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

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Post by gommm »

Outside of charities, I donate to a few projects: - Openbsd foundation (I use openssh all the time :))

- Corejs + babel (donated after reading this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34859766

- Magisk . I root my Android phone because I believe that if I buy a device I should actually own it.

- Scummvm I believe in preserving computing history and scummvm does great work making older games accessible

- MisterFPGA. Instead of giving my 3 years old son a tablet, I've decided to set up MisterFPGA for him with an Amiga core for him to do kidpix and scummvm to run Adibou and the humongous games. I like the idea of him having access to a relatively simple system like the amiga where he can learn how computer work without having access to internet and learning to passively consume.

- Valetudo. I love having a robot cleaning my house. I do not love having something with a camera that's not purely local. Thanks to valetudo, I can use it without worrying about my privacy.

- Not directly a donation but I buy a yearly license to crossover to support wine development

- Calibre

- Syncthing

- The developer of Karabiner

- Internet Archive

- Free Software Foundation

I used to give to the following:

- Wikipedia (but stopped when I realized that they have more than enough donations and that I should focus on other worthy causes)

- Mozilla (but stopped when I saw the CEO increase her salary while firing and stopping important projects. I do not want a repeat of the IE monopoly with Chrome and as such I want Firefox to succeed but I have completely lost trust in Mozilla's management)

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

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Post by NalNezumi »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #66

To everyone here: THANKS for donating to projects and initiatives that you consider precious, and worth donating to. Most of us live a busy life, and it's usually hard to stop for a moment and think of the many things around us that make living better, even if it's a tiny open source project that solves a little, almost unknown, problem, run by some random guy in Hungary or Minnesota or Sicily. I'd bet that a fair nu…

For robotics, "make robot OS" the first (most popular) donation target would be Open Robotics [1] that develop Robot operative system ROS/ROS2. De-facto standard at least in academia, some startups (for MVP), and institutes.

If you are more keen about the hardware side (imo this side probably require more funding if you really want to keep Robots OS, software can come later) I like Robot Studios work by Rob Knight [2], it's OS afaik, with projects such as DexHand [3]. Recently someone posted K-scale labs [4] as robot OS, but imo looks more like a well-funded SV startup that will go full OpenAI and close everything off as soon they hit R&D traction. (just my own impression from reading their docs & focus, happy to be proven wrong)

[1] https://www.openrobotics.org/

[2] https://www.therobotstudio.com/

[3] https://www.dexhand.org/

[4] https://www.kscale.dev/

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

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Post by pbiggar »

I run a non-profit called Tech for Palestine that is pushing for digital and real-world freedom. The efforts to weaponize the tech industry to control our speech are very frequently aligned to Israel as part of a movement to suppress Palestinian liberation.

We support over 60 projects in areas such as media bias, algorithmic/AI bias, protest tech, and boycotting, which are pushing back against these initiatives. Donations are very much appreciated

https://techforpalestine.org/donate/

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

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Post by chompychop »

dmurray wrote: post #88
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…

Wow, I remember DownThemAll from...2005? If you had asked me, I would have said with confidence "that no longer exists, modern browsers have had this feature one click away for years". But I suppose the truth is they don't, and I just haven't had a reason to use this in a long time.

But modern browsers do have this feature, don't they? I can do this on Chrome and Firefox, at least.

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

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

NalNezumi wrote: post #144
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #66

To everyone here: THANKS for donating to projects and initiatives that you consider precious, and worth donating to. Most of us live a busy life, and it's usually hard to stop for a moment and think of the many things around us that make living better, even if it's a tiny open source project that solves a little, almost unknown, problem, run by some random guy in Hungary or Minnesota or Sicily. I'd bet that a fair nu…

For robotics, "make robot OS" the first (most popular) donation target would be Open Robotics [1] that develop Robot operative system ROS/ROS2. De-facto standard at least in academia, some startups (for MVP), and institutes. If you are more keen about the hardware side (imo this side probably require more funding if you really want to keep Robots OS, software can come later) I like Robot Studios work by Rob Knight [2…

Fantastic, thanks a lot for your input. Going to dig in the coming days. Really appreciate it.
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