Off the top of my head EFF, Wikipedia, Internet Archive, SDF, Neocities.
Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
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Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#192Here 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, answeri…
With "overestimate how few resources are needed" do you mean underestimate the amount of needed resources?
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#193The only software project I donate to is NVDA[1]. It's an open source screen reader, AKA software that makes it possible for the blind to use computers through synthesized speech.
It's one of the few open source projects (besides Blender and GIMP) that is used directly by non-technical end-users and that has managed to surpass its commercial brethren , both in features and popularity. This is partly due to its extreme, almost Emacs-like hackability and a vibrant plugin ecosystem, which provides everything from better speech synthesizers to accessibility enhancements for other apps.
It has been created by two guys in Australia, mostly in response to the outrageous prices of commercial screen readers (~$1500 for noncommercial use). The situation has gotten better since then, Windows now comes with Narrator, which is... usable, but NVDA is still the top contender for most (non-enterprise) use cases.
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#194I use cxfileexplorer and I would donate if I could. They're mysteriously mum on company information or devs. For any such project, how does anyone find useful information about security or support or donations?
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#195- 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.
> I think signal is already funded by USA taxpayers.
Are you speaking about Open Technology Fund? AFAIK they've contributed just 3mil, while Signal costs ~40mil a year.
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#196Not really internet-related, but I prefer donating to local initiatives run by people I trust, usually directed to improving people's lives (health, education, etc). These projects are not "famous", but have a noticeable impact, and are IMO wiser in their spending than some huge non-profit organizations (e.g. they don't spend money in huge bonuses, or in advertising campaigns to get more money).
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#197Wikipedia
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#198Important 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;…
If you have kids UNICEF is doing a great program with Paddington at the moment where you subscribe to donations and each month you get a letter from Paddington in a different country introducing you to a child there, explaining what their life is like and talking about what UNICEF is doing in there area. My son has loved his letters.
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#199Every 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…
Most on HN have already fallen for the dichotomy of scrooge mcduck-style capital vs proudhonist pirates.
Meanwhile publishers are caught between these dueling retards and getting squeezed on both ends. Don't forget the scrapers that will hammer your server until it's offline while swapping IPv6s the entire time
"Why isn't anyone building anything anymore durrhurr???"
Well it's because:
A) Google B) You
Re: Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
#200ADEGA, is a local nature association with base in Galicia (Spain).