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   Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 23:48:30 JST Rusty Crab

   they added an AI art generator to MS Paint

   ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME RIGHT NOW
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     special-boy :verified: (special-boy@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 23:48:28 JST special-boy :verified:

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     @RustyCrab >sells "AI PCs"
     >tthey aren't powerful enough to run AI
     
     Sasuga Microsoft sama
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 23:48:28 JST Rusty Crab

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     @special-boy yeah I don't believe for a single second that shit like Recall is running entirely locally. They're gonna get exposed for that and heads are gonna roll (read: nobody will give a shit)
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 23:48:29 JST Rusty Crab

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     @special-boy I don't think consumer hardware is powerful enough to run their models (most likely)
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     special-boy :verified: (special-boy@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 23:48:30 JST special-boy :verified:

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     it uses the weird tokens
     
     so it doesnt even run locally?
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     sleepingnevi (sleepingnevi@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 23:51:27 JST sleepingnevi

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     @deprecated_ii @RustyCrab every dev at microsoft needs to be executed by firing squad
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 23:51:28 JST Rusty Crab

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     @deprecated_ii oh my god what
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     d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 23:51:28 JST d

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     @RustyCrab some kind of integration to rewrite text or something
     
     maybe like grammarly
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     d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 23:51:29 JST d

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     @RustyCrab notepad too
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 23:53:34 JST Blurry Moon

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     • PunishedD
     @PunishedD @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii there are multiple generations of windows devs that don't know windows internals. windows 11 uses React Native for desktop taskbar rendering. You read that right.
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     PunishedD (punishedd@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 23:53:35 JST PunishedD

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     @deprecated_ii @RustyCrab This is ancient lore, but MS has been repeatedly asked to "upgrade" notepad and refused. The reason was they needed a 100% reliable text editor option, and they reused it as a component in other areas of Windows. Notepad is (was?) critical infrastructure.
     
     Adding anything like AI means the latest generation of MS devs don't know wtf they're messing with.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 00:08:27 JST Rusty Crab

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     • Blurry Moon
     @PunishedD @deprecated_ii @sun windows 11 desktop is about as unresponsive as a webpage so it tracks
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     PunishedD (punishedd@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 00:08:28 JST PunishedD

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     • Blurry Moon
     @sun @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii I knew it was bad but not THAT bad, holy crap.
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:23:18 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @RustyCrab how did microsoft go from making the most sovlfvl software to complete utter fucking dogshit?
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:26:20 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt @RustyCrab @PunishedD @deprecated_ii it was using html/activex/vbscript not pure html. it was embedded inside explorer windows not the entire gui. also they ended up ripping it all out, it really only existed so they could argue that internet explorer was an essential and un-removable part of the OS to avoid browser antitrust lawsuit while they were overtly trying to kill netscape.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:26:22 JST Phantasm

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     • Blurry Moon
     @PunishedD @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii @sun I mean it's nothing new though. Parts of the shell were built on web technologies since Win98 Active Desktop. If I remember correctly the WinXP explorer window was also a web page rendered by IE.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:27:53 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Phantasm
     @RustyCrab @phnt @PunishedD @deprecated_ii there have been alternative desktops for Windows, including a port of BlackBox. Windows runs fine without Explorer but what you find is that sometimes some processes start explorer again if it's not present.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:27:54 JST Rusty Crab

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     • Blurry Moon
     @phnt @PunishedD @deprecated_ii @sun yeah I'm mainly wondering if windows will render normally or if anything unintended will be disrupted. I have no idea how windows handles various aspects of control.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:27:55 JST Phantasm

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     • Blurry Moon
     @RustyCrab @PunishedD @deprecated_ii @sun You can do that. That's how the "GUI-less" installs of Windows Server work. They just give you the window manager, one window (command prompt) and that's it. Killing the explorer shell on a normal Windows install also allows you to run whatever you want, but everything except the background and the bare window manager is gone.
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     PunishedD (punishedd@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:27:56 JST PunishedD

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     • Blurry Moon
     @phnt @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii @sun Kind of. Active Desktop was a way to hack web pages into the background image, but it was still the core Explorer program underneath. WinXP had what you said but you could turn it off and go back to regular windows rendering. I give MS some slack on those because everyone was experimenting with the Web back then, and you could easily toggle it off.
     
     But Windows has been on a long slide into retardation for decades now. I didn't realize they completed the journey with 11, figured it would take one more version.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:27:56 JST Rusty Crab

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     • Blurry Moon
     @PunishedD @phnt @deprecated_ii @sun it's an abuse of my hardware at this point.
     Hell, I wonder if there's a way to just kill the DE entirely and only get the window manager to run. Probably not possible but one can dream.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:28:17 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!
     @mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @PunishedD @deprecated_ii I was told it was the button and everything.
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     Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra! (mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:28:18 JST Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

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     • Blurry Moon

     @sun @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii @PunishedD isnt that just for the featured part of the windows menu?

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:29:54 JST Blurry Moon

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     @phnt @PunishedD @RustyCrab @deprecated_ii I experimented around with active desktop because there was a way you could straight up set a website as the background of an explorer window. if you tried to do this though with a moderately complex website it ran like absolute shit, unusable.