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Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
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#182> With the Internet rapidly undergoing its corpocene mass extinction event What? This is news to me. Also What does it even mean?
I think it means all the little websites are disappearing and getting replaced by giant corporate social media platforms
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#183- ISRG/LetsEncrypt: it's amazing how much if an impact they are having in HTTPS, and that's with a very small number of people and resources. - PHP Foundation. - Drupal Association - I started my career with Drupal. Although I rarely use Drupal anymore, it feels right. I wish I could donate to uBlock Origin, but the developer doesn't seem to accept donations last time I checked. I think the Open Street Map is also we…
I think the uBlock Origin maintainer generally encourages donating to filter list maintainers instead of
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#184- 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.
AFAIK given Wikipedia spending they have ~1.5years of runway. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#185- ISRG/LetsEncrypt: it's amazing how much if an impact they are having in HTTPS, and that's with a very small number of people and resources. - PHP Foundation. - Drupal Association - I started my career with Drupal. Although I rarely use Drupal anymore, it feels right. I wish I could donate to uBlock Origin, but the developer doesn't seem to accept donations last time I checked. I think the Open Street Map is also we…
> I wish I could donate to uBlock Origin, but the developer doesn't seem to accept donations last time I checked.
This seems to be the case, and is probably frankly the smart way to go. I imagine if he started pulling in thousands of dollars, he'd get much more attention from the ad industry
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#186Linux weekly news
OpenBSD
Sourcehut
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#187https://organicmaps.app/ is the only mobile app I have a subscription (monthly donation setup) for. I deleted Google Maps app. For my daily usage and in my region OpenStreetMap data is good enough. It's a fork of the maps.me app which started to add a crypto wallet feature, I hope with donation organicmaps can stay (crap-ware and cost) free.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
I, personally, would find it hard to donate to Mozilla knowing the CEO is paid $6 million a year. Compared to the size of the firm that’s a huge amount of pay. At this point I plan to donate to Ladybird instead. Excited for that project.
Difference between mozilla the company and the organization
Yes but is it not always that simple? You see this a lot. I mean, OpenAI is controlled by a non-profit. There are ways to structure things as a firm deems to their advantage and companies are very good at this sort of thing.
To me it just somewhat communicates a kind-of bad faith in company spending priorities and demonstrates that my donations might have greater impact elsewhere. That’s all.
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#189Important 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;…
It’s less that Wikipedia is overfunded, but rather they’re spending quite a bit on non Wikipedia projects. If you believe in their wider mission then donate, but giving them more money isn’t going to support the website if they aren’t going to use your donations for that end.
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#190Earlier 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.
I use DownThemAll on firefox.
The main feature I use it for is queueing multiple downloads, which I don't believe either chrome or firefox offers out of the box.
Highly useful when downloading from archive.org or other sites which block multiple concurrent downloads.
Seems way less suspicious than jdownloader to me.