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 When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 21 hours ago:
Quite so. Sorry, I interpreted your "how" in the "I don't understand, how can you find this fun? I'm only here because Microsoft has my family hostage and are making me post in exchange for their freedom" sense.
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 22 hours ago:
I read about neat things and I write about neat things. Sometimes people are wrong on the Internet and I get to fix that.
If it's not fun for you then you don't have to.
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 1 day ago:
It's fun.
- Comment on unforgivable bad bad mommy 1 day ago:
Former motherfucker.
- Comment on unforgivable bad bad mommy 1 day ago:
I am very interested in her politics.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 day ago:
You have yet to present a particularly well-formed question for me to answer. You still haven't even clarified your original post's question, what exactly do you mean by people "role playing as animals?"
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 day ago:
OP has been singularly unclear about what exactly he means by "role playing as animals" in the first place, so I don't see the problem here.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 day ago:
UPDATE: can't help but to notice not ONE of you have answered the question you just keep telling me about furries. I want an answer to why so many people are role playing as aninals
I think you'll need to be a little clearer about what you think the distinction is here. What is "animal roleplay" to you? Where are you seeing it being done?
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 day ago:
Did you actually look at the image of the sculpture? It's not reaching up. It's just standing.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 day ago:
Furries are a modern example of anthropomorphic animals in culture. It's a convenient shorthand.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 day ago:
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 day ago:
Lots, this kind of thing goes back deep into pre-history. I mentioned in another comment in this thread that the oldest known sculpture is of a furry and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. Lots of gods and creatures of myth are human/animal hybrids of various sorts, or straight up animal spirits.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 day ago:
Um, no idea what you mean. 👉👈😅
The oldest known sculpture is of a furry, and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. We've been imagining what it's like to not be human for as long as we've been human. Nothing weird about it unless people want to make it weird.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 days ago:
And the AIs themselves can generate data. There have been a few recent news stories about AIs doing novel research, that will only become more prevalent over time.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 4 days ago:
Okay? I'm not sure how any of this is detracting from the point I'm making here. You can't do everything yourself. Nobody can do everything for themselves, society is too complicated now. So we pick the things we're good at. Not being good at troubleshooting your PC doesn't make you "stupid".
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 4 days ago:
Except for the medicine stuff
So aside from the things that you can't do, you can do anything.
Even more critically, when I have a problem like that where I don't care enough to figure it out for myself, I call upon the expertise of an actual human that really knows things, not a glorified autocomplete with internet access.
I bet you Google it.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 4 days ago:
Can you fix your own car? If your refrigerator fails, can you fix that too? How about medical conditions, are you able to treat any and all of those? Prepare any kind of meal? Assemble a wooden cabinet from raw materials? Weld and cut metal? Sew clothing, plant a garden, paint a picture, play a musical instrument?
There's always things that people are good at and other things that they're not good at. We live in a civilization where we specialize in things because it's impossible to learn everything that needs to be done. You think you're good at troubleshooting computer problems, and that's a fine thing to be good at. Other people are not good at it. They need help with it. That doesn't make them "stupid." It makes them people who've chosen to focus on other things.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 4 days ago:
Why specify just "newer generations?" I do tech support for older generations in my family and they're just as un-tech-savvy.
The vast majority of people don't care how a computer works, they just want it to work. And that's fine. There are lots of machines and other technologies in my life that I can't spend the time to fully comprehend, I've got other stuff I need to do. As long as there are a few people who focus on each kind of machine and each kind of technology then civilization carries on okay.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 4 days ago:
As is frequently the case for relatively tech-savvy people, I do free tech support for my older relatives. In the past year or two it's become so much easier because 99% of the time all I have to do is remind them "have you asked Copilot how to do that?" And they'll go "oh yeah," go ask Copilot, and that tells them how to fix their problem.
You are on the Fediverse, a niche platform that has inordinate appeal to people with a particular attitude and aptitude toward tech. And this particular community has its own set of attitudes that tend to get reinforced thanks to the upvote/downvote system. This is a bubble we are in here. If you look around at the people here and draw conclusions about what people in general want you're going to get a very inaccurate view.
Chatgpt.com is the fifth-most heavily visited website as of August. AI is popular.
- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 5 days ago:
How dare those awful people keep trying new things. The Internet was perfect in the 1950s and we should stick with it being exactly the same way forever.
- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 5 days ago:
Oh, there are still thorn-users trying to "poison" AI? It doesn't work and only annoys human readers.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 5 days ago:
The closest thing to this right now is Copilot Vision, which is entirely configurable.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 5 days ago:
Same with Windows. I can enable and disable various input features on Windows, why wouldn't this be something that could be disabled too?
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 5 days ago:
To drive some people away from Windows. Others will like this kind of thing, and still others will be indifferent. Bear in mind that we're in an anti-AI social media bubble here, opinions are not uniform.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 5 days ago:
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
Can you back it up with data? Or is it just what your bubble thinks? For whatever reason anti-AI sentiment seems very prevalent on much of the Fediverse, but the Fediverse as a whole is niche.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
"Nobody wants" is false.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
Whereas I'm upvoting because I support adding options. If you don't like it, don't use it.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 1 week ago:
Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can't see it. I wish they couldn't see anything I posted either.
I've seen this view in discussions of blocking before and it really bugs me. You're desiring to unilaterally control what I can see and do on the Fediverse.
This is how it works on Reddit and it's a terrible mechanism. It means you can preemptively ensure that anyone who might refute misinformation will be excluded from your threads before you post them. It means you can step into a conversation I'm having with someone, derail it, and then prevent me from responding to your derail. Over on Reddit by far the most common use I see of the block tool is to get the "last word" in on whatever argument is going on, posting some sort of seemingly clever comeback and then instantly blocking me before I can point out the flaws.
For anyone wondering how the blocking feature has been weaponized to spread misinformation, in 2022 a redditor did an experiment: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/sdcsx3/testing_reddits_new_block_feature_and_its_effects/
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 1 week ago:
Yes, I know. I'm saying it should be an unnecessary layer.