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"The ultimate streamlined UI is no UI at all!"
Microsoft: "This is just another small step towards perfection."
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Thus my refusal to ever install a "preview" update.
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Google blames ‘data voids’ and edge cases for its bad AI-generated search results. You're searching it wrong
Just cancel it and move on, you cowards!
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For this year’s Microsoft BUILD conference, we are thrilled to announce significant updates to WSL. Because it's...well, you know
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Because it's the year of everybody being geniuses? 
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The company said that its newest LLM is fluent in over 80 programming languages including Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, Bash, Swift, and even Fortran which came out in 1957. It's like the other coding assistants, but this one adds more accents and silent letters
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A recursive function just isn't complete until the umlaut (pronounced um-lout).
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ya everyone says they know everything...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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As part of the latest Windows updates, Microsoft fixed the broken drag-and-drop on the address bar, finally allowing you to move folders and files to a folder or few above the current one (Microsoft calls that "breadcrumbs"). When the new features are just old broken features coming back
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Pfft! We wish. Maybe Windows 15.
TTFN - Kent
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(That is an unfortunate check mark, mind you... Damn you for probably being right. (Or optimistic.))
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So when will it come in a non-preview update?
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Supposedly it's in this month's dump of carp fixes. So, whenever you're brave enough to try installing that. I hear it breaks some people's taskbars though (more on Monday's newsletter)
TTFN - Kent
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GPT-4o UNCHAINED! This very special custom GPT has a built-in jailbreak prompt that circumvents most guardrails, providing an out-of-the-box liberated ChatGPT so everyone can experience AI the way it was always meant to be: free And every phone on this planet rings in unison
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Cell by Stephen King?
Nope, nope, nope.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Close - his Lawnmower Man (possibly just the movie version)
Which reminds me I wanted to read Cell. Any good?
TTFN - Kent
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Pretty good, can't go into it much without spoiling. There was a movie made, starring Samuel L Jackson and John Cusack.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Microsoft Loop is a new AI-powered collaborative app that empowers you to create, share, and manage your projects efficiently. In case you want to get loopy
Either that, or Microsoft is getting loopy
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Either that, or Microsoft is getting loopy
"Getting" loopy? That cow's been out of the barn for a while now.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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We created the new Extension Manager to spotlight the most important content when searching for extensions, including a large pane for viewing detailed descriptions. Because Visual Studio is never big enough
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Cybercriminals are abusing Stack Overflow in an interesting approach to spreading malware—answering users' questions by promoting a malicious PyPi package that installs Windows information-stealing malware. Beware of geeks bearing gift tips
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How the h*ll has the question not already been flagged as a copy/answered already?  I thought SO was pretty foolproof that way...
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Quote: This account is temporarily suspended network-wide. The suspension period ends on May 27, 2034 at 17:18.
That's quite a liberal definition of "temporary"! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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