12 daysSo, microsoft, how’s that vibe coding coming along?
Why do i ask? Oh, no reason.
- Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Idk how to tell you, but it’s AI that found the vulnerabilities created by humans in the first place… Of course they didn’t have to use AI to fix the discovered vulnerabilities, but it would’ve taken a lot longer and more than like still be riddled with bugs
- frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
How is falling to show the name of a file in the recycle bin fixing a vulnerability?
- Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish11 days
I don’t know how to tell you this, or actually I do: They vibecoded the update.
- billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Not really windows related but my work wonders why as an IT guy I think it’s a bad idea to force updates the day they come out.
- 11 days
Breaking onedrive? I’m confused. It’s like that thing in Southpark “How do you kill that which has no life?”
- JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Things can always get more broken. That’s where mortals have an advantage; you can’t get any deader.
- peetabix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish12 days
Yeah. My work machine now regularly black screens for up to 30 seconds then comes back. The Adobe Acrobat reader we are forced to use is now so bloated that it freezes the whole machine for up to a minute. What an OS.
- 12 days
Lately whenever someone complains their C partition is full, it’s always unmistakably Adobe’s fault. Their shitty way of updating piles up crap in the Windows Installer folder. Uninstalling Adobe and cleaning up its garbage, no joke, frees up anywhere from 20 to 40 gigabytes of storage. Insane.
- Pringles@sopuli.xyzEnglish11 days
What software are we talking about here? There is no way Acrobat takes up that much space. Photoshop might though.
- 11 days
Whatever the reader is called now. It’s a known “feature”. They use Windows Installer patch system to update the application, but for some reason if it fails to update, it just re-downloads the patch without removing the failed ones. Or at least that’s my understanding. Allegedly (according to Adobe at least) it’s a rare bug, but I’ve had over a dozen machines from end users where this caused C partition to run full and slow down/freeze/crash the system. And I’m being serious when I say some machines regained over 30GB of space after uninstalling the reader.
… and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux …
- GoatSynagogue@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Clickbait and misleading. Nothing “broke”. The recycling bin works just fine, the name of the file in the confirm delete popup is just displayed wrong.
It isn’t the details or severity of the break that matters.
It’s that the quality control process is SUPPOSED to catch that, and whatever sorry excuse for a process they’re using now ALLOWED a break that was obvious, visible, and repeatable, inside a critical, core function of the operating system, to make it to the end users, something that should trigger as an immediate, flashing warning light. That means the entire quality control process at the very least is SEVERELY compromised and unreliable, and there could very easily be MUCH more severe vulnerabilities and bugs hiding underneath that AREN’T immediately visible. To anyone who has done any professional development for non-disposable code bases, this isn’t a whisper of a problem - it’s an air horn.
- GoatSynagogue@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
What exactly is “broken” about the recycling bin because of this?
Does the recycling bin still work?
Does the right file get deleted?
You’ve got a strange definition of broken.
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish10 days
Does the right file get deleted?
I literally do not know because the dialog box might be wrong
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish9 days
Well I hope you’re right, otherwise the wrong file will be gone forever.
Seems to be only one way to find out as well.
- tomalley8342@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
it defeats the purpose of a confirm dialogue if it doesn’t correctly tell you what you’re confirming…
- GoatSynagogue@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
No it doesn’t. You still have to click delete on the file that you want to delete. Confirm boxes don’t even need to show the name of the file you’re deleting, just confirm if you want to delete it. When you empty the recycle bin it doesn’t ask you if you’re sure you’d like to delete x, y, and z file names, for example.
- tomalley8342@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
If I want to permanently delete a specific file from the recycle bin?
- 11 days
I don’t know if it is this one, but I have been on a number of PC’s that have been fked by updates recently
- musket528@sopuli.xyzEnglish12 days
didn’t notice tbf. because i haven’t used this goblinshit for months.
- MIDItheKID@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Weird. Monthly updates used to be pretty harmless with a bunch of little bug fixes that really only affected a few people. Then AI came out, and in the past 6 months or so every patch Tuesday has been a complete disaster. It’s almost as if they laid off a bunch of engineers and now have the remaining ones just vibe coding shit while using the same LLM to do code review and everything is going to hell. Not that it was a phenomenal product to begin with, but when you have engineers vibe coding patches for such a delecate platform, it’s going to end in disaster.
- Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Are you suggesting the patches are fixing issues the AI caused? If so, that isn’t what’s happening. AI is finding vulnerabilities from old human written code at a pace unlike anything before. Not because humans couldn’t technically find them, it’s just that they never did. That isn’t me marketing or shelling out for an AI company, there are many different models accomplishing the same thing, and more to come. It’s not just with Microsoft, though Microsoft has a lot of vulnerabilities to find. AI is causing chaos for just about every major tech company with all the vulnerabilities being found. And they have to find and patch them before someone else uses the AI to find and abuse the vulnerabilities first. The long standing match of cat and mouse is much faster than it once was
- MIDItheKID@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
This is actually a very valid take, and I didn’t think of it this way. Man, what a complicated landscape AI has made. Pandora’s box certainly has been opened.
I dual boot Linux and Windows and it’s really painful whenever I have to go into Windows. I try to avoid it at all costs.
It’s so jarring to go into Windows.
- k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish11 days
I kept windows on my machine just in case too but I haven’t needed it for at least 6 months now. I don’t depend on any crazy proprietary software for my work and most Steam games work just fine so I’m thinking of getting rid of it altogether.
- Zer0_F0x@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
I manage 40 and we had 2 issues that got resolved by uninstalling a different update.
Uninstalling it inexplicably nuked that machine’s print drivers and I had to reinstall those lol
- Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
MS universal print.
How did you uninstall a different update? They’re cumulative.
- DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
According to Microsoft, users who have installed the KB5095051 update might encounter a strange Recycle Bin bug that replaces the names of deleted files with internal Recycle Bin filenames in specific situations. When permanently deleting a single file from the Recycle Bin, the confirmation dialog displays a cryptic internal filename, such as $Rxxxxx.ext, instead of the original filename, such as realfilename.txt.
Ahh yes, Microsoft lying about how bad Microsoft are again. \s
Ironically people who “btw I use Arch” have been FREAKING OUT because their precious arch user repository got massively infected with infostealer malware, lol
This was just this week
- CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
precious arch user repository
I think you vastly overestimate the importance of AUR. A lot of Arch users had to say something about the incident and many of them didn‘t even use it. It‘s definitely nothing essential.
Also Arch users still don‘t give a fuck about Windows. This whole AUR debacle has little to do with what OP was actually getting at.
