Faster, Whole-Home Wi-Fi Not Just a Wi-Fi Router, Itโ€™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.

13.04.2025 18:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

12.04.2025 00:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My Accessible Self-hosting Tech Stack: https://stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/10/my-accessible-selfhosting-tech-stack.html

10.04.2025 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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