Comment on Microsoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...)
khapyman@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
As I’m in no position to demand company wide switch to a sane operating system I’m constantly in awe of new and innovative ways Microsoft has managed to make my day suck. One such thing is that they have decided that Win 11 Notepad will convert everything it touches to UTF-16. That’s kind of a problem when an external system expects ISO-8859-15 and users have decades of experience in editing said config files with Notepad.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
For some reason I have a vague memory that the old notepad is still there. You just need to do a extra loop to start it. I’ll check if I can find the link.
It’s been a while and I’m a Linux user, so I didn’t really pay attention.
khapyman@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
That’s pretty much the problem. You know how to work around the issue. I know how to work around the issue. Institutional knowledge doesn’t and just opens the application just like they’ve always done. I resolved this one by associating .csv files with Notepad++ company wide. Now this is a mandated change so they’ll grumble and get on track.
The real issue I have with all this is changing data without consent. It’s like the new Notepad is malware all by itself, doesn’t even need remote exploits.
And hello fellow Linux user :)
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Wasn’t notepad++ just compromised in a pretty major way?