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Wednesday December 31st, 2025

ChatGPT encouraging psychoses Dan Lyke / comment 0

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA — EMILY LYONS, Administrator c.t.a. and Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF STEIN-ERIK SOELBERG, Plaintiff, v. OPENAI FOUNDATION ... (PDF)

1. On August 5, 2025, Stein-Erik Soelberg (“Mr. Soelberg”) killed his mother and then stabbed himself to death. During the months prior, Mr. Soelberg spent hundreds of hours in conversations with OpenAI’s chatbot product, ChatGPT. During those conversations ChatGPT repeatedly told Mr. Soelberg that his family was surveilling him and directly encouraged a tragic end to his and his mother’s lives.

Via, Via.

Glue up of the rim for the dining room Dan Lyke / comment 0

Glue up of the rim for the dining room table with the train set into it. After this dries I route it into a circle, with an insert for the glass in the middle. Chuffed that the accumulated error over the 22.5 degree angles was about saw kerf at the center line.

For anyone keeping track at home the Dan Lyke / comment 0

For anyone keeping track at home, the dual 2.6GHz Zeon with 100G of RAM and the older NVidia graphics card (that needs the external power connector) draws 186 watts in BIOS, 130-160 in Linux.

My home server, an i7-6700 at 3.4GHz draws about 22 watts in Linux at idle.

Foiled in today's Timdle by phosphorous Dan Lyke / comment 0

Foiled in today's Timdle by phosphorous. Not to get too spoilery, but the long arc of how humanity has gone about learning about chemistry is fascinating.

Tuesday December 30th, 2025

Dealing with awesome customer service Dan Lyke / comment 0

Dealing with awesome customer service reps stuck in crappy systems with crappy call scripts without the tools to actually do customer service is making me want to just not fucking buy anything.

Today, this rant is brought to you by T-Mobile.

Lazyweb Anyone got a tool that keeps Dan Lyke / comment 0

Lazyweb: Anyone got a tool that keeps metadata on files, and lets you browse and filter and see views based on that metadata? With a command-line?

Before I go and implement something, I wanna see what people are up to.

humanoid robots for the win Dan Lyke / comment 0

Using a mocap suit to kick yourself in the balls with a robot is a great metaphor to close out 2025 (YouTube video)

Shorter clip at Bluesky


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