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 Good point 2 days ago:
Unfortunately not before he did the bear and the peacock.
Or rather before he named the bear and the peacock. Need to be careful with words when that guy's involved.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 5 days ago:
Trump, personally?
He has never been loved. He desperately wants to be loved. But he has absolutely no idea what that means, and so nothing he does is working or can ever work. He thinks adulation from adoring fans is love. He thinks money is love. He thinks being powerful means people will love him, and that hurting other people makes him powerful. The "there are only winners and losers in life and to be a winner you need to make other people losers" thing he learned from his terrible father.
But since none of that is true he's got a gaping black hole inside him that never gets filled no matter how much he tries to cram these things into it.
If he were younger I'd have some vague slight hope that he might someday be able to recover from this. But it's far too late now, he's a broken husk of a human being that does nothing but hurt everyone around him. I hope he dies immediately, if not sooner.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ethereum's got a market cap of $350 billion and it's where all the new development is going on, according to the Electric Capital Developer it has by far the most developers working on and with it. Approximately 65% of all new code written in the entire crypto industry is written for Ethereum or its Layer 2 scaling solutions (like Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base).
It's spelled "Dogecoin," by the way.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I said no major cryptocurrency. Monero's got a market cap of $8 billion, it's small fry.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No major cryptocurrency has used GPUs for mining for many years. Bitcoin uses completely custom ASICs and Ethereum switched away from proof of work entirely.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 week ago:
It's important to say the "20" prefix so that viewers will know that we're set in "the future."
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 1 week ago:
I don't know how you're measuring efficiency, but a heat pump with greater than 100% efficiency lets you build a perpetual motion machine. That's not possible.
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 1 week ago:
There are some cities that do things a third way; they have a centralized facility that burns the gas (or other fuels) to generate electricity, and then also pipe the heat out to the city in the form of heated water or steam running through insulated underground pipes. Buildings tap into those pipes and run it through radiators. That has the potential to be even more efficient because you're using what would otherwise be "waste" heat, but it depends on a relatively compact city to avoid losing too much heat while sending it through the pipes. I understand this is not uncommon in Eastern European and Russian cities. I'm not familiar with the details, though, so if you want to know more about this I'd recommend Googling around a bit.
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 1 week ago:
Oh, probably because it's cheaper and more efficient.
If you wanted to use the gas in a gas power plant to produce electricity to run an electric heater, there's a bunch of steps where energy gets lost. The turbine and generator isn't 100% efficient and the transformers and transmission wires lose energy along the way to your house. Whereas burning something directly for heat is nearly 100% efficient, the only waste is whatever heat gets carried away by the exhaust. Which isn't much with a modern high-efficiency furnace. I've got one of those and every once in a while I knock icicles off of the exhaust vent outside when I pass it. They use countercurrent exchange to keep all the heat inside the house.
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 1 week ago:
Yet, exceedingly rare to see fires from this
You just answered your own question. The techniques for running gas lines into houses and hooking them up to furnaces are very refined at this point, it can be done safely.
- Comment on Primary time scale failure at NIST Boulder campus; significant impact on NTP services 1 week ago:
I love how sci-fi this sounds. Just need mention of verteron particles thrown in there somewhere.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 1 week ago:
I guess we'll see what people here find to complain about now.
- Comment on my_ex_supervisor_irl 2 weeks ago:
While writing an opinion piece on the Gollum effect in 2022, Valdez realized that no one had studied territorial behavior in academic research—claiming of specific ideas and topics, samples, or study sites—and its potential impact on the academic research community.
He then declared it to be called "The Valdez Principle", piled all of his data on it in the corner of his office, and sat on top of it hissing at anyone who approached while brandishing a halberd.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything? 2 weeks ago:
I'm Canadian so I wouldn't know firsthand, but is there any remaining bad blood in Europe about the Romans conquering so much of it? Might want to be careful busting out the Latin in some neighbourhoods, just in case someone's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather got killed by Roman soldiers or sold into slavery or something and they're still sore about that.
- Comment on SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years 2 weeks ago:
A technology I've been eagerly anticipating for many, many years now. It still sounds like it's in the "Real Soon Now, honest!" Phase though:
In the next 18 months, the company hopes to have a field-deployable read device that customers can use to read archived data. But SPhotonix isn't presently targeting the consumer market. Kazansky estimates that the initial cost of the read device will be about $6,000 and the initial cost of the write device will be about $30,000.
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"We need another three or four years of R&D to get it to the production and marketing standpoint," Kazansky said.
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"We are not aiming to become a manufacturing company," said Kazansky. "We are a technology licensing company. We love the model of Arm Holdings. And to a certain extent, we love the model of Nvidia. So we are developing the enablement technology, and then we're going to be forming some form of a consortium, some form of a group of companies that will help us to bring this technology to market."
Which is where it's been for all of those many years I've been anticipating it. But who knows, perhaps this will be the company to finally start selling them. I'm fine with them being expensive at first, the cost will come down if they take off.
- Comment on "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like correlation to me.
Did I say otherwise?
- Comment on "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry 2 weeks ago:
It's funny how completely opposite to this my experience over the past couple of years has been. Twice now I've been practically begging my managers to let me use AI-based tools to make my work easier, they've responded "no, we don't want AI touching any of our stuff for vague legal paranoia reasons", and then the company suffered a collapse and everyone got laid off.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
You can't do anything else anyway.
Yes, this is my fundamental point. The Fediverse doesn't have tools for Fediverse-wide censorship, nor should it.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
That stops bots for a particular instance, assuming they guessed right about which accounts were bots. It doesn't stop bots on the Fediverse.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
This is just regular moderation, though. This is how the Fediverse already works. And it doesn't resolve the question I raised about what happens when two instances disagree about whether an account is a bot.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
How else would this "trusted" status be applied without some kind of central authority or authentication? If one instance declares "this guy's a bot" and another one says "nah, he's fine" how is that resolved? If there's no global resolution then there isn't any difference between this and the existing methods of banning accounts.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
If this is something that individual instances can opt out of then it doesn't solve the "bot problem."
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
If users want control then they have to take some responsibility.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
Boom, centralized control of the Fediverse established.
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 3 weeks ago:
They got their user base by being the first ones to have open access to it. Being the first to market OFC gives a massive advantage.
Right, and then everyone chose to go use them.
This isn't AI vs everything. This is ONLY the "AI" products compared to themselves
Every single one of them showed an increase in user growth, Microsoft just didn't grow as much as the others. They're not just shuffling the same users around, they're continuing to gain new ones.
And as I pointed out in another response to you, chatgpt.com is the fourth-most-visited website in the world. They're doing that with just a thousand users?
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 3 weeks ago:
chatgpt.com is the fourth-most-visted website in the world (as of September, when this data is from). That's the website, not the API. People have to choose to go to the chatgpt.com website in their browser, when OpenAI's APIs are used by other products they don't go to the chatgpt.com website. The API is at openai.com.
How are all those people people being "forced" to go to chatgpt.com?
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 3 weeks ago:
Alright. So for purposes of argument, let's accept all of that. Microsoft and Google are just faking it all, everyone's tricked or forced into using their AI offerings.
The whole table from the article:
# Generative AI Chatbot AI Search Market Share Estimated Quarterly User Growth 1 ChatGPT (excluding Copilot) 61.30% 7% ▲ 2 Microsoft Copilot 14.10% 2% ▲ 3 Google Gemini 13.40% 12% ▲ 4 Perplexity 6.40% 4% ▲ 5 Claude AI 3.80% 14% ▲ 6 Grok 0.60% 6% ▲ 7 Deepseek 0.20% 10% ▲ ChatGPT by far has the bigger established user base. How did they force and/or trick everyone into using them?
Claude AI is growing their userbase faster than Google, how are they tricking and/or forcing everyone to switch over to them?
None of these other AI service providers, except for Grok, have a pre-existing platform with users that they can capture artificially. People are willingly going over to these services and using them. Both Microsoft and Google could vanish completely and it would take out less than a third of the AI search market.
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 3 weeks ago:
And yet beating out both of them by a very wide margin, with 61.30% of the AI search share, is ChatGPT. Which didn't have any established reputation or pre-installed userbase or anything at all that either Microsoft or Google started out with.
Your friend uses Gemini, presumably willingly. That's not "faked." This narrative of "nobody wants AI" is false, it's just popular among social media bubbles where people want it to be true.
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 3 weeks ago:
They've got 70% of the desktop operating system share. Seems like every other thread about them around these parts is how they're "shoving AI down everyones' throats." I'm dubious that they're "easier to ignore."
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 3 weeks ago:
So why aren't Microsoft's numbers going up? Everyone's faking it except them?