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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad(www.tweaktown.com)

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NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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So… who wants to bet that the new version of Notepad is not constantly scraping anything you type into it and feeding it into the AI, regardless of whether you’re paying for this feature or not?

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Scrollone@feddit.it
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Case in point: Windows 11 “Light” (LTSC) from Microsoft has the classic and advertisement-free version of Notepad.

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brokenlcd@feddit.it
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Tbf, they already control the os itself. They already have access to all of the keystrokes. Implementing it just in notepad feels like a rube goldbergy way of scraping user data.

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TFO Winder@lemmy.ml
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Sublime text ftw

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Ace@feddit.uk
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I like how sublime looks. But it is absolutely ridiculous that is has no settings UI and expects you to go and manually edit a json file to change even basic settings. Insane. So that’s a no from me.

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Valmond@lemmy.world
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Notepad++ on windows is kind of the GOAT IMO.

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nerdschleife@lemm.ee
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The search and replace UX is 10 years behind. The sole reason I use sublime text instead

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