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Veraxus, in I will rue the day this inevitably happens.
@Veraxus@kbin.social avatar

Maybe we'll get lucky and Gaben will leave ownership of the company collectively to it's employees.

spaduf,

Valve becoming a coop is the only way I could envision them avoiding a worst case corporate scenario.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

That would be the best outcome, legal framework for the “flat” management structure, making it an employee owned company.

LemmyIsFantastic, in Recursive authentication

This is a configuration item. Nothing to do with the app. It’s a choice your company has made.

qaz,

Interesting, do you happen to know which configuration item causes this?

LemmyIsFantastic,

The one that forces you only to use ‘passwordless’ logins or forces that MFA challenge. Your admins had a choice on what they allow.

BCsven,

It seems something changed on MS end though because I have control of what MFA i use on our corporate acxount, which was setup with Yubikey, until about a month ago when this Use Your Outlook Mobile started on it’s own

LemmyIsFantastic,

🤷‍♂️ maybe it’s a bug or change

BCsven, (edited )

Whatever it is, somebody at Microsoft made a mistake; it should not prompt you for Outlook Mobile Auth code when that is the actual app you are trying to sign in to, and have no way of retrieving that code. it should have review MS app and if it is Outlook Mobile then move to the next MFA option in your security list.

LemmyIsFantastic,

I mean the error should be better, but there isn’t another method. They are turned off.

BCsven,

In this meme yeah, in my account I get the “try another way” link to let me go back to Yubikey auth option. But it shouldn’t default to Outlook auth if your are trying to sign in to Outlook, that is just lack of forethought

ParetoOptimalDev,

My admins said they see a big red “insecure” banner if they allow other 2FA apps.

LemmyIsFantastic,

I mean, unless your service lets you pick individually that usually means turning on SMS. That’s probably why they have a general policy, it’s a pain in the ass to manage multiples.

yeather, in God bless the imperial system and bald eagles 🦅🦅🦅🦅 (oil too)

Bad meme, id you want to dunk on the US find a better angle than obvious propaganda.

BradPittIsGod,

Not mine ;)

MolochAlter,

You not making it doesn’t make it not propaganda.

Arguably most times propaganda is spread are by people other than the authors.

ParetoOptimalDev, in Recursive authentication

Anyone else hate Microsoft forcing you to use Authenticator rather than alternatives?

Just another way I’m forced to install Microsoft crap on my devices :/

lhamil64,

It’s been a long time since I set it up, but I have Microsoft accounts in my usual TOTP app (Aegis). Maybe I did it manually? But it’s definitely possible.

qaz,

Not if your organization disables alternative TOTP apps 😔.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Is it a default setting?
If no, our admin didnt enable it and I could do it.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You can work around it to use your own 2FA app.
Did it with my O365 account.

corbin,

I have 2FA through Authy on my Microsoft account.

Philharmonic3, in God bless the imperial system and bald eagles 🦅🦅🦅🦅 (oil too)

Of all things America sucks at, the NYC subway is not the thing to attack. Fuck cars

ieightpi,

Agreed. We are lucky to have that. Also I’m pretty sure that the photos were chosen to show off the worse of the US subway system in NYC. I remember riding it once and thought it was pretty clean.

I guarantee that someone could do the same for the other subway systems if they should choose too.

thecrotch,

I remember riding it once and thought it was pretty clean.

The smell takes some getting used to but that’s kind of Manhattan in general

ieightpi,

It was winter when I visited. That probably helped

cyclohexane,

The issue isn’t the presence of a subway system, but rather the need for more funding, care and attention.

runswithjedi, in Gotta stay grounded.
Zoboomafoo,

That’s most of the way to the anime girl laser machine

agamemnonymous,
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works avatar

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AlexWIWA, in I will rue the day this inevitably happens.

I’m actually pretty worried about him dying. Hopefully he has a chosen successor that he’s indoctrinated.

Davel23,

From my understanding his son is set to take over when the time comes.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Because nepotism just works out gangbusters, every time. /s

Seriously, this is worse news than him not having a plan.

Davel23,

While nepotism is almost universally a bad thing, Gabe has shown that he does not subscribe to the "profit at any cost" school of business, but instead believes that if you provide a good service people will pay you for it. Hopefully he's been able to pass those values on to his son.

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

My concern is his son despite having this shit DRILLED INTO HIS HEAD (which I can’t guarantee) will chase a cashout. That’s the one problem with nepos.

The other problem is if he’s qualified for the job. Which feeds into point 1.

ThunderWhiskers,
@ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world avatar

Is there someone more likely to execute Gaben’s vision and follow in his footsteps?

Honytawk,

An experienced CEO of their choice.

Phen,

Tbf as long as it doesn’t go public it will probably be fine regardless of who takes the job. It doesn’t take a genius to keep up the good work in a company that can afford to plan long time.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I guess you’ve never had a “new boss” come in, huh? Even in a private company?

Man, new bosses love to shake things up, to “make the workplace theirs.” It’s literally one of the most common things to happen when new bosses come, and very often it results in a deep change in company interpersonal politics.

Barry used to be your go-to guy, but the new boss has decided they just don’t like Barry. Why? They couldn’t tell you, but Barry gets under their skin, so it doesn’t matter how he’s the best guy on the team who can handle whatever is thrown at him, his role is going to be dilluted and minimized and he’s going to be pushed and prodded by negative management to try to get him to just quit. Eventually, Barry will just quit because who wants to work under those conditions. Barry found a better job, and now he’s replaced by your new bosses 20-something nephew who doesn’t know what the fuck he is doing at all and everyone can’t stand. He’s a fucking loser who keeps getting promoted by the new boss.

I’ve been through that too many times to pretend it’s just “that easy.” No, generally the kind of people drawn to that role are controlling dickheads who have their own dickhead “vision” of being the biggest dickhead to ever dickhead.

KingThrillgore, (edited )
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Unless they fuck it up somehow in recruiting a new CEO, Valve really wouldn’t find it hard to ask a new CEO “Here’s our revenue, and our expenses, our profits. How would you keep this in place without crashing our revenue stream and maybe doing new greenfield stuff?”

If their first words are: “Well, I like the idea of charging our customers an install fee…” you know to keep looking.

MrVilliam,

I fucking hate your comment. Good work capturing the exact futile frustration you’re describing.

fluckx, (edited )

But how am I supposed to prove my exorbitant salary if I can’t prove I’m doing something. If I don’t change anything they’ll realize I don’t do anything and can’t do anything! As for my next idea, we need to put ads in steam because everybody is doing it. And people should watch a promo video before their game starts because look at how successful YouTube is! I’m a genius for doing this. YOU ALL JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND.

~ some manager, somewhere…probably

can, (edited )

Hey, did you know your lemmy account is set to appear as a bot and some users may be filtering your comments as a result? You can change this in your lemmy profile settings.

fluckx,

Oh dear. Thanks for letting me know.

It must have been on by default, or I must have accidentally clicked it.

Thank you for pointing that out! I appreciate it.

Have a great day !

can,

Thank you for acknowledging it! Maybe a third of the people I’ve mentioned this to respond.

stoly,

Have seen it. Good managers walk in and watch their team for months to learn how things work before making changes. Bad managers walk in and change things before learning why they work the way they do. We saw that with Twitter/X.

Honytawk,

A good CEO uses the 30-30-30 method.

The first 30 days they are observing, the next 30 days they are asking questions, the last 30 days is coming up and proposing improvements.

Only after those first 90 days a real decision can be made.

stoly,

I’d never heard of it that way before and that’s interesting. Thanks for sharing.

stoly,

You are right in that Steam would probably continue on just fine on autopilot. You might not be right by assuming that the sort of person who would seek to and achieve such a position wouldn’t let their own ego dictate every decision–change for change’s sake so that they can point at how wonderful they are at the job.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I would rather hope that he legalizes and codifies the “flat” management structure, disallowing any one figure head from taking over and fucking things up.

Valve annoys people because it can be slow to choose to do something, because everyone works on what they want to work on, but it means average workers have a lot more agency in how they’re involved in the company.

I’m sure there’s till unofficial cliques and leaders, but having it in legalese for the employees post-Gabe would be nice.

AlexWIWA,

The problem with that is that they’re a private company so that can just be undone by the largest share holder, unless that codification also splits up his equity across the employees.

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

I would argue the flat management makes it hard for Valve to produce things and they should re-evaluate it, but you can do this while also not turning into a rank and yank shit out fortnite clones 420 69 flossing scheme to fuck over users and line their pockets.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I think that’s a valid take, and I think Valve has sort of re-evaluated it, because if I recall correctly, they kind of had to “put on hold” the “do whatever you want” bit to get Half Life: Alyx out of the door. So, imho, it seems like they’re capable of doing both. They managed to produce a high quality VR game by putting the “flat” on the backburner, and them coming back to it later.

Although, to be fair, I hadn’t heard anything similar about the SteamDeck or any Valve hardware, really. So if they can make a SteamDeck from scratch, an entire new product category, with the flat management structure, I bet it’s not holding them back half as much as some folks at GlassDoor seem to think.

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Its really hard to get a look inside Valve, because I can’t confirm/deny the Steam Deck came about because of the flat management. I’ll be honest, my apprehension about their management stems from the many failed attempts to conclude the franchise they started in Half-Life and how 20 different projects died to get to Alyx. Would a change in leadership get us more of the same? Maybe. It would probably be a substandard product, and i’m still recovering from Starfield being mid.

swab148,
@swab148@startrek.website avatar

Starfield was Bethesda, though. Eons of distance between those two studios.

CluckN, (edited ) in I can't stress enough how much I don't care.

MoistCritikal pumps out a 12 minute video of him sitting in a chair going, “The recent YouTube drama with xXxBlorpkin and Tglof has gone too far” and generates millions of views.

ipkpjersi,

That’s because it’s Charlie, he’s entertaining enough he could commentate paint drying and it’d be the best video I’ve seen all day lol

Custoslibera,

I’m probably just jealous I can’t upload a stream of consciousness down a camera and call it day while making hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Where did I go wrong in life?

Daxtron2, in God bless the imperial system and bald eagles 🦅🦅🦅🦅 (oil too)

Talk about cherry picking lmao

TankieTanuki,

Memes can pick few a cherries, as a treat.

axont,

There’s the Oculus stattion in NYC which is ok, but I hate the building it’s connected to. It’s one of only a handful of nice stations though. Half of the NYC metro looks like Silent Hill.

Phegan, in God bless the imperial system and bald eagles 🦅🦅🦅🦅 (oil too)

Honestly, I care less about how a subway station looks than how the system itself works and its coverage. Unfortunately the US has neither. If we want to fix one thing, its function and coverage, not aesthetic.

Iron_Lynx,

I’m with OP on the being had in the first half. Though I’d add, with a little bit of added effort, you can fix both. The fact that the US can do neither is, in my book, a failure of policy.

Slatlun, in title

I’ll take weapons that are as dangerous to the wielder as anyone else for $500…

rockerface,

You could say it’s a double-edged sword

CallumWells,

I think that one may have more than two edges XD

PolandIsAStateOfMind, (edited )
@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml avatar

Even Warhammer 40000 chainswords usually have the blade shielded from the wielder’s side. Yes, even the chaos and ork ones.

bane_killgrind,

It’s made for plunge cuts!

superduperenigma, in Phantom of the Opera

Ignoring how coo coo bananas it is that she even sang to ghosts in the first place, it seems weirdly self important to think your singing is capable of magically curing people’s trauma. Reminds me of all the celebs recording themselves somberly singing “imagine” in their mansions to cheer all of us peasants up in the early days of covid.

nxdefiant,

“We’re all in this boat together!” - a celebrity on their private yacht

Honytawk, in Recursive authentication

Probably means there already is MFA setup on that account, and now you doing it a second time.

Or you can just press the “get codes” button in the top right.

qaz,

The get codes button didn’t work the first time I tried it. But it did now after restarting the app a couple times. A bit finnicky but it works.

sizing743,

Yeah, when your setting it up there’s a button that says something like “use another authenticator app” or it might say something like “configure without notifications”.

Those generate normal TOTP QR codes which you can use in other apps

PP_BOY_, in 𓇋𓇩𓋴𓆰𓏜𓄤𓆑𓂋𓏏 𓅨𓂋𓇓𓅱
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

If someone tells me their wifi password is still the default password, I automatically think less of them

Gork,

This is why I change mine to something difficult to comprehend yet still legible.

Something like:

“FOURWORDSALLLOWERCASE”, one word, all uppercase.

NaturalViber,

wordswordswordswordsWORD

lapislazuli,

My man here is four parallel universes ahead of the hackers

lemmyman,

AI will never crack that one

Raiderkev,

I SAID IT’S FOURWORDSALLLOWERCASE BUT THEY’RE CAPITALIZED DUMBASS!

CaptainBlagbird,
@CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world avatar

Ooh I mixed it up with the other one which is “My_name_in_camel_casE”

ArmoredThirteen,

My trick is to change it to something that I immediately forget then if I need to modify any settings I can do a factory reset to get back in. Works every time

ShortN0te,

Since manufacturers are getting more pushed into getting rid of default passwords and including random generated ones this is thankfully getting less and less of an issue.

devbo,

as a satilite software engineer. your just an asshole. smart and better protected, but thinking less of people due to something so silly makes you asshole.

saigot,

It’s one of those things that makes life for you and anyone using your wifi way easier and all it takes is 30s and a Google search if you aren’t the most tech literate. It’s like not putting your cart away at the grocery store, it’s not a big thing but it’s annoying and impolite.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

We live in a world where people get to Facebook by Googling Facebook. You expect way too much of people.

frezik,

You can leave the password blank. Though that does mean anyone driving by your house might have their phone or whatever automatically connect to it. A few devices also don’t seem to like blank passwords (I think the Wii refused to connect that way).

A simple password is fine. Keeps completely random people out, and devices will connect OK. Edge-based security is flawed, anyway.

R2DPru,

Sounds like SOMEone is still using the default wi-fi password.

devbo,

you would be wrong

PP_BOY_,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

*You’re

Edgarallenpwn,
@Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social avatar

Love this exchange

BreakDecks, in Gotta stay grounded.
einlander, (edited )

So many unwanted memories

Sabata11792,
@Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

I was just going to suggest adding rockets to the blade, but this sends a message.

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