In the latter (earlier) case, the Notepad++ issue tracker was bombarded by Chinese spam in response.
The Notepad++ releases have supported other causes too like "Je Suis Charlie", so special releases aren't confined to Chinese topics. Seems like they are concerned about free speech causes especially.
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.
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.
just now seen one such comment in this thread get flagged/removed but the Gaza genocide is always conspicuous by its absence in these discussions; conspiracy of silence on this needs to end if we are to entertain the notion that we're serious about the other human rights issues being brought up otherwise the hypocrisy just gives you whiplash.
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.
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.
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.
This is not the first time a Notepad++ release has supported human rights causes in China.
For example, here is "Notepad++ Stand with Hong Kong Edition":
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v789-stand-with-hong-kong...
And here's "Notepad++ v7.8.1 : Free Uyghur":
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v781-free-uyghur-edition/
In the latter (earlier) case, the Notepad++ issue tracker was bombarded by Chinese spam in response.
The Notepad++ releases have supported other causes too like "Je Suis Charlie", so special releases aren't confined to Chinese topics. Seems like they are concerned about free speech causes especially.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v674-je-suis-charlie-edit...
That image (and moreso the video) is interesting in how much people read into it. Hard to really know the man's intentions tbh.
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.
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.
just now seen one such comment in this thread get flagged/removed but the Gaza genocide is always conspicuous by its absence in these discussions; conspiracy of silence on this needs to end if we are to entertain the notion that we're serious about the other human rights issues being brought up otherwise the hypocrisy just gives you whiplash.
the selective outrage is just so galling.
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> The West's Christian media are largely silent
What Christian media? Western mass media is mostly secular.
Having known some Palestinian Christians, typical evangelicals in the US don't give a damn about their suffering.
What are you talking about and how is that related to western media being primarily secular?
Pfft, those are wrong sort of Christians, y'know.
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.
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.
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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.
Yes those bastards with their stances on checks website Russian aggression against Ukraine and Chinese human rights abuses.
I still think it's crazy Mao with the 60M to 1 KD ratio celebrated
"If you don't f*ck with politics, politics will f*ck with you"
Life is easier when ideas don't make you uncomfortable.
Is it true that ignorance is bliss? It seems to have made you a little bitter.
Go you!
Good for you. Is there a point to that?