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* Posts by Captain Slog

9 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Mar 2025

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand

Captain Slog
Terminator

Re: No. AI could encourage you in everything you do – just small comments to lift your self-esteem

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet..."

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold

Captain Slog

Re: as I have said before AI pushers use the same MO as drug pushers

I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man

NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon

Captain Slog
Coat

Re: IKEA

I'm sure the Clangers will enjoy those along with their Blue String soup and the Iron Chicken will love the allen keys!

I'll get me DJ...

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

Captain Slog
Coat

Re: Don't worry, Kent – these kindly big gentlemen in white coats

<Seagoon>

"I haven't got a knob on my side..."

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Captain Slog
Joke

Re: Makes you wonder ...

Also: Always travel in the back seats of aircraft, as pilots don't reverse into mountains.

UK asks cyberspies to probe whether Chinese buses can be switched off remotely

Captain Slog
Unhappy

Ransomware As A (Dis)Service

Would someone please, pretty-please, pay the ransom so that the doors can re-open before I have to REALLY cross my legs...

Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned

Captain Slog

Re: Hmmm

With a sign saying "opening instructions enclosed"...

So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?

Captain Slog

Re: Ha

I will forever take exception to the code strangler who wrote the "Out of error messages" error message abomination in Superfile.

Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

Captain Slog

Re: Horses for courses

@NXM

You are number 6.