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  • OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide

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  • I'd not say typing a sentence is a "jailbreak" of any sort - but more so, LLMs should just straight not allow certain topics until some future where it is decided and regulated how they respond. Although at this point, I'd gladly lose my coding assistant in trade for making LLMs go away. Big tech is again being reckless with yet again little to no accountability. They need their toys taken away.

  • U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'

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  • My favorite part is claiming such horse shit on the heels of dragging every general on planet Earth to Washington DC just so he can masturbate in front of them.

  • Leaving rooted Android [OC]

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  • Wow, that's an interesting one, thanks for that. That would be quite annoying to deal with.

    In that case, since the 2FA is coming from the carrier, if you can disable 2G and 3G on your handset, the air link on LTE and above is AES-based encrypted at least, if the carrier configures it correctly, even though the channel itself often isn't. Or if very paranoid you can use WiFi calling in airplane mode on a burner so the carrier sends the message over the wifi calling IMS-encapsulated-in-VPN-connection over the Internet.

    The chance of someone being able to intercept that 2FA code in a way that could get into your bank account is pretty much absolutely scant.

    Not trying to change how you do things either, though. Just knowing how terrible some banks can be at writing software, I'd be more apt to trust "weaker" methods versus apps. The future is quite exhausting.

  • Leaving rooted Android [OC]

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  • They don't need your permission to gather all sorts of data from most modern smartphones, nor can you really deny some of it. (Some you can, like camera, and microphone, allegedly.) Part of the whole banking<->handset manufacturer agreement also frequently allows "special access" outside of the traditional user-permission security model. For..."security" to "prevent fraud".

  • OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates

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  • The magic of the rich!

  • Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording

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  • Plenty of other soups to buy, many of which even taste like food, unlike Campbells.

  • Trump Declares Biden’s ‘Autopen’ Turkey Pardons ‘Invalid’ at Thanksgiving Ceremony

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  • Everything said by this admin is always a declaration of guilt. So, in this context, the 1984-translated version is: "people use my Autopen all the time without my knowledge." Which also explains how when he attended that wrestling event back in the spring, he was also somehow signing and authorizing (whatever terrible thing it was at the time, it's hard to keep track of) at the White House that Stephen Miller I think angrily announced while touching dolls.

  • Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know

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  • Something nobody ever asked for or wanted.

  • Thai woman wakes up in coffin shortly before cremation

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  • May I introduce you to Colorado?

    https://coloradosun.com/2025/04/14/miles-harford-funeral-home-owner-pleads-guilty/

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-funeral-home-owners-accused-storing-190-decaying-bodies-are-c-rcna148016

    Colorado finally has laws and inspections, but those are still turning up issues like:

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/us/colorado-funeral-home-decomposing-bodies

    There are also issues with pet cemeteries as well:

    https://www.9news.com/article/life/pets/colorado-pet-crematory-lawsuit/73-446c6b3a-100a-4807-bb22-e98cd289d814

    https://www.kktv.com/2025/09/06/those-pets-are-their-lives-colorado-springs-veterinarian-former-crematory-owner-shed-light-owner-storage-unit-where-dead-pets-were-found/

    Neither list is exhaustive.

  • Leaving rooted Android [OC]

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  • This must be a European problem perhaps? I can't understand why this is the deal breaker for so many.

    Banks have web sites. I don't know why anyone would ever allow their financial institutions access to their phone's plethora of sensors and the available telemetry on what they are doing on their mobile device 24/7. That links confirmed ID + "trusted platform" + biometrics + transactions + location + all the metadata every other app hoovers up in one convenient place. The very same people across the pond are worried about having to verify ID to look at porn, but are cool with their bank knowing the position of their accelerometer while they're taking a dump.

  • "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts"

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  • There are podcast aggregators out there that aren't just Apple-ify, although now that I'm doing a cursory search, maybe a use for Google's silly search engine to waste Google's servers for good.

    Search:

    "podcast name" filetype:rss

    "podcast name" filetype:xml

  • "Whatever You Get Your Podcasts"

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  • And yet, annoyingly, these podcast platforms hide the podcasts' URLs as hard as they can, even though these providers don't host the podcast or files, and a "podcast" is just an XML file pointing to mp3 or m4a file URLs. (Not disputing you, just that the increasing non-openness of something they don't even have to pay storage or bandwidth for is pretty ridiculous. They are nothing but a man-in-the-middle attempting to extract profit.)

  • Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason!

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  • Yeah, I agree, but it also makes a weird kind of sense. Properly regulated stock markets exist to ground the crazy people. Without them, they'd be doing things like building slave cities on nuclear waste for profit.

  • Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle

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  • Look at fancy pants Germany over here with more than one brand of banana in a store.

  • This is literally me

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  • It's better than yours

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  • See, to preserve the image for posterity, you have to put it on a thumb drive in a nitrogen-sealed UV-filtered case. Otherwise all is for naught.

  • you guys are paying for git?

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  • And much like going from phone call to answering machine to voicemail to visual voicemail (and even for a while being able to text a verbal reply on I believe Sprint back in the day for a bit) we now have phones being able to OCR images, then you can select the text on the image. (Also so the creepsters can harvest metadata on all your images.)

  • Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason!

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  • Samsung's emoji/GIF injector is neat, but Futo Keyboard may be a viable alternative. It seems to be progressing little by little. As long as the vendor doesn't go "evil" in a future release.

    Also Samsung's autocorrect is an abomination. So often it doesn't correct a wrong word, or over-corrects a real word. There's no appeasing that drunk algorithm. Sure, you can un-teach wrong words by hitting "..." next to the suggestions and deleting the suggestion, or periodically resetting the learning dictionary, but how is that keyboard such a needy little shit? Love the alt keys and number pad overlay.

  • Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason!

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  • Futo seems very promising once you change the UI settings enough to fit your fingers well.