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awllon Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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/

awllon Apple previews Lockdown Mode

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.

awllon Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death

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).

awllon How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse (2018)

Thanks, I corrected it

awllon Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

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...

awllon Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features

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

awllon Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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.

awllon The single most important criteria when replacing GitHub

I think https://notabug.org/about fits your criteria.

awllon Redesigning the Scientific Paper

This reads like an ad for Mathematica

awllon Moving efficiently in the CLI

Why don’t you use the windows key(Mod4) for i3?

awllon More Things I Wish I’d Known About Bash

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.