you can also just uninstall the "new" notepad, at which point Windows will let you run the old one again (which is still shipped!).

By using a version that is _that_ old you do lose out on some of the actually useful updates legacy nodepad received, such as LF line ending support.

What? Did they accidentally revert the improvements they already made to previously shipped versions of the old notepad program?

I think it's in reference to using Win9x notepad.exe as opposed to somewhere in the Win7-10 timeframe before they went over the top in Win11.

Ah, yes, I misread it as the newer versions shipping an older notepad.

You are mistaken:

> The malicious code would execute in the security context of the user who opened the Markdown file, giving the attacker the same permissions as that user.

TIL I'm an AI

not even opposite, as mentioned in my comment it does have Initiator Mode, allowing it to act as a host

If the reason to connect them is to dump them, something like https://bluescsi.com/ in Initiator Mode might work: https://bluescsi.com/docs/Initiator-Mode

Than you, will look... I had been vaguely aware of it before but will look more seriously.

For a quick fix: `font-variant-ligatures: none;` on body or similar.

For users: paste the following in console

  document.body.style.setProperty('font-variant-ligatures','none','important');

I use NoScript and only got them after enabling JS for the blog page

I have this as !important in a global userStyle for code, pre, kbd, samp elements.

Infocom was bought by Activision, ActivisionBlizzard was bought by Microsoft.

whoa til microsoft owns blizzard.

You're one of today's lucky 10,000. It was huge news at the time. The FTC considered not allowing it and the acquisition got delayed for months while back and forth public debate raged.

Easy to forget all the big moves that happened recently, especially since there haven't been (afaict) any major changes to service. I forgot the other day that Sony had bought Bungie, though it'd be pretty memorable if Sony announced Destiny 3 as a PS5 timed exclusive.

Massive media/telecom/tech companies get passed around between other massive media/telecom/tech companies so much that regardless of how much you saw the news at the time, a couple of years later it's tough to remember "Now who is it that owns Warner Bros. currently? AOL? AT&T? Netflix? The sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia?"

And Sierra. It would be amazing if MS released the source code to some of Sierra classic Hi-Res/AGI/SCI games, or the engines themselves.

IIRC, Al Lowe had retained copies of source code from the early Sierra days, and was planning to release some of it publicly a few years ago, but Activision shut him down. Maybe MS would be willing to reconsider that now that they're pursuing historical preservation.

Space Quest IV!!!

yeah i think this is totally reasonable.

Microsoft owns lots of studios, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Gaming_studi...

Hence why when people think it is only a XBox console and nothing else, couldn't be more wrong.

Author here -- previous discussions/blog posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23313577

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112273

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37787161

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38810782

I specifically checked if DirectInput from DirectX 5 already supports/provides USB HID devices, and it does! Granted, even then it was unlikely to encounter 8 USB devices, let alone HID devices in particular.

Because I felt like it :) Also works for multiple versions/patchlevels.

But yeah, with the info provided it should be patchable. It's a `push esi` though, where esi has to stay 0 for a few further usages, so it's a bit more than a one-byte patch. It also wouldn't fully resolve the OOB write in the rare case where you _do_ have 9+ game controllers connected.