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Re: Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

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Post by LoganDark »

shiroiuma wrote: post #496
LoganDark wrote: post #208

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Do you think it's socially acceptable to ignore everything that doesn't affect you personally? Many activists would certainly have you think otherwise. As far as I can tell, fighting that habit is a huge goal of activism.

>Do you think it's socially acceptable to ignore everything that doesn't affect you personally? No one has the time to pay attention to every little injustice in the world. For all the people crying about Gaza, how many of them are dedicating as much energy to the wars in Sudan, Yemen, or Myanmar, or the abuses by Russian security services (like imprisoning a guy for holding up a blank card)? This isn't to say that w…

I agree.

Re: Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

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Post by LoganDark »

joe_mamba wrote: post #381
moi2388 wrote: post #243

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Yes. Activists also don’t focus on all causes, not even most. They cherry pick whatever topic is hot in that moment. Sorry, I don’t care about that when I’m browsing something about software. When I care about politics I’ll deal with actual politics. Reddit won’t change my mind nor the world.

Same. I go to technical or other forums in order to pursue hobbies of interest and escape the political shitshow of the real world, not be reminded of it every step of the way. I don't want to be bombarded with their opinions on the matter, even if they were to align with my own. Virtue signaling becomes a slippery slope that only induces more division, anxiety and fatigue over those issues, while not actually helpin…

I find it can be appropriate to talk about politics around a project when a political situation is directly affecting a maintainer of the project or the project itself and is a genuine reason why there are delays, weirdness or other impacts somewhere. I appreciate hearing about such things for transparency's sake. It's just all the other stuff that gets on my nerves, where it's just tacking politics onto the project just because there's injustice.

For example it's very normal for the Tor project to talk about censorship and privacy. It's also fairly normal for Russian maintainers to speak out about how it's no longer possible for them to receive support due to sanctions. And I can understand if a Ukrainian maintainer has to focus on trying to survive or escape the country instead of developing their software. All of that stuff is completely fine and I wholly empathize with it. It doesn't bother me because it's not extraneous; it is directly relevant to the project. I also don't mind projects listing their preferred charities.

But I do roll my eyes when projects continue to pine on about Taiwan's independence or the genocides in Gaza. If there isn't a reason why it's actually relevant to the project, I don't think the project page is a good space to push it.

Re: Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

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Post by hinkley »

skeledrew wrote: post #430
hinkley wrote: post #193

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This reminds me of college, when some of my professors were still sorting out their curriculum and would give us homework assignments with bugs in it. I complained many times that they were enabling my innate procrastination by proving over and over again that starting the homework early meant you would get screwed. Every time I'd wait until the people in the forum started sounding optimistic before even looking at t…

> let my friends try out software updates first before I do And who do they let try the software before they do? And so on... Where does it ended?

There's a few months every year when I'm feeling brave or crazy. We could take turns.

The thing is that most supply chain attacks are going to hit you when you are least prepared to deal with them, because that's exactly how they get you. When you're distracted.

Upgrades are deep work, but the commands to start them feel like shallow work.

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Post by hinkley »

wiether wrote: post #383
greazy wrote: post #382

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I work in a lab as an analyst (bioinformatician), we are register and pay for quality assurance programs that contain an embarrassing about of technical errors.

> an embarrassing about of technical errors amount? ;)

Autocorrect makes us all sound like jackasses these days. Have some pity.

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Post by appreciatorBus »

alighter wrote: post #449
appreciatorBus wrote: post #437

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I wish that were true, but in my experience so far, it isn’t. Not only does politics and general stories crowd out everything else over time on other sites, there are HN submitters who seem to be trying to accelerate this. During the war, when HN was getting Israel-Palestine stories constantly, I started looking at the submission history of some of the submitters, and some of them were just pushing these types of sto…

Globalizing the intifada means pushing an agenda everywhere, including on HN, on posts where it is relevant and on posts where some obscure or conspiratorial connection can be made. If HN is going to allow accusations to be slung against groups of people it has to allow others to respond, and that sets off endless debate amongst people who will not be changing their minds on the matter but will repeat the same argume…

Every Israel Palestine story was like that. Just hundreds of back & forth exchanges of fire that could be copy pasted from the last story, along with copious complaints that HN was censoring them even though the story was on the front page. Just a complete waste of time, and very dishonest & unserious people.

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Post by _zagj »

hjoutfbkfd wrote: post #340
firesteelrain wrote: post #102

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$700+ at Sectigo for two years Something of Notepad++ size might think about it now

the issue was not the money, but that it was difficult to get a certificate without having some sort of legal entity

Delaware LLCs are "cheap," but you're still looking at $300-500 a year in fees.

Re: Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

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Post by _zagj »

shevy-java wrote: post #322

That's sad. China should be more helpful with regards to open source. Notepad++ is a great editor. I don't use it on Linux, because I have an older editor I am very used to, but on Windows I like notepad++ a lot (though lately I have been using geany on Windows, mostly for convenience - I think notepad++ is better but I sort of like the github-based development of geany; either way notepad++ is really excellent as we…

> That's sad. China should be more helpful with regards to open source.

They should also be more helpful with not plundering the oceans, even including the territorial waters of far-flung nations, of fish.

Re: Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

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Post by prodigycorp »

Barrin92 wrote: post #100
prodigycorp wrote: post #43

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I think I made it clear that I use (and pay for) their applications. I also think I made a sufficiently nuanced comment that doesn't suggest that I've "given in" to anything.

what I took a bit of offense with is the term "software maccarythism". That's a movement now remembered for an over-reaction to often imaginary enemies. Ukraine is right now fighting for its life in a hot war on our continent here in Europe. Taiwan is at the very real risk of being invaded. American and European infrastructure is subject to cyber attacks that that are effectively hostile military acts already. I don'…

Adguard is flagged as "suspicious". If it is, I'd like to have a better reason than "because it's russian".
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