esaru

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[–] esaru@beehaw.org 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In Taiwanese cities you have public bathrooms within a radius of a 10 minutes walk, and they are as clean as hotel bathrooms, and for free. People in Taiwan leave bathrooms clean as they found it, and there is no vandalism in Taiwan. It works if the society is healthy, teenagers and adults of all social classes following common sense of being nice to others and keeping things intact.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You linked "Mental Disorder", which can be a whole bunch of things including mental illnesses, but I'm talking about "Personality Disorder" specifically, which can almost never be cured.

The question is who we should try to protect. You can tell a narcisist to seek help for sure, but also tell others to stay away from that narcisist until he/she has changed to an empathetic being (which rarely happens). Narcisists don't see a reason to change, as they feel entiled to see other people in their lives as resources. Each of them is hurting many people through manipulation and explotation. If you meet a psycopath/sociotpath/narcisist, there's only one advice: run!

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That is trying to play with semantics. A disorder is an illness

Semantics are important here to differenciate between different ways of dealing with it properly. People should know that narcissists/psycopaths/sociopaths cannot change to the better, because the inherent nature is not accepting any flaw. Only by knowing this other people can protect themselves by not keeping contact to them. It's the only way to protect yourself.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The sad truth is that part of being a narcissist, psychopath, or sociopath is not accepting any flaws. These three types of disorders are self-sustaining; their inherent nature makes it almost impossible to change for the better.

They are classified as personality disorders because they involve stable, deeply ingrained patterns of behavior and thought, rather than episodic disruptions typical of mental illnesses. Treatment is challenging due to the ingrained nature of these traits, lack of self-awareness, and resistance to change. Cognitive-behavioral therapy and other therapeutic approaches can help manage symptoms but cannot cure the fundamental personality traits. The primary goal is to mitigate the disorder's impact on the individual's life and those around them.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Where in those sources does it say that it's an illness? It says it's a disorder.

Also, it states the prognoses is "poor".

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

Being a psycopath/sociopath/narcisist is not a mental illness, but a personality disorder. The affected person does not suffer from it, but the surrounding people. It is dangerous, and it cannot be treated.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

Well I've heard Cybertrucks are getting cheap because not many people want them.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well, such a license could just obligat to open source the AI model that has been trained on it. If the instance prohibits training of AI models, or allow it, would be a separate condition that's up to the instance owner, and its users can decide if they want to contribute under that condition, or not.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Goldman Sachs would not publish it that prominantly if it didn't help their internal goals. And their intention is certainly not to help the public or their competitors. There are independent studies of some topics that are all well made and get to opposite conclusions. Invedtment firms just do what serves them. I wouldn't trust anything that they publish.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

There are studies that suggest that the information investment firms publish is not based on what they believe to be true, but on what they want others, including their competitors, believe to be true. And in many cases for serving their investment strategy, it benefits them to publish the opposite of what they believe to be true.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

If Goldman Sachs said that, then most likely the opposite is true.

I'm surprised how everyone here believes what that capitalist company is saying, just because it fits their own narrative of AI being useless.

[–] esaru@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why not banning them in schools, are they needed for studying?

 

The contract requires repair shops to "immediately disassemble" devices that have parts "not purchased from Samsung."

 

For nearly two years now, Google has been gradually rolling out a feature to all Chrome users that analyzes their browsing history within the browser itself. This feature aims to replace third-party cookies and individual tracking by categorizing you into an interest category and sharing that category with advertisers. It's like having a function in your credit card account that evaluates your activities to pass on your spending habits to the advertising industry, so they can send you tailored ads. Ironically, it's called "Privacy Sandbox". To check if this is enabled in your Chrome or Chromium browser, simply enter chrome://settings/adPrivacy into the address bar (yes, the configuration page is called "Ad Privacy"). However, I wouldn't even want to have this built into my browser, no matter if activated or not. If you're not a fan of this, you might want to consider switching to Firefox.

 

I guess our car is not our private space anymore, and we are not given a choice when buying a car from Volkswagen.

 

While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si, for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a "Know Your Customer" policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account.

One option to avoid this is to self-host, but then you'll be identifiable via your domain and have to maintain a server.

As a true alternative to Jitsi, there's jami.net. It is a decentralized conference app, free open-source, and account creation is optional. It's available for all major platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android), including on F-Droid.

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