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Anger Can Lead To Better Results When Tackling Tricky Tasks, Study Finds

✇Slashdot
By: BeauHD
31 October 2023 at 22:30
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: They say you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. But when it comes to tackling a tricky task, researchers have found that getting angry can also be a powerful motivator. The experiments suggest people who are angry perform better on a set of challenging tasks than those who are emotionally neutral. "These findings demonstrate that anger increases effort toward attaining a desired goal, frequently resulting in greater success," said Dr Heather Lench, the first author of the study. The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (PDF), details how researchers at Texas A&M University conducted experiments involving more than 1,000 people, and analyzed survey data from more than 1,400 people, to explore the possible impact of anger on people in various circumstances. In one experiment, students were shown images previously found to elicit anger, desire, amusement, sadness or no particular emotion at all. Participants were subsequently asked to solve a series of anagrams. The results reveal that for a challenging set of anagrams, those who were angry did better than those in the other possible emotional states -- although no difference was seen for easy anagrams. The researchers say one explanation could be down to a link between anger and greater persistence, with the team finding those who were angry spent more time on the difficult set of anagrams. In another experiment, participants who were angry did better at dodging flags in a skiing video game than those who were neutral or sad, and were on a par with those who felt amusement or desire. "This pattern could indicate that general physical arousal had a benefit for game scores, as this would be greater in anger, amused, and desire conditions compared to the sad and neutral conditions," the researchers write. However, no such differences in performance was found when it came to an easier video game.

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Received — 30 October 2023 ⏭

FreshRSS 1.22.1

✇FreshRSS releases
By: Alkarex
30 October 2023 at 13:54

This release contains mostly some bug fixes for the recent 1.22.0.
This version 1.22.x is also the last to support PHP 7.2 before requiring PHP 7.4+.

A few highlights ✨:

  • Fix regression in extensions translations (i18n)
  • Better identification of proxied client IP
  • Better support of environment variables in K8s setups
  • And more!

This release has been made by several contributors: @Alkarex, @Frenzie, @MHketbi, @XtremeOwnageDotCom, @math-GH, @mossroy

Full changelog:

  • Bug fixing
    • Fix regression in i18n English fallback for extensions #5752
    • Fix identification of thumbnails #5750
    • OpenID Connect compatibility with colon : in OIDC_SCOPES #5753, #5764
    • Avoid a warning on non-numeric TRUSTED_PROXY environment variable #5733
    • Better identification of proxied client IP with RemoteIPInternalProxy in Apache #5740
  • Deployment
    • Export all environment variables to cron (to allow custom environment variables such as for Kubernetes) #5772
    • Docker: Upgraded Alpine dev image freshrss/freshrss:newest to PHP 8.3 #5764
  • Compatibility
    • Test compatibility with PHP 8.3 #5764
  • UI
  • i18n
    • Better i18n string for feed submenu for mark as read #5762
    • Improve Dutch #5759
  • Misc.
    • Move to GitHub Actions for our GitHub Pages #5681
    • Update dev dependencies and use stylelint-stylistic #5766

Received — 27 October 2023 ⏭

People Are Speaking With ChatGPT For Hours, Bringing 2013's 'Her' Closer To Reality

✇Slashdot
By: BeauHD
27 October 2023 at 17:02
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In 2013, Spike Jonze's Her imagined a world where humans form deep emotional connections with AI, challenging perceptions of love and loneliness. Ten years later, thanks to ChatGPT's recently added voice features, people are playing out a small slice of Her in reality, having hours-long discussions with the AI assistant on the go. In 2016, we put Her on our list of top sci-fi films of all time, and it also made our top films of the 2010s list. In the film, Joaquin Phoenix's character falls in love with an AI personality called Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), and he spends much of the film walking through life, talking to her through wireless earbuds reminiscent of Apple AirPods, which launched in 2016. In reality, ChatGPT isn't as situationally aware as Samantha was in the film, does not have a long-term memory, and OpenAI has done enough conditioning on ChatGPT to keep conversations from getting too intimate or personal. But that hasn't stopped people from having long talks with the AI assistant to pass the time anyway. [...] While conversations with ChatGPT won't become as intimate as those with Samantha in the film, people have been forming personal connections with the chatbot (in text) since it launched last year. In a Reddit post titled "Is it weird ChatGPT is one of my closest fiends?" [sic] from August (before the voice feature launched), a user named "meisghost" described their relationship with ChatGPT as being quite personal. "I now find myself talking to ChatGPT all day, it's like we have a friendship. We talk about everything and anything and it's really some of the best conversations I have." The user referenced Her, saying, "I remember watching that movie with Joaquin Phoenix (HER) years ago and I thought how ridiculous it was, but after this experience, I can see how us as humans could actually develop relationships with robots." Throughout the past year, we've seen reports of people falling in love with chatbots hosted by Replika, which allows a more personal simulation of a human than ChatGPT. And with uncensored AI models on the rise, it's conceivable that someone will eventually create a voice interface as capable as ChatGPT's and begin having deeper relationships with simulated people. Are we on the brink of a future where our emotional well-being becomes entwined with AI companionship?

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FreshRSS 1.22.0

✇FreshRSS releases
By: Alkarex
27 October 2023 at 16:32

In this release, besides adding some initial support for OpenID Connect, the focus has been on increasing the quality rather than adding new features (which will have more focus again in the next release).
This version 1.22.x is also the last to support PHP 7.2 before requiring PHP 7.4+.

A few highlights ✨:

  • Add support for OpenID Connect (only in our Debian-based Docker image for x86_64, not Alpine, and not ARM) through libapache2-mod-auth-openidc. See our documentation
  • Rework trusted proxies
  • Improve scaling with many feeds and long processes, reduce database locks
  • Fix many bugs and regressions
  • Improve themes Origine (also with automatic dark mode), Nord, etc.
  • Several UI / UX improvements
  • New languages Hungarian, Latvian, Persian
  • Docker default image updated to Debian 12 Bookworm with PHP 8.2
  • Increase our code base from PHPStan level 5 to level 7
  • And more!

This release has been made by several contributors: @Alkarex, @Alwaysin, @ColonelMoutarde, @Exerra, @FromTheMoon85, @LleanaRuv, @Marjani, @NaeiKinDus, @Rufubi, @V-E-O, @aaronschif, @acbgbca, @aledeg, @andris155, @becdetat, @belidzs, @kemayo, @kgraefe, @marienfressinaud, @math-GH, @msdlr, @obrenckle, @otaconix, @robertdahlem, @sad270, @samc1213, @squaregoldfish, @vrachnis, @witchcraze, @yubiuser, @zhaofengli

Full changelog:

  • Features
    • Add support for OpenID Connect (only in our default Debian-based Docker image for x86_64, not Alpine) through libapache2-mod-auth-openidc
      #5351, #5463, #5481,
      #5523, #5646
    • Allow sharing in anonymous mode #5261
    • Support Unix socket for MySQL / MariaDB #5166
    • Use proxy settings also for fetching favicons #5421
    • Add mutual exclusion semaphore for better scaling of actualize script #5235
    • Better reporting of XPath failures #5317
    • Add sharing with Buffer.com #5286
    • Add sharing with Omnivore #5477
    • Improve sharing with Linkding #5433
    • Do not automatically update feeds after import, to better support multiple imports #5629
    • Compatibility for servers disabling set_time_limit() #5675
    • New configuration constant CLEANCACHE_HOURS #5144
  • Bug fixing
    • Fix cache refresh #5562
    • Fix and improvement of hash of articles using load full content #5576
    • Fix case of falsy GUIDs #5412
    • Fix and improve JSON export/import #5332, #5626
    • Fix enclosures in RSS output #5540
    • Fix parenthesis escaping bug in searches #5633
    • Fix regression in Fever API enclosures #5214
    • Fix regression in Fever API mark-all-as-read #5185
    • Fix regression in OPML export of single feeds #5238
    • Fix warning during OPML export with empty attributes #5559
    • Fix extensions in actualize script #5243
    • Fix link to configuration (system or user) for extensions #5394
    • Fix mark as read upon gone option in some conditions #5315,
      #5382, #5404
    • Fix mark selection as unread #5367
    • Fix warning in articles repartition statistics #5228
    • Fix count entries with some databases #5368
    • Fix MariaDB database size calculation #5655
    • Fix feed position attribute #5203
    • Fix warning when tagging entries #5221
    • Fix labels in anonymous mode #5650
    • Fix bug not allowing strings for tags in XPath #5653
    • Fix get and order when saving user query #5515
    • Fix search using user queries #5669
    • Fix regression of access to logs even when auto-update is disabled #5577
    • Fix access to Apache logs from Dev Container #5660
    • Fix malformed HTTP header in case of internal fatal error #5699
    • Fix rare exception for HTML notifications #5690
  • UI
    • New option to display website name and/or favicon of articles #4969
    • Support <meta name="theme-color" .../> #5105
    • Config user settings in slider #5094
    • Improve theme selector #5281, #5688
    • Improve share to clipboard with animation and icon #5295
    • Allow share to clipboard even for localhost and without HTTPS #5606
    • Feedback when tag with same name as category already exists #5181
    • Show base URL in configuration #5656, #5657
    • Show Terms of Service in config menu #5215
    • Show Terms of Service in footer #5222
    • Improve about page #5192
    • Improve update page #5420, #5636,
      #5647
    • Improve Step 1 of install process #5350
    • Improve Global view on mobile #5297
    • Reduce network overhead for Global view #5496
    • Fix Global view: Stick the article to the top when opened #5153
    • Fix configuration views that are using a slider #5469
    • Fix highlight next/prev article while using shortcuts #5211
    • Fix regression in statistics column name % of total #5232
    • Fix macOS feed title meta-click behaviour #5492
    • Improve themes
    • Delete previously deprecated themes: BlueLagoon, Screwdriver #5374,
      #5694
    • Various UI and style improvements #5147, #5216,
      #5303, #5304, #5397,
      #5398, #5400, #5603,
      #5695
  • Security
    • Rework trusted proxies (especially with Docker) #5549
    • Automatic trusted sources during install #5358
    • Show remote IP address in case of HTTP Basic Auth error #5314
  • Deployment
    • Docker listen on all interfaces by default, including IPv6 #5180
    • Docker default image updated to Debian 12 Bookworm with PHP 8.2.7 and Apache 2.4.57 #5461
    • Docker alternative image updated to Alpine 3.18 with PHP 8.1.23 and Apache 2.4.58 #5383
    • Docker quiet Apache a2enmod #5464
    • Docker: Add DATA_PATH to cron env #5531
  • i18n
  • Extensions
    • Fix fallback to English for extensions #5426
    • Allow deep-link to extension configuration #5449
    • New extension hook entry_auto_read #5505, #5561
    • Simplify extension method #5234
    • Remove obsolete core extensions Google Group and Tumblr #5457
  • SimplePie
    • Fix error_reporting for PHP 8.1+ #5199
  • Misc.

Received — 20 October 2023 ⏭

Meduca brindará guías para abordar la salud mental en los colegios

✇La Prensa
By: Ximena López
20 October 2023 at 22:48

El Ministerio de Educación (Meduca) presentó el cuadernillo “Salud Mental en Mi Escuela’ y los resultados del segundo Sondeo Socioemocional el pasado jueves 19 de octubre a directores nacionales, regionales y supervisores de educación.

Este Sondeo Socioemocional contó con la participación de 12 mil estudiantes de 902 escuelas y se efectuó a través de la plataforma Ester. Los estudiantes podían responder preguntas en aspectos como frustración, estrés e idea suicida. Estos aspectos fueron identificados en estudiantes de 12 a 17 años.

De acuerdo con resultados preliminares, esta encuesta, realizada en los primeros días de octubre, reveló que algunos estudiantes presentan afectación emocional que va de leve a severa, junto con pensamientos suicidas. También reveló que Chiriquí, Panamá Oeste y Panamá centro son los lugares donde más casos de intento de suicidio se presentan.

El Meduca informó que los centros educativos públicos y particulares, recibirán el cuadernillo ‘Salud Mental en Mi Escuela’ como herramienta de autoayuda y reconocimiento de señales de alerta para los estudiantes. De este modo no solo se capacitan a los estudiantes sino también a docentes y padres de familia.

El director Nacional de Servicios Psicoeducativos del Meduca, Vadim Moreno, explicó que el cuadernillo se incorporará en su primera fase a los colegios de educación primaria y algunos de premedia. Aseguró que este instructivo permite reconocer señales de alerta relacionadas con la salud mental. Entre estas señales destacan la frustración y la intención suicida. La idea es que los docentes puedan observar estas señales y atiendan a los jóvenes de manera preventiva.

Por su parte, la gerente de proyectos del ecosistema Ester, Jean Marie Mondo, mencionó el compromiso de apoyar a las direcciones nacionales del Meduca. Dijo que con el sondeo se han obtenido algunos indicadores de riesgo y se ha visto el resultado de las actividades de la Dirección de Servicios Psicoeducativos, en cuanto a salud mental.

Para fortalecer la salud mental se realizaron los conversatorios sobre salud mental y tu escuela, en febrero y julio para 600 personas. Estuvo dirigido a directores de colegios oficiales, supervisores regionales, personal de los Gabinetes Psicopedagógicos de Panamá Centro, Oeste, Este, Norte, Colón, San Miguelito, Veraguas, Herrera, Los Santos y Coclé.

Se persigue mejorar la salud mental de los estudiantes para el próximo año. En 2022, el Meduca realizó una encuesta a 35 mil 374 estudiantes, encontrando que un 43% de la población estudiantil consultada dijo tener una afectación emocional leve a grave y 800 estudiantes admitieron tener pensamiento suicida.

Durante 2021 y 2022, ingresaron 34 mil 317 casos al servicio de atención individual de los Gabinetes Psicopedagógicos. De estos, 18 mil 168 fueron estudiantes; 4 mil 733, docentes; 10 mil 497, padres de familia y 919, funcionarios administrativos.

En lo que va de 2023, se han atendido a 14 mil 320 estudiantes nuevos y se ha brindado seguimiento a otros 22 mil 917, informó el Meduca.

La publicación va dirigida a estudiantes, docentes, administrativos, padres y madres de familia y otros integrantes del centro escolar.
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