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Relevant to !selfhosted because one of the projects getting funding cut is Let’s Encrypt.
I’m gonna have to donate then.
Same. I’ve been thinking about who to donate to this year, and it looks like they’re making the cut. I’ll probably also throw some money at my Lemmy instance and a handful of projects I use, including Tor, because apparently they got caught in the dragnet too.
Well donating is good it’s not going to replace the government funding.
Which other projects caught your attention? I was going to donate to Graphene, EFF and some TOR operators
Far more than I can reasonably support:
- self hosted things I use - caddy, the document foundation, Jellyfin, Forgejo, etc
- Android apps - F-Droid, NewPipe, Signal, RethinkDNS, etc
- desktop apps - flatpak, For, Godot, etc
- infrastructure stuff - let’s encrypt, openssh, Linux distros (mine doesn’t accept donations unfortunately), etc
But the short list for now is:
- Let’s Encrypt
- Signal
- F-Droid
And I’ll probably run a Tor relay or something as well.
Man, ReThink is such a lifesaver. It’s so good people at Graphene recommend it. I might give Qubes some bucks too, they are awesome
If only there was a decentralised tracker which would track project funding and give us metrics like which project is dangerously close to shutting down
Every day just gets worse doesn’t it.
That 4 miles long military parade for his 79th birthday doesn’t pay by itself, unfortunately 😢
Have you even said thank you once
Let’s put some numbers on all of this. The OTF’s total budget slowly raised from ~$10M in 2019 to a grand total of $40M in 2023, almost half of all allocated funds by Congress to promote Internet freedom globally.
That’s an incredibly tiny amount of money.
More recently, Congress had directed that - for both the fiscal years of 2024 and 2025 - the funding should be “not less than $43,500,000”, which guaranteed an income stream for 2025 too.
Looks like some spicy legal action will suck up a lot of those cuts…
I also like to measure in jetwing money … This is like half a jetwing.
I like to estimate by cost per congressperson, which is ~$7.5M/year. So the whole of OTF is about 3 congresspeople (and their staff), that sounds fair.
Why would he fund communism in the first place? (/s before you try to hit me with that downvote button).
Sorry, downvoted anyway.
The problem is, European leaders are sacks of shit too. They don’t care either.
Although they could do more, I wouldn’t say they don’t care. For instance, Germany established the Sovereign Tech Agency.
With the new leadership I am doubtful on how long that will last. One of the better things that came of Scholz’s era
On the one hand, I share your doubt, which is justified in the face of all the deceit and mismanagement that Merz in particular and the CDU and CSU in general engage in and their disdain for the public good. On the other hand, the fact that the Sovereign Tech Fund / Agency survived the German budget crisis gives me some hope that it will at least stay.
The problem is that no other country has done anything of the sort. I’m sure the Swiss, the Dutch, the French, the other german-speaking countries and especially the Nordics have enough money to give a few million here and there to FOSS. But they didn’t, because their leaders are just as corrupt and vile. Everybody is acting as if America is the ultimate villain: the fact of the matter is, give any of those European leaders power over America and sooner or later they would turn out exactly the same. It is in their nature. And I say this having lived in Europe for a while.
The German fund staying is pure luck since the hawks at EU are stupid. They’ll come after it once they’re done with Chat control.
Im not saying Zuck is good or a savior of choice, but now would be a good time for facebook investors to pressure him to eat that difference.
Not that he should, but hes been all in on Open Source* lately
*Massive stipulations apply.
