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Drew Mochak

@objectinspace@freeradical.zone

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Welcome to my tiny corner of the internet! I'm an accessibility specialist for WhatsApp, which is about the least exciting thing about me. I also play video games--while blind! I hosted a politics podcast with Matt Cooper called _The Game Is Rigged_ from 2017-2018. I've produced and acted in the Worm full-cast Audiobook project. I host a weekly show called Thoughtfood on Venom.FM from 12 to 3 PM PST on Sundays. I also sing and play drums. I'm even a snappy dresser--though this is disputed!

83 Followers

594 Following

25 Posts

Joined August 20, 2018

pronouns:

he/him

interests::

gaming, tech, accessibility, audio, film/TV, politics, media, acting, mindfulness

twitch:

https://www.twitch.tv/object_inspace

Linked In:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-mochak-15571172/

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 05, 2024

@FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com Yeah I messed with the boze frames a bit, these sound better. Not anything I'd replace my headphones with but for what they are it's quite decent.

universeodon.com

Andre Louis (@FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com) - Universeodon Social Media

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 05, 2024

@vick21@mastodon.social @nolan@venera.social @Tamasg@mindly.social Yay! I'd love to hear how you get on with them!

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 03, 2024

@nolan@venera.social @vick21@mastodon.social @Tamasg@mindly.social Ah gotcha! Yeah if you are using the voice commands you have to start with "look" or something to get it to take the picture, which it automatically describes, before you can ask for more specifics. But you can bypass this by taking the photo with the camera button, then asking your question. It should answer directly. Sometimes the answer is nonresponsive though, E.G> "I can't read the label in this picture" if it is not fully visible in the photo.

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 03, 2024

@nolan@venera.social @vick21@mastodon.social @Tamasg@mindly.social No worries! Yeah I usually ask "what am I looking at" It takes the picture and describes it in one step. I think that is the default use case. If you take a picture and then say something like "describe this picture," that will work for the most recent one, but if you wait about a minute between taking the picture and asking for a description, it will forget about the photo and make you take a new one.

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 03, 2024

@nolan@venera.social @vick21@mastodon.social @Tamasg@mindly.social So if you are using Maps (or hopefully something better) for turn-by-turn navigation, you can start it on the phone, put on the glasses, the phone stays in your pocket and you get the instructions without your ears being covered. While it's doing that you can ask the AI to take pictures and describe where you are at to help get you un-lost. I certainly wouldn't rely on it for street crossings! And I would like to see better app integrations. But for a start it's not bad.

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 03, 2024

@bermudianbrit@mastodon.online Hm I thought it was! but don't see it. veonm.fm/community

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 03, 2024

@nolan@venera.social @vick21@mastodon.social @Tamasg@mindly.social If you have a specific task in mind I can tell you whether it will or won't work. Most of what it won't do involves trying to get it to launch or do something in an app that is not Meta. If you ask music you get Apple music or Spotify, you can't call with Facetime/Google Duo, that kind of thing. But you can launch those actions from the phone and they will use the glasses speaker/microphone because that is how bluetooth works.

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 03, 2024

@nolan@venera.social @vick21@mastodon.social @Tamasg@mindly.social You invoke MetaAI from the touch pad or a hotword. From there you can ask "what am I looking at?" it will take the picture and describe it. Or you can take the picture with the button and then ask Meta to describe it. You can also ask MetaAI most of the stuff you would normally ask an assistant, though its app support is pretty limited. It won't fall back to another assistant, but if you hotword Google/ALexa/Siri from the phone microphone, it will respond on the glasses.

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 03, 2024

@vick21@mastodon.social @Tamasg@mindly.social @nolan@venera.social As for your second question: I'll be honest--I have been struggling to find a good use case for them. But I think that is less because they aren't useful, and more because I spend most of my time at home. I've adapted my environment to work around the need for a device like this. I'd say they are better at anything you would use the aftershocks for, + a camera. If you are walking around a lot or in an unfamiliar environment, they are a great navigation aid.

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 03, 2024

@vick21@mastodon.social @Tamasg@mindly.social @nolan@venera.social Totally okay! I don't know the answer the battery life question because I haven't had a need to leave them on for long periods. I think though that the glasses battery lasts a few hours on standby, or probably about an hour or two at most if you are doing something intensive like a WhatsApp video call. Otherwise it will power itself down pretty quickly. The case battery has up to 32 hours IIRC.

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 03, 2024

@bermudianbrit@mastodon.online Join the WhatsApp group, then you'll know everything we're doing! :D

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 01, 2024

The venom all-star jam is live! Tune in for some of the best musicians you've ever heard. https://play.venom.fm/live or join our teamtalk server on venom.fm to join the line-up!

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · May 01, 2024

I don't feel quite like myself. Turning into someone else is killing me. Something has to change!

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Apr 26, 2024

@lulu_bear@dragonscave.space Some fediverse clients have an option to remove emojis from user names. Enafore does, for instance. Might be worth checking. If not, consider bugging whoever maintains the apps that you use.

This avenue might be more successful than shaming people into changing their cultural norms to fit yours.

dragonscave.space

Lulu Hartgen (@lulu_bear@dragonscave.space) - The Dragon's Cave

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Apr 26, 2024

Hey everyone I have another account it's @drew@akkomane.social I have no clue what I am gonna do with it but go follow it! Or don't. Your call!

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Apr 26, 2024

@vick21@mastodon.social @Tamasg@mindly.social @nolan@venera.social It waits about a second after you finish to take the picture, that takes another second or so, then it sends it up to the cloud and you get an answer back. That is usually about 2-5 seconds in my experience. So around 4-7 seconds average. Which, again, I'm on pretty fast wifi at home, actual network conditions in the wild may varry etc. But very reasonable I think!

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Apr 26, 2024

Replying to @mdekstrand@hci.social

@mdekstrand@hci.social None?

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Apr 23, 2024

MetaAI goes multimodal on ray bands!

People in the US and Canada can now ask the AI to describe pictures taken by the glasses camera. You can also send video from the glasses to WhatsApp or messenger calls! https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/new-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-styles-and-meta-ai-updates/

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Nov 20, 2023

Replying to @Popehat@mastodon.social

@Popehat Wow, what a shitbird. With any luck he'lll be headed to a place where he can no longer hurt any more people.

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Nov 18, 2023

Replying to @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

@KevinMarks I don't exist in the world where gettinggg @ed all the time is a problem (though it has happened a couple times and was quite jarring) Thread muting definitely seems like a thing Mastodon should have, but this is more of a client-level feature, no? Beyond that, I'd certainly like to be able to exit some threads as well, unfortunately that seems like a server feature, which would take longer... yeah, we got problems @strypey @siderea @paninid @mastodonmigration

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Nov 12, 2023

Replying to @annaecook@mstdn.social

@annaecook@mstdn.social Still the wildest thing to me about this job is how you are supposed to acknowledge the broken structure and then just... keep on keepin' on, 'cause capitalism gonna capitalize.

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Aug 09, 2023

Replying to @carnage4life@mas.to

@carnage4life@mas.to Too real/10

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Dec 17, 2022

Replying to @Gargron@mastodon.social

@Gargron@mastodon.social Maybe if they had higher text contrast, these things wouldn't happen!

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Dec 17, 2022

Replying to @Gargron@mastodon.social

@Gargron@mastodon.social 😂

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Drew Mochak @objectinspace@freeradical.zone · Nov 12, 2022

Replying to @micahflee@mastodon.social

@micahflee@mastodon.social Does this actually delete them on twitter's end or does it just remove your ability to see them?

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