That would probably be network security's job, but it varies from org to org... stopping it would require them to have access to do so, and how that works also varies from org to org.

Note: Okta are a service provider. They don't even configure the IdP for you, they just sell the product.

I understand that it might seem like integration and automation just happen but they absolutely don't. Someone has to make them happen, and then the whole infrastructure stack needs regular maintenance. People take a lot for granted. This is one of those things.

Personally, I'd feel pretty disappointed if I thought my aristocratic mother had actually put effort into something for me like that... only to find out it was done entirely by a servant and my mother simply took credit.

Maybe I'm not a modern child who needs 3 bullet points about themselves for a school presentation. I guess. Maybe that's why this whole premise doesn't make sense to me...

but really? Is this some kind of 'pitch culture for babies' thing? why does the kid need to dotpoint about herself on her own birthday?

Yeah... long enough for them to believe that's how the system actually works, even as their reach gets smaller and smaller with every marketing campaign.

The internet has changed how people see advertising and broadcast. It's not just that the wealthy are out of touch, it's also that they're using approaches from a time before everyone could share their personal experiences of a product or service while believing they're in control of the new medium.

I feel like this interaction explains a... certain amount of the situation.

Yeah, clearly the problem isn't the AI tools or the methodology or the underlying belief that all forms of work are equally reducible.

Ironically, the answer is 'yes'... they are too out of touch. It's sufficient. There are other conditions at play though.

There aren't that many copies sold across the last 3 CoD releases.

If you're counting stuff from previous generations... maybe. But none of those folks playing legacy games on legacy servers with no DLC and no microtransactions sure aren't going to be generating revenue to keep a console business going, which was the assertion I was actually responding to.

I probably could also have pointed out that buying exactly 3 titles over a 3 year period wouldn't enable loss-leading...

I'd be working on your ability to do basic counting and arithmetic first bro

CoD's own marketing says they have sold 500 million copies over 23 games. That's over 25 years... Lets assume a basic attrition rate of college kids eventually getting jobs and...

I'm sorry that couchbro culture is smaller than you thought it was... I guess?

Did you say... 100 million? Active players...? Is this some different marketing based definition of 'Active players' that I'm not familiar with?

I'm checking the current consecutive player count on a Friday night, and it looks like across several titles it doesn't even crack 200k consecutive players right now.

why...? is it because their parents are the ones with the money?

how big a market do you think they need for their console businesses to be sustainable?

https://arcinstitute.org/tools...

This produces candidates. The vast majority of candidates will never be useful for anything, and as noted even in the abstract a significant amount of testing will be required on any product produced this way, just like it would be in any other situation. This is barely an iterative step when one considers this particular model's direct lineage is over 5 years old and it draws on decades of prior work, it's not doing anything new. It's just using a prediction system to generate candidates in a similar way to the way researchers would have previously... often using other software systems that work in a variety of ways.

As someone with contact with this kind of work, I'd expect there to be a significant amount of noise in the data and an awful lot of structures that don't actually work in the real physical world, with only a few select candidates getting lucky... The folks imagining this is just going to create fully formed phages have nothing to worry about and, frankly, should learn to differentiate between function and narrative.

I think we established already that the reason is *they can't afford the pricetag*

If that's what they're looking for, I hope they discover that they can buy a (comparatively) cheap laptop and play thousands of inexpensive friendslop games, not all of which are actually slop at all.

I don't know whether this is what they're referring to, but it seems like Microsoft had an investor call earlier in the year where they agreed that they had done some things that made gaming worse on Windows 11, and there was a youtube interview with Bill Gates I remember seeing a while back that had a bunch of comparison benchmarks between games running on Windows and Linux.

Obviously Bill isn't 'microsoft' so idk, maybe they're being hyperbolic. I doubt that's a message Microsoft would put out in that form too.

Just checking... are you saying you've never heard of proton?

Same, but at the same time I've been shocked over the years by the resistance some people have to learning really basic things that would help them in their day to day lives.

I wonder if people caught up in buying the new annual iteration of the CoD/FIFA/NBA franchise can expand their horizons... but I'm guessing most of them only have a certain amount of effort to put into thinking about it.

Sony already announced that the PS6 will be of a comparable price.

Unless their victory is allowing Microsoft to loosen their belt a bit, I can't see where they're winning here.

Now now, don't be sensible. They can't exploit a perceived differential in capacity if you're sensible and point out that agents are only useful in what turn out to be inherently unsafe situations... it's almost like the whole point was to be able to have someone smarter than oneself take care of the scary things, and blame them if we don't succeed without effort.

It's sort of an interesting admission from the management class about how they already treat technical staff, if you look at it from the right angle.