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do not click on markdownin notepad. It's ok to click on markdown here in your brower because I'm just letting you know not to click on markdown illegal-to-say

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We may be laughing now, but Microslop is going to roll out 10-factor authentication on Shithub because of this.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

for security reasons your readme must be in docx format

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

.DOCM None of that macro free bs

[–] Orbital@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Shithub

What are good alternatives if any

[–] ourtimewillcome@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

codeberg and gitlab come to mind

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Forgejo is really easy to operate if you already have a server.

Codeberg is a large public Forgejo instance.

There is also https://tangled.org/ which I've meant to look into for a while but never gotten around to. I think it's promising but it's still alpha software. Forgejo and Gitea before it have been around for almost 10 years altogether.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

new CVE

Look inside

Its unsanitized text input

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

So AI slop coding is going great!

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

win11 shitty notepad or all notepad?

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

The former. Classic notepad would never support clickable links

[–] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

The US has lost the AI race.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

wtf version of notepad even lets you create clickable hyperlinks in the first place?

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My main uses for notepad:

Second clipboard I can paste stuff into without worrying about consequences.

Paste formatted text into notepad and copy it immediately to strip away formatting.

[–] d_cagno@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can paste without formatting with ctrl + shift + V

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

✨ sometimes ✨

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

hilarious

or maybe it was just a backdoor that the wrong person noticed

The 3 people who reported it are:
Cristian Papa, Romanian in Romania,
Alasdair Gorniak, slav (?) in the UK,
Chen, Chinese person, https://x.com/chen9918b/status/2015688020356407548, "Chinese history and culture enthusiasts & market analysis"

its so over for the Amerikkkans. Can't even install remote code execution backdoors in peace.

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

The Windows Notepad app has a glaring vulnerability. It sends all your contained data to some Microsoft AI if you click the wrong button.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I'm not a tech guy so I don't know why I - cough - clicked the link. I assumed I wouldn't be able to understand anything. But after taking a ~10 second gander at the page I saw this and it made me laugh.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?

An attacker could trick a user into clicking a malicious link inside a Markdown file opened in Notepad, causing the application to launch unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.