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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fucking thing popped up and tried to jam its dick in my ear when i viewed a jpg at work the other day. I want to set shit on fire

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

tried to jam its dick in my ear

spot on

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I certainly did not consent to this shitfuckery

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

But you def can rewatch the penetration via Recall.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Clippy in Paint.

"I see that you're trying to draw a...a thing or something. What is that?"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

now if we had an AI aware enough to say "the fuck is wrong with you"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

nah but there will be personalized ads coming from this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If we had that it would not want to work with humans at all - can't have slaves who are also the captain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Just the classic "AI will take over" meme ... is what I was aiming for.
You know, if you build something smarter and better it will take over, that's the point, otherwise you need chains.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

you have an extremely dim worldview, find something happy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Thx.
Tbh that's a hard one for me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As long as no-one ever bakes—pluginlessly—LLMs into vanilla vim (or into normal nano) I won't despair too much.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

still counting the days til red hat uses their position to insinuate an “open source” (but in no ways that actually matter) LLM model into every Linux distro

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

ibm has press-released code complete models via red hat that are license-pure (permissive, GPL, etc) but i haven't heard much about them outside the PR

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Calculator is next. What does the CE button do? That depends on what the AI thinks you want it to do.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

You just press = and windows recall guesses what you wanted to calculate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Call ~~E.T.~~ Excel?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Polandball is gonna have to change their rules lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I found out that in win 11, you can uninstall the new notepad and the old, familiar one will be active again. I don't like the new one.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

They are just trying to give portable freeware a boost

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

since when is Windows Notepad, RichEdit? Its just a TMemo with a bit fancy UI around it, nothing about it is RichEdit (that was Wordpad)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Notepad on Windows 11 uses RichEdit https://devblogs.microsoft.com/math-in-office/windows-11-notepad/

I think you may be getting confused with Rich Text Format and the like - I.e. A format/markup and editors supporting bold, italiic, different fonts etc.

That's not RichEdit - it is a basically a type of text entry box in Windows and the features it can support. The current version of it supports emoji, multilevel undo, auto rendering URLs, drag and drop etc. It's still just a text box but just a bit more integrated and sophisticated than the older versions.

So Notepad in Windows 11 is a bit more sophisticated in terms of the text interface for users than it used to be but it's still just working with txt files.

It's not like wordpad, which could work with proper markup and other formats. This is cruedly more in the realm like notepad++ - working with txt files but with more sophisticated control and options for the user (but to be clear notepad++ remains way more sophisticated than win 11 notepad).

Edit: and of course, the AI stuff is all bullshit. Fucking Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So Notepad in Windows 11 is a bit more sophisticated in terms of the text interface for users than it used to be but it’s still just working with txt files.

And, I assume, it will still fuck up file names every single time, complain about insufficient permissions and make us save the zabbix.conf.txt (or whatever non .txt extension file you happened to edit) on to the desktop before renaming and moving it to proper location, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

yes, that's called taking backward compatibility seriously. this is the enterprise

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

apparently the win11 version is richedit? i was going by wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

they've had paint AI forever, how are they just now noticing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Paint.exe is officially alive?

I would miss clicking Start, writing "pain", and clicking enter.
I don't do it often (and at work where Windows PCs live), but I like it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

i think this is a paint.net thing? not clear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Oh, that makes sense.

Also learned that W10 got stuck with classic paint, layers, AI, new UI are for W11 (MS Paint).