The NT kernel supports hot patching because restarting running servers is an inconvenient requirement to remain secure
Apparently end users can just run that insecure kernel indefinitely because..... arbitrary product feature tiering?
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Until they change their minds again
Anyone actually trust this?
I'm shocked if it's true, huge U turn from their track record for years now. Luckily, I dont give a shit cause linux
The fact people still use this shit is depressing. Even just using android and all the top websites... It's all just raping us behind the scenes. I'm glad I stopped the social media pop bullshit. Still need to get off reddit. And migrate email to a reputable site.
tbh it was always possible via gpedit/regedit but yeah
Normies will turn it off and never update again leaving them vulnerable. Typical microslop making people insecure over actually improving the updater to just not allow a restart until the user manually does it. But that basic QoL feature is too much effort so slop slop slop instead.
Normies will turn it off and never update again leaving them vulnerable.
That's the exact reason they stopped letting you disable updates permanently in the first place.
That being said, as it is currently, you already have the option of delaying the restart for multiple days. It only restarts automatically if you repeatedly delay the update for several days and ignore the multiple reminders along the way. And somehow people still complain saying their systems restart "without warning".
That's because their systems whine at them so much that they close popups through muscle memory and don't retain memory of doing so.
Which sounds dumb, but you can't use modern technology without developing an in-brain adblocker to prevent you from constantly being distracted from the thing you're trying to pay attention to. Everyone considers your attention to be a resource to be sold or used for their benefit.
I think it'll also do it if you return after a long time. I duel boot and get hit with the "we're doing this right now" updates, which oddly still wait a few minutes before going it, I guess so I can settle in first and get annoyed that I need to open that proprietary PPT again.
Lol no, I bet you a dollar
Anyone who believes Microslop corp ..
ROTFLMAO
& their machiavellianism means that probably they'll make security-updates contingent on adding-in their new evil-malwares into one's system.
( They burned me in DOS 6.20, when their corrupt illegal-copy of Stac Electronics drive-compression was sabotaging me, & I got the no-compression-enabled DOS 6.21, then they came-out with a compression-enabled-and-fixed DOS 6.22, which I wasn't eligible for, of course..
It's depressing just how much of the internet is scrubbed of evidence, stories on the evil of big-money establishments/incumbents..
so, instead of having books ( someone did have a book on Microslop-corp's machiavellian evil actions-history, it's gone, now: can't even find what it was called, & it was a physical book ) & trustworthy-Journalism cataloging the history we NEED to keep in mind, for accurate-framing .. all that is disappeared & we all live in the consent-manufacturing-process that the economy "needs" us to be processed in.
Never trust them.
For any reason.
Ever.
They WILL betray you.
Read "A New Brand World" ( the word-order is correct ), & read about a marketing-firm who had Microslop-corp as their highest-paying contract, by far, & .. it was killing them: they had NO soul.
The CEO of the marketing-firm sent around an email, 1 day, which said ONLY:
"Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead."
& EVERYbody knew that that meant the CEO had saved their company's life by killing that contract, because the "culture" of Microsoft was extinguishing their viability.
That is evidence.
Steve Balmer was evidence, too.
All the companies whose work they stole, & litigated against the companies, while selling/bundling the same product, all those are evidence, too.
Ask Linus Torvalds about Microsoft, someday, if you want an opinion on them.. I'm certain he'd agree, as he's seen the same kinds of things, & more, for decades..
They will never be trustworthy, if their history predicts their future.
There was the time they gave people cloud-drive storage..
..but their ToS-agreement gave Microsoft copyright on all that we stored up there..
You truly can't make up the consistency of machiavellianness that Microsoft has carved in Eternity's eyes..
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I know an even better way to pause Microslop updates "for as long as you need":
Switch to Li-shot