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FaceDeer

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 before joining the Threadiverse as well.

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Are the "Upvote" and "Downvote" buttons "Agree" and "Disagree" buttons?
  • Labelling them "increase visibility" and "decrease visibility" is the best I can think of offhand. It says exactly what the effect is, with no "this is a good thing" or "this is a bad thing" connotations.

  • What happened to kbin.social?
  • Yup. I sent him some money via that koffe thing he had up, and I don't regret it - it's important to maintain a diversity of clients in a decentralized system like the Threadiverse.

  • Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’
  • Hunters have been taking deer skins and wearing them since time immemorial. Why's it so weird for one of us to flip the script for a change?

  • Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'
  • From the Bluesky TOS:

    Bluesky Social is available as a desktop application at bsky.app and bsky.social (each a “Site”) and a mobile application (“Bluesky App” or “the App”).

    ...

    These terms only apply to social networking that happens on Bluesky Social services, including the Sites and Bluesky App. If you’re using another social networking application on the AT Protocol that isn’t Bluesky Social (we call this a “Developer Application”), the developers of the other service will provide the terms and conditions that govern your experience.

    So looks like the Bluesky TOS simply doesn't apply. Create a developer application and give it whatever training-friendly TOS you want.

  • Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'
  • I don't know why anyone would be surprised about this. Bluesky is a distributed system using an open protocol. The whole point of it is that there's no central control.

    Same goes for the Fediverse, of course. Everybody should be prepared for the "surprise" that all our posts and comments here are also being used for AI training purposes.

  • Walmart pulls back on DEI efforts, removes some LBGTQ merchandise from website
  • This decision was no doubt motivated by the exact same question that made them put that merchandise up in the first place: "what will result in us earning more profit?"

  • A Russian assault infantryman who can barely walk with a cane.
  • I hope the he just goes home, along with every other Russian soldier currently in Ukraine.

    War crimes trials afterwards. There's no justice to be found on the battlefield.

  • Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on climate crisis
  • I guess I've kind of got to root for deer.

  • Passengers duct tape man who allegedly tried to open door during American Airlines flight to Texas
  • Did you not read the comments I was responding to? They were specifically about opening the door.

  • Passengers duct tape man who allegedly tried to open door during American Airlines flight to Texas
  • So if I genuinely believe I can use my psychic powers to explode peoples' hearts, I should be up on attempted murder charges whenever I glare at someone with intent to kill?

    Given that in a basically identical case someone linked to elsewhere in this thread no murder-related charges were filed for trying to open an airplane door like this, I suspect that wouldn't be the outcome here either.

  • Please take my job!
  • Surprised to hear that my graphics card consumes enough electricity to power a small town for two months in the second it takes for it to generate an image. I'm getting incredibly good electricity rates if so.

  • Please take my job!
  • The robot isn't preventing anyone from also painting a picture.

  • Passengers duct tape man who allegedly tried to open door during American Airlines flight to Texas
  • The handle will rip off the door before it gets anywhere close to opening.

  • Passengers duct tape man who allegedly tried to open door during American Airlines flight to Texas
  • I am specifically addressing the comment:

    Opening the door during flight is attempted murder of everyone on board

    It is not attempted murder. The case you link to backs me up:

    Gapco is charged with interference with a flight crew, and attempted damage to an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States.

    Why no attempted murder charge, if it's attempted murder?

  • Passengers duct tape man who allegedly tried to open door during American Airlines flight to Texas
  • No, but it does mean that calling it attempted murder is a bit strong. They were trying to do something that's physically impossible for them to do. It'd be like calling it attempted murder if I went up to someone and tried to use my psychic powers to explode their heart.

  • Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images
  • And is there any risk of people turning these kinds of models around and using them to generate images?

    There isn't really much fundamental difference between an image detector and an image generator. The way image generators like stable diffusion work is essentially by generating a starting image that's nothing but random static and telling the generator "find the cat that's hidden in this noise."

    It'll probably take a bit of work to rig this child porn detector up to generate images, but I could definitely imagine it happening. It's going to make an already complicated philosophical debate even more complicated.

  • (Old) picture of Pluto captured by the New Horizons spacecraft
  • Pluto's atmosphere has been studied since the 1980s, using spectroscopy and stellar occultation (watching starlight flicker as Pluto passed in front of it). It wasn't a surprise when New Horizons observed it.

  • AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports
  • The Darvaza gas crater is a hole in Turkmenistan that's leaking natural gas and is on fire. I'm quite sure they don't have a "poet laureate", it's literally just a hole in the ground.

    But even if it was some metropolis, yeah, he'd be just some guy.

  • AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports
  • You can get whatever result you want if you're able to define what "better" means.