Plus if you look at the app store updates, most of the apps post nonsense in the release notes such as "fixed bugs", "Thank you for being a user of Lyft this update will make your experience even better!", or the worst kind:
"You know how sometimes you just become aware of how much tension you're holding in your body, then take a deep breath and slowly let it out? This update is like that. It's still Slack, just with a tiny bit less friction."
HOGWASH Slack, this update will likely cause friction! If only those people that write this crap got laid off, the world would be a tiny bit better :/
Maybe its time to declutter software that you don't control in your life just like how people declutter stuff. Every item is an additional tiny mental burden and the same goes for each closed source app installed on your phone. Maybe its better if we just forgo any "benefits" the app may provide and not bother anymore.
It's pretty clear Microsoft seems to think nobody cares (and to be honest they're probably right).
It seems less risky to continue automatic updates and just accept the possibility of malicious ownership change.
Hopefully that abuse will reach a point where the camels back breaks, and the pain of freeing yourself from vendor lock-in becomes worth it, prompting smart consumers and businesses in large numbers to use and support principled software projects through contributions of money, code and labor.
People can learn and have personal responsibility, but the companies would rather use such examples for leverage to keep them ignorant and corral them into putting nooses of control around their necks.
Except that this was due to a vulnerability in Windows which was fixed _after_ those worms ravaged the Windows users.
At the very least, software needs to do what it used to do: make security updates separate from all other updates so users can just get the security bits.
Of course, in a world of walled gardens versus git repos, none of this very powerful use of ideas and computation can be done. I can't go to the Apple app store and easily cobble together my own franken app from what I find there. It's like a step back for innovation for our species when we set up these stupid profit seeking moats and gardens.
I don't think he meant "deserves" in the literal sense.
Many seem to be well known because they're memorable, but some people assume they're well know because they contain wisdom.
E.g., "It's always darkest before dawn." or (the often misconstrued) "The exception proves the rule."
Here's a discussion about it[0].
First, here's the TL;DR:
SIEGEL: So far from being a pro-privacy quotation, if anything, it's a pro-taxation and pro-defense spending quotation.
WITTES: It is a quotation that defends the authority of a legislature to govern in the interests of collective security. It means, in context, not quite the opposite of what it's almost always quoted as saying but much closer to the opposite than to the thing that people think it means.
And here's the detail, discussed just before the TL;DR (I put in some paragraph breaks):
SIEGEL: And what was the context of this remark?
WITTES: He was writing about a tax dispute between the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the family of the Penns, the proprietary family of the Pennsylvania colony who ruled it from afar.
And the legislature was trying to tax the Penn family lands to pay for frontier defense during the French and Indian War.
And the Penn family kept instructing the governor to veto.
Franklin felt that this was a great affront to the ability of the legislature to govern. And so he actually meant purchase a little temporary safety very literally. The Penn family was trying to give a lump sum of money in exchange for the General Assembly's acknowledging that it did not have the authority to tax it.
[0] https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...