It just so happens that everything I care so deeply about aligns with the DOD

Its kinda telling when they didn't put out anything for Palestine, an actual genocide going on

There is simply no legitimate lib morality reason why you'd go from "Je suis Charlie" to "Free Uyghur" right? It's so inconsistent. Hate Muslims when they're in France, suddenly very concerned for them when they're in China?

It actually makes perfect sense if they hate Chinese people more than Muslims
Because the concern for Uyghurs is never actually about genuine concern for Muslims
- I know it's not out of genuine concern, but how do they justify it to themselves? One year you're cheering on ridiculously islamophobic cartoonists, the next you're crying about Chinese suppression of Muslim culture with no evidence?
They had some "freedom of expression" thing going with charlie hebdo, "I will defend to the death your right to publish the shitty racist asshole" magazine. Charlie hebdo, as far as I'm aware, was mostly an edgelord shitposting rag with a lot of racism and hate, but libs thought it was harpers or the atlantic with some off color jokes.
Xinjiang I don't even fucking know. I think it's some "China bad, genocide bad, therefor china == genocide" and there really just isn't anything else to it.
- The "Je Suis Charlie" thing was used more for fear mongering about how western civilization was under attack from 'barbaric islamist forces' or whatever than any sincere concern for the victims. The only reason that this got so much media focus and a hashtag and worldwide attention was that the perpetrators were brown Muslims and the victims literally died on the hill of being able to make racist cartoon strips no matter what people said. I quite distinctly remember my dad using the attack at the time to claim that Muslim countries needed western countries to help govern them because they were so backwards.
  To be clear, I absolutely condemn the attack and none of the victims deserved to die in the slightest; but the way the media laser focused in on it and the way they spun the story afterwards was absolutely a racism thing.
- You're extremely ignorant and clearly speaking out of your depth here. What repression are the Uyghur people facing in modern cities, amazing infrastructure, and a clean environment? Even the China Hawks have dropped the Uyghur genocide crap because they've understood how little impact it has to make bold accusations based on one antisemitic freak's fever dreams, and contradicted by almost every single Muslim majority country that actually toured the camps?
  Meanwhile, France has a new crazy islamophobic policy every week because they'll take every excuse to persecute Muslims. Like how they've started raiding Mosques on loose, secretive evidence. The Je suis Charlie movement was only ever a fig leaf for islamophobes to attack Islam, much like the original Charlie Hebdo cartoons were horrifyingly islamophobic.
- If they were against terror attacks then they'd support the PRC's efforts to eliminate reactionary terrorists from Xinjiang using re-education, instead of the Western method of bombing and drone strikes.
  Of course, liberals actually support Islamic reactionaries against communists though, 100% of the time.
- It doesn't have to be connected to Islam at all.
  Correct... it's gotta do with geopolitical coverage and interests at hand
  That being said, I must ask... when do you think the repression by China's gov't started and why did it start?
  Just 2 questions...

us: you wouldn't fed-jacket a text editor

the fed text editor:

welp guess time to stop using notepad++ for all my modding needs

I mean, you don't have to pay for the software, so it's not like you are benefiting them by using it.
- Better to stop altogether and be able to know what alternatives exist to promote instead through direct experience.

batting a fat goose egg for 16 straight years, amazing

Forking Notepad++ just to release a version called "Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin"

Omegle still says to stand against the “CCP” in favor of Hong Kong

Here's the dev's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ho_don

He uses traditional Chinese characters, so that narrows him down to Taiwanese, HK, and Macau. From here, 幹 is a dead giveaway the dude's Taiwanese. Putonghua for "fuck" is 肏 with alternative forms 操/艹/C to get around censors, and Cantonese for "fuck" is 屌.

So is this dude all in for Taiwanese separatism? Not so fast. Here's a tweet of him mocking the idea of Taiwanese independence. He basically posted the flag of the DPP to troll Chinese netizens, but he personally dislikes the idea of Taiwanese independence. There's this tweet, where the joke is that Notepad++ is popular in Taiwan because Notepad++ is popular in China (ie Taiwan is part of China).

I personally think this dude is either a Chinese nationalist in the style of a waishengren boomer who thinks the ROC is the true inheritor of China's 5000 year old history or just some contrarian dude who doesn't believe in a Taiwanese national identity because all his peers identify as Taiwanese. Being a ~40 year old dude with the politics of a 60+ year old is kinda wtf, but this tweet where he bemoans people in Taiwan not sticking to Confucian values sounds exactly like what a waishengren boomer would say. Taiwanese separatists don't give two shits about Confucius and want to distance themselves from a figure that's represents the epitome of what it means to be Chinese anyways.

Ugh, I hate when developers get political.

Hexbear web developers:

Good thing notepad++ sucks

What do you use?
- Vscode. I realize text editors really just come down to personal preference but personally I would prefer to use almost anything other than notepad++
- When I have to use a text editor on windows it's either notepad or helix in a terminal
- Sublime Text is the closest thing while looking a lot better and implementing modern UI elements like a fuzzy finder popup.
- Just use a real editor like (from easy to hard): VSCode, vim/neovim, (doom) emacs.
- I alternate between notepadqq and GNU nano depending on if I need superuser perms to edit the relevant file.
- Neovim or Helix. VSCodium if you need a GUI

Mmm yes, I too enjoy sniffing my own farts

This is missing the event from a few years back where Notepad++ was revealed on Wikileaks as being vulnerable to CIA spyware built into its libraries (supposedly since patched out).

~~Weirdly, I see notepad++ since deleted their blog post about it.~~ Blog here, they changed their URL formats. Relevant partial copy here

"Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed" has been published by Wikileaks recentely, and Notepad++ is on the list.
The issue of a hijacked DLL concerns scilexer.dll (needed by Notepad++) on a compromised PC, which is replaced by a modified scilexer.dll built by the CIA. When Notepad++ is launched, the modified scilexer.dll is loaded instead of the original one. It doesn't mean that CIA is interested in your coding skill or in your sex message content typed in Notepad++, but rather it prevents raising any red flags while the DLL does data collection in the background.
It's not a vulnerability/security issue in Notepad++, but for remedying this issue, from this release (v7.3.3) forward, notepad++.exe checks the certificate validation in scilexer.dll before loading it. If the certificate is missing or invalid, then it just won't be loaded, and Notepad++ will fail to launch.
Checking the certificate of DLL makes it harder to hack. Note that once users’ PCs are compromised, the hackers can do anything on the PCs. This solution only prevents from Notepad++ loading a CIA homemade DLL. It doesn't prevent your original notepad++.exe from being replaced by modified notepad++.exe while the CIA is controlling your PC.
Just like knowing the lock is useless for people who are willing to go into my house, I still shut the door and lock it every morning when I leave home. We are in a f**king corrupted world, unfortunately.
Otherwise there are a lot of enhancements and bug-fixes which improve your Notepad++ experience.
- Otherwise there are a lot of enhancements and bug-fixes which improve your Notepad++ experience.
  lol
  "Your baby boy is speaking in tongues and likely to be the Antichrist; anywho, please be sure to return for a check-up in three weeks, and here's a coupon for some baby formula."