You misspelled "thief." Google is a data thief ...

Exactly ... I don't want my fuckin' email client "putting words in my mouth." Literally makes me want to put my hand through the screen. Same with the naggitty-nag-na-nag-na-nagging to turn on x feature. If I wanted to have a clanker finish my sentences, stink my photos with the clown, etc, I'd turn on those features myself. Please stop with the picking at users.

Who even uses it? The world has been using editpad since Windows XP. You don't? Wow.

They could have just kept it as part of Windows ... no cost to them to "ship" an existing .exe file.

Nope, they killed it because it's adequate for word processing for a lot of non-technical people, but they wanted to nudge and nag people into paying them $100/yr for an Orifice 365 subscription. Got to keep milking the sheep.

Nerdella is a truly vile human being with his desire to ram cloud surveillance down everyone's craws.

GNU pico/nano have also been ported to Windoze, or so it seems.

Win 10 was decent ... M$ really jumped the shark with 11. Fortunately doesn't affect me much. Moved almost completely to Linux Mint a few years ago, and only run Windows in a little padded VirtualBox cell to run a few specific programs that don't work anywhere else (and don't need Internet access, so it doesn't get it).

Also, for those who need advanced features like tables and spell check, isn't Wordpad still a thing in 'doze 11? The whole point of Notepad is to be able to edit text files essentially verbatim - for composition and formatting, better software already exists. But Satire Nerdella knows better, obviously.

Can you install classic Notepad or a barebones editor without the AI vermin infesting it and just not use M$'s latest abortion?

Uh, yes, I think we're agreeing here.

If I buy a healthy stock my cost is the stock. If it goes up, yay. If it goes down, I have a paper loss but don't have to do anything. I can ride it out long term as generally a healthy company will go up. No decision necessary for short term volatility price shifts.

If I short sell, I have to cover if it goes up or I can spend additional money on options to limit my loss but I can also be whipsawed into a real loss in a volatile market. Stock can go up for stupid or no reason. Then I have to decide to execute my options, take the loss due to volatility, then watch it drop over the long term where I believed it would go originally except I'm out and lost money due to short term price shifts. If I don't execute my options then I need to cover. Either way, I need to make a decision if it goes up after I short.

Short selling is for inside traders and people who have a high risk acceptance investing profile (and can afford those losses from being wrong or whipsawed). There are many more short traders than short traders who can afford to short trade.

I am not opposed to shorting, just not for me.

I'd rather just buy a healthy company that's likely to go up than spend the same money hoping a bad company goes down and also paying for the options. Often times a bad company continues going up for a long time until reality catches up while the short seller takes a loss, having to either cover or exercise the options. I'm a retail investor. I don't have the insider info needed to make real money on shorts.

I did all my risky investing pre-retirement. Now I'm just coasting and living the life, stress free.

Microsoft hasn't been able to do proper security - or proper development for that matter - in half a century, and AI is notorious for pissing out poor quality code.

Glad I only use the git part of Github.

If only Microsoft saw some sense and quit pushing this disaster of a technology - or at least gave people the option to leave it out of their activities. Fuck this AI shit, seriously. It's getting really tiring now...

Shorting the market does not cause recessions. Why do you think that?

There is absolutely nothing wrong or immoral with shorting a stock. I would never do it as the risk is essentially infinite while the potential gain is capped but shorting is a valid and effective method for pushing down the price of stocks that are not worth what they were pushed to through whatever means. It's an important counter balance to the often insane "buy! Buy! BUUUYYYY!!!" mentality.

Your level of concern that stock shorting can cause a recession should be flat zero.

Your level of concern that crypto bullshit will destroy the global economy should be about 0.25. The size of the global economy is gigantic compared to the amount of real money being gambled in crypto crap. Once you take out the gaIllions of early coins held by the whales which were not purchased with real money, the true size of the crypto crap casino is quite small. If all crypto crap went to zero tomorrow the real world loss of real money pissed away would be trivial.

Retail buyers (I would not use the term "investors") will get wiped out, as usual. Big money houses will take a small loss from their super high risk accounts which will barely scratch their total net worth balance sheets. The rest of the world will raise an eyebrow briefly, yawn, and forget the whole thing ever happened.

Two of my implants are passworded - the TOTP application in my Vivokey Apex and my Walletmor payment implant, which occasionally prompt payment terminals to ask my PIN - and guess what: I didn't forget them because they're kind of important. Duh...

No.

I recently restarted playing Skyrim and got stuck on some side quest. I asked Google's AI for help figuring out the next step. This is an old game with numerous full walk throughs available.

I told it the game, the quest name, the step I was stuck on, and asked for a console hack if it's a bug or directions if not.

Google responded with an answer to an entirely different game, told me I needed to kill some boss that doesn't exist in a place that doesn't exist.

I did a normal search after that, opened the first link with a title that looked ok and the answer was in the first paragraph.

There were numerous other links on Google's first page of search results that answered my question clearly. But Google's AI could not.

Google had the answer at hand. This is a rather old and well understood game with a large community of players who have posted a lot about every aspect.

Yet, Google's AI couldn't figure out what game I was playing, much less provide an answer, even after I explicitly told it what game I was playing.

If that's a human input error somehow then AI sucks if it can't figure out what I needed.

FakeAI is good for simple things like solving math problems, summarizing the weather report, and other trivia no one actually needs AI for but regularly fails for things we'd need and uses insane levels of electricity, compute power, space, and engineering effort to provide slop results.

I look forward to the AI bubble pop even if it temporarily kills the tech market and I take a big loss on paper in some funds.

Blaming the user for failing to cater to a system that makes the explicit claim of how smart the system is is total cope.