I think we will see the rise of human verified and curated social spaces and information sources.
Honestly, oldskool encyclopedias sound pretty good right now. 100% human curated info.
Its getting to where I would pay for that …

Not again!?!

You are close. The original Adblock extension was mid-2000’s. Before that, we traded host files online in forums and shit. So I’ve been filtering the internet since Windows XP.

That was a grim, difficult read. The last paragraph is quite good, bringing the ideas together.

I really hate modern media. The advertising in it is the worst part, and being ingrained in every aspect of the media itself just makes it worse. I don’t watch TV, and I’ve been blocking ads since I had to curate my own host files in order to do so, well before the introduction of extensions that would do it for you. I find using today’s unfiltered internet just about as odious as watching TV.

It was hard just to read about that shit. Every word was a true, ugly reflection of the culture I live in.

Ah. Yes, it appears I’ve been using the ESU option. That was the simplest thing to do.
I use the registration utility from massgrave, added 3 years to my registration.

https://massgrave.dev/windows10_eol

But right there on that page, they cover Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021.
It sounds like that’s what I need. Stripped down Win10. I like that idea.
Thanks, friend.

I like dark absurdity. Good job.

Do ya think this guy is actually a replacement?
Like, they got him. He’s on life support somewhere, having his brain sucked out.
This is a droid. He’s gonna go join some subversive movement and report them to Google.

The find and replace is based off of the Notepad interface.
It does support searching for newlines and such, but it doesn’t look like it does full regex.

This is the first I’ve heard of EditPadLite. From a cursory examination of their site, it appears to be written with the same general design philosophy as Metapad, albeit not as low profile. I’ll give it a tentative thumbs up.
The EditPadLite download is 18mb. My copy of Metapad is 190k. Small and fast.

Back in the old Web 1.0 days I used to label my websites “Coded by Notepad.exe”.
Well, you couldn’t pay me to use today’s Notepad. But Metapad fills that gap perfectly.

I have a laptop still running Win10. I’ll look into this. Thx.

Hmm. This is what mine looks like.

Yes. Metapad is too dumb for that shit. By design.
It’s only barely smart enough to be better than Notepad.
It’s not smart enough to do anything dumb.

Its free, extremely mature, and you already know how to use it.
Metapad is a feature-for-feature drop-in replacement for Notepad.

I miss oldskool Notepad being present on the system. Win11 Notepad is a worthless piece of shit.
But … any computer or vm that I use for more than a few hours gets a copy of Metapad.

I’ve been using Metapad for … umm … decades.
Metapad is a simple, extremely lightweight editor, intended to just barely be better than Notepad, fixes a lot of shit that MS never did and stays simple.
https://liquidninja.com/metapad/

I’ve chewed on Gidney’s ‘Falling with Style’ paper.
I recommend reading it if you would like to understand Shor’s Algorithm.

I’m somewhat unclear if the following applies to Shor’s Algorithm in general, or just the modified version used for the experiment.
But I’ve come to understand that the algorithm is a recursive series of steps, structured such that it will eventually factor anything.
Like … it could take longer than the age of the universe for some numbers, but the algorithm will do the job if you got enough cycles to spare.

What we are looking for here is quantum supremacy, and once Gidney has explained this much, its obvious from the graph above that we are not seeing it. Pure random noise outperformed the quantum computer.

I guess the thing I’ve not absorbed yet is, why was the quantum computer expected to not work? I know it was much too complex a system, and internal noise would overwhelm any processing. Gidney described being amazed that the IBM quantum system even let him configure his experiment and run it. Why did it lose so completely to a random noise generator, as in how could you possibly get worse than random noise?

Yes. Exactly.
Also, heres those two numbers in binary.
15 = 1111
21 = 10101
So, those are special numbers. Its straight up cheating.

Scribble understands the importance of evidence-based science. :]

Technocrit buried the lead when they posted this. Here it is with the actual paper highlighted.

Here’s another paper describing the issues at play. This one is a bit more serious.
Craig Gidney - Why haven’t quantum computers factored 21 yet?
https://algassert.com/post/2500

And apparently this field is ripe for humor. And Buzz Lightyear graphics.
The prior author did his own joke paper, which is too much for my head.
Falling with Style: Factoring up to 255 “with” a Quantum Computer
https://sigbovik.org/2025/proceedings.pdf#page=146

This doesn’t actually make sense, but it has the feel of truth.

What a great little site. It reminds me of istheshipstillstuck.com. I’m bookmarking that shit. Thanks, OP!