May 8, 2023, 12:52 AMwoah did you know that bill gates wanted to bring clippy back for windows 11 and it took a team of microsoft engineers to stop him? search "operation paperclip" to learn more!
- May 8, 2023, 12:52 AM
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tech? no! man, see...technomancy@icosahedron.websiteMay 8, 2023, 1:02 AM@sugar sounds similar to that situation where Bill Gates had a secret lab where Microsoft collaborated on advanced programming technologies with Intel in the 1980s; what was that called again? cointelpro or something?
pun gentieure@retro.socialMay 8, 2023, 8:08 PM@technomancy @sugar I think you're confusing that with the $INTELPRO coin, it's a cryptocurrency thing.
Sushi UmbrellaSushiUmbrella@pnw.zoneMay 8, 2023, 1:51 AM@sugar I just read a book on Operation Paperclip and spent the whole time in a murderous haze. Because I really don't like Clippy, and not for any other reason.
Wortex17Wortex17@mastodon.gamedev.placeMay 8, 2023, 9:26 PM@sugar did you know JetBrains did it as an April fools joke and actually saw it through?
https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2014/04/01/clippy-for-resharper/
Jul 14, 2026, 5:36 AM@sugar I'm finding lots of stuff about this instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Were you just trying to drive engagement on that, or was there really a Bill Gates brain fart like this? Is there something else I could/should try searching on?