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icelancertoday at 2:21 AM5 repliesview on HN

Yeah, Notepad++ is known for political messaging in their updates. Taiwan, Ukraine, etc.


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lobito25today at 2:27 AM

Probably the real motive.

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LoganDarktoday at 2:39 AM

I can't help but feel there must some better venue for such messaging.

When I see politics in software updates or documentation, nothing happens because I'm not looking to use the software for political activism. Maybe I tell my adblocker to remove the messaging, and carry on with my task.

I can engage with politics in a social context, when political messaging isn't interrupting something else I'm doing; that's a better place for activism, IMHO.

I almost always see activists using the argument that if I don't like the messaging then I'm part of the problem. Somehow I doubt that, given I don't mind messaging at all, where it's appropriate.

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tjpnztoday at 3:44 AM

I wouldn't brush off Taiwan or Ukraine as "political". In both cases it's about survival, and in one it's a literal fight.

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ValveFan6969today at 12:11 PM

Why is a word editor lecturing me about world affairs? Hell, I'll take AI Notepad at this point...

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