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Post by guappa »

ashton314 wrote: post #35

- 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.

I think signal is already funded by USA taxpayers.

Wikipedia has a ton of money and for a few decades doesn't really need any donations.

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Post by daniel_iversen »

baxtr wrote: post #106

This is a bit of a different area: but since the last elections, I have subscribed to the New York Times. I don’t always agree with them, but I feel like I’m strengthening the counter-side.

I did too for a little while and loved listening to The Daily, but then I noticed they couldn’t help themselves from being politically opinionated and I was hoping to get independent and unbiased news. I thought it was such a shame, and maybe it’s been like that all along but I didn’t notice it until the last election.

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Post by fodmap »

raydenvm wrote: post #7

I live in Ukraine. So I donate to lots of funds like United24 and Come Back Alive Foundation. I believe it helps stop the war and the aggressor. Thousands die every day...

I also suggest NAFO (https://www.help99.co/) and Car for Ukraine (https://car4ukraine.com).

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Post by drgo »

dijit wrote: post #102

I’ve sent money to openbsd. They might not be popular to use, but the absolute freedom of the software along with how simple it is written makes it an incredible “good” for studying OS design. I have also donated to the FSFE (European FSF) and the Linux foundation, but we don’t get tax incentives for donating to charity in most european countries. So it’s quite costly.

thanks for your donations... I use openbsd on a daily basis. Like you I love its simplicity. I love how few processes are running at anytime and how easy to tell what they do.

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Post by eskibars »

neom wrote: post #11

Here I am for the millionth time, on HN, reminding everyone of an amazing gift: 2016 report by Nadia Asparouhova - "Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure"[1] - Please do take the time to read and share it, it's been almost 10 years since Nadia published this work with the hope of inspiring some change outside of the OSS world, I'd suggest we need her words now more than ever. Thank you…

This is super important, and critical reading for anyone commenting on OSS financing.

I've been a product management lead for 2 commercial open-core companies and people drastically overestimate:

- How much code the community contributes (in both cases, >95% of all code was written by employees hired by the commercial company) - How few commercial resources are needed to support the community (running forums, answering GitHub tickets, etc) - How much financial support is actually forthcoming when there's not some "locked commercial features"

As the paper points out, many of these widely used commercial projects receive a few hundred thousand dollars at most in donations (often much less) but need to employ more developers than that financing can support to maintain a baseline capability to address basic bug fixes (including security fixes) once they become "popular enough" to be known by the masses.

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Post by aktenlage »

dejawu wrote: post #55

Every so often, YouTube changes something on their site that causes NewPipe to stop working. Usually within a few days, NewPipe pushes an update that fixes this, and we're back in business. Every time this happens, I donate to their Liberapay. https://newpipe.net/donate/

Good call, newpipe is awesome. Made a donation now.

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Post by LeonM »

dejawu wrote: post #55

Every so often, YouTube changes something on their site that causes NewPipe to stop working. Usually within a few days, NewPipe pushes an update that fixes this, and we're back in business. Every time this happens, I donate to their Liberapay. https://newpipe.net/donate/

NewPipe has a few features that I like, but let's be real: most people use NewPipe for the 'privacy' feature AKA: blocking ads.

At the risk of being downvoted for having an unpopular opinion: but if circumventing ads is your goal, then just get Youtube Premium in instead of paying for piracy.

Because contrary to popular belief, the majority of that subscription fee is actually distributed amongst the content creators that you watch. And for the majority of genres this pays the creator more than regular ad-revenue.

I don't buy merchandise because I don't like waste, so apart from direct donations (PayPal/Patreon), Youtube Premium is my preferred way of contributing my favorite content creators.

LTT actually did a good job explaining this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDsJJRNXjYI

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