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Re: Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration

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Post by gradientsrneat »

chao- wrote: post #2

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...

Re: Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration

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Post by F3nd0 »

alimbada wrote: post #20

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 cal…

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.

Re: Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration

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Post by graemep »

__patchbit__ wrote: post #16
graemep wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The West's Christian media are largely silent What Christian media? Western mass media is mostly secular.

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.

Re: Notepad++ v8.9.6.4 Tiananmen Massacre Commemoration

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Post by JohnTHaller »

chao- wrote: post #2

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.

Also worth remembering that all of us had to deal with China attacking Github and taking it mostly offline for quite a while 11 years ago. China used the great firewall of China to inject a malicious script into Baidu analytics javascript files. Every website outside of China that used Baidu analytics wound up serving those infected file to every visitor. All of those visitors were then reloading two Github projects over and over. The two projects were designed to allow Chinese citizens to view uncensored news from the NY Times and from the greater internet.

Never incorporate third party Javascript, CSS, images, etc served from a server within China through their great firewall in anything you do.

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