It is time to abandon Microsoft.
Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
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Re: Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
#62It seems like bug hunting might be the one area where AI is actually making the world a better place.
99.9% of people complaining about AI making the world a worse place would be fully happy with AI if they shared in the economic benefits of automation.
for your first couple of B you stop complaining about anything
Re: Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
#63Re: Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't that... Windows Update? At least last time I looked it would update .net runtimes, Office, what else? OK, Visual Studio has its own update mechanism. Edge is part of the OS, isn't it?
it's still an opt-in setting though. Windows and OS-components like drivers and Edge do get auto updated yes, but to enable Microsoft Update, you still need to turn on a setting in the Settings app. even setting up a new PC/laptop with windows, this is off by default.
e.g. visual c++ isnt included tho; Office 365 same thing
Re: Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not if it ends up deskilling society and taking away what brings us meaning in life.
I don't see why AI would deskill what you love to do. People still do embroidery even though mass manufacturing exists. If you love something you would continue doing it irrespective of automation.
For better or worse this round of "automation" will hit harder than most others because it comes for what makes you you. Your brain, not your body. The industrial revolution replaced your body, this one could in theory replace you entirely. And it isn't coming for some job, it comes for most. It's not just a hobby but being able to do the job. You are replacing 10000 types of jobs with 1 type: AI prompter. We'll probably have an AI just to help ask for the right thing.
You have transferred all the skills and knowledge to the AI. When the skills are gone, who's going to teach you to do any non-trivial job? What will give you any sense of accomplishment when all you do is ask the AI but have no capability yourself?
Even if you have a guaranteed income, because "your AI" is getting paid for the work, where will you be with close to 0 contribution to anything? Maybe we're overreacting and this will never be an issue. I know we shouldn't take cues from fiction to predict reality but it's hard not to picture a world with a combination of Idiocracy and Wall-e (or the famous "Paradise" Matrix) where we decay because the change is so fundamental that we aren't ready to adapt.
Re: Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
#66If I find a bug in very important MS products, I usually do report them using their shitty feedback app. Not once has any of that yielded anything.
Maybe a way to find tons of high impact bugs would be to let MS developers access those bug reports?
Re: Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
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Deletes Windows 11 Installs Windows 7 with new patches
What would be the point of any of this if the registry is still there? It'd just a particularly shit version of linux window management that happens to run games well
The registry was never an issue tbh, it's just a database that some companies decided to fearmonger about to sell you "registry cleaners".
But if I'm wrong, please do point us in the direction of known issues with the registry.
Re: Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
#68I wonder how many bugs will be introduced with these fixes...
It depends on how good their testing practices and code review / auditing are. I want to believe they are some of the best in the industry, but that's making assumptions.
But jumping to assumptions that fixes introduce bugs is a bit rash and assumes incompetence / unprofessionality / unmonitored AI usage / kneejerk bugfix processes.
Re: Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean…service packs?
No, "Microsoft Update" is what it was once called (see e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/... )
Can't believe that at one point Windows could do updates through a browser interface.
I mean we've gone full circle and are now deploying browser interfaces as full blown applications to get around the bit where you give a browser system access, but still.
Re: Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
#70Sounds like a lot but compare it to Edge also being patched for 428 Chromium CVEs this month. If 20 years ago you told me a single piece of software had 428 vulnerabilities I wouldn't have believed it. If Chromium has that many security bugs, perhaps the move fast and break things approach of spraying diarrhea masquerading as code into a keyboard — in a rush to add new features no one asked for — needs to be reexamin…
Chromium is a three-decades-long project (origins coming from Webkit, which comes from KHTML, which was 1998) - I can assure you that does not meet the "move fast and break things" phrase you're trying to smear it with.