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Outside of charities, I donate to a few projects: - Openbsd foundation (I use openssh all the time :)) - Corejs + babel (donated after reading this thread htt
by gommm 1y ago
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 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)
- oaththrowaway 1y agoSolid list there! I love Calibre and ScummVM. Is Scumm still under development though?
- gommm 1y agoIt still sees active development, they keep adding new engines regularly. One of the engine I'm excited about is Macromedia Director [1] which they added initial support for in 2.5.0. That's a big endeavour though so will take time until they add everything needed for full compatibilities with a lot of games. They've also just added support for some of the Dynamix games like Willy Beamish and Heart of China[2] which I absolutely loved as a kid (despite their rather rough edges) [1] https://obscuritory.com/essay/macromedia-director-in-scummvm/ https://obscuritory.com/essay/macromedia-director-in-scummvm... [2] https://www.filfre.net/2018/05/the-dynamic-interactive-narratives-of-dynamix/ https://www.filfre.net/2018/05/the-dynamic-interactive-narra...