There's also https://www.ecosia.org/ search that donates ad money generated from searches to tree planting projects. They also provide their monthly finances on their blog.
>Now, with the benefit of today’s technological era, the Library is digitalising their entire collection of manuscripts, which includes over 80 000 codices, mostly from the Middle Ages and the Humanism Period.
This is such an exciting project. And the phrase "the Middle Ages and the Humanism Period" is a bit misleading, because what we may find are transcriptions of ancient texts long considered lost.
One of the most flatly incredible manuscript discoveries of the nineteenth century is a short treatise called the "Didache." We knew that such a thing existed, because writers as early as the 3rd century mention it, but it was presumed lost. An 11th century manuscript of it was found in a library in 1875, and most scholars now believe that the text dates to the first century, making it the oldest known Christian "catechism" (one which, intriguingly, seems to stand outside the Pauline tradition).
Obviously, this was and is an absolutely amazing thing for students of late antiquity in general and early Christianity in particular, and it had been sitting there in plain sight (so to speak) for centuries. It would surprise me not at all if we find similar things in the Vatican collection.
It's pretty bad UI design, but pressing the discard button does open a confirmation box that says "Are you sure you want to discard ALL changes? This is IRREVERSIBLE!"
With that kind of a message, it's amazing how he didn't think twice about discarding them. Especially when he didn't have a proper source control before.
> I don't need to explain why I don't have a private repo with my stuff. It is the software's concern NOT to destroy the integrity of a computer like a damn virus. You come here, see my despair and berate me for something that was not my fault, and has happened to a lot of other people? Fuck you.
He most likely didn't have a proper source control because he didn't even know what it is. For someone like him your proposed warning wouldn't be effective, because according to his belief he didn't change anything yet.
I have noticed the same thing. I have a lot of topics selected there, but my front page is still usually full of 'how to succeed in life' posts even though I even mark those as 'don't show more this kind'.
