Posts by Grumpy Scouse Git

LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print

Re: I've read documentation like that....

If you tell Google Translate that the source it Latvian rather than Latin, then it just gets really weird!!!

I'm sorry to hear that you're not going to be able to do that. I'm sorry to hear that you have to be free from the pain. Dolly doesn't have a job. It's a job job. For those of you who live in the U.S., it's the most painful thing to do. The office is filled with flying saucers. Minimal and minimal impedance. I'm sorry to hear that you are hurting except for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. At the very least, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be able to use the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to do just that. I'm sorry to hear that you don't have to worry about Odysseus. I'm going to have to go back to the drawing board. I'm going to go back to Oklahoma City for a while. Time is easy to follow. I'm sorry but I'm an inventor of clothes. I'm the only one who has the option of getting rid of Delaware. Her body was damaged and damaged by her birth. I'm sorry to hear that I'm not going to be able to do that. And I'm sorry for the pain. I'm sorry to hear that you and I'm sorry to hear that you didn't know what to do (The English bit about LDAP) Drink a lot of water. It's time for Tennessee to hate Tennessee. Previous Previous post: Maybe I'll Be Happy. Dolores doesn't have to worry about refusing to let Dolores go.

NIST: New smoke alarms are better at detecting fires, but still go off for bacon

What we really <chirp> need........

.....is some sort of <chirp> timing circuit <chirp> so that the low battery <chirp> warning only goes off <chirp> in the early <chirp> evening, rather than <chirp> three o'clock in the <chirp> ruddy morning! <chirp>

Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

What annoys me about VM....

What annoys me about VM is this.....If you want a new package/service/whatever you go to the website, click a few buttons, and hey presto, it's done. If you want to remove a service, you have to phone, get past the robot system, speak to a rep, who transfers you to the 'correct' rep, who then claims to be the wrong person to speak to before transferring you on to someone else. Eventually you get to the person who can do the necessary,but it's a right PITA! And that process assumes the initial phone call is actually answered, rather than being transferred to the 'we're busy helping other customers, call back later' machine.

Hacking a Foosball table scored an own goal for naughty engineers

Hotel pay tv

Back in the 80's our engineers used to stay in in a major hotel next door to Wembley Stadium. The pay tv system in the room consisted of a small box, easily opened with a screwdriver. Inside there was a board with some random electrical bits, and a bank of dip switches. Armed with a knowledge of binary, it was easy to see that the dip switches represented room numbers.

A quick flip or two of the dip switches and it was possible to watch the errrrrrr.... adult films, and have it charged to another room, or a colleague's room if you were feeling particularly devious!

Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris

European languages, relatively 'easy' - but Korean....

I once was sent to a company to install a remote controller. The company was Korean and the people who were going to use it were Korean expats assigned to the UK, so it made sense (I suppose) to supply the software in Korean and the configuration requirements in Korean. If it had been French or German I might have had a chance......

I could do little more than plug it in and see if it powered up, smile and leave rapidly!

How to polish the bottom line? Microsoft makes it really hard to claim expenses, say staffers

Expenses misery

A hotel I stayed at once charged my corporate card a sum to cover the bill for damage to a room that I had allegedly caused. It was refunded after an angry complaint to the manager.......and that was were the trouble really started. The AI expenses system assumed that the company was owed this refund, and started to deduct it from future claims.

In the end, the only way to make this refund disappear was to NOT CLAIM a NEGATIVE amount for the item!

The same AI expense system once recorded a photo of a McDonalds receipt as a flight somewhere!

Often it took longer to confirm that the AI had correctly assigned everything than it ever did filling in the old paper system, photocopied receipts etc.

An anti-drone system that sneezes targets to death? Would that be a DARPA project? You betcha

There is an easier way.........

Argentinian football fans came up with an easier & cheaper way to disable drones ....... toilet rolls!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJjBYp76QY

Who knew that hosing a table with copious amounts of cubic metres would trip adult filters?

Filter Fun

Many years ago I did a Disaster Recovery exercise at a customer site in Scotland. To provide for some entertainment for the several hours worth of tape restore to sit through, the customer decided to restore the email spam/pron/profanity folders first. A manual review of the many, many attachments found there proved to be somewhat educational to say the least!

Who needs the A-Team or MacGyver when there's a techie with an SCSI cable?

Re: HOWTO Move Your Server

Back when I was a boy engineer, I heard a tale from the older guys of a machine that kept blowing a half amp fuse, irrespective of which part had been replaced to try and fix the machine. Solution was to replace half amp fuse with the biggest one they could find, turn the machine on and stand well back until the actual broken part began to smoke!

Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent

Re: Junior Customer Engineer

Still got one on my keyring 17 months after redundancy/early retirement, and 19+ years since I was a CE.

Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence

Church or chapel, let it rattle!

It's Friday lunchtime on International Beer Day. Bitter hop to it, boss'll be none the weiser

Re: The map looks a bit squiffy...

Kiwis deserve all they get! It was a Kiwi that decided it was a good idea to lace one of their beer with stag semen!!

https://firstwefeast.com/drink/2015/08/semen-beer-new-zealand-green-man-pub