Why is Microsoft updating their text editors!? | TheStandup

Microslop at it again

And Antrophic tells us we don't even need to review AI code, lmfao. Microslop really striving for the Macroslop title.

The text editors in Windows that's older than most people here, that none of the users have asked for an update to in 20 years, has security vulnerabilities... Can really see that 30% of Microslop's code is written by AI.

27:30 I worked for several financial institutions, two of them being the largest banks in my country; all their IT staff use Notepad++ daily to edit configuration files in production systems. I'd argue these are high-value targets.

My favorite Zen koan:: "If copilot has an exploit but no one uses copilot, does copilot have an exploit?"

27:25 I've heard before from the primeagan that there is no reason to use notepad++, but he doesn't seem to understand what it actually solves. It's not a replacement for vim or vscode, it's just a very simple, boring, easy to use, lightweight way to open, read and edit any type of file. You can use it for small notes, for config files, for text comparisons. And the fact that it indefinitely keeps any file opened until you manually close it, it's just perfect for whatever it wants to be. It's everything notepad wants to be.

"We didn't expect people to put executables in the url field"

Casey is back let's goooo

12:27 - ShellExecute can launch `cmd.exe` or `powershell.exe` with command-line arguments. And with powershell specifically, that means a command string

Notepad++ having a security vulnerability is a lot like hearing your best friend from second grade has cancer. You're not sure if it's appropriate to reach out, but man, you hope they're okay.