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

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Post by shelled »

vishnumohandas wrote: post #139
shelled wrote: post #95

It's mostly what I use daily or a lot (except one these are not recurring; I will try to make these recurring once I am financially there again): - https://objective-see.org/support.html (For https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu et al) - https://www.thunderbird.net/donate (I hope none of it goes to Mozilla or Firefox. I also hope https://thundermail.com brings something than I can instead pay for, if I can or will d…

Hey, one of the folks working on Ente here, thanks for supporting us! Are there any interactions that you find annoying within the app? It'd be great if you could specifics, we'd like to explore what is feasible within the bounds of Flutter. Thanks again!

Hey, first of all if was bad or annoying I would not have began to use it. It's not bad, it's actually good generally speaking and from the functionality point of view. You have done a great job considering you had to deal with one of the most private data on two platforms who are very sceptical about giving data access and in their own different ways. Not to mentioned the kinds of feature you all offer while keeping things e2ee is simply great.

It is more about aesthetics and personal preference point of view. Being mobile developer doesn't help either. The thing is you end up noticing everything that a non-native app misses and skips. Small clunks .. the way something loads and how the transition happens et cetera, some textures, corners, icons, the general UI design philosophies like some shades are simply not going to be the same in a non-native app (unless one is doing pixel to pixel matching which would defeat the purpose of picking a multi platform way to begin with).

Discussing so called "drawbacks" would be doing a disservice to your excellent product and also to your goal. I am sure you had a reason to pick up a common codebase (maybe speed; small team or something else - doesn't matter) and it's really a fine product. It's just about my personal preference.

Thank you for these fine FOSS apps and good luck!

(I still be using Ente Auth fwiw - because there are no better alternatives, let alone a better native alternative :-) 2FAS could have come close but it's not there at all)

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

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Post by wslh »

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…

Recommendation: https://nadia.xyz

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

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Post by 47282847 »

chompychop wrote: post #149
dmurray wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Say a website links to 20 images and a dozen mp3s (and other files not in your interest). How would you without an extension like DownThemAll grab these files all at once?

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

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Post by SwiftyBug »

I've been sponsoring the Gleam language on GitHub for almost a year now. For no reason other than: the community is awesome, Louis Pilfold has done an incredible job creating an amazing community. The most inclusive and supportive community I've ever seen.

https://github.com/gleam-lang/

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

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Post by jll29 »

Important institutions that one may want to consider include:

Open Source and Internet

  - Internet Archive [important would be some pro bono legal help due to the recent turn of events, perhaps]

  - Wikipedia [no need at the moment? Some say "overfunded  compared to others"; has anyone checked?]

  - Ladybird Web browser [coming to you in 2026: the first non-corporate Web browser from scratch; some said it couldn't be done; but those did not know Andreas Kling]
Humanity

  - International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

  - Greenpeace

  - Amnesty International

  - UNICEF
[It's saddening that I have to add, perhaps open source software is not as urgent this year compared to stopping the bombing and killing of children, so consider how to distribute between these categories.]

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

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Post by bborud »

In previous positions I managed to get the company I worked for to set aside a budget each year for contributions to open source projects that were important to us. This was considerably more money than I could afford to contribute personally. And across more projects.

When doing this it is important to communicate clearly if these are one-off contributions or if the projects can expect an annual contribution. Sadly, I didn't trust the bean counters at my employer, so I made it clear that "these are one off contributions - do not plan for future contributions from XYZ Corp". Still we managed to contribute for a handful of years.

(They stopped contributing after I left the company. Actually, the entire division, bean counters and all, was scrapped. And sadly, they did not communicate that they would stop funding these projects. This is unfortunate)

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

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Post by lionkor »

jll29 wrote: post #167

Important institutions that one may want to consider include: Open Source and Internet - Internet Archive [important would be some pro bono legal help due to the recent turn of events, perhaps] - Wikipedia [no need at the moment? Some say "overfunded compared to others"; has anyone checked?] - Ladybird Web browser [coming to you in 2026: the first non-corporate Web browser from scratch; some said it couldn't be done;…

wrt Ladybird and Andreas Kling; I contributed a small patch recently (after following Andreas for many years on YouTube), and I have to say that their codebase is incredibly nice and clean for such a large project. Their community is engaging, hyper focused --- it's really impressive. They run a really tight, yet open, little community. I can recommend using the browser, and engaging with the community.

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

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Post by herodoturtle »

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…

Thanks for sharing.

For those that are pressed for time, there is a good Executive Summary on page 8 of the linked PDF report:

https://www.fordfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ro...

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