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Seriously, just stop (or use Linux) (media.piefed.zip)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Picture of text written in Notepad: STOP UPDATING NOTEPAD. TEXT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN UNORDERED LISTS. YEARS OF DEFAULT APP yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND FOR BASIC FORMATTING OPTIONS. Wanted to format anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "WORDPAD". "Yes please give me LINKS in my file. Please give me HEADERS." - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged. LOOK at what Microsoft has been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the programming language & technology we built for them (This is REAL Notepad, made by REAL Microsoft): ??????? ?????? ???????? "Hello I would like TABLES in a future update" They have played us for absolute fools
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[–] 54 points 7 months ago (9 children)

notepad has formatting now? o_O

does it produce markdown or something?

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  • [–] 91 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Yep it’s markdown, and yep they had a CVE with second highest grade cause of it

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    heh, ofc. Apparently something to do with file:// and such uri handling, apparently executing local files? Yikes.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    not just local files

    if you click a link to file:///123.45.67.89:69420/files-download/virus.exe it will download and run virus.exe from that IP address

    it still works, but now there is a "Dangerous Link Location: This is not a web link and may lead to the execution of malicious code" warning, but previously it would silently run the file.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    kinda wild a file-link ever went straight to executing it after download - which on it's own could be dangerous as well.

    I guess the "the s in IOT stands for security" also applies to notepad: "the s in vibecoding stands for security"

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    If you use the formatting bar to format text, it unlocks the View→Markdown menu which has two options - Markdown or Syntax. This allows you to toggle seeing the source or formatted markdown.

    If you do not use the formatting bar to format text, markdown is not enabled. I manually typed in text in markdown format and the menu didn't un-grey.

    You can go into the app settings and turn off formatting, which will hide the formatting toolbar.

    I think you really have to work hard to be offended by this.

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