Remember when Notepad was just… Notepad? A simple text editor nobody asked to be modernized?

Yeah, Microsoft didn’t care either. They bolted on Markdown support and AI features anyway. And now we’ve got CVE-2026-20841. Remote code execution. Via a text file. This is the kind of thing that makes you go “oh come on, really?”

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    When one realizes that anything useful a firm does is just a coincidence of it making profit. 💢