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 Bee fly 2 days ago:
In the lower right photo I can hear him yelling "wheee!"
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It's a process. As long as there are new people showing up, or more rarely people who change their minds, there will always be some disequilibrium.
I was literally told in another thread on this same topic of "AI hate" that I should "leave this community, and not to return" because my views weren't in alignment with the community's. I don't tend to pay attention to that sort of social pressure but other people do and the result is an ongoing filtering of participation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But this is exactly the effect I'm pointing out. You say:
More engagement here is less engagement elsewhere, where profits and data mining and surveillance are priorities.
And you're describing "here" in terms that are appealing to anti-AI sentiment and "elsewhere" as being the opposite. Whether the effect is "secondary" or not, it's still an effect.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You can drive engagement without money changing hands.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This place that we're in right now is not a bubble of AI lovers, it's a bubble of AI haters.
Of course Lemmy is designed to feed engagement. If it wasn't then it would lose engagement to other forms of social media. For example, now that I've responded to your comment you're going to see a notification that will draw you back here.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Social media is typically designed to create and strengthen social bubbles, bringing together like-minded people and showing them what they want to see. It is also designed to feed "engagement". Rage is a great way to do that.
Just look at the prevalence of upvoting and downvoting tools in various social media sites. A great way to ensure that opinions that are popular within a particular community become even more prominent, while driving out anything that isn't popular within that community. Little wonder that views inside those bubbles become a bit skewed compared to the outside world as a whole.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, IIRC the main "breach" happened during Covid as a result of the disruption caused by the pandemic, it's not something whose root cause can be blamed so easily on Trump. There was a program operating down in Panama to prevent the fly from spreading up through the narrow isthmus there by releasing sterile males and the supply chain disruptions broke it for a year or two, resulting in the flies getting through to Mexico where it's a lot harder to eradicate them.
Trump's cuts and chaos sure haven't helped the situation, though, and with dedicated effort it might have been possible to turn back the tide before now.
- Comment on What are some of the biggest continuity errors in Star Trek? 2 weeks ago:
The best part of DS9's Section 31 was that Section 31 knew they were the bad guys too.
- Comment on Finally—my XL pack of fragile crushable poison arrived. 3 weeks ago:
At least it doesn't contain any fire.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You have an idiosyncratic definition of "extreme" then.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You guess wrong. C++/C# applications, with a fair bit of Python for various supplementary tasks.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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- 4 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- 5 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 5 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. 5 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 5 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 5 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
You're not required to use it.
- Comment on Art of The Deal 4 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. 4 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. 4 months ago:
Had a whole civil war over it and still didn't get rid of slavery.
