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Notepad++ v7.8.1: Free Uyghur
- bobjordan 7y agoThe author writes "The Uyghurs are not ethnically Chinese". While that's true, it's only because nobody is "ethnically Chinese". “Chinese” is a nationality, not an ethnicity. Within China, there are 56+/- ethnic groups of which the Han group is the largest.
- honest_tovarich 7y agoThank you. Somehow is cool this days to write non-sense in tech forums. The Kurds are also a large ethnic group in Turkey, so is the author of Notepad++ will be adding a mention to them in the next release note? Native Americans in the US and Canada? Buryats in Russia? and the list goes on and on... but hey, I guess is too hard to do a little research before pretending to be cool.
- aptidude187 7y ago"Somehow is cool this days to write non-sense in tech forums." - Yes, that's what you are doing. Are about 1+ million of those groups you mentioned in concentration camps for just being from that group? No, so don't make such absurd comparisons. Edit: Just saw: user: honest_tovarich, created:32 days ago, karma: -2 => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
- honest_tovarich 7y agoWhat concentration camps? Can you provide some proof?
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar, and please don't break the site guideline against insinuations about astroturfing in threads. That's a major rule users need to follow here—otherwise the threads deteriorate severely. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- lacampbell 7y agoEthnically Chinese is often used to mean Han, both in English and Mandarin.
- mpettitt 7y agoNotepad++ has a bit of a history in releasing versions in support of various campaigns, ranging from a "Je suis Charlie" edition to a "Tiananmen June Fourth Incident" edition. I remember one edition included an auto-typing feature, where a new tab would be opened, and content start typing into it, which frankly was quite alarming for an update of a piece of software that you've been using for a while...
- pssflops 7y agoI believe the typing content was itself the changelog for that particular release and the flak received by the author will prevent it from happening again in the future afaik.
- sillycube 7y agoFreedom is the most important value in software development. As a web developer in Hong Kong and loyal notepad++ user, I am happy to see the message!
- pcr0 7y agoDoes this message only show in the release notes? It would be cool to display a link to this on startup, like with Vim and the ICCF-Holland charity in Uganda.
- rmolin88 7y agoI love it that they have a "this is how you can help link". I've read about so many issues that I would to get involved with, but there's I no mention anywhere oh you can actually do something about the problem!
- passer_chen 7y agotime to help Uganda, npp uninstall...