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by nerdjon 705 days ago
I sympathize with the engineers, QA, and everyone involved in getting this out.

I have to imagine it was a lot of long hours, and the testing was insane. The last thing I want to do is put this tool out and it somehow messes things up more.

But glad it’s out. Hopefully it helps with the remaining machines and with any that are being problematic.

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They probably got an exemption to fast track the release because this is a critical issue. I wouldn't expect testing to be so thorough for a release in 2 days. The exemption is more likely.
I wrote and maintained a tool that was sent to users when something went wrong.

Man was I always afraid and stressed that the tool meant to help users when they were already having a failure was also having a failure.

Surveillance software is top priority of BigCo's nowadays. If they prove to be useful for governments they'll get softer antimonopoly measures.