Well, they heard that we don't like copilot in notepad so they removed "copilot" from notepad.

And right after that they added a brand new feature called tolipoc that will revolutionize the way you analyze your logs or modify your 17 year old cmd file!

Want to create a file with the current date and time? No need to google for it, tolipoc will do it for you!

Is the last sentence a reference to the .LOG classic notepad hack?

Must be some Mandela effect but I'm sure that Paint.net was supposed to replace mspaint when it was started.

Paint.NET wasn't Microsoft's, but was an independent app: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint.NET

It was supposed to be a third-party replacement, sure, but certainly not an official one. It started as a student project. It's just the prefix that tricks your brain to associate it with MS's own .NET branded applications.

To be fair, the .NET brand is already super convoluted (there's .NET framework, the .NET core, .NET runtime, the .NET desktop runtime, the .NET sdk, and I'm genuinely not even sure which if any of these might refer to the same thing), on top of it weirdly sounding like something internet related to a casual user.

Yes, "Copilot" is not the first brand that MS has tried to stick to everything while being just as confused about it as (inevitably) the consumers. Although somehow they did manage to keep .NET mostly aimed at developers - besides the actual frameworks there's Visual Studio .NET and other dev tools, but I'm actually a bit surprised that they never had "Office .NET" or "Outlook .NET" or even "Windows .NET Edition" or something like that. Maybe they still had some sane people in charge of marketing and brand management back then.

They did brand the Microsoft accounts themselves, from “Passport” to “.NET Passport” for a while. That was before they were “Windows Live IDs.”

I've wanted to do that with an old laptop and send it to be hosted at a friend's house.

The advantage I found with a laptop :

1. Only two cables, power and ethernet. Installation and removal is quick.

2. Comes bundled with keyboard and screen so no need for monitor

3. Usually very low power consumption and low heat.

4. Light, it can be stored anywhere.

So to answer your question, I'm guessing all of the above?

It's not, I'm 36/44.

Only if you're a nation with few resources or in emergency situation.

Creativity in the US military as always been associated with a lot of $ for contract with the private sectors.

Yes, many countries are now using cheap drones to destroy targets but I'm not sure the US military has the mentality to adapt to this situation because they're not "really" at war.

How would highly ranked personnel react to the idea of a 400$ drone, cheaper than an AR15, when they usually discuss budgets about aircraft carriers (or a few 100$million F35) ?

I wonder how many potential contractors would add a 0 to the price just to be taken seriously.

They'd just add a zero to the quantity to be delivered instead.

Drones are bullets, not delivery systems like aircraft carriers and machine guns.

The US military already deploys a copy of the Iranian Shahed drone. They aren't $400 but the Shahed isn't that cheap either.

Noob sidenote, TIL that you must "defang" ip addresses in security reports so you write it with brackets like 135.136.1[.]133.

This prevent it from being clickable.

Links are also often modified with "hxxps" instead of "https". Link is still clickable but will not work.

There was a day when many people used a Firefox addon that rewrote hxxps to https and would undefang the IP addresses. I can't remember what it's called but these days I use FoxReplace to do similar things. If I want to obfuscate things I typically base64 encode for the laptop and workstation users.

    Q3V6IEkgYW0gcGlwcGkgbG9uZ3N0b2NraW5ncyBob3BlIGFuZCBhIGhheSBhbmQgYSBob3BlIHNoYXcgbmF3Lg==

Yes, we all know the French are right on this one by calling it "essence"

Seems cromulent to me. One of the common meanings of essence is "a product of distillation" (compare e.g. essential oils - oils won through steam distillation). And gasoline is won through fancy distillation

Like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Smith_pregnancy_case

As of today, I only use 2 solutions for Windows GUI :

- windows forms in .net

- flutter

All the rest always presents itself with a sheer aura of "It was a great idea but we couldn't finish it".

Without ever discussing with anyone from MS about it, I think they stopped improving/working on this because of electron.

Any web developer can build a good enough website and a good enough desktop app with electron.

Is it in solitaire or minesweeper?

Be careful what you wish for

I wish for the original solitaire to come back.

I use win95 emulator in the browser to play it.

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft Flight Simulator

Microsoft Flight Copilot for airline pilots!

Microsoft should add a new game to Windows to accustom Windows users to Copilot.

There's a restrictions on games with even simulated gambling

Just what we need...AI agents that will play our games for us!

Didn't they kill those?