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Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 1 year ago by gsa32 to c/technology
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[–] malloc 171 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The bug bash quests can be found in the Windows Feedback Hub, and partaking in the bug bash often concludes with a badge in the Feedback Hub that acknowledges your participation.

Imagine doing free QA for a multibillion dollar corporation. I hate Microsoft so much.

[–] Aux 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No one is forcing you. Actually, you need to jump through many hoops to get into the program. And Microsoft tends to pay nice rewards to people who find critical issues.

[–] darelik 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So a bug bounty that pays significantly less

[–] nrezcm 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cant put a price on a badge though!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think that might be the problem

[–] dotMonkey 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't blame them if people after willing to do it

[–] grue 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Watch me. Exploiting people is wrong, even if they're idiots.

[–] blue_zephyr 12 points 1 year ago

Calm down, no one's getting exploited. Many people like trying out new features that aren't available yet for stable releases.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody's being forced into it, you can just decide not to do it. There's no risk or reward for doing so other than because you want to. There's no power imbalance. It's just users deciding they want to do it. It's not exploitation, haha

[–] grue 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At best, these people are scabs taking away QA jobs by working for free. If we were talking about a community-driven Free Software project it'd be different, but doing that kind of unpaid labor for a for-profit corporation is toxic and harmful in a systemic way that goes beyond personal choice.

[–] beetus 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Be me. Like a thing. Find issues with thing. Share those issues with the devs. Dopamine. Find better avenue for sharing issues. Do issue finding in my spare time with my own free will. Get shamed on internet for doing my own thing.

Yeah ok.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"Exploiting" lol

[–] elscallr 0 points 1 year ago

It's not exploitation if people want to do it