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Orinocco··on Ask HN: Best way to “donate” dev hours to charity?
Digital Candle is a great service for providing free tech advice to charities: https://www.digitalcandle.org.uk/

You can sign up for a one hour call with a charity which has a problem/needs advice. There's no committment after that but you can get more involved with that charity if you like/it's appropriate

I've volunteered with it a few times, all felt productive/ hopefully helpful to the charities involved

Orinocco··on The relationship between money and happiness
Iran is on the graph twice..
Orinocco··on Apple applies to patent a paper bag with at least 60% post-consumer content
"Apple is notorious for swiping design and elements" They even patented swipe to unlock, probably swiped that one too.
Orinocco··on How many Ubuntu Phones there are?
One more than there should be by rights! Mine fell in a river at night a week ago, I thought it was gone but then I saw a light flashing from the bottom.. It was the screen flickering, coming and going for about a minute like it was calling to me. By the time I got in it had gone out but I found it by diving and feeling around on the bottom.

Packed it in rice and 4 days later it came back to life :) I'm very happy, great phone and surprisingly hardy!

Orinocco··on “Stop reverse engineering our code”
The article seems to have been taken down from the Oracle site.. I leave this from an unclosed tab for posterity:

http://pastebin.com/hU1mg1K9

Orinocco··on GravityLight: Generate light with gravity
Loads of great social tech ideas including this one on Social Tech Guide (http://socialtech.org.uk/), nominations are open for new ones at the moment if you come across any more..
Orinocco··on European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA
Thanks! I'm signed up. Philip Morris vs. Australia sounds like it should be satire :(
Orinocco··on European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA
Thanks, very informative - I see why this is a problem now!
Orinocco··on European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA
I agree, could someone please explain why CETA and TTIP are worth stopping? Given that the link doesn't seem to, and I don't have time to watch the press conference.