WINDOWS NOTEPAD APP REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY

OH MY FUCKING GOD

CVE-2026-20841

@solonovamax W H A T

@freya ya

@solonovamax I wish, I really wish, I could get the fuck off windows

@freya what's stopping you? Linux is here to love you. :P

@malachai accessibility, or the lack thereof

@malachai also uh............. UI stability. or the lack thereof. finally decide on one desktop, one UI toolkit, one everything, and things might start actually working

@solonovamax i was going to ask if you were joking but the omfg answers that

@solonovamax like it's just days ago we learn about the np++ update breach and like did MS feel an inferiority complex or what

@freya accessibility as in for disability? KDE Plasma has a massive accessibility suite. :) It's also very pretty and extremely configurable.

@malachai it has many accessibility features, yes, unfortunately the screenreader (which is what I need) is a glitchy unstable mess, and modern UI frameworks make this worse, as does Wayland and Pipewire and suchlike. there's no large amount of funding going into Linux desktop accessibility, and it's such a moving target at this point that getting stable accessibility is really hard

@freya I've been daily driving Ubuntu then cachyos for a long time with basically no issues that I didn't cause myself. Rock solid aside from some self-caused crashing

@malachai sure and if you're sighted, that works great. unfortunately I'm not

@freya that's fair! If you can get it working in a VM or something and post bug reports, it will do so so so much to help! I hope it gets better for you so you can get away from the hell company.

@malachai bug reports: all of them. all of the software is either broken, or partially broken, I mean hell sometimes you'l;l go to alt-tab and your screenreader will just go 'lol nope bye"

@malachai I have had better and more consistent accessibility on my Solaris 10 SPARC box than with any and all modern Linuxen

And for once, adding AI to the app was not to blame! (Although the issue was introduced in the same batch that added AI, so I'd still count it)

@malachai @freya That sucks! And this should be shouted at all of the eejits who are pushing for the oh-so-shiny new stuff just because it's new, and it almost works for me, why don't you like it, and the old stuff is old.
Yes, it is old but it works, also for people who need special things, like screen readers and what not. At least in an IT forum I loosely follow some of the residents brought that up, regarding wayland. (and pipwire is a hot mess at least when I tried)

@drchaos @malachai like I said, I get better accessibility on Solaris 10 than I do on any modern Linux distro

@apophis @solonovamax about the np++, which is the app i use, what should i do? If you dont mind the question

@luckychronic @solonovamax their auto-updater's *hosting service* got hijacked https://notepad-plus-p...

@solonovamax stop yelling at me😣😣okaay i’ll go update…

@apophis @solonovamax thanks!! I honestly never auto-update as good digital hygiene

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@memdmp @solonovamax i always have a singsongy tone in my Chills impression. not quite sure why

@solonovamax this file went all the way from audacity recording to mp2 to mp3 and then to fedi

@solonovamax @memdmp what why does Sharkey display it as a video. god i hate multimedia container formats

@memdmp mp2????

@solonovamax @memdmp best thing this one has ever seen on fedi.