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"[I]n the post warning users that the company will call the authorities if they seem like they're going to hurt someone, OpenAI also acknowledged that it is "currently not referring self-harm cases to law enforcement to respect people’s privacy given the uniquely private nature of ChatGPT interactions."

While ChatGPT has in the past proven itself pretty susceptible to so-called jailbreaks that trick it into spitting out instructions to build neurotoxins or step-by-step instructions to kill yourself, this new rule adds an additional layer of confusion. It remains unclear which exact types of chats could result in user conversations being flagged for human review, much less getting referred to police. We've reached out to OpenAI to ask for clarity.

While it's certainly a relief that AI conversations won't result in police wellness checks — which often end up causing more harm to the person in crisis due to most cops' complete lack of training in handling mental health situations — it's also kind of bizarre that OpenAI even mentions privacy, given that it admitted in the same post that it's monitoring user chats and potentially sharing them with the fuzz.

To make the announcement all the weirder, this new rule seems to contradict the company's pro-privacy stance amid its ongoing lawsuit with the New York Times and other publishers as they seek access to troves of ChatGPT logs to determine whether any of their copyrighted data had been used to train its models.

OpenAI has steadfastly rejected the publishers' request on grounds of protecting user privacy and has, more recently, begun trying to limit the amount of user chats it has to give the plaintiffs."

futurism.com/openai-scanning-c…

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection




Folks thinking of making up a fresh excuse not to #vote in 2026 would do well to digest this article.

Sure, it's "complicated." But if one can pass a driver's license exam or similar piece of cake it's no problem to understand. Special pleading won't cover apathy or indolence.

Cliff Note version: start at "In 2023, it was Republicans controlling 26 delegations, Democrats 22 and two split delegations."

(Not voting is a slap in the face to those who've been disenfranchised, while actually voting is a way of being a proxy for those victims)

#RememberInNovember

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a…



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ok, forget the character

how do you conceive a gun so ... uh. is there even a word for whatever this thing is

in reply to nameless and tired Cat Pöñíçkøvā

i am utterly fascinated by the charging handle, which somehow has like a notch to keep the bolt open, weirdly "realistic" detail on a completely nonsensical gun?


USPol / Transphobia

This really shouldn't as any surprise, as the US govt has declared war on trans people and their rights, but it is worth nothing that these are the same people who opposed Red Flag laws to stop known abusers from purchasing firearms.

DOJ Plots Banning Trans People From Owning Guns

joemygod.com/2025/09/doj-plots…

in reply to GaySteve🏳️‍🌈

USPol / Transphobia

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Rare opportunity to introduce a stranger on the bus to some of my favorite podcasts.


Huh, moved a file, and BBedit tracked it across its move. Neat.


The tyranny of being forced to have an opinion on em dashes.


They're apparently going to hold the #Scheme R7RS-Large WG meeting in libera.chat #scheme.

This is either going to go great or be the worst fiasco since R7RS.



I’m not eating much so my weight is dropping. I’m still working out and, mostly, eating healthy stuff, so I’m not particularly concerned about muscle loss.

I will say there are much better ways to diet than an ugly break-up in the hottest time of the year.



Pare che la statua del leone alato a Venezia sia cinese, potrebbe averla portata Marco Polo. Abbiamo chiuso il cerchio.

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Why we no longer support the use of Cloudflare on our web and email hosting accounts. Spoiler: it's AI bot scraping. mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/09…



Tips for Homebrewing Inductors


How hard can it be to create your own inductors? Get a wire. Coil it up. Right? Well, the devil is definitely in the details, and [Nick] wants to share his ten tips for building “the perfect” inductor. We don’t know about perfect, but we do think he brings up some very good points. Check out his video below.

If you are winding wire around your finger (or, as it appears in the video, a fork) or you are using a beefy ferrite core, you’ll find something interesting in the video.

Of course, the issue with inductors is that wires aren’t perfect, nor are core materials. Factors like this lead to inefficiency and loss, sometimes in a frequency-dependent way.

It looks like [Nick] is building a large switching power supply, so the subject inductor is a handful. He demonstrates some useful computational tools for analyzing data about cores, for example.

We learned a lot watching the tricks, but we were more interested in the inductor’s construction. We have to admit that the computed inductance of the coil matched quite closely to the measured value.

Need a variable inductor? No problem. Before ferrite cores, good coils were a lot harder to wind.

youtube.com/embed/PEme07iCH-s?…


hackaday.com/2025/09/04/tips-f…




Finally got the mini-PC. Installing Ubuntu server over the stock Windows 10 now.

#HomeServer #Linux #Ubuntu #Lenovo #MiniPC #PC

in reply to Otto Rask

First time setting up LUKS-unlocking over SSH too. Not as difficult as I thought it would be! Only over local network though, just because I don't have a screen and keyboard attached to the server.



The National Gardeners should grab their garbage pickers and go check out the NPS HQ for National Capital Parks in Anacostia, we hear the building has been full of birds and birdshit **for years**


Every day I'm on #Mastodon I like to jot down #3goodThings #threeGoodThings for #today... things done, things to do, or just a good thing...

1. Decided it might be an idea to think about updating the campervan.

2. Went to local dealer just looking. Absolutely no intention of buying one. Really, none at all.

3. Sold! And we have history, every time we go 'just looking' we end up buying.





the trump family #crypto grift (#WorldLibertyFinancial, token #WLFI) just froze the account of #JustinSun, the single biggest backer of the entire grift, after Justin transferred millions of dollars “worth” of WLFI tokens to #Binance (a large crypto exchange where he was probably going to sell them).

impossible to say for sure why this happened but occam’s razor suggests the WLFI team is desperately trying to keep the price from continuing to crash (it’s down ~45% from when it became tradable on Monday) so they intervened to prevent Justin from selling.

there’s not a small amount of irony in the fact that the trump kids said they founded WLFI as a “decentralized” platform to “prevent debanking”.

maybe also worth noting that Justin has publicly claimed he has not sold and will never sell his WLFI tokens... but this being the world’s most infamous chinese crypto grifter literally zero people in the cryptoverse believe that.

#trump #corruption #uspol #uspolitics #china #cryptocurrency

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CVS Will Not Cover Long-Acting HIV PrEP Lenacapavir For Now

poz.com/article/cvs-will-cover…

> CVS won’t add Gilead’s Yeztugo (lenacapavir) to its coverage list. Plus, regular PrEP denials remain common.



hacker: I took over your computer, give me money or I release video of you watching porn

me: You fixed the camera driver on my Linux machine? omg thank you so much




Dès son installation, Windows 11 appliquera des patchs de sécurité
lemondeinformatique.fr/actuali…

#Infosec #Security #Cybersecurity #CeptBiro #Windows11 #PatchsDeSecurite



İsrail'de Filistin depremi! Son dakika Fransa kararı! Macron'a izin vermediler: SON DAKİKA HABERİ: İsrail ve Fransa arasında diplomatik kriz patlak verdi. İsrail Dışişleri Bakanlığı, Filistin devletini tanıma kararı aldıklarını duyuran Fransa Cumhurbaşkanı Emmanuel Macron'a yaptırım uyguladı.

MACRON'A İSRAİL'E ZİYARET EDEMEYECEĞİ İLETİLDİ

Dışişleri Bakanlığı'ndan yapılan açıklamada, İsrail Dışişleri… eshahaber.com.tr/haber/israil-… EshaHaber.com.tr #İsrail #Filistin #Macron #Diplomasi #Haber





#TIL that Emacs ELisp version of sudo may be extremely slow and hang an Emacs if my real hostname (set in /etc/rc.conf) doesn't match with lines for localhost in /etc/hosts :drgn_shocked:

#Emacs #elisp





Whether you’re grinding ranked matches or just want to recreate that classic arcade feeling at home, discover the 6 best arcade sticks.

hypercombogamer.com/6-best-arc…

#Gaming #RetroGaming #Fighting #Arcade #eSports #PCGaming #PlayStation #Xbox #Nintendo #Blog #GameDev #IndieDev #News #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse