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The Windows 10 emoji picker has been broken for a month
On July 8th, Microsoft released update KB5062554 to the world. It contains no documented changes or features.
I’ve done lots of dramatic moaning to people in my life about this minor issue, and what it means for the very future of software engineering and civilization in general, etc. I pity the devs who have to write code this way, but fortunately they don’t have to do it very often because this policy only applies for non-security bugfixes, and almost all patches these days claim to just be security fixes, including the one which introduced this bug. Even if a fix only touched high level application code, to immediately roll it out after an internal regression test which is clearly lacking would be a terrible idea.
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