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Re:Ask HN: What projects do you donate to? on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @05:32AM (#44105324)
I really like the idea of the fediverse, so I donate to lemmy[0] and the spritely institute[1]. I also donate to asahi linux[2].

[0]https://join-lemmy.org/

[1]https://spritely.institute/

[2]https://asahilinux.org/

Re:Apple previews Lockdown Mode on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @04:11PM (#32006171)
I feel like the closest you can come to the dream of a phone that is secure against state actors today would be a google pixel phone running graphene os.
Re:Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-As... on Monday May 30, 2022 @03:51PM (#31562947)
I feel like the best counterexamples to this are Singapore(82% of the population lives in public housing which makes it affordable for local residents) and Vienna(25% of the city lives in publicly funded social housing which decreases costs for everyone).
Re:How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse (2018) on Thursday April 28, 2022 @12:34PM (#31194683)
Thanks, I corrected it
Re:Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a b... on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:19AM (#27514982)
A counterpoint to this is that the northern part of the US developed exactly because of the availability of cheap cotton provided by slave labor in the south which was crucial for industrialization.

> The interdependency between North and South was more than the direct connection between mass production of cheap cotton in the South, picked by enslaved people, and the success of northern textile mills. Recently, historians of American capitalism argued that slavery was even more tightly connected with the modernizing national and global economy. Above all that the U.S. domestic slave trade, worth perhaps $440m in total and moving more enslaved people (about 750,000) since 1790 than the middle passage of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was crucial in the westward movement of investment together with the development of new financial products including securities, bonds, and mortgages. These historians have revealed how deeply committed many nineteenth century banks, especially in New York, were to the continued expansion of slavery.

https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-north-and-slav...

Re:Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features on Sunday January 17, 2021 @08:18AM (#25810423)
If you are a vi user, you could consider using CTRL-[ instead of escape. I find this to be more comfortable and quicker to use anyways and you wouldn't need to use the touch bar anymore
Re:Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:50AM (#23177097)
In my case, I found that the whole concept of managing tabs just becomes moot at some point. The only extension I use to deal with the load of tabs I have open is funnily enough vimium.

When you press <shift-T> the omnibar opens and you can search your open tabs and immediately jump to them, all without leaving your keyboard. This is way quicker than manually going through your tab list and searching for the right one.

Re:The single most important criteria when replacing GitHub on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:41PM (#17249271)
I think https://notabug.org/about fits your criteria.
Re:Redesigning the Scientific Paper on Thursday April 05, 2018 @03:22PM (#16768099)
This reads like an ad for Mathematica
Re:Moving efficiently in the CLI on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:03PM (#16243262)
Why don’t you use the windows key(Mod4) for i3?
Re:More Things I Wish I’d Known About Bash on Sunday January 21, 2018 @01:28PM (#16199240)
Sigh. Hit ‘up’, ‘left’ until at the ‘p’ and type ‘e’ and return.

One could also use <c-p>,<c-a> and <c-f> to achieve the same result much quicker.