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DanielMReck

@DanielMReck@mas.to

#HigherEd practitioner, editor, artist, and #tech guru in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. https://mastodon.social/@SoundCuriosity director, @forzandoArts creator, #BuildBetterBrains musician. (he/him)

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qlp, to StarTrek
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I've been re-watching Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and forgot how soon we lost Hemmer 😢

DanielMReck,
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@qlp Taken from us too soon. was my favorite character behind . I wanted both of them to have waaaay more screentime and story development.

Amazing how the original characters that aren't just rehashes are the most interesting. Hope can keep looking ahead post instead of yet another prequel/reboot.

danirabbit, to random
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The phrase “AI” has been poisoned so hard that nobody building serious products should use it. I would love to see more free software projects leverage computer vision or natural language processing for example, but I would never describe those as “AI” because it’s a brand destroying phrase at this point

DanielMReck,
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@danirabbit No joke. At this point, most #marketing copy using the terms "AI" or "artificial intelligence" really just means "uses computer."

For real, my security camera is not using #AI to find humans in the frame. That's basic #ImageProcessing that's been around for years. My #DSLR could accurately fimd and focus on faces a decade ago. That certainly was not #ArtificialIntelligence!

DanielMReck, to chemistry
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#ScienceDirect and #Elsevier clearly didn't review this #chemistry paper about #batteries. The intro starts with "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic:".

This lack of oversight erodes #trust in #science. The paper needs to be retracted and the authors sanctioned immediately.

#GenerativeAI may have its uses in #academic #writing, but this is uncited #plagiarism and #dishonest claim of original work. The #AI and #LLM don't have an #author credit.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468023024002402

DanielMReck, to medical
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"Republicans are calling for a standalone international aid package because they now oppose the addition of stricter #border #policy they demanded."

If you put this in a movie, no one would believe it.

To be clear, the #GOP does not want better #BorderPolicy, because once they have it, they will have one fewer thing to gin up #CultureWars with #misinformation #politics about #immigration.

For #Republicans, fomenting chaos in #government is the feature, not a bug.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1229490663/congress-devolves-into-chaos-over-border-and-national-security-funding

readbeanicecream, to technology
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Windows 11 bids farewell to WordPad as Microsoft axes longtime favorite (oh, and Cortana)

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11-bids-farewell-to-wordpad-as-microsoft-axes-longtime-favorite-oh-and-cortana

DanielMReck,
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Oh noes @readbeanicecream, whatever word processor will I use now that is killing ? Woe is me!

Why, hello there .

What's that? Your apps already completely replaced and on my workstation years ago when Microsoft tried to charge a subscription for ?

kissane, to random
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Whoa. Tipping point’s feeling real tippy.

https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack

DanielMReck,
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@kissane What is Substack's business model? Follow the money and we will may find a rationale for their decisions.

Eyeballs glued to newsletters generate ad revenue, subscription fees, and data harvesting for resale. More eyeballs make more money, and nothing attracts eyeballs more than rage, disaster, fear, gotchas, and horniness — especially when it validates one's view of themselves, their community, and their world.

Grievance content makes money, and Nazis have lots of grievances. Oof.

scottjenson, to UX
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I collect these. I call them "design in the wild" where end users fix design mistakes on their own. It's a bit shocking how often this happens. Think of how bad it has to be to reach this point.

DanielMReck,
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@alcinnz @scottjenson Yes, I work in IT at a where the doors can be momentarily openned by turning the key one direction and fully unlocked the other direction. Of course, the turn direction for each function is inconsistent on every door.

I put this label on our office suite two years ago and it's always nice to hear a new colleague see it and say, "Oh this is great, the doors in this place are so confusing."

futurebird, to random
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I wish "siri" could help me with real problems she ought to know about:

"Siri, why did the music just pause?" (was it a button press? the screen? my watch? the headphones?)

"Siri make a google calendar event and don't get sassy about it"

"Siri show me a map of the wifi strength in this office"

"Siri is fast charging working? How long until the phone is at 100 percent."

DanielMReck,
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@queenofnewyork @futurebird @trochee I use #MicrosoftTeams all day everyday in my #HigherEd IT role. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

My last job used #GoogleMeet and #Zoom. I wouldn't wish those on anyone either.

Wish my undergraduate studies in #UX and #database design had better prepared me to create a world-conquering team #messaging solution that would put #BigTech out to pasture, but no one was handing out giant bags of money when I earned my diploma. #capitalism

MirrorAyako, to AllStarTrek

Uhura’s the only woman who can resist Khan’s sexiness.

@allstartrek

DanielMReck,
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@MirrorAyako @allstartrek She knew his glistening hard pecks were just a visual effect.

on the other hand is clearly seduced.

petertrek1, to AllStarTrek

(watching TNG's "All Good Things ...")

In the flashback scene to the "Encounter at Farpoint" - era. Captain Picard read the orders which assigned him command of the Enterprise. The orders were approved by Admiral Norah Satie.

We met her earlier in the memorable episode, "The Drumhead".

@allstartrek

DanielMReck,
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@petertrek1 @allstartrek Whoa. How on Vulcan did I miss THAT callback?

and are among my favorite eps. I've seen them a dozen times each at a minimum and usually pick up things like that.

Thank you for elevating me to the next level of trivia!

codinghorror, to random

Fuck the headphone jack. Like the floppy drive before it, nothing has ever been more deserving of death. ☠️ It's called "the future", maybe look into it?

DanielMReck,
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@codinghorror Well, I use wired all the time and plug into sound equipment a few times a week. It's really nice to be able to do that and charge the phone at the same time, all without any extra adapters or stubbornly combative connections.

Maybe I'd be okay losing the if there were multiple USB-C ports on the phone and I could buy comfortable headphones for the same price as the nice analog ones I already have.

DanielMReck,
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@delric @codinghorror Okay, how do I use those headphones on the other analog equipment with the adapter attached as you recommend?

As a videographer I use my analog headphones to monitor sound levels. Can you install USB-C ports in SLR cameras? What about Zoom audio recorders?

What happens to the USB-C adapter then? It's useful on exactly one device: the phone. Obviously we can't leave the dongle dangling on the phone, because then we couldn't charge it, and it would just be...well, dumb.

DanielMReck,
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@codinghorror I think the convenience of not having to buy extra crap (which is frequently overpriced, easily lost or stolen, and is a completely unnecessary additional failure point) is equally understated.

Hey, I'm not saying that you can't use a USB-C adapter. In fact I endorse it, because it seems to make you happy and it appears to work for you.

It just doesn't work for everybody. And that's fine. That's why there's competition in the market. You buy your phone and I'll buy mine.

DanielMReck,
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@delric @codinghorror Fortunately for the rest of the world, they don't need to adhere to my edge case. Nor do I expect them to.

And I won't have to adhere to your preference for using USB-C ports which are far from universal as long as there are some phone makers putting headphone jacks in. It's a win-win.

(For me, I don't know what to do with the dongle when it's not connected to the headphones. It's WILL get lost. I'll need it later and it won't be there. My problem, not yours.)

DanielMReck,
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@delric @codinghorror Just out of curiosity, what harm comes to anyone if a phone has both a headphone jack and a USB-C port and the owner just doesn't use the headphone jack?

The headphone jack serves a non-trivial number of phone owners. The rest of them can easily ignore it, like the micro HDMI port I ignored on a phone I once owned.

It's not like an unused jack hurts you, right? Do your headphone jacks work differently than mine?

TechConnectify, to random

Hey! Hey you!

Wanna know something important‽

Your phone keyboard might let you type an interrobang if you long-press the question mark key.

DanielMReck,
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@TechConnectify They can take my from my cold dead hands‽

noellemitchell, to internet
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I can't believe people are still using their Twitter/X accounts and actively posting on there after everything that's happened over the last year.

#X

DanielMReck,
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@noellemitchell Like you, I made the exit long ago, but my colleages who stay say they do so because that is where their is, and it hasn't made a coherent move from to even though X's values run contrary to their own values as .

How do we transition entire from X to better welcoming place without meeting them on X first? It is a vexing challenge and I sure don't have a good answer.

MirrorAyako, to AllStarTrek

Strangely, the subtitles on my TV are able to translate the secret formula.

@allstartrek

DanielMReck,
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@MirrorAyako @allstartrek Curses! 24th century spycraft and mindgames foiled by 20th century TV broadcast data streams.

More than we ever wanted to know about from @TechConnectify but we're so we love it... https://youtu.be/6SL6zs2bDks

nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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Sulu in the cockpit of a helicopter, turns the windshield wipers on, looks startled by them, and looks back and fourth confused.

DanielMReck,
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@nocontexttrek Ah, the ol' manually operated wipers, but activated by a switch! That was a big feature back then before true automatic wipers were introduced. You got someone clinging to the side of your ready to actuate the wiper arm when you flip the control.

(Watch closely in the film and you can see a production assistant's finger sneak into frame as they move the wiper for @georgetakei's reaction.)

lowqualityfacts, to random
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This happened to me on a plane once.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

DanielMReck,
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Well @lowqualityfacts has finally explained why doesn't age: His daily exercise lap counterclockwise around the North Pole.

Sometimes he skips a day but Mrs. Claus makes him do two laps the next day.

CraftComputing, to random
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I get to spend my day filing police reports for identity theft and fraud. How's everyone else's day going?

DanielMReck,
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@CraftComputing That really stinks. Oof.

If you can stomach some levity about it, a positive interpretation is that this is external validation that you are in fact a valued human being. I for one love your identity and can totally understand why someone would want to take some of it home for themselves.

Hang in there. It's a mess now but you shall prevail. Qapla'!

Strandjunker, to random
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The fact that two former Trump attorneys have now confirmed — via guilty pleas — that Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election included criminal acts should be a much bigger story.

DanielMReck,
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@maddad @LaNaehForaday @Strandjunker Stepping away from to look at . Notice that all the nearly always depicts the previous president wearing a collared shirt and tie, even when it doesn't make sense in context of the prompt.

This demonstrates how imbalanced and biased skews generated . Now think about the dataset used to train ... it is as biased as everything post on the .

drcaberry, to random
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video/mp4

DanielMReck,
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Congrats, @drcaberry. You are a fantastic and I really appreciate what you do for your students to develop the next generation of .

TechConnectify, to random

I have been working an unhealthy amount the last two weeks on what I believe is my most complex video yet. It's a video I've been wanting to make for years about a subject I've always loved.

It's finally finished, rendered, and uploading now. Coming to a screen near you soon!

DanielMReck,
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@TechConnectify call someone who cares?

OH! That's me!

I care! I care!

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

It’s crazy CSPAN cut to Taylor Swift

DanielMReck,
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@SwiftOnSecurity Really, though, how do we know YOU aren't , thoughtfully making your contributions to right here?

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