Outside of charities, I donate to a few projects: - Openbsd foundation (I use openssh all the time :))
- Corejs + babel (donated after reading this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34859766
- Magisk . I root my Android phone because I believe that if I buy a device I should actually own it.
- Scummvm I believe in preserving computing history and scummvm does great work making older games accessible
- MisterFPGA. Instead of giving my 3 years old son a tablet, I've decided to set up MisterFPGA for him with an Amiga core for him to do kidpix and scummvm to run Adibou and the humongous games. I like the idea of him having access to a relatively simple system like the amiga where he can learn how computer work without having access to internet and learning to passively consume.
- Valetudo. I love having a robot cleaning my house. I do not love having something with a camera that's not purely local. Thanks to valetudo, I can use it without worrying about my privacy.
- Not directly a donation but I buy a yearly license to crossover to support wine development
- Calibre
- Syncthing
- The developer of Karabiner
- Internet Archive
- Free Software Foundation
I used to give to the following:
- Wikipedia (but stopped when I realized that they have more than enough donations and that I should focus on other worthy causes)
- Mozilla (but stopped when I saw the CEO increase her salary while firing and stopping important projects. I do not want a repeat of the IE monopoly with Chrome and as such I want Firefox to succeed but I have completely lost trust in Mozilla's management)
Solid list there! I love Calibre and ScummVM. Is Scumm still under development though?
It still sees active development, they keep adding new engines regularly. One of the engine I'm excited about is Macromedia Director [1] which they added initial support for in 2.5.0. That's a big endeavour though so will take time until they add everything needed for full compatibilities with a lot of games.
They've also just added support for some of the Dynamix games like Willy Beamish and Heart of China[2] which I absolutely loved as a kid (despite their rather rough edges)
[1] https://obscuritory.com/essay/macromedia-director-in-scummvm... [2] https://www.filfre.net/2018/05/the-dynamic-interactive-narra...