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Comment the swamp is screaming (Score 0) 224

Understand this is not what it seems. This is the swamp being drained by Trump and the swamp doesn't like it one bit. This swamp is utterly hostile to the American people, as the COVID fraud revealed. See COVId.gov "By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasnâ(TM)t."

Comment Re:Money (Score 1) 67

A trend I've noticed, especially with the PS5:
1) Games are expensive
2) Games are digital, so you can no longer play it then sell it on Craigslist.

I'm a member of the glorious PCGMR.

1. Games have never been so cheap. I mean I picked up Stalker2, Schedule 1 and Aviassembly off the steam sales for £50. Might go back for Space Marine 2.
2. Games have been digital for ages. The fact the PC doesn't depend on a healthy used game market to sell new games is one of the reasons they're cheaper.

It's just that consoles are becoming expensive, or more accurately, console users are now figuring out they're expensive. Consoles have always been expensive but hidden it in a lower up front cost for the console. With the latest PS release being more expensive than an entry level gaming laptop and games are more expensive and you have to pay for online services and you're locked in... It seems to be dawning on people that console gaming isn't cheap.

PC gaming is the opposite, expensive cost of entry but it's all savings from there on in. Especially if your patient, more games, more stores to choose from, things go on sale sooner and more often, a thriving indie scene (Aviassembly mentioned earlier is a small game made by one guy, a Dutch guy I believe), no pay to play online. This is all before the benefits like mods, being able to update games in the background, better peripherals, graphics, so on and so forth.

Even console exclusives aren't exclusive any more given how many are now on PC. I knew the foray into trying to make PC games exclusive would end in tears (and it ended years ago, everyone figured out that exclusivity only prevents you from selling copies) but I didn't expect it to end console exclusivity, they've got you by the short and curlies and they know it.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 19

Let us address undersea optical cable sabotage and not worry about daily copper cable thefts around the country. Go Keir!

At the risk of debunking your anti-labour rant, the big issue with undersea fibre optic cabling is less sabotage and more stupidity and greed. The biggest problem are anchors being dragged over cables, ships are not supposed to anchor near cables but do so anyway because they're not paying attention or just don't care. This provides ample camouflage for the smaller amount of deliberate sabotage attempts.

If you're that concerned about copper theft, you really should have thought about that before voting Tory and Brexit, both of which have seen huge amounts of funding and capability stripped away from the UK's police forces. Boris got his water cannons that have never been used though. I'm sure that was totally worth the cost.

Comment Re:This meeting would be better as an email (Score 1) 22

Basically, AI note takers allow all the folks who aren't really needed at the meeting to just get the email summary. What this means is that A. none of them should have been asked to go to the meeting in the first place, and B. the meeting probably should have been an email.

Meetings tend to be useful for the person calling the meeting. The number of meetings that were genuinely useful for me as an attendee... over the course of my entire career, I can count them on one hand, as long as I use binary. 99% of time spent in meetings is not useful. And even in meetings that are genuinely important and useful, half the time is usually not useful.

More emails, fewer meetings. We had it right during the pandemic. That's why productivity improved so much.

I used to have a mug that said "I survived a meeting that should have been an email". The pandemic and shift to working from home has really hurt the kind of person who's entire job was looking busy by organising loads of pointless meetings. Zoom/teams hasn't been able to do the same thing as physically wasting people's time because they've been able to mute the meeting and get on with productive work... or just ignore it entirely. Along with the credit/idea thief, these are the kinds of personalities that are trying to get everyone back into the office so they can look productive again.

Comment Re:How would you exfiltrate data? (Score 1) 36

EDR is sometimes all you have to know something happened. Waiting for DLP to note a loss can be too late if there is behavior which isn't currently being flagged as suspect. I've seen cases where employees attempted to establish a new baseline of behavior which EDR caught before they got around to leaking things and were told by management how they should be doing backups of their work machine and to stop the ways they were trying. If it happens again, then you have stronger reason to think they are up to no good and need stronger re-training or axing.

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