I did comment on the _kernel_. I did not comment on Weyland (which IMO is a really bad idea and I will avoid it as long as possible). I certainly did not comment on the fuckups behind systemd, that clearly show there are prominent people that do not get KISS or IT security in the Linux space as well.

As to MS, yes they do not care or are fundamentally incompetent regarding security. They push defective patches. They have ridiculous vulnerabilities. They had their cloud hacked several times now, always due to abjectly stupid mistakes. There is a reason that they claimed "security is our highest priority" several times now, always after they screwed up massively. MS cares about security exactly as far as they think they need to in order to stay in business and not one bit more.

Thank you.

In which alternate reality?

Iran is not "a", but "the" supporter and financier behind Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and a bunch of other militias and trouble sources in the region. So no, they were absolutely not playing nice, even if you ignore all the atrocities inside Iran.

Yes, but Trump's will go in 3 years by itself. The IRGC regime will not.

I would think that China has that access. I know of several large corporations and one smaller state that have this access.

What a dumb statement. If you are trying to defend the indefensible (Microsoft), try at least to sound a bit plausible.

So? The Linux kernel folks patched within hours or days. And these vulnerabilities are unlikely to crop up again. You are comparing apples and oranges. Also note that building a big, bloated KISS violation of a "kernel", as Microsoft does, certainly counts as "not caring about security". The only way to get good security in software, and even more so in kernels, is by simplicity. Microsoft certainly knows that. But raking in the dollars is far more important to them.

So ask yourself: Why are you defending Microsoft with invalid arguments?

There are also other master's degrees besides the clearly negative-value MBA. For example, you can get a STEM one.

This is also the users that tolerate this crap and ask for more, at least some of them. Yes, MS has no honor, integrity, decency or skill, but they are getting away with it because they do not get called out.

And a rather large part of it is user incompetence. Not much of a surprise.

FVWM had these like 30 years ago...

Well. I tech mostly IT Security and these students may be different. While I have a class where they hand in homework for the grades, I do result-discussion with all groups and if they have no clue, they fail that one. Has not been an issue so far. For written exams, they can bring as much paper as they like, but no AI.

If what you teach is more about voicing and exploring ideas and not about hard reasoning (in engineering, your solution does not work if not carefully constructed), LLM use would be a massive problem, agreed. LLMs cannot do reasoning at all, but they can find a lot of related things for a query.

Seriously, in developed nations doing something like this is illegal. This is a 3rd world move.

Clearly the Google LLM investments are not panning out...

Yes, probably. That reserve currency status is also on the way out.