I bought a key yesterday, I’ll see how long 5€ will last me and then decide if I’ll look elsewhere.
I bought a key yesterday, I’ll see how long 5€ will last me and then decide if I’ll look elsewhere.
The credit card company and everybody buying that data from them still does though, probably, which for me is the bigger concern.
Nixpackages or Flatpaks/Appimages(/Snaps 🙈) are a general solution to this (not in this specific case probably), no?
Ah, ok. I’m amazed it still works at all, tbh (extracting data from Twitter, that is).
Nitter still exists? Finally some good news!
Exactly, never use social media (Acticity Pup, Insta, Tiktok etc) to organise activism, use it to comminicate with the pubkic, that’s what it’s made for.
Cycling is amazing if there are good roads that aren’t much traveled around your area and check your local arthouse cinema, they even still might have paper tickets 😸
Oh, hello Terryfing Storm, please come in, would you like some tea? Biscuits?
Or during some soccer/football event …
Yeah, that’ll be hard. I’m trying to use Peertube but network effect is big on YT (not sure if that’s the right expression here, noone is using Peertube, everyone is on YT).
Would sponsorblock be a solution for this?
I wonder if the Dwarf Fortress Steam Release has something to do with this … But it feels like the timeline might not check out?
I was wondering about that (but thought that that what you said would probably be true), this would have been very interesting if it just restored nudes …
Yeah, very good points. A while ago there was talk about some kind of foundation where maintainers could bill their hours and people and big tech companies could donate. Not sure if / how that would work …
During the xz incident I also talked about this on Mastodon and someone suggested that big tech could just employ maintainers without them having to do anything for the company directly, just work on the project / library the company uses. Again not everybody would want to do that …
I’m afraid there’s no easy one-fits-all solution here.
I think the route of giving it all away for free and either offering hosting if the project needs it or (business) support is the most successful way of doing this.
I have no problems whatsoever with donation buttons / banners (like Krita does) but I’m afraid random donations is not really a sustainable model for most projects. I try to remember to donate to projects I use a lot (especially if it’s for work) but it is another thing on my todo list and not one with high priority, so I don’t do it as often as I’d like … 😓
Thank you all for these comments, they have made another horrible piece of news a bit less horrible (by knowing people are apaled by this shit).