57 pointsby chao-6 hours ago6 comments
  • chao-6 hours ago
    Context: Notepad++ was compromised last year by a PRC state-sponsored group: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-up...

    This is not purely a cosmetic release, as it does contain a few fixes.

  • xyzsparetimexyz5 hours ago
    That image (and moreso the video) is interesting in how much people read into it. Hard to really know the man's intentions tbh.
  • hd46 hours ago
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  • __patchbit__6 hours ago
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    • graemep6 hours ago
      > The West's Christian media are largely silent

      What Christian media? Western mass media is mostly secular.

      • senderista6 hours ago
        Having known some Palestinian Christians, typical evangelicals in the US don't give a damn about their suffering.
        • hluska6 hours ago
          What are you talking about and how is that related to western media being primarily secular?
        • Joker_vD6 hours ago
          Pfft, those are wrong sort of Christians, y'know.
      • __patchbit__5 hours ago
        To my mind the West is Christian since when before the wars after 2003 and the followup mass influx dangerous immigration.

        And, the West's Christian mass media did used to cover power less biased to or blinded by the Zionists of the present.

        • graemep3 hours ago
          Western mass media has not been Christian in any meaningful sense for many decades.

          Much of the ruling class has not been more than nominally Christian for much longer. Maybe less true in the US than in Europe, certainly true in the UK. Even in the US there has been a lot of talk about Christianity, but very little actual influence on policy: and certainly not enough influence to motivate economic change or adopting Christian policies towards the poor.

          The best known Victorian novel about Christmas does not refer to the birth of Jesus at all! Can you imagine someone from England a centuries earlier writing a Christmas story without Christian references?

          At best you are thinking about Christian culture rather than the actual religion, but Western culture retains a huge amount of Christian influence so I would not say that is a thing of the past.

  • snvzz6 hours ago
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    • jubilanti5 hours ago
      Open source and free software has always had a healthy dose of both politics and cringe. If the people volunteering their labor want to name a release after something they care deeply about -- politics, sci-fi characters, furries, whatever -- because that's what helps keep them motivated, then that's their right. And you have a right to fork or use other products if it's just too cringe for you to handle. Enjoy kate.
    • 4fterd4rk6 hours ago
      Yes those bastards with their stances on checks website Russian aggression against Ukraine and Chinese human rights abuses.
      • ge966 hours ago
        I still think it's crazy Mao with the 60M to 1 KD ratio celebrated
    • teejmya5 hours ago
      "If you don't f*ck with politics, politics will f*ck with you"
    • add-sub-mul-div6 hours ago
      Life is easier when ideas don't make you uncomfortable.
    • drcongo5 hours ago
      Is it true that ignorance is bliss? It seems to have made you a little bitter.
    • Floppyrom6 hours ago
      Go you!
    • hluska6 hours ago
      Good for you. Is there a point to that?
  • alimbada5 hours ago
    So many in the software world pretend to care about human rights for some kind of credibility that they're good people. I've seen Ukrainian flags all over GitHub on many profiles or repos but the same people will be silent on the atrocities happening in Gaza, Lebanon, etc. Notepad++ left a sour taste in my mouth when they did the same and now they're "commemorating" something that happened decades ago rather than call attention to what's happening now.

    Edit: here comes the Hasbara brigade with the downvotes.

    • F3nd03 hours ago
      You can care about some issues more than you care about others, or only speak out against some of them. I don’t think anyone is (or can be reasonably expected to be) speaking out about every single atrocity happening in the world. That doesn’t mean they don’t care about human rights. People are nuanced. It’s not all or nothing.