Microsoft's neglect of Notepad paved the way for Notepad++. Now they're uplifting Notepad. Perhaps this will create room for a Notepad--.
Genuinely agree! Can't my computer just refrain from sending everything I do to the Internet??
Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
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#122Soon there won't be any safe place on Windows to copy and paste some random text/password/key that I don't want to get uploaded to some cloud service, or screenshotted and "analysed".
Soon it is not safe to boot Windows unless you are prepared to exterminate all the used hardware.
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#124Software companies want to shove AI everywhere because it's the shiny new thing. Hardware companies love it because they can finally have a way to fight the "it's good enough for email and browsing" argument to sell us more hardware.
A shiny new tool to extract data from users and convert that into $
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#125So, they went from not updating in forever, to finally updating it in some meaningful ways a couple years ago, to adding crap that no one wants pretty much right away. Too much, MS. Shoulda quit while you were ahead with tabs.
I hated the tabs already. When I open Notepad I expect a clean slate.
That's the real issue. Tabs, fine. Remembering tabs, no.
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#126It is hilarious how Microsoft suddenly re-discovered Notepad after 20+ years.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before that you have to have the one where they have the “Disable” flag, but they “accidentally” ignored it.
Disable flag? No no, the choices are "Enable" and "Maybe later"
I think it would be much easier and faster to just give the users one option. That way, they don't need to think about what they want and can focus on their work. (satire)
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#128I like how currently on LinkedIn there’s a feature to use AI writing assistance to help land your next job. Like if I can’t write how am I ever going to work a job
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#129A while ago I wrote about my experience using Windows for work after 10 years of being a Linux-only user [1]. One of the positive notes I had was: > As a positive note, the default text editor Notepad is nice and lightweight, a good piece of software. Unfortunately, they screwed it up with Windows 11. And apparently they are doubling down on this. [1] https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2023-01-28-windows-deskto...
They managed to make File Explorer itself considerably worse over time as well.
They really pulled out the monkey's paw when I wished for tabs.
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#130So, they went from not updating in forever, to finally updating it in some meaningful ways a couple years ago, to adding crap that no one wants pretty much right away. Too much, MS. Shoulda quit while you were ahead with tabs.
Soon: with ads!
Prediction: All corporate-backed general-purpose LLMs/AIs will eventually include ads. They won't even always be obvious ads like we have on the web, sometimes they will just be product placement. Ask the AI for an example of a linked list, and it will give you one, but the sample items in the list will be Coca-Cola, Lexus, the name of the closest marijuana dispensary, etc.
If anyone wonders why Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies who make gobs of money from advertising are so interested in AI, this is why. The ads will appear so "naturally" inside content that it will be impossible for a program (e.g. adblocker) to tell the difference between the content and the ad.
There is NO better way to deliver an ad, short of directly injecting thoughts and memories directly into the human brain somehow.