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- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28204065
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Relevant to !selfhosted because one of the projects getting funding cut is Let’s Encrypt.
It’s okay, Let’s Encrypt only provides SSL certs for… 63.7% of the market?
Okay okay, that is a lot. But what does a CA need funding for anyway? It doesn’t take much bandwidth to send out new certs.
The only thing that could be expensive is if they had to rapidly invalidate thousands of certs to protect the security of the entire internet.
But haha, that’s a pretty outlandish scenario that would never happen.
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.
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.
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
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
Well donating is good it’s not going to replace the government funding.
Every day just gets worse doesn’t it.
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.
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.
