Yeah. Seems someone needs to be taking criticism of $obvious_bad_thing, and translating it into other languages and reading levels.

Edit: My initial reply was of poor quality. I skipped half of you thoughtful comment, AND I misunderstood your meaning as well. I apologize.

I think you are correct about your interpretation of their current policy. However, their old policy would have allowed for checking on users. The old policy is one reason my old company disallowed the usage of OpenAI, as corporate secrets could easily be gathered by OpenAI. (The paranoid among use suspected that was the reason for releasing such a buggy AI.)

I agree. I think training a depressing detector to flag problematic conversations for human review is a good idea.

Yes. Even if the government of the USA does nothing, there will be negative impacts. The population that survives may migrate north or south. Warlords will strike out for new territories. Anything still created or grown in the USA will no longer be. Billionaires will flee to the nicer parts of the world to repeat the process. Wealth in the American stock markets will do something.

Your family will end up doing most of the cleaning. Your landlord will hire low wage people to do any remaining.
Please reconsider.

Opens? OpenAI spent years doing exactly that. Though, apparently they almost three years ago.

https://www.maginative.com/article/openai-clarifies-its-data-privacy-practices-for-api-users/

Previously, data submitted through the API before March 1, 2023 could have been incorporated into model training. This is no longer the case since OpenAI implemented stricter data privacy policies.

Inputs and outputs to OpenAI’s API (directly via API call or via Playground) for model inference do not become part of the training data unless you explicitly opt in.

Thanks to Ars for including the lullaby. It is incredibly bleak.

Just to draw it out a little more.
A company intentionally made a product that is more than capable of killing its users. The company monitors the communications, and decides to not intervene. (Beats me how closely communications are monitored, but the company can and does close accounts as told in other articles.)
This communication went on for months or years. The company had more than enough time to act.
Sam Altman is a bad person for choosing not to.

between this and the sound visualizer (like an infrared camera, it shows hot spots of where sound is coming from), directional sound things are having a moment.

From “the monitor goes dark”, it would be helpful to split monitor issues from computer issues. When the computer becomes unresponsive, do any “non-monitor” functions still work? Does the DVD-drive tray eject or does audio continue to play? Any other details? Do any other lights on the computer stay on, like keyboard and mouse lights?

If the issue is primarily the monitor, then splitting between the physical monitor and the video card would also be helpful.

How old is the hardware?

When you say “nothing is logged”, is the hard shutdown logged or anything after the time of the event? Or does “nothing is logged” mean the normal items are logged, but nothing of interest is logged? Some issues, especially hardware ones, stop the computer from logging.

Story: I once had a 15+ year old computer do something similar. The screen would go dark, but the lights on the keyboard stayed on. I had to hard power the system off and sometimes on boot the monitor wouldn’t work. A monitor swap didn’t fix the issue, but a USB video card did. The video card had failed. (Looking up what I think the interconnect was, the system may be 20 years old at this point.) NOTE: The system was not functional long term with a USB video card due to how the BIOS in the system handled the two video cards.

There are a few northern Germanic languages that are deceptive to English readers. They almost read correctly in English, if one assumes the speaker is drunk. Sadly, they can also give the wrong impression. The spoken version tends to be harder to handle in this way.

Clearly, there must be a name for languages that share this sort of property.

Like you, I only replace when there is a major problem. When there are repairs I can do myself, I do them to extend the life of the phone. My previous phone had corrupted internal memory or storage, and that was that.

I have run into issues where newer software runs poorly. I solve this issue by not running that software.

I have never purchased the exact same model, but they tend to not be offered at that point. I have purchased the same model line. I had really enjoyed the Motorola G line, especially the extended battery iteration.

Highlights from the very short write-up for visibility. Bolding is my own. Read the full ten paragraphs.

… A working knowledge of data protection, in particular the GDPR, is essential. In practice, the workload has been low: the team handled four requests in 2025. Additional proactive work, such as improving the privacy policy or advising teams on data-handling workflows, is welcome but optional and can be shaped by the interests of the volunteers.

This is a role which requires trust. An established track record within the Debian community is therefore important, and it may be difficult for someone who has only very recently become a Debian Developer to take on this role immediately. Since formal delegations can only be made to Debian Developers, this status is a requirement for the role."

Looks like the USA is running it pretty well so far. Lots of videos of violence in Venezuela.
Maybe we should make Venezuela a territory and its people citizens. Then at least they could have rights. (USA running it like Iraq and Afghanistan were run by the USA will cause more people to flee, possibly to the USA.)

That is a cool workaround. I have not encountered it personally, but I am glad someone has.

So the Trump DOJ is inoculating Disney from future complaints on the same issue for chump change?

(Because this cannot be re-litigated by the next DOJ, or citizens.)

“Universal Blue”

Thank you, I had never heard of it. https://universal-blue.org/

I am alone in this, but I would love to see a note about what kind of a thing the seemingly endless random named things are. I was not up on the topic enough to know “Fedora Atomic Images” are a thing. (Though at an early step, that can stop. No need to define Fedora, Atomic, nor image. But enough to know programming library, Linux distro, streaming service, or program.

Like:
Bazzle (a Fedora Linux Atomic Image) has seen a massive jolt in growth over the holiday season, surpassing 50k active users. The Fedora Atomic image has gained 38.8k users total in 2025 since it began counting in April 🥳

Likewise, I burned a Debian install DVD about 6 months ago. A FreeBSD install disk about 9 months ago.

How are you handling random 2-Factor challenges to email? (CGP Grey has a story of the DMVs sending codes to his email while physically at the location.)

How many people have a story of needing email while out in the physical world? (Email adoption is still not 100% in the USA, 92.4% in Nov 2023.)

The number of post install steps to de-bloat Win10 is staggering.

Perhaps.

Of course, the creators of the security modules could build tools to help them be used better. Maybe not on first release, but at least after other complain about the difficulty. AppArmor did attempt some tools, and is far better than SELinux. Still not great.