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reillypascal

@reillypascal@hachyderm.io

Composer and audio programmer in Rochester, NY // I like noise, code, electronics, and nostalgia // lecturer in music tech and film/game scoring at SUNY Geneseo

Music: #Composer #ContemporaryClassical #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic #MaxMSP #Microtonal #Musodon #NoiseMusic #SuperCollider

Programming: #CPlusPlus #JUCE #Rust #WebDev

Hobbies: #Blog #FountainPens #IndieWeb #Maker #Stationery

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dansup , (edited ) to random
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The @pixelfed app will autoplay videos, with the ability to enable this in the settings 🔥

reillypascal ,
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@dansup would really prefer it didn't. I find autoplaying immensely annoying, and I always turn it off

dansup , to random
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To help deal with the additional load on pixelfed.social, I made some config changes that will require you to login (on web) again, my apologies!

I'll be closely monitoring the server and in case I need to take more drastic action.

reillypascal ,
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@dansup appreciate you keeping things running smoothly!

reillypascal , to random
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"We are working on a bloody movie here, and NO, you don’t suddenly have the right to any of the work we are doing on it because we pay you to use photoshop."

https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/06/change-to-adobe-terms-amp-conditions/

ElleGray , to random
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ai has entered its roast era. large scale mockery signals the beginning of the end. good. 🙂

reillypascal ,
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@ElleGray reassuring to see

parismarx , to random
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In 1922, Thomas Edison predicted motion pictures would “revolutionize our educational system.”

I can’t get over how Muskian he sounds (particularly on “efficiency” claims) and how — a hundred years later — we still haven’t learned not to fall for this kind of tech boosterism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/books/chapters/the-flickering-mind.html

"I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system," Thomas Edison said in 1922, "and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. I should say that on the average we get only about two percent efficiency out of textbooks as they are written today." A decade earlier, Edison had been even more pedagogically expansive, saying that film makes it "possible to touch every branch of human knowledge." Now he added: "The education of the future, as I see it, will be conducted through the medium of the motion picture, a visualized education, where it should be possible to obtain one hundred percent efficiency." Three years later, Edison's vision was undiluted: "In ten years textbooks as the principal medium of teaching will be as obsolete as the horse and carriage are now.... There is no limitation to the camera."
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    • reillypascal ,
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    @parismarx not only do I not like this boosterism, I actually find reading to be far more efficient. People don't speak as fast as I read, nor am I able to listen to speech that fast if they could. Plus it doesn't matter if there's noise around me that would overpower a video.

    ElleGray , to random
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    I love objects that seem wildly out of place for their time. This antique French snuffbox looks like a teenager's makeup case from the 1980s

    reillypascal ,
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    @ElleGray that's amazing! It truly does

    molly0xfff , to random
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    just realized i've had the mollywhite.net domain for over 10 years(!!)

    related sneak peek into an upcoming piece: i firmly believe that if you're going to spend money on one thing online it should be a domain, particularly as online identity gets more fragmented. as platforms come and go, you can always find me there.

    reillypascal ,
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    @molly0xfff nice! Yeah, I finally got my own domain at the end of last year, and I'm really glad I did it

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