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Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 263 points 10 months ago (67 children)

You know what's free (as in beer and speech) and not being enshittified? Notepad++

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It does contain random political statements however which is sometimes concerning.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I haven't noticed any of this. Where are you seeing them?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So far the author seems to have been on the right side of history. You can see some of them in the N++ update news:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/

They seem to be pro-Ukraine (or at least anti-Russian invasion) and anti-Chinese authoritarianism. I can't bring myself to have any beef with either of those positions, really.

At one point they also sold a thong.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I just missed on the thong

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

No you didn't, the links at the bottom still work - you can get it in both old and new logo.

Go ahead, live the dream!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

They had some messages regarding a free Ukraine a few updates back. It’s a free app so if he wants to include that in his update message that’s fine to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Every few updates the read me, description or something contains some kind of statement on various world issues going on.

Search the hit hub issues for notepad++ for the word political. People complain each time.

I don’t care if he is on the rights side of the issue or note, just don’t like it popping up in software.

I thought my installer was infected the one time by to giant wall of default text when I opened it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's because apparently being anti Russia, anti authoritarian and pro Ukraine is.....pOliTiCaL

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It is. The sentence “I’m pro Ukraine/Russia” is most definitely a political statement

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