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Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by acomjean »

elevaet wrote: post #15

- Libreoffice - Internet Archive - Wikipedia - Bandcamp - a bit off-topic but the music industry has become an exponentially distributed winner-takes-all game. I resist by buying underground music on Bandcamp - it's an exemplary web platform, gives generous cuts to the artist, and you own the files. Even if I only listen to the song a couple times it feels good knowing 80% of the money is going straight to talented a…

I’m the same 3 (band camp occasionally)

My being able to run Linux in a corporate environment doesn’t function well without LibreOffice (even with office 365 online being more prevenlent). Plus it’s a champ at handling csv files.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by ashton314 » 

    - Signal
    - Wikipedia
    - MyNoise.net
    - various Emacs package maintainers
    - Internet Archive
If you’ve never seen https://mynoise.net you should check it out. It’s a beautiful collection of exceptionally high-quality recordings that you can tune to create the perfect soundscape for whatever your mood moves you to.

Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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Post by soneca »

I donate every month to https://freeCodeCamp.org

It was my main learning resource when I was changing careers to become a software developer 8 years ago. It was a very successful career change, both financially and in regards to my satisfaction with my profession.

On a time when expensive courses and bootcamps were all the range, I feel like I wouldn’t have much better than this free resource. Thanks freeCodeCamp!

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