Fucking Windows

Fucking Windows.

Fucking Windows: the me venting about Microsoft Windows story.

Text paste fail

In Windows, you can copy and paste text with illegal characters, and when you paste the text into a file or folder name, Windows will warn you, then strip the illegals.

But text with invisible chars pasted into file name raises warning but no strip so it fails.

• Post @ Twitter (23 October 2022)

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

External links

Social media

• Post @ Bluesky (14 November 2024) - My mouse wheel stopped working several days ago for no apparent reason. Today it's working again. What happened? Windows update last night. Fucking Windows. When it wants an update, it breaks things like scroll wheel, or copy-and-paste — shit like that.
• [ Post] @ Twitter (23 October 2022)