The Technology Vent and Rant Thread

[Cactus Chef]

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...ed-quotations/

When a publication you trust is found to have used AI to write an article summary...about an AI-related incident.

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

HP already going to renting computers:
https://wccftech.com/hp-response-to-...-rent-laptops/

Someone should rent one and overclock the hell out of it and then play some Denuvo-infected games

See this video for some more info on this offering.



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[ownedbycats]

It's a fucking text editor! Why does it even need AI???

https://www.techspot.com/news/111287...-security.html

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

It's a fucking text editor! Why does it even need AI???

https://www.techspot.com/news/111287...-security.html

So you can get the AI to write your text for you.

I don't use Notepad. I use Notepad++. Much better then Notepad ever was.

[ownedbycats]

I use Notepad3 and Notepad++

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

It's a fucking text editor! Why does it even need AI???

https://www.techspot.com/news/111287...-security.html

M-x snark-mode
Because stock Notepad was out of security vulnerabilities on its own so they had to create new ones.

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by ratinox

M-x snark-mode
Because stock Notepad was out of security vulnerabilities on its own so they had to create new ones.

What is wrong with a basic text editor like Notepad? One of the irritants I have with the version of Notepad that comes with Windows 11 is that each time you open/create a text file it doesn't close it. It used to be that you had to save one text file before you could open/create a new one. Now it just keeps adding tabs and each text file is not closed and saved until you deliberately close it.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

What is wrong with a basic text editor like Notepad?

I wouldn't know, it's been so long since I touched it.
The biggest problem was that it used CR/LF for line endings.
I don't know if they've seen the light.

Most any usage of files nowadays allows a "*nix" ending of LF even if they don't advertise it.

On Android I have my own test editor.
It's very simple.
The one thing it does is save a new version every time it closes.
The idea is that it's mostly for collecting one-offs and making sure that I don't lose anything.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

What is wrong with a basic text editor like Notepad? One of the irritants I have with the version of Notepad that comes with Windows 11 is that each time you open/create a text file it doesn't close it. It used to be that you had to save one text file before you could open/create a new one. Now it just keeps adding tabs and each text file is not closed and saved until you deliberately close it.

Notepad on "not NT" could only do up to 64K.
But Textpad was far superior as a text editor on NT 4.0. Then later on XP the Notepad++, which I have a 2016 version on Win10.

I used Notepad++ on WINE for a while on Linux from November 2016, but switched to KATE (native) later. Huge choice of good GUI and console editors* on Linux apart from actual wordprocessing.

[Edit: Nano, vim, emacs (GUI & Console) etc]

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Renate

On Android I have my own test editor.
It's very simple.
The one thing it does is save a new version every time it closes.
The idea is that it's mostly for collecting one-offs and making sure that I don't lose anything.

I occasionally use Jota or Jota+ on all Android since 4.x. It sort of autosaves and is reasonably configurable. Before Android added non-USA English keyboards I also had a Keyboard Helper Pro (for years the only Android program I bought) which was needed for USB or BT external keyboards.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ratinox

M-x snark-mode
Because stock Notepad was out of security vulnerabilities on its own so they had to create new ones.

But the security vulnerability wasn't because of AI. It has since been fixed.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

What is wrong with a basic text editor like Notepad? One of the irritants I have with the version of Notepad that comes with Windows 11 is that each time you open/create a text file it doesn't close it. It used to be that you had to save one text file before you could open/create a new one. Now it just keeps adding tabs and each text file is not closed and saved until you deliberately close it.

Not having tabs for multiple text files was one thing I didn't like about Notepad. That's one reason I switched for Notepad++.

[Renate]

I just got bit on the bee-hind with a bug from Notepad++.
I was redoing some code and slinging the hash like a Waffle House line cook at 2 AM.
Suddenly the Undo/Redo went beserk.
No combination of Ctrl-Y and Ctrl-Z could get me back to where I was newer than an hour ago.
After ascertaining that this was the problem I concentrated more on doing a "brain dump" to recover my work.

Apparently this was a regression bug in my just-installed security fix 8.8.9:

Fix column mode edit undo regression (introduced in v8.8.9). (Fix #17295, #17272, #16784)

There is a new 8.9.2 available.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by Renate

Apparently this was a regression bug in my just-installed security fix 8.8.9:

Fix column mode edit undo regression (introduced in v8.8.9). (Fix #17295, #17272, #16784)

There is a new 8.9.2 available.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=763