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Microsoft deprecates legacy console feature

The culling of Windows features you've never heard of but that will affect hundreds of thousands of people because Windows is just that popular so even an unknown feature is used by gobs of people continues.

The legacy console mode is deprecated and no longer being updated. In future Windows releases, it will be available as an optional Feature

https://www.osnews.com/story/138096/microsoft-deprecates-legacy-console-feature/

#Windows

“[31m”?! ANSI Terminal security in 2023 and finding 10 CVEs

This paper reflects work done in late 2022 and 2023 to audit for vulnerabilities in terminal emulators, with a focus on open source software. The results of this work were 10 CVEs against terminal emulators that could result in Remote Code Execution (RCE), in addition various other bugs and hardening opportuni

https://www.osnews.com/story/137552/31m-ansi-terminal-security-in-2023-and-finding-10-cves/

#PrivacySecurity

OpenBSD 7.4 released

A new OpenBSD release means a ton of new features, and OpenBSD 7.4 is no different. It adds a VirtIO GPU driver, built-in leak detection for malloc, support for AMD processor microcode updates, and a whole lot more. If you want the really detailed list of changes, hop on over to the changelog, and OpenBSD users will already know how to update.

https://www.osnews.com/story/137511/openbsd-7-4-released/

#OpenBSD

Dotfiles matter: please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories.

Dotfiles are important. We use them every day for storing configuration for all kinds of applications, knowingly or otherwise. You know the ones, hidden in your $HOME directory, ~/.ssh/ for your ssh keys, or ~/.Xauthority (whatever the heck that does). Something you may not know is the

https://www.osnews.com/story/137275/dotfiles-matter-please-stop-dumping-files-in-users-home-directories/

#GeneralDevelopment

Microsoft deprecates WordPad

Are you a fervent user of WordPad? Are your company's finances run through a document only WordPad can deal with? Do you run your Kinder egg smuggling side hustle through WordPad? You better find an alternative, because WordPad has just been deprecated.

WordPad is no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows. We recommend Microsoft Word for rich

https://www.osnews.com/story/136902/microsoft-deprecates-wordpad/

#Windows