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BLKNSLVRyesterday at 11:42 AM4 repliesview on HN

> 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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DavidPeifferyesterday at 4:29 PM

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.

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samspotyesterday at 5:35 PM

It's hard for me to imagine anyone balking at this feature. My core note taking workflow frequently involves:

1. Note about blah 2. Paste link to blah 3. Open that link later when reviewing my notes.

Blah is sometimes a web link, sometimes a link to a doc on my system, and sometimes a link to an item in my todo tracker. The better analogy is this is like a pencil having an eraser built in.

I use Drafts instead of Notepad, but if I used Notepad I would want to be able to easily open links in my notes. When I do find myself in Notepad, it's because I double clicked on a readme file that often contains links to resources I need.

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iso1631yesterday at 2:52 PM

> 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.

Hackbratenyesterday at 11:53 AM

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.

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