FaceDeer
@FaceDeer@fedia.io
Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.
- Comment on Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived. 1 day ago:
At least it doesn't contain any fire.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
You have an idiosyncratic definition of "extreme" then.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
You guess wrong. C++/C# applications, with a fair bit of Python for various supplementary tasks.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
The implementation. I like coming up with the ideas, grinding out the code to make those ideas actually happen is tedious.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I don't know what you would call extreme, then. There's literally only one country on the chart that's less excited about AI, Belgium.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Actually, the US is an extreme example in the negative direction when it comes to global attitudes toward AI. Most countries are much more excited about AI than the US is.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
reading tech news left me so confused. all these people around me were letting the language models spit out crap code. they gave up on what i thought was the most interesting part of the job
I think I see the source of your confusion: you're assuming that everybody has the same attitude towards things that you do.
I find that LLMs remove all the most boring parts of the job.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Depends where you look, "the Internet" isn't one unified place. Social media forms bubbles easily, and social media like Reddit or the Fediverse is practically designed that way - minority voices get downvoted, blocked, banned, and so forth. So unless a forum is taking significant effort specifically to ensure diversity of opinion you're going to end up with things drifting to some sort of extreme.
- Comment on Uh well actually- 2 weeks ago:
Then all of the above would have been the correct answer.
But you didn't, did you? I can tell. You've got that "emissive display" vibe to you.
- Comment on Uh well actually- 2 weeks ago:
Trick question! They are all squares filled with pixels on a computer monitor, they emit light! The correct answer was "none of the above."
I've identified a bot account.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This benchmark is presenting AI with a challenge that's greater than what human devs normally face. It's supposed to be really hard, it's not surprising that current models get 0%.
The point is that over time models will continue to improve and this benchmark will measure that improvement. A lot of current benchmarks have been saturated, once models are getting near 100% scores there's no point to them any more.
- Comment on RIP social media. What comes next is messy. 2 weeks ago:
Conversely, if just 10 percent of users in a given social media community largely agree with your stances, you will be more tolerant toward diverse opinions that contradict your own. “There’s a certain chance that some users will end up in communities where it’s very homogenous and 99 percent of users are disagreeing with them,” said Törnberg. “That will cause them to leave, and you get this feedback effect just because of the structure of interaction. But if you have a filter bubble effect, where everyone is shown 10 percent of their own type, that creates a possibility for you to find the people who you agree with within the community. And that stabilizes the entire dynamics so it doesn’t tip over to one side or the other and become extreme or overly homogenous.”
Ooh, this is interesting. It suggests the possibility of automating this; since most social media allows for upvoting and downvoting it should be possible to automatically determine which users are "agreeable" and which are "disagreeable" and filter thread contents to push it toward this 10 percent threshold.
Probably wouldn't work on the Threadiverse yet, though, there's not a large enough population here yet.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly 2 weeks ago:
Of the 24 stories currently on my front page for this community, 13 of them are stories about how AI is awful in some way or another.
Social media excels at creating bubbles. I'm not sure whether this "backlash" is really all that widespread.
- Comment on The Internet has no benches: on building free public infrastructure for enjoyment 2 weeks ago:
I set up a site on Nekoweb, it has a smaller free size limit but is more permissive about file types. And then I wound up not taking advantage of that permissiveness and uploaded the bigger binary files I wanted to serve to Catbox.moe instead, partly because I liked the synergy in names. There are still some bastions of the old "just make a website and put up whatever you want for the world to see" Internet out there.
- Comment on I might shit my pants just a little if I saw this 1 month ago:
I feel like glue wouldn't last as long. I have no idea how long the nail was, but if it's a couple of inches deep I have no idea how you'd be able to get it off without an angle grinder. With glue you can chip it off, or use solvent, or a blowtorch.
- Comment on I might shit my pants just a little if I saw this 1 month ago:
Many years ago I came across a quarter that someone had nailed onto the sidewalk. In case someone's looking for a less disturbing but still fun easter egg to leave for future people.
- Comment on Teenis 1 month ago:
If it's his "lower human horn" then he's watched Futurama.
- Comment on Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client 1 month ago:
Where are you getting these limitations from? They're not in that article, and I went to the project's page to double check and they're not there either.
Connect any ACP-compatible agent or any model with an OpenAI-compatible API
At this point that's basically anything. Including all the popular open frameworks fro running local AIs.
Automate workflows and recurring tasks: Completely removes your ability to make decisions and understand what is happening.
What? This is like setting a cron job. Does cron remove your ability to make decisions or understand what is happening?
Work seamlessly across devices with native applications for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android: Until we decide it doesn't, or maybe it will only be window.
It's open source, like the other projects Mozilla maintains. Do you apply this "they could take it away from us at any time!" Concern to Firefox as well?
Maintain security with self-hosted deployment, optional end-to-end encryption, and device-level access controls: While allowing us to monitor your whole work flow remotely and monetize everything you know.
Any source for this? Seriously, I know there's a lot of anti-AI sentiment around here but you're hallucinating worse than Gemini.
- Comment on Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client 1 month ago:
You're not required to use it.
- Comment on Art of The Deal 3 months ago:
Next: Trump demands US ownership of greentext@sh.itjust.works for national security reasons.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 3 months ago:
If this was fiction I'd be complaining about how on-the-nose it was.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 3 months ago:
Had a whole civil war over it and still didn't get rid of slavery.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
What I'm pointing out is that this target audience of AI haters is actually the whole gaming community.
Where do you get that from?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
They titled it with the objective of getting clicks. OP chose to post it here with the objective of getting upvotes. Same basic goal.
- Comment on Get that silicussy 3 months ago:
And remember: if you're not running her on your own hardware she's not an AI girlfriend. She's an AI prostitute.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
According to “The Evolving Ecosystem”, a recent Connected Intelligence® report from Circana, LLC, 86% of U.S. consumers 18+ are aware of AI in smartphones and other technology devices
[...]
Of consumers who are aware of AI, 65% are interested in AI features coming to at least one of the device types studied — most commonly the smartphone. This figure rises to 82% of consumers between ages 18 and 24 and steadily declines among older groups.
So, an alternative headline that would be just as truthful: "A majority of US consumers are interested in AI features coming to their devices."
That's not going to get the upvotes here, though.
- Comment on You are being misled about renewable energy technology - YouTube 3 months ago:
Make sure to stay for the post-credits scene.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 3 months ago:
Yes. I addressed that. Fasten it to flat pieces of stiff material, not to the floor. The stiff material keeps it from curling but can be moved.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 3 months ago:
I addressed that. I'm not proposing fastening it to the floor.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 3 months ago:
Use carpet tape (double-sided tape that's meant for sticking rugs to the floor) to fasten stiff squares of material to the undersides of the corners. The stiff material will keep it from curling, but it won't be stuck down to the floor so you can still move it.
