So, someone's moved on to anger. I mostly see denial and bargaining. The anger is there, but normal people have some checks and balances on anger-driven behaviours. Apparently, this person did not. I was surprised to read that the crowd was cheering on the attacker. For most of the western world, threatening murder is a crime. I guess the rule of law really has become optional in the USA.

I think VPNs are a little like black market trade routes. To criminals, they're handy. To governments, they're evil. To aid organisations, they're an essential way to support oppressed civilians. Anyone who thinks that they're necessary for internet security shouldn't be allowed near keyboards.

Blocking them (or regulating them, which I think is more likely) will drive them underground - which is really where they belong anyway.

I get mine to call me Moles FTW

The best devs move on of their own accord.

Its the less desirable employees who have to be moved on.

Anyone who works for a game company needs an attitude adjustment if they think they're going to be there for more than one project.

I've already blacklisted Sony games on PC. They're all the same. They're the same as they were 20 years ago except that now, they have better eye candy. But the gameplay is almost identical. Its very droll. There's plenty of new and refreshing indie games on GOG and even some on Steam.

At some point (many moons ago), there was a senior architect at M$ who envisioned a blank slate interface with totally customisable menu options and button bars in ribbons that could be context sensitive. It was visionary.

Unfortunately, the implementation was not. The implementation of the function points in VBA was a mess, and the context sensitivity of the ribbon (which should have been strongly event driven) was botched.

And now, 40 years into the game, Microsoft still can't make a settings/configuration page/form for a damn.

It could have been beautiful. Instead, its horrible.

We switched to LibreOffice years ago, and have never looked back. Every further iteration of M$ Office, 365 and their Onedrive abomination confirms that it was the right choice.

Just testing

When DoW figures out how to have completely autonomous fire control and lets it go - and it then nukes someone - and then we try to understand what went wrong, I'll be saying... there were clues.

This. +1

So, we're back to measuring code monkey performance by lines of code. Didn't that go out in the 90s?

Hey, ChatGPT, give me a 100,000 lines of code to add two numbers together.

Jinx

Its funny how insider trading predictions are so insanely accurate, hmm?

Its like giving a loaded handgun to a toddler and expecting everything to be ok.

Its like inviting a chimpanzee into an operating theatre and expecting everything to work out.

Its like electing a career criminal pedophile as your president and expecting the rule of law to persist.

Wait a minute...

Maybe they need to put the LLM into a human body?

Its too complicated. I can't even get my boomer father in law to remember where to find the Start button. We're putting really dangerous devices in the hands of babes.

Regulation will only get so far. Imagine if a person needed a license to operate an AI Agent. It'd be almost comical.

And the average punter out there wouldn't have the slightest idea the risks they're taking when they approve access outside the container.