XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: T@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 1/22/26 12:45 PM, Paul wrote:   
   > On Thu, 1/22/2026 3:25 PM, T wrote:   
   >> On 1/22/26 12:15 PM, Paul wrote:   
   >>> The interesting bit of this, will be seeing how long   
   >>> it takes to patch it. As they can't release an emergency   
   >>> patch, um, without testing it.   
   >>   
   >> The issues sound a lot like "AI Slop", instead   
   >> of actual programmers.   Then again Microslop's   
   >> human programmers have made some real bloopers   
   >> without the assistance of AI in the past.   
   >>   
   >> I had to remove, erase spool tmp files and   
   >> reinstall a printer a few minutes ago.  This does   
   >> happen a lot of W11, but I am wondering if this   
   >> patch had anything to do with it.  W11 and printers   
   >> and a match made in ...   
   >   
   > They patched something like a hundred security issues.   
   > And you just know some of those are "a rock and a hard place"   
   > patches, where a normal person would throw their hands   
   > in the air and say "rewrite this!".   
   >   
   > As a dev, you also look bad if you patch something,   
   > and another variant of the issue shows up immediately   
   > afterwards.   
   >   
   > And they have to fix this, because out of the hundred,   
   > one is actively under exploit in the field right now   
   > (the article didn't say whether you had to be standing   
   > in front of the computer to do it).   
   >   
   > They don't have time to be "thinking about it".   
   >   
   > They could have split the patches into a "mostly harmless"   
   > file for 99 of them, and put the "this will break something"   
   > in its own patch.   
   >   
   >     Paul   
      
   Just fix another two printers.   
      
   It is pretty easy.  You download the drivers from the   
   manufacturer, remove the old printer, then install   
   the new one.   
      
      
   If the print queue is jammed, it gets a bit more tricky.   
   But mess with me and ...   
      
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