alt Hacker News> It is to do with link handling:
Notepad? Link handling?
That's like my pencil having a CVE that's to do with how it loads the ink. That old saying about 'if Microsoft built a car' is more true now than it was then: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/car-balk/
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> Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single 'general car default' warning light.
> Occasionally, for no reason, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grabbed the radio antenna.
> Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
> You would press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.
If you live long enough, satire eventually becomes reality.
Unpopular opinion: rudimentary Markdown support is not entirely far-fetched even for a dumb text editor.
Even though I’m all against feature bloat, I think that making Markdown hyperlinks clickable is still within the Overton window of what a simple editor should be doing.
I was really hoping this CVE would have been caused by the Copilot integration into Notepad.
Calculator hasn't been infiltrated by Copilot yet, but I'm sure the day is coming.