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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@ fastfinge @rblind.com

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Blind geek, fanfiction lover (Harry Potter and MLP). keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ

  • Nametag: Self-hostable personal relationships manager

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  • Any way to sync with contacts on mobile? I’d love one source of truth.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? December 16

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  • I'm currently enjoying The Art of Diploma-Bee: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG, The Bee Dungeon, Book 3 by Icalos on audible. I really enjoy his humour, and Savy Des-Etages is one of my favourite narrators of all time. If you've never read any litrpg, this could be a good series to introduce you to it.

  • Fun/interesting things to self host?

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  • If you want to get straight to the fun, I might recommend: https://cosmos-cloud.io/

    It will handle all of the uninteresting stuff like docker, reverse proxies, ssl certificates, etc. You can get straight to adding apps either by pasting in a docker-compose, or getting them straight from the cosmos marketplace.

    Also, it works with standard tools, so other than the reverse proxy, it's easy to migrate away from if you want. I think the reverse proxy is just caddy, but I don't know where the caddy config file goes or how to pull it out of the funky cosmos config format.

  • Blind Main @rblind.com
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    New haptic display technology creates 3D graphics you can see and feel

    news.ucsb.edu /2025/022254/new-haptic-display-technology-creates-3d-graphics-you-can-see-and-feel

  • The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization

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  • Or: maybe we can just keep paid influencer scams off the fediverse entirely? IMHO we don't need or want paid content creators here. As soon as someone can make a buck from it, the entire network will be flooded with clickbait, AI generated posts, and worse.

  • Lemmy Development Update November 2025

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  • Thanks, the Backwards compatibility is huge for us! We have a bunch of users who depend on mlem or thunder, so I was assuming I'd have to wait until updated versions of both of those apps was released to upgrade rblind.

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    database issues fixed

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  • Bonus third fix: If you notice that your pict-rs is using a lot of CPU or doing an unreasonable amount of IO, convert from using SLED (the default image repo) to using postgresql. The documentation for doing this is provided in the pict-rs crate.

  • Blind Main @rblind.com
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com
    Featured

    database issues fixed

  • Can't send Emails from Joplin Server

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  • The connection to the SMTP server is timing out. Are you sure the port and SSL config is correct?

  • Do you think standard batteries like A, AA, AAA, C, and D, 9V etc will eventually become obsolete?

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  • These are the way. They usually come with a cable that splits from one USB A to four or more USB C. So you have a spot to charge them normally, but you can also give them a quick charge when you're out and about with any random cable you have if you can't find the splitter. And they charge much quicker than using a battery charger.

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    How many instances have you been orphaned from?

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  • Same. Although sometimes I set up a public instance, because I'm setting one up for myself anyway, right? And then I have regrets LOL

  • What do you think about post longevity on lemmy

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  • If Lemmy got as big as Reddit, this would be an even larger problem. As a server admin, I'd like not to store several hundred gigs of text per day because someone subscribes to an active community. Unlike Reddit, Lemmy servers are not run by a company that can endlessly lose venture capitalists money.

  • What are some good RSS feeds that I should follow?

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  • Not OP, but I use miniflux on desktop, synced with Lire on IOS.

  • Genuine question about dreaming

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  • Born blind. I dream entirely in sound. People who went blind later in life, however, may still see in dreams.

  • Interac launches Konek to widen online payment options | Business News | thecanadianpressnews.ca

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  • For some reason I had Singapore in my head as being way larger like Japan or Korea.

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    Safebox: Open-source framework for managing self-hosted apps (Beta)

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  • How is this different from cosmos-cloud.io? The feature list looks identical.

  • Interac launches Konek to widen online payment options | Business News | thecanadianpressnews.ca

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  • Unfortunately, though, we don't have the population of Singapore. While I would love this to work, I just don't see merchants implementing yet another payment provider.

  • Interac launches Konek to widen online payment options | Business News | thecanadianpressnews.ca

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  • Right, but Canada is small enough that none of the large merchants are going to implement this, are they? Interac already has a payments API, and I've only ever encountered it used in the wild once.

  • Interac launches Konek to widen online payment options | Business News | thecanadianpressnews.ca

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  • How is this better than what already exist?

  • Recommend that new users join geographically local instances

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  • Sarcasm: Yup. The black people who were lynched should have just participated in local communities and confronted the KKK! That'll fix everything!

    Anyway, online isn't the place to take up space and confront people. You do that in person. Online is where you come to get support, encouragement, and resources for the in-person fight. And that doesn't work if your online profile is also local. For many people, there online participation cannot, and should not, be geographically local. Remember the "good old days" of the local BBS that you had to dial into? Isn't it interesting that every single documentary full of sepia toned reminiscences about how wonderful those local communities were is entirely created by and featuring old middle-class white dudes? No women, no homosexuals or transsexuals, no people with disabilities, and no ethnic minorities? I wonder why!

    Again, speaking from personal experience: blind people had NFBNet, but it wasn't local. And the local BBS's had so much ASCII art and other accessibility issues that we couldn't participate.

    And now, on local Reddits and Facebook groups, nobody uses alt text. I guess that's my fault for not participating in a space that is completely inaccessible to me. I'm the problem with democracy!

  • Recommend that new users join geographically local instances

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  • If we look at how toxic and racist the local city groups are on Reddit or Facebook, I'm not sure this is a good model. If I'm a black trans woman living in a small town in Mississippi, my local instance might not even be a safe place, for me.

    Similarly, I would encourage blind folks to join us at rblind.com rather than a local instance, because a local instance might not take our needs into account: many have captchas, some use inaccessible themes, etc. At rblind.com you can be sure that we won't deploy an update or configuration change that will break accessibility, because the server admins and moderators are all blind ourselves. But the beauty of federation means that you can talk to everyone else on other instances, so being part of a particular identity group doesn't limit you to just talking to other members of that group.

  • Accessibility @programming.dev
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    Accessibility Assistant for Figma is a game changer, not just a pretty rename

    betruthfulness.medium.com /accessibility-assistant-for-figma-is-a-game-changer-not-just-a-pretty-rename-a99b709eda7c
  • Accessibility @lemmy.ml
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    Deaf clients say 'trust is gone' after 2-month Canadian Hearing Services strike

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/toronto/chs-strike-deaf-clients-experience-1.7581653
  • Blind Main @rblind.com
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com
    UK Featured

    Get paid to share your feedback on accessibility as a screen reader or magnification user

    makeitfable.com /community/
  • Blind Main @rblind.com
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    Episode 0: I can do What?!

  • Blind Main @rblind.com
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    Blind and low-vision students as surveyors of in/accessibility in technology-mediated formal education

    www.tandfonline.com /doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2025.2462911
  • Blind Main @rblind.com
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    Sam's Stuff - Some Pseudoscientific Sleep Solutions

    stuff.interfree.ca /2025/05/02/sleep-solutions.html
  • Blind Main @rblind.com
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes

    stuff.interfree.ca /2025/04/30/call-of-fate-a-tour.html
  • Blind Main @rblind.com
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    My Accessible Self-hosting Tech Stack

    stuff.interfree.ca /2025/04/10/my-accessible-selfhosting-tech-stack.html
  • Disability and Accessibility @beehaw.org
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    Announcing RBlind custom dark and light themes for Lemmy

  • Accessibility @programming.dev
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    Announcing RBlind custom dark and light themes for Lemmy

  • a11y (digital accessibility) @lemmy.world
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    Announcing RBlind custom dark and light themes for Lemmy

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    RBlind has released open-source custom dark and light themes for Lemmy: feel free to make use of them on your own instances

  • audiogamers @sh.itjust.works
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    GAME JAM ANNOUNCEMENT: Games for Blind Gamers 4 | AppleVis

    www.applevis.com /forum/app-development-programming/game-jam-announcement-games-blind-gamers-4
  • a11y (digital accessibility) @lemmy.world
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    W3C, DAISY and NISO co-hosted webinar: Advancing Digital Accessibility for Scientific & Technical Publications

    www.w3.org /events/webinar/2024/w3c-daisy-and-niso-co-hosted-webinar-advancing-digital-accessibility-for-scientific-technical-publications/
  • Blind Main @rblind.com
    🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @rblind.com

    W3C, DAISY and NISO co-hosted webinar: Advancing Digital Accessibility for Scientific & Technical Publications

    www.w3.org /events/webinar/2024/w3c-daisy-and-niso-co-hosted-webinar-advancing-digital-accessibility-for-scientific-technical-publications/