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RobLangford 🇬🇧🇦🇺

@RobLangford@infosec.exchange

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Tech, Cloud, Infosec, Motorcycle, Gym and Watersport enthusiast
Retired bartender 🍻🍸
Failed blogger 👻

Cat dad 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Github

https://github.com/roblangford

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@troyhunt this will now serve as the image in my head when I get a notification from have I been pwned

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Dan Ports 3d ago

You may not like it but this is what peak coziness looks like.

Actually, you should like it. I don’t know why you wouldn’t like it.

#cats #catsofmastodon

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Some serious fun on #caturday

#CatsOfMastodon

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Viss 2d ago

fuck yeah stuxnet bacon

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Geoff 1d ago

Branches with eyes

Two of several Bush Stone-curlews sleeping and hiding in plain sight around the gardens

Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha

#WildOz #OzBirds #Birds #Wildlife #Brisbane

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Hacker Memes 1d ago

Some of those that team fortress
Are the same that pwn bosses

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Hacker Memes 1d ago

kill -9 in the name of

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Dave Mason Photography🇨🇦🌪🌩📸2d ago

The bucket list shot I didn't know I needed until the opportunity arose. A shot of a Golden Eagle and Badger engaged in a stare down. July 18, 2025
#wildlifephotography

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CurlyParakeet 2d ago

Banana! And it glows in the dark!

TIL that Banana Equivalent Dose (BED) is a thing. A little bit like “weight in elephants”, but for ionising radiation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

#crochet #amigurumi #craft

Based on pattern from Lindsey Roe and Off the Beaten Hook https://offthebeatenhook.com/banana-free-crochet-pattern/

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eclectech 2d ago

Sometimes it is enough to sit on your own in a sunny field and think about happy things. Not always, but sometimes.

#sillyScribbles

Infocalypse Now 5d ago

This is what I think of every time I see Microsoft Co-Pilot mentioned:

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Den of Earth 5d ago

@trif #WithAltText
When someone mentions swastikar's autopilot:

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lucie digitální 5d ago

@trif perfect

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Chad McCullough 5d ago

@trif 😂

@trif awesome!

@trif The inflatable co-pilot is named Otto, not George (Despite the common term "Let George fly it")
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1290293/bio/

Otto - Biography - IMDb

Otto. Actor: Airplane!. Otto is one of the most iconic movie objects of all time, not only recognized by audiences around the world for his only film performance in the massive hit Airplane! (1980), but he also has a profile page on IMDb along with other film cultural icons like Volleyball, Wilson the and Robby the Robot. Otto was an inflatable balloon born in 1979, created and conceived by three...

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Infocalypse Now 5d ago

@Firesphere thanks for the correction

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zbrown 4d ago

@Firesphere @trif but why make George work when you can just turn otto-pilot on?

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BlueTeamSherpa

4d ago

@zbrown @Firesphere @trif he charges too much. You know why? Inflation.

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F4GRX SÃ©bastien 4d ago

@Firesphere @trif so it's an OTTO PILOT yaaaay hahaha !

@trif 😂 x2

@trif It's accurate.

okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin 4d ago

@trif
It's true, tho.

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David Nash 4d ago

@trif Doesn’t quite work for me. Compared to Microsoft Copilot, Otto is both funnier and more competent.

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Aaron 4d ago

@trif Is that The Angriest Boy?

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Infocalypse Now 4d ago

@hosford42 never realised the resemblance

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Poloniousmonk 4d ago

@trif

I just almost uninstalled it, but don't trust Microsoft not to sabotage my OS if I do.

Anyone ever remove it from Win10?

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Jasper 🍉4d ago

@trif (edit: sorry my wires got crossed and i thought uninstall windows) then just overwrite it or never boot the partition if you leave it on there?

I mean.. the BIOS or Intel chip could have a backdoor, but i don't think it's up to M$ to use it.

It can certainly helpful if it's a secondary machine and if you have someone to help you through it..

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Poloniousmonk 4d ago

@jasper

No worries. Thanks for taking a stab at it.

I know one workaround for that 360 garbage I also don't think I can remove--I don't let my computer autoconnect to he internet. So things like 360 that report on me before I'm allowed to use the machine throw off an error and I can close at least the visible parts of them before going online.

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Fragarach 4d ago

@Uair @trif
Done so a couple of times now (it reinstalls it on each update).
Haven't seen any ill effects apart from to the help section of MS Word, but since that was fairly useless anyway, no big deal.

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F4GRX SÃ©bastien 4d ago

@Uair @trif remove it now, from everywhere around you.

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Court Cantrell prefers not to 3d ago

@Uair @trif I got rid of it and lost the font I write all my books in (Sabon). I *must* have that font. So I submitted to Co-Pilot's presence. But I never use it. 🤮

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pecet 🦒4d ago

@trif fun fact in Poland title of this movie was translated as „Is pilot flying with us?”

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MostlyTato 4d ago

@trif
I think that's a bit advanced tbf. And probably safer too.

@trif 🤣

Asahi 🖖🙂 | UFP-Liaison 🌈4d ago

@trif "Roger!" 😁

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Christian Vogel 4d ago

@trif the “Pilot” metaphor breaks because apparently there are now three roles…

• Pilot Flying
• Pilot Monitoring
• Pilot Hallucinating

…instead of two?

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mkj 4d ago

@trif I suppose the difference is that George actually did do something *useful* and *helpful*... though he wasn't very communicative.

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.

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Mota 4d ago

@trif nothing like it, this one was actually useful

@trif I will now...

@trif I mean look at the VSCode logo:

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bkardell 4d ago

@trif same actually!!

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AndyGER

4d ago

@trif @Sebastian And it is exactly that … 😁

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Jan::Flusenjongleur 👻4d ago

@trif

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steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶ 4d ago

@trif Hah, same.

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Scavello 4d ago

@trif It looks like JD Vance

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Григорий Клюшников 4d ago

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@huggydude🇺🇦4d ago

@trif And now I will... <3

@trif A pin, anyone?

@trif The movie also describes what you have to do, that the LLM does what you want

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llewelly 4d ago

@trif it's funny until you realize this guy lives in your neighborhood, and he drives a tesla.

@trif that's an insult to my boy Otto

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PRW 4d ago

@trif Complete with the depiction of the new primary work assignment of Mickeysoft's devs!

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Harry Karadimas 4d ago

@trif Which immediately triggers memory of the scene that is following

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alec timmerman 🇪🇺🔒🌍📱🌳📰4d ago

@trif @sandorspruit Inflated personality.

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Chris Pitts 4d ago

@trif @Gargron No, it’s definitely this

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George Baily 4d ago

@trif the "top up valve" is the perfect stock price point here

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Ken Brucker 4d ago

@trif I think of 📎

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Internet Rando 4d ago

@trif the on switch is even in the same place!

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johnduggins 4d ago

@trif That's an unfair comparison. The co-pilot shown here was useful.

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Richard Ibbotson 4d ago

Yep... I see the same thing. Whole software package is a joke.

@trif

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gittaca 4d ago

@trif And hear that
> "why did you cut off?"
> "I did not do so"
dialogue about the fuel control switch from that recent #AirIndia crash: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79qrez8gqlo :-(

Fuel to engines cut off before Air India crash, preliminary report says

The plane's flight recorders had one pilot asking the other why they had switched off the fuel - and the other saying he had not.

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mimiimim 2d ago

@gittaca @trif this is going to be a big story. Thanks for sharing.

perfect 🤣 🤣 🤣

@trif yes!

@trif I think of The Riddler (from Batman Forever). He has a machine that provides a novel form of entertainment, but which simultaneously redirects useful knowledge and thoughts to back to central HQ for nefarious purposes. To me, that's what these centralised AI systems are.