They finally did it. Microsoft has successfully over-engineered a text editor into a threat vector.

This CVE is an 8.8 severity RCE in Notepad of all things lmao.

Apparently, the "innovation" of adding markdown support came with the ability of launching unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

We have reached a point where the simple act of opening a .md file in a native utility can compromise your system. Is nothing safe anymore? 😭

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20841

#noai #microslop #microsoft #windows #programming #writing #windows11 #enshittification #cybersecurity #infosec #technology

#OtD 11 Feb 1916, Lithuanian-born Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested in New York City on charges of violating the Comstock Act, for distributing information about birth control. We've made available some of her work and merch here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/emma-goldman

@leodurruti non dico certo che la valanga di soldi che han ricevuto autorizzi il popolino a scaricarsi i loro album passati presenti e futuri via soulseek, non lo direi mai mai. Mai.

@h3poteto@pleroma.io
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@twisterrm porcodio!

Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841

#HackerNews

My experimental prototype of a programming language implemented like an audio synth is working really well.

It has a max jitter of 3ms for its timers (even in a web browser!) and is fully deterministic.

Global state is a totally-ordered immutable time-series in-memory db.

The language doesn't have threads, it has mini VMs with their own byte code that run in a hierarchical vm-tree for deterministic order of execution.

Computation is driven by the pulse of the audio hardware at audio rate.

Like most of us, I’ve been re-thinking my relationship with my phone. Because it suuuuucks.

I started a new section of my blog this year, for non-music-related posts. This is my second ever entry:

The Anxiety Machine: your phone does bad magic

https://meljoann.com/blog/phone/

#blog #indieWeb

I'm curious what other devs think about this. If an actor posts an C2S #ActivityPub Create/Note to the outbox, what would you think if the object created by the server was a different type (e.g., Article)?

I macellai da cinque generazioni diventati pionieri della “carne vegetale”
https://www.repubblica.it/il-gusto/2026/02/11/news/macellai_da_cinque_generazioni_pionieri_carne_vegetale_kioene-425150582/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Il gusto @il-gusto-repubblica

A Parma guarda come Coce: Chiara, Giuseppe e l’arte della lievitazione
https://www.repubblica.it/il-gusto/2026/02/11/news/bakery_parma_chiara_masino_giuseppe_mazzocca_arte_lievitazione_premiati_il_gusto-425150550/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Il gusto @il-gusto-repubblica

@sundogplanets
Thank you for coming to Ngāmotu/New Plymouth! I really enjoyed your talk, and Mr Zizabeph now understands the random panic-rants about Low Earth Orbit that I've subjected him to over the past year or so.

A recent interview. I really enjoyed answering these questions.

We talk about the realities of neurodivergence, the invisible labour inherent in publishing, my opinions on ‘nature cure’, and why so much writing advice falls flat for so many (it travels well because it sounds confident, not because it’s accurate, and it often asks writers to distrust their own ways of working).

https://neurodivergentnotesonwriting.substack.com/p/my-process-is-simply-adapting-to

#Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Books #Book #Reading #UK #Author #Women #ADHD

@gedankenstuecke do you see it coming they will turn on them?

@moss Ah that's so exicitng!! Thank you for suggesting to them.

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution_type=post

oh i see

"Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego and San José were among the five least affordable cities in the world"

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-02-10/la-long-beach-among-least-affordable-cities-for-homebuyers

@ingo ich finds sehr lustig, dass die Faschos jetzt zur taz rennen um zu heulen.

Wild that mfkn insurance companies will force the RW into dealing with climate change.

We have published the #CFP for our AI and Open Government Workshop, to be held colocated with the International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL) in Singapore. Read more: graus.nu/research/cal... #AI #OpenGov

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