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Notepad (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 19 hours ago by rustydrd@sh.itjust.works to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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Source: https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/114385715738162468

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Wow! Thank you for sharing; what an weird bug! Perhaps some ancient code to make use of notepad for view source if available, then the available function got changed, for other reasons, to if on desktop, then a different version of notepad broke the chain of borked code?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Well, IE6 did open Notepad to show source by default, but it makes no sense why a shortcut to Notepad just existing on the Desktop would prevent that. Especially when it didn't even have to be a real shortcut to Notepad.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

Probably tried to execute Notepad.lnk, because Desktop came before /system in the path, and however they were calling it did not resolve the link before executing - and that meant a hang, silent error, or no op