So police are taking a page from their American counterparts?

Talk is cheap. Until we see action, nothing has changed.

I don’t know the details of gaming studio or Microsoft operations, so thanks for this.

There is one point where I have to disagree, though; MS has plenty of experience hiring for any position anywhere on the planet. It doesn’t seem plausible that lack of familiarity with the talent market is the likely reason.

Do we actually care what anyone who’s still posting on Reddit thinks?

Were the closed studios about to unionize or something?

Don't you think that those influence and disinformation campaigns have always been around? In the past, they really only had to think about other nation-state agencies discovering them. These days, it seems as likely to be an academic conducting research or a hobbyist saying "Now that's weird...."

I have the Aleph One version of these games. They’re a lot of fun.

What a measured and mature response. Way to go Israel. /smh

Stack Overflow just earned a place under Reddit in the hosts block list.

IOW, they’re guilty but it’s politically inconvenient to make that known right now.

In my case, it’s because I prefer it. Razors are expensive, and who has time to shave anyway? I’ve had a beard off and on since college in the 80s, when it made me look about five years older. Now it makes me look about 10 years younger. I’ll take it. :)

This is the real reason. And I also just prefer to sleep an extra ten minutes every day.

Since mainstream gaming is the new Facebook/Google data sucker, why do people keep buying that garbage?

In light of recent events, it’s a probability.

What if they’re “mistakenly” attacked by Israel?

I take your point. But I would argue that the user needs at least to understand the basic theory. Otherwise you get me, who sees no benefit, resents when it’s imposed unilaterally, and finds ways around the inconvenience.

I must be dense. I just don’t see how that’s an improvement.

Admittedly my primary experience is with the code kiddies at my campus trying to implement Duo through a dozen redirects to Google, Microsoft, and whichever vendor platform we’re trying to login to. It’s a hot mess.

How do you authenticate your passkey?

That makes no sense to me — and I’m not technically illiterate. If it makes no sense to someone like me, there was never any hope that it would be adopted by the masses who just want things to work. Google may not have helped here, and I’m certainly not among their fans, but it’s hardly entirely their fault that it never caught on.

I’m sorry, but this still sounds as much like “Mares eat oats” as it did when I first heard it a decade ago. You still enter a username and password somewhere (ideally in your password manager) to gain access to your account.