It’s by far my favorite text editor on Windows. The first time I used it (I think to edit cfg files for Skyrim mods, lol), I was hooked. It’s great to know it’s creator is so principled.
Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance
Submitted 13 hours ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.xda-developers.com/story-notepad-plus-plus/
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renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 4 hours ago
witty_username@feddit.nl 8 hours ago
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.pulsewidth@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
Used to be alt+space. But I haven’t used wine in a while…
SavageCoconut@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
XDA is asking for disabling my adblocker? WTF? I guess i won’t be reading the article.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Firefox + ublock Origin on my phone. No issues.
capybara@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
What browser and adblocker?
tehsYs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
Wow, never thought I could like notepad++ even more…
emiellr@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Interesting piece. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Don Ho is a stand up guy! Notepad++ is also a great piece of software.
halfpipe@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
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.
sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
I didn’t know some of that. I’ve even more respect for Don and what he’s doing!
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Hopely he doesn’t put the political messaging into the software.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Here to cheerfully crush your hopes and say he does!
Machinist@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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.”
Machinist@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
I’m just an internet stranger, but I’m proud of your growth. Many people in similar positions would’ve spent those years digging themselves deeper, because confronting the cognitive dissonance is not easy (you may well have spent some of that time digging deeper, but you made it out, and I’m glad you’re here with us)