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 I might shit my pants just a little if I saw this 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
You're not required to use it.
- Comment on Art of The Deal 2 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. 2 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. 2 months ago:
Had a whole civil war over it and still didn't get rid of slavery.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 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] 2 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 2 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] 2 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
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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 2 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.
- Comment on It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00 3 months ago:
Would make a good premise for a Fallout-style post-apocalyptic RPG. The quest is to reach the Doomsday clock and set it to 00:00.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 months ago:
I'd consider that a "lose" condition.
It's possible for everyone to lose a war.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 months ago:
Most Fediverse clients (probably including whichever app you're using) have a block feature, you can use that on me if you prefer not to see my comments.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 months ago:
I'm not "minimizing" nukes. I'm describing them as they are. I provided sources.
You may not be aware, but many people survived Hiroshima and the city is populated to this day.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 months ago:
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 months ago:
This is ridiculously binary thinking. I'm saying it's not as bad as the person I was responding to thinks it would be, and you're interpreting that as "it's fine, there's no downside"?
Being punched in the face is less bad than being shot. Would you interpret that as "it's fine to be punched in the face"?
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 3 months ago:
If they're well programmed there's no way to know at this point. AI is able to pass the Turing Test without even needing particularly hefty resources, I've been doing a bunch of fiddling with local LLMs and I could probably write something up that could do it. I don't personally see a point because I comment here for my own enjoyment rather than to push an agenda, but if I was trying to push an agenda it'd be reasonably straightforward to whip up a population of AI characters who agreed with it in various ways.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 months ago:
Wouldn't be the first time in history that a major power started a war and then promptly proceeded to decisively lose it.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 months ago:
Currently there are 12,331. These weapons are divided up among many nations, and only a fraction of them are actually "ready to launch" at any given time. If launched most of them will be targeted at military targets, which are often located in remote places - silos in the middle of nowhere, carrier groups out in the ocean, forward military bases or stockpiles, and so forth. They wouldn't be fired with intent to "wipe out" humanity. There would be entire continents that nobody bothers firing at - why waste precious nukes on countries that are uninvolved in the conflict?
Nuclear winter is no longer thought to be as bad as the most extreme predictions from back in the 1960s. And even with those extreme predictions it still wouldn't lead to human extinction. Humans are an incredibly robust species. We don't need infrastructure to survive in harsh conditions. Inuit survived in the arctic for thousands of years without anything fancy, and you're not going to see conditions that harsh everywhere on Earth regardless.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 months ago:
By some standards WWIII is already in progress. And no, America isn't winning. Its power and influence are contracting rapidly.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 months ago:
I assume you're worried about nuclear war? It'll be bad, but there simply aren't enough nukes in existence to pose a threat to humanity as a species.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 3 months ago:
Because America is a democracy and enough of the voters wanted this.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 3 months ago:
Carney didn't "clap for the attack on Venezuela." He called for international law to be followed, which should be an obvious rebuke to anyone who isn't at a Trump level of understanding of how diplomacy is done.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 months ago:
And now I expect we'll see another League of Nations fiasco soon, Trump has already denied visas to world leaders that he doesn't like so that they theoretically can't come to the UN. The treaty the US signed regarding the UN means they don't need visas for that, but we all know how Trump loves to follow agreements.
Maybe the UN can survive in some form by relocating, IIRC they do have a secondary office in Geneva already.