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Cake day: September 7th, 2023

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  • I am all in favor for spreading donations across many - especially smaller - projects. I think that there are two levels to donations:

    • The monetary one. Donating helps fund development either by paying for a full-time dev or by helping the dev stay financially stable to do a bit less work hours so they have time for the project.
    • The psychological one. Most people that publish their code online are not expecting this to become big. And when a stranger from the internet appreciates their code enough for a donation this is a huge motivational factor.

    I even tend to think that donating 5€ more to GIMP is less valuable than giving the money to some random project.










  • I guess it is somewhat like paying in cash for your groceries: While anonymous, only you buy at this time of the day your favourite 3 food products, a cup of gluten-free instant ramen and a period product.

    I would be concerned about this scenario:

    • Company X has your TV data (but doesn’t know your name, etc)
    • Company Y, Z, … know your name and have data on you.
    • They buy/share/whatever data and intersect it. Now they can probably connect the data they have on you.