• Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
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    14 days ago

    i cant donate bcs i dont got a credit card sadly :(

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        That’s been around for a decade?

        Good lord, that makes me feel old. I used Slic3r for years until Octoprint came out.

  • comma@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Here’s a few I can think of (without knowing whether or not they desperately need it):

    • Debian
    • Arch Linux
    • Anna’s Archive
    • FSF
    • Libreboot
    • freeman@feddit.org
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      14 days ago

      If you have a solid torrent setup and a few hundred GBs of free space, you can support Annas Archive by seeding big chunks of the books.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    14 days ago

    I don’t know if it needs funding but I think a good contender for the project referenced in the comic is NTP the Network Time Protocol. It’s used in almost every computer in existence. Syncing up times over an unreliable network is an incredibly hard problem and basically only one person on the planet knows exactly how it works. And he’s set to retire. Or maybe he’s already retired. Been a while since I’ve read about that.

  • subtext@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Not sure if it’s directly related, but I donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). They’re quite active in the technology space and I feel that they also carry the FOSS ethos.

    https://eff.org/

    • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
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      14 days ago

      brings massive amounts of information to the public, worldwide, in almost every language, for free without advertisements

    • freeman@feddit.org
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      14 days ago

      They have massive funds, a few years ago I researched both the worldwide and (my) national wiki foundation. Very transparent. So just don’t expect your money going to the text based wiki (which is smaller than a TB btw).

      They will probably invest in wiki related projects like wikimedia, wiktionary and so on.

      • witty_username@feddit.nl
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        14 days ago

        A rambling piece that boils down to a poorly substantiated opinion.
        Namely, the author is under the impression that the wikimedia foundation spends unnecessarily and that, because they raised more than they spend, they should reword their requests for donations.
        I half agree with the last point although the author doesn’t seem to understand that a couple of tens of millions is not a lot of money for a foundation of wikimedia’s calibre.
        As for the first point: the author simply assumes that the spending is unnecessary. This is at best substantiated with other people’s opinions. If the author had presented actual detail on the expenditures, they could’ve made an actual case. However, the absence of such detail gives off the impression that there is no real substance to this criticism

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 days ago

    You can donate to the general fund of Software in the Public Interest and let them figure out which of their projects (Debian is the most prominent one) needs the money most.

    https://www.spi-inc.org/donations/

    One advantage over Software Freedom Conservancy is that, if my memory serves, SFC criticized Richard Stallman and his appointment to the FSF board over the manufactured controversies of the last few years, SPI didn’t.

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    Blender is looking for funding to integrate better into professional industry and provide and open source Autodesk replacement

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    The ones you use. If you use KDE, Thunderbird, Gimp or whatnot you should consider donating to those specifically.

    Still, don’t forget Wikipedia, it’s one of the greatest Open Source projects of all time.

  • मुक्त@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    Not money per se, I believe more hands are necesary to assist/succeed Werner Koch. He is doing a critical task for the internet, and last I read, he is the only one on it.

      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        Maybe because he’s doing ok now, getting 100k plus USD annually from a couple big-ass corporations after he struggled for 20+ years. And living in Germany, one of the best countries to be a citizen of.

        I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve it, he does plus back pay for all the other work.

          • comfy@lemmy.ml
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            13 days ago

            Sure, although the response was to the question: “What FOSS projects are most in need of funding? I’d like to help if I can.”

            Plus, it’s not easy to assist/succeed critical cryptographic development. I don’t think it’s something most of us can really help with.