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What does "more than periodic" mean? But to answer your question: For example, to inform you that an update is available.
by MauranKilom 5y ago
What does "more than periodic" mean? But to answer your question: For example, to inform you that an update is available.
- account42 5y agoUpdates and associated checks should not be done by each application itself.
- Karunamon 5y agoHard disagree. Having that in the hands of the OS is a separation of concerns issue. I want my OS people focusing on OS stuff. The versions of installed apps is up to the developers of those apps, doubly so on something like a browser that updates rapidly.
- pessimizer 5y agoNo, the versions of installed apps should be up to me. And my OS should help me manage that.
- causi 5y ago"Need" is the key phrase. If it wants to check for updates, do telemetry, fiddle around, whatever, that's fine by me. It should not shit the bed if it has to go a few hours without doing so, however. For example, you recall a couple of years ago when Mozilla screwed up their certificates and every Firefox extension was simultaneously disabled. That should not have happened. That should have resulted in a pop-up box that said "The security of your extensions cannot be verified. Using them at this time could be highly dangerous. Disable them to browse safely? Yes/No" Instead Mozilla just blanket turned them all off, which had the potential for getting people killed as they suddenly found themselves not protected by VPN/Tor/NoScript/etc extensions.
- rockdoe 5y agoSoftware shouldn't have bugs, got it. It should be written by bug-free programmers that foresee every possible failure mode (that they can never imagine happening, because they won't write bugs themselves).