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 What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days 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.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
And unfortunately due to the prevalence of American media it "leaks" into other cultures as well. I'm Canadian and it's not uncommon to hear about people being arrested or whatever and claiming that their "first amendment" rights were being violated, or "taking the fifth" (ie, the fifth amendment's right to remain silent). We actually do have somewhat analogous laws for those things but of course they only know about the American ones and often get the details wrong as a result.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Ah yes. I was still awake after midnight on the 2nd when I saw the news, so it went down on that date in my mind.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Yes, we see it, you can stop demonstrating the annoying behaviour now.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
They did the shooting in Venezuela that day.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Alright, here's another one. Americans bragging about their democracy until all of a sudden it's more convenient to blame the politicians for bad behaviour rather than the electorate that put them in power.
Take some responsibility for your government, does it represent you or not?
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
Alright then, the fake friendliness that their employers require. Especially in customer service.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
We're not talking to you in this thread, we're talking about you. You don't need to jump in with "but that's not annoying!" After people answer the question OP posed, that's not useful.
This is ironically another annoying behaviour.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
The assumption that the American legal, political, and cultural context is the "default." They say "X is illegal" without specifying jurisdiction. They assume a "right wing" or "left wing" party must be like their Republicans or Democrats. And so forth.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 days ago:
There are multiple mass shootings per day in the United States. This page keeps track as they come in.
- Comment on [Opinion] Trump is making America a rogue state 6 days ago:
Don't forget Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11 and was justified to the UN using falsified information.
- Comment on Canadian officials say US health institutions no longer dependable for accurate information 6 days ago:
The US has always had a strong undercurrent of unscientific thinking in medicine, this is an opportunity to rip the bandaid off and stop treating it as an authority for the long run. Even if things "go back the way they were" that's not ideal given their treatment of things like abortion, stem cells, and marijuana and other narcotics. It was just another of those "good enough" things the US used to provide. Let's build something better in their absence so we don't have to return to that.
- Comment on [Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art? 1 week ago:
"Is it art?" Is a question that's been asked over and over throughout history.
It changes from person to person and from time to time. Cubism, photography, found art, aleatoricism, algorithmic art, interpretive dance, it's all gone through "it's not art" at some point. A banana taped to a wall. An "invisible" sculpture. A tin of the artist's poop. Jackson Pollock's dribbles.
The answer doesn't really matter. It's right, it's wrong, who cares?
- Comment on Good point 1 week 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 The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos 2 weeks ago:
And yet I don't see any of that. Lots of people complain about "the algorithm" but it seems to be working well for me.
- 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? 2 weeks 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 Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election 2 weeks ago:
I would assume more likely because they think they cannot ever be wrong about anything under any circumstances, and anyone who claims that they're wrong must be evil and bad and destroyed in any way possible.
It's like the 2+2=5 thing from 1984. It's a stupid and pointless thing for the State to insist that it's right about, but if you say the State is wrong about that then it will crush you until you admit that it's right.
- Comment on Israel ranks lowest in global brand index 2 weeks ago:
I hate when I-told-you-so moments like this come with such a high body count.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 weeks ago:
You can use mbin if you want out of the Lemmy codebase, it's a separate codebase that does the same thing.
- Comment on Open source, open doors: How Chinese AI is quietly gaining ground in the US despite bitter rivalry 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it's pretty obvious. They release good open-weight models. Western companies did that a little at first, but they've basically stopped doing that any more. It's really easy to win a competition when one of the competitors isn't actually competing.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 2 weeks ago:
Ah, good, that makes this less of a dilemma then.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 3 weeks ago:
On the one hand not fond of the CCP, and this is a step toward making Taiwan more "safely" invadeable.
On the other hand not fond of the United States throwing its weight around like it's in charge of the world and not fond of monopolies in general.
So hard to settle on a reaction for this.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 3 weeks ago:
It is interesting, IMO, that with AI we see the opposite of the usual trend; the fancy new disruptive technology seems to be liked more by the older crowd, and less by the younger ones.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 3 weeks ago:
Right, you take the article at face value. So exactly as I originally said:
you sure are relying on just believing whatever you read without any checking whatsoever.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 3 weeks ago:
For every news article you read?
That's the point here. AI can allow for tedious tasks to be automated. I could have a button in my browser that, when clicked, tells the AI to follow up on those sources to confirm that they say what the article says they say. It can highlight the ones that don't. It can add notes mentioning if those sources happen to be inherently questionable - environmental projections from a fossil fuel think tank, for example. It can highlight claims that don't have a source, and can do a web search to try to find them.
These are all things I can do myself by hand, sure. I do that sometimes when an article seems particularly important or questionable. It takes a lot of time and effort, though. I would much rather have an AI do the grunt work of going through all that and highlighting problem areas for me to potentially check up on myself. Even if it makes mistakes sometimes that's still going to give me a far more thoroughly checked and vetted view of the news than the existing process.
Did you look at the link I gave you about how this sort of automated fact-checking has worked out on Wikipedia? Or was it too much hassle to follow the link manually, read through it, and verify whether it actually supported or detracted from my argument?