Tech Oversight.

A California jury on Wednesday found that Meta and Google were to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman who compulsively used social media as a small child, awarding her $3 million in a rare verdict holding Silicon Valley accountable for its role in fueling a youth mental health crisis.

The jurors concluded that Meta and Google should pay the woman $3 million in compensatory damages, with Meta on the hook for 70% of that amount.

The jury also decided that Meta and Google's actions should trigger punitive damages, which means there will be a separate phase of the trial where the jury will decide what amount of damages are appropriate to punish the multi-trillion-dollar companies for their conduct.

"My retirement got wiped out!"

versus

"I was never going to retire."

I recently bought 16GB (2x8GB) of 3000 MHz DDR4 RAM second hand for my server so that I could swap out the 32GB (2x16GB) of 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM and put them into my new gaming rig.

Final hardware config: https://pastebin.com/3uFXuPht

Now I just have to figure out whether I want to get another external soundcard for my gaming rig or if I can live with switching the USB cable back and forth between the two PCs or if I can get used to control the volume with software. I really like hardware knobs though...

Anyway...

What - if anything - do you insist on buying new and what do you buy second hand and why? Personally, I could buy any component second hand, provided I'm allowed to run my own test on it first.

Beanis, I Like Fartin

Germans must work more and for longer, Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said on Wednesday as he outlined his plans for reforming the struggling German economy.

~🫲~🥴^🫱^

Robert Reich, Inequality Media Civic Action

Before I ever knew what dialectical materialism was, I had some years on and off with interest in frameworks like MBTI and its "cognitive functions", or to a lesser degree, Enneagram. And though I've never been big into Zodiac for various reasons, I have some awareness of how it works too.

What these kind of frameworks have in common, a thing in common that is at odds with diamat, is the tendency to view personality as something static that you are born with. The born with part would be fine on its own if it wasn't trying to outline whole personalities; sure, genetics give us various tendencies/predispositions and this when combined with similar material conditions and choices will surely lead to somewhat different outcomes. But this is not the same as an entire personality being in our DNA. And observation of cultural differences would support this distinction. I recall Dario Nardi, for example, one of the more serious names in MBTI for trying to observe and categorize it scientifically, talking about some variation in how types show up in different cultures. For example of differences, people who get categorized as extrovert in the US tend to be more gregarious and bubbly than in some other cultures.

But more than that, of critical importance is understanding the nature of change. Diamat suggests that dramatic change can occur. However, it's also not a thing that is going to tend to happen as a matter of whimsy via waking up one day and deciding to be a wholly different kind of person. Instead, friction resulting from contradictions will give rise to motive, motive may give rise to changes, and sufficient changes may transform from quantitative to qualitative.

With this in mind, it's not that we should expect personality to go wishy washy and change all the time, but we should also not expect it to be static throughout life. And to view it as rooted in underlying static characteristics in a person is ego more than science (no personality framework I'm aware of has managed to link genetics and personality - what limited science there is in it, is more about observing surface-level trends). In a hyper individualistic society, it may be reassuring at times to try to ground oneself in a framework of personality. But this can also have the side effect of individualizing systemic problems. "Capitalism is causing problems again? No, no, it's because I'm an XYZ going through standard XYZ troubles, that's the real cause."

This makes people less literate in understanding the world, more stubborn about who they are even if who they are is detrimental to themself and others, and works hand in hand with liberalism. Liberal likes to get swept up in this idea that no matter who you are, it's still valid. It doesn't have a proper answer for how this applies to people who chronically do terrible things to others.

In other words, we come back to one of the lies of modern western thinking, which is the ability for any given human being or institution to be "neutral". If we agree that this is nonsense and there's no such thing as a neutral, impartial view, then it follows that personality frameworks are also not neutral and impartial. This, I think, is easily observable in the fact that they tend to tell you what is the "good side" and the "bad side" of any given personality you could have.

So these systems are not neutral scientific observations, but are frameworks that are impacted by the society they come from. A personality framework coming from capitalist society will serve capitalist interests. A personality framework coming from a communist vanguard could look very different.

But it is also hard for me to imagine a communist vanguard seeing the need to hyperfocus on the individual in such a way. People are more alike than they are different and much of what they need is the same basic needs met. This is the primary problem that needs solving, via having control over the means of production and distribution, not validating every little contextual cultural quirk that a person has as something they were born with.

I say, believe in your ability to change. Just expect it to be a dialectical process that is impacted by the conditions you're in (which can also change), not through willpower alone. Dramatic change probably won't come in an instant. Instead, it may sneak up on you, after months or years of gradual changes made.

Be wary of systems that present themselves as neutral and come from bourgeoisie society.

And recognize the shared struggle for liberation. That's worth far more to be literate in than personality systems.

Title.

Added support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension.

Now we just wait for it to get implemented in Proton to finally have decent DX12 performance on Nvidia on Linux.

The only surefire way to keep your devices from being searched and seized is to simply not bring them with you on your trip. If you can’t leave them at home, consider mailing them to and from your destination.

Another option is to leave devices that contain sensitive information at home and instead bring throwaway travel devices you’re willing to have searched or confiscated. This doesn’t need to be an expensive proposition. You can reformat and repurpose an old phone or tablet, or purchase refurbished older models that are comparatively cheap. Then buy a temporary SIM card or eSIM so that you’re not using your usual number. Remember to let contacts know that for the duration of your trip you’ll be reachable at a different number.

Create a travel account for these devices. You can do so by starting a fresh account in the App Store or Google Play. This should ensure that if you’re forced to log into your device by authorities at the airport, the only information they’ll find is data you’ve put on this specific piece of hardware. CBP agents are supposed to only be able to look at data that’s local on the phone.

geteilt von: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/57229837

Hello! My bathroom faucet has an insert aerator. We attempted to remove it in order to remove the chalk in the faucet, and broke the bottom part off as a result. The keys we have to remove the aerator are now not working, and we can't quite get it out.

Does anybody have any suggestions? We've tried using thin pliers for electronics to grab it and twist, but we can't get a good enough grip. A few photos attached: the remaining part inside the faucet, the broken off bottom part, and the keys that we have.