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Trolling people on anydesk, whether that would be a screensharer or some tech support scam

batch with no batch because i usually code in batch witch is complicated for the if, gotos, ipconfig.

hehheehe

plus i'd imagine it'll will be a lot of people's first foray stuff like this

Me with a bunch of 3rd party macro scripts be like

ill probably use it too if i had any ideas

Whoa antvenom is here

wow

It immediately remembered me of auto-hotkeys, seemed less clunky. Gonna give it a try.

Hello! That's cheeky and I love it. Nice usage and I may use that concept. 👍

That's a good method. An alternative is to use the wait for file option and windows task scheduler to have a simple script create the file it needs to start, ex: createobject("scripting.filesystemobject").createtextfile "c:\users\userid\startitnow"

Is there something like cron but for Windows?

@@timurtheterrible4062 It's called "task scheduler."

@@timurtheterrible4062 Nel is right. Task Scheduler is the way to go. It appears to be "more advanced and complicated" but the opposite is the truth. You can set a new task under a minute. And, better than in chrome, you can select from a long list of different options, for example run as admin at startup and so on.

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Honestly this is automation in a nutshell. You spend hours creating a script that will automate something that would take you a few minutes. BUT if you use it daily, you'd techinally be saving minutes every day; so I think its worth the effort 🤣

@@TinyMeatPete Indeed! I created it with the intention of using it again. But I never did! 😁

Elon musk: introducing Tesla bot

@@bujin1977 This was basically me creating a program that would automatically update all dates in a word file, spending almost 1 hour doing what would only take me 5-10 minutes. Then never used it because I never ended up needing it.

Computer Science Engineer: Someone who rather spend hours creating a program to solve a problem that could have been solved in a few minutes by hand. Or something like that, it's something I heard many years ago in college.

that was what i was thinking too 💀💀

@@jakeisconfused Autohotkey: 🗿

Also: Is it the 100st or the 101st time that this dead horse "Graphical Programming" is beaten? It is not new ... and not good (in the sense of better than anything else). Even a hype pushed by the micromongers won't change that. Guys, have fun. And lets do something less boring than wasting our time with that BS:)

@@dieSpinnt I bet you're fun at parties.

XDDDDD

Mac OS Automator was the first thing I thought of. Yeah, it does stuff, but too techy for the "normal" people yet any "nerd" would just use a more traditional coding/scripting tool. Maybe this is better, but I think it likely suffers the same issue with lack of a serious audience.

Yeah Werewolf, that s what I thought. Wait a minute, did Apple have the same thing twenty years ago at least ? Even with copying Apple, it takes them years. lol. On the Linux and unix side, they had the same things since well forever. I am sure they wanted to call it : "the Terminator" but Arny said I ll be back , and they crapped their pants. Power automate, onecloud instead of icloud. They can not even come up with an original name instead of rippoff names. What is interesting about OS nowadays , they are pretty much all based on linux, unix kernel and such which is great. Even windows is pretty reliable now. The last version of windows 11 is pretty good. Even when they are not open source per se, they still do a lot collaboration which is a great concept. They still have problems with drivers. Even good brand computers, there are always a couple of drivers missing when you are upgrading. Some are very tricky to find. Windows is notoriously bad at finding drivers.

This is exactly what I was thinking too... Like, it's updated, but it's been around.

This has been around in one form or another for a few decades. In my (quite a bit!) younger years we called "batch files" that ran basic commands in "batches." A necessity for running BBS software on PCs. I used it to run tape backups in the middle of the night while I was sleeping. Cool, eh?

@@hervegeorges 20 years ago Apple had AppleScript. that was before mac os X

I use Event Ghost. It’s free, it’s awesome, and it looks like it can do way more than this app. Scheduling events is included of course, why would anyone pay for that, right?

Knowing how Microsoft has been leaning more towards open source software anyway, I was kinda surprised this isn't one of them.

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I think it's more like the Shortcuts app on MacOS, which is more in brand with Microsoft copying Apple.

The last thing you want to do is create automations that requires user input as there are so many variables that can cause it to break and start doing things it's not supposed to do.

@sexweed the control is you must be logged in to 365 run a flow. So you can only run flows from your tenant. A flow would be less useful if only you could run it. But if anyone could run it then it could be used like macros are as weapons.

Even if that were the case people can already script that up in a heartbeat. Microsoft already provides development tools that are more than enough to make whatever malware you can imagine, and all of that is allowed.

If you have any malicious code or script on your machine that could do such things, it could also do anything else without automation. Like create that folder, disable scanning and then download anything from the internet. Why would it need automation for this?

errr.......u don't have to use this tool to do that simple task. just create a robocopy script (takes just few minutes), add it to task scheduler - on an event (ID:2101) and u r good to go. every time u plug in a USB drive it will run.

windows XP had this idea of a briefcase, where a folder can act as a folder that only houses things that need to be taken to work, or brought back from work, so it would sync the files in the briefcase folder, to other briefcase folders on things like flash drives. I'm certain windows 10 has something similar but I don't know what it would be called or how to use it.

I think this is more in line with Apple Automator than shortcuts

@@sterkriger2572 isnt shortcuts automator's sucessor

@@Samstercraft77 No, it's in addition to Automator. Macs have so much automation available it's ridiculous. Some built-in (Automator, bash/zsh, Applescript, Shortcuts), some are add-ons (Text Expander, Hazel, Better Touch Tool, Keyboard Maestro). With them you can automate keyboard shortcuts, scripts, TouchBar, and GUI apps to the max, and also run them automatically.

You can run shell scripts from Automator, as well as from Shortcuts

@@PMX That’s not the solution at all though, since the hard part isn’t running a shell script, but using a shell script to control everything that Shortcuts can. For example, HomeKit/Matter devices. Also, this makes the shortcut incompatible with iOS

Please tell us what you’re going to make with it. I’m a programmer also.

I would honestly rather make my own program to do what I want than be forced to use Windows 😂

@@wasabithumbs6294 🤓

@@r4lph_gta Well, imagine you had the ability to create a program to execute any simple macro that you want in 15 minutes, and that you use Linux for 99% of your computing needs. Would you code the macro and use it in Linux, or switch over to Windows every single time you want to do this particular function

@@wasabithumbs6294 🤓

Yeah

True, was liking it until the point he said it needed a Microsoft account, that's a no thank you. It's even worse that for all that automation you can't make it run on startup.

Why though?

Privacy reasons.

ya'll got google accounts 🙄

...i just wanted to play around with it but its a pay-service ._. I only see them under the 15€ subscription or 0.60€ per run for some reason

And yes, you can schedule tasks in the business version of power automate.

I was trying it for assembly, then I had a stroke and could not remember languages. I had to relearn English! Anything to do with a processor I have tried, but no luck. It took me 8 years to relearn English and 20 more years, I am still learning English. Thou, I can read it!

It's JavaScript code, not Java. JavaScript was built for the web, Java was built for desktops and servers. The similar names basically come down to brand recognition. The languages themselves could not be more different. There are actually browser automation tools for Java (playwright comes to mind) and in a way JavaScript (a modified version for desktop called NodeJS) that let you puppet browser windows around. You can use this to do all sorts of cheap tricks. However... the ultimate solution would be to find where the website is getting the data you want from in the first place. Browsers are big heavy slow programs that take data from the internet and makes it human readable; not necessary or efficient at all for a bot. Many services have their own robot-readable APIs in order to be friendly to scrapers, and even the ones that don't can often have an undocumented API meant for internal use. These both can be snuffed out using the "network" tab of your browser's dev tools. If all else fails, you can use libraries like bsoup to scan through the HTML (the first thing your browser downloads, contains the textual content and structure of the page but no styling or logic) of whatever page you want. Cheers

@@wasabithumbs6294 thanks for the correction and the rest of the info. I totally agree with you but for a lay person like me, web scraping here and there like this gets the job done.

@@wasabithumbs6294 Laughs in japplet.

@@arthur_camara Oh god.

@@colt_za I have

it's so useful, you don't have a use for it

Yes

"We totally protect your data, just agree to everything"

+1

You can write a AHK/PowerShell script that basically opens power automate and clicks the play button. You can then put that in task scheduler in case you want it to run on start-up.

I've not watched the video in full, will do later. But if you can execute batch or Powershell script, then you can create Scheduled Tasks to run Power Automate tasks.

?.. you mean you dont know?

You definitely can run these flows at start-up by leveraging batch/PowerShell scripts that would open up Power Automate and execute these flows.

Disagree. Scripting with auto hotkey is fast. Using a gui to select every action is cumbersome, though I will admit there's some cool tricks to this flows program and will have to take a look at some point.

*laughs in visual bot automation*

I've used it and not impressed. AutoHotKey or AutoIT are still easier to create and deploy without concern about automation leaking other information from logging or other sources.

Sounds closer to Automator than to Shortcuts to me

@@paulstelian97 agreed… Automater has syntax…

Sanitary angel? 🤣

never heard of it. Need to take a look.

or AutoHotkey

yeah boi ima get a high score

@@AndreiTheBloxxin honestly feel free to leave your high score in the comments, maybe one day someone will come along; see your high score and take it as a challenge. Maybe in a few years time every cookie clicker high score will be sat under this comment, cementing it in history forever... or until the youtube servers go down

Not necessarily if you need something that can auto run on a schedule at least

@@ThioJoe You can use a AHK/PowerShell script that would basically open up power automate and click the play button. After that, it's just a matter of putting that script into task scheduler ;)

The reason for that is, that it stores your flows in your OneDrive

Same for me.

why? mircosoft is the best company they are the reason you have a computer

@@steezykane4738 "mircosoft is the best company" Lol, good one. Also "they are the reason you have a computer" I guess you don't have any idea how it started do you? Or knew any other OSes existed... We would still have computers even if microsoft never took off.

@@vgamesx1 I'm pretty sure he was making a joke

AutoHotKey for the rescue...

I like the KZfaq ads, but I love seeing creators get sponsors. I watch it a few times cause I admire them so much.

or maybe task scheduler?

@@kr6to409 yeah that's what I was also thinking, probably easier than .lnk

How long did it take Apple to come up with a phone that has a stylus built into it? My Galaxy Note 9 has had it for years. It does far more than screen write. MS Surface Pro tablets were using real stylus pens, 10 years ago.