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

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Post by husav1k »

newscracker wrote: post #48

Below I’m listing some of the projects I donate to: DownThemAll , a browser extension that makes multiple simultaneous downloads from a page easy: https://www.downthemall.org/howto/donate/ Free Software Foundation (FSF) : https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate LibreOffice : https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/ Mozilla Thunderbird : https://give.thunderbird.net/ Soundswitch (Windows application to switch default play…

Does VLC even have new releases? Where is 4.0, whose beta I had tried out years ago?

Not aware of their org's other works, but I feel like their most popular product (VLC media player) could be improved. Rather than offloading work to plugin devs (surely less than 1% of users use non-default plugins anyway), they could add features to the core app. I'd like to have dual subtitles with different languages for example.

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Post by palata »

LeonM wrote: post #120
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…

I'd rather donate to NewPipe and to the content creators I like.

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

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Post by stuaxo »

GIMP - The team is small, and some devs can be funded.

WACUP - DrO is building upon the parts of winamp that were open sourced around the Winamp 3 era and gradually building all the other parts (since Winamp was plugin based this is doable piece by piece).

Other: a couple of artists on patreon.

If I didn't have to work 5 days a week I might devote time to projects like these, since I can't donating some small amount £ feels right.

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Post by dr_dshiv »

I contribute to the Embassy of the Free Mind, in Amsterdam. They have one of the world’s largest collections of Neo-Latin books/manuscripts from 1400-1600s. Their library has so many fascinating esoteric works—on alchemy, spiritual practices, Neoplatonic philosophy, natural magic, etc. But, 80% of the library hasn’t been digitized or translated. This digitization and translation is what I’m supporting — and making the works accessible to AI (and through AI).

I somehow feel very motivated to make sure that the intellectual works that inspired the Renaissance, European Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution are accessible, both to people and for LLM pretraining.

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

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Post by NalNezumi »

Wikipedia - Not much, but I did donate to it when I was a poor student. It's not a perfect page but nothing beats it in "Exam procrastination by going in to a deep rabbit hole by clicking hyperlinks on wikipedia".

Sioyek - PDF reader. I was happy to find it when it was still very new, and being among the firsts to donate to it. Pretty wholesome to see many have donated, a bit like seeing your favorite indie-band going big. https://sioyek.info/

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