Just a note on the efficacy of activist messages in FOSS.
In the Aughts, I was learning to play with microcontrollers. PIC microcontrollers were free as well as the JAL language. I ordered a hardware programmer from the Dutch guy who created JAL: Wouter van Ooijen. Probably my first purchase online. There was a statement in the license, to the effect of, the language could not be used to develop arms.
Looking back, that was a turning point for me. I was machining arms for a living and continued to do so for years. It got me to thinking about what it was that I was producing with my hands. Weapons for killing people.
I thought about it a lot. All these things I was making with blood and sweat being used to kill people. Running machines on night shift gives you time to think.
His statement was, at minimum, at least partially responsible for me changing my mind. I grew past the bad religion and far right ideology that I was taught.
I’m going to send him a thank you note.
Not an easy thing to change about oneself. Good job and thanks for sharing 👏
Having switched to linux, np++ is one of the programs I miss the most.
Inb4 ‘just use [insert software here] instead’; yes I know alternatives to np++ exist. And I know wine exists. I don’t miss np++ enough to go that routeJust for the benefit of other readers, Notepadqq is one of the alternatives for Linux. However, there are a few features I really wanted from Notepad++, so I have installed it using wine. No problems there. Hopefully some day we’ll see a Linux release.
I’m in the same boat. I ended up giving up on the Linux options and using a Notepad++ snap package, but as it runs in WINE it has some quirks that I have not figured out yet.
As an example I chose to hide the menu bar while I was trying to get a dark theme looking correct, and now I have no idea how to bring the menu bar back, because wine takes the [alt] input that would usually bring the menu back up.
I’ll probably end up just deleting and reinstalling the snap. But I’d rather know how to bring up the alt menu in emulated programs in wine - in case it happens again.
Used to be alt+space. But I haven’t used wine in a while…
Thanks for the suggestion. That combo seems to bring up window options for Wine’s workspace. I’ve purged and reinstalled the snap now which does skirt the problem.
Wow, never thought I could like notepad++ even more…
Notepad++ is still the second thing I install after
ChromeFirefoxwhatever the fuck i’m gonna use nowLibreWolf ( https://librewolf.net/ )
Don Ho is a stand up guy! Notepad++ is also a great piece of software.
That headline is pretty confusing if you only know Don Ho as a Hawaiian singer.
I just assumed Notepad++ made the writer happyyyyyyy, made them feel fiiiiine
It wasnt even made explicitly clear until they started quoting Notepad++ Don Ho after 2007, when the real Don Ho passed away.
People can have hobbies that become their full time job, right?
This is awesome, as is the number of people over in the XDA comments all finding a way to get angry at software they’ve never used.
XDA is asking for disabling my adblocker? WTF? I guess i won’t be reading the article.
Firefox + ublock Origin on my phone. No issues.
What browser and adblocker?
Vivaldi, no adblocker, it seems it has one integrated… maybe?
If you want to consistently block ads, you can’t use a chromium based browser since they don’t support ublock origin
I didn’t know some of that. I’ve even more respect for Don and what he’s doing!
Interesting piece. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Hopely he doesn’t put the political messaging into the software.
Everything you do or don’t do is a political statement. Do you think you can somehow exist in a bubble where politics is something that happens to someone else? How naive.
Here to cheerfully crush your hopes and say he does!
Did you read the article? If you have a problem with the political messages he is adding to the releases, you’ve probably been brainwashed by a government or a political party. He’s not saying anything controversial, mostly just “Hey y’all, genocide bad.”
He did. A notable update for Notepad++ compulsory had a support message for Charlie Hebdo. Its his right to do so, and he’s not wrong.
