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posted by takyon on Sunday April 19 2015, @07:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the tax-writeoff dept.

What projects does the community like to donate to?

In the past, I've donated to EFF, Mint, Wikipedia (though this is controversial), Project Gutenburg and the Internet Archive. I just stumbled on torservers.net where you can fund Tor exit nodes. I guess GPG would also be a good candidate — the maintainer, Werner Koch's struggle for funding has been discussed here on SN before.

Do you guys have any other recommendations? Bounty Source looks interesting.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by VortexCortex on Sunday April 19 2015, @09:17PM

    by VortexCortex (4067) on Sunday April 19 2015, @09:17PM (#172936)

    I donate to the FSF. [fsf.org]

    When I'm not using my own custom toolchain, GNU is my go-to userland/dev toolchain. Since I use GNU+Linux, GNU+BSD, and even GNU+Windows I don't have to fret over incompatibilities in compiler versions. I never saw the advantage of targeting every compiler when one compiler can target everything... Try as I might to write standards compliant code there are still nuanced differences between gcc, Comeau, and Clang (VS isn't interested in standards compliance, so I never bothered).

    When I compared the CPU usage of executables in my dev environment most of it is GNU code, so I donate to them.

    I've fallen out of love with the EFF since they are backing the new bastardized "network neutrality" which is now permeated with censorship-ready language such as "lawful content"... Their conflation of "unlawful" with illegal is just daft. "Lawful" means explicitly legal through legislation; Unlawful means everything from unregulated, new, unknown or illegal -- Things not explicitly legislated into legality. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance. I can't explain this level of ineptitude among lawyers and thus will attribute it to malice. It's a shame, but I produce systems that emit "unlawful" data across the web so I had "better be safe than sorry" and not fund idiots who back what "Network Neutrality" has become via the old bait and switch. "ooh, the public likes X, let's change X to be something else and let the uneducated fools vote for it, it's not like they read legislation... Now, if only we can keep alleged proponents of 'Freedom'(tm) from ruining the established PR, we're good to go", happens more often than you think; See also: paper-clipping hated legislation to bipartisan funding programs for orphans or veterans.

    I used to donate to the Linux Foundation, but supporting Microsoft EUFI is against my religion. I'm a Corebootian [coreboot.org], so my OS's /boot/ is in firmware. I measure boot time in milliseconds, and it's just as secure as EUFI since EUFI is firmware meant to load your boot image securely -- moving the rootkit hacks to target firmware. So if the OS is in firmware already then you don't need the over-engineered, flakey, complicated, patent encumbered, proprietary FAT32 + crypto EUFI bullshit.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @10:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @10:20PM (#172949)

    The Free Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so your donation is tax-deductible in the US.

    Tax deductibility TL;DR: Give your money to whoever you like* instead of the government!

    *well almost [irs.gov]

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Sunday April 19 2015, @10:33PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday April 19 2015, @10:33PM (#172956) Journal

    That is nitpicking. You will never get U.S. legislation on net neutrality that doesn't have the "lawful content" language somewhere.

    Meanwhile, EFF heavily supports privacy, encryption, anonymity protections and technologies. They support the means to allow access [eff.org] to the "unlawful" or censored content.

    Wait, what's this? EFF have critiqued the FCC's net neutrality plans INCLUDING THE USE OF THE WORDS "LAWFUL CONTENT":

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/fcc-broadcasting-rules-wont-help-internet-video-thrive [eff.org]
    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/net-neutrality-are-we-there-yet [eff.org]
    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/03/todays-net-neutrality-order-win-few-blemishes [eff.org]
    https://www.eff.org/mention/us-net-neutrality-has-massive-copyright-loophole [eff.org]
    https://www.eff.org/mention/fcc-net-neutrality-regulations-include-one-really-scary-sentence [eff.org]
    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/fcc-keeping-eye-interconnection-more-clarity-needed [eff.org]

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2015, @11:08AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2015, @11:08AM (#173096)

      You will never get U.S. legislation on net neutrality that doesn't have the "lawful content" language somewhere.

      We'll never get US legislation on net neutrality that doesn't encourage censorship and privacy invasions (or else how will they determine what is lawful content?)? Well, we need to push them to do so.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @11:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @11:37PM (#172966)

    I never saw the advantage of targeting every compiler when one compiler can target everything

    There is an advantage to targeting icc separately because it usually optimizes code much better than anything else when you target Intel CPUs. On the other hand, icc is a commercial software and it's output is intentionally crippled for third party CPUs so it's definately not suitable for all purposes.