I’ve been running ArmCord for a while. It also blocks Discords tracking.

I will even uninstall Windows

The big tech industry products are like that. There are still small communities which are meaningful, peaceful and friendly.

Take a look at knockout.chat

I sometimes imagine that with stars and people from a few thousand years ago

I think most aren’t. But many of the listed things are something that annoy many people when just one person does it.

The developer streams on the Steam store product pages cause number 5 a lot.

MacOS does number 4 a ton and it’s annoying.

It’s good that they fund projects aimed to create more equality and meet human rights. Personally, I’d choose different organisations supporting the same causes which seem to better handle donation money. We really don’t need rich managers as middle men, especially when the aim is equity.

I find it very dishonest that they design their donation banners in a way to paint themselves as people who are in a dire, needy situation when in reality they could run that high-traffic website for several more decades with their current capital. This article claims it could even be 75 years.

In case the rich managers will actually run down the website, I think another website like it would pop up really quick. The Wikipedia software is open-source and there are many other Wikis already. Creating another “general” instance seems trivial. People who do the work would not lose a permanent paid employment because they don’t have one, they would just switch over to the next instance. Wikipedias data (and many other Wikis) are already being backed up by third parties. The knowledge will not be lost.

Oftentimes, doing a job for the “good will” really doesn’t pay off. Being an admin or moderator can take a huge mental toll. That’s one reason we are not on reddit anymore: They also don’t pay their moderators while the CEO is a rich asshole. Another current example is the reason of the shutting down of the lemm.ee instance (explained in their stickied post). A lot of workers in non-digital jobs get abused in the same way: No or low salary but too much working hours. They, too, are expected that “doing something good” would somehow prevent the excessive mental and physical stress they experience. Examples are hospital and nursing staff and animal welfare and shelter staff.

I still like The Happening. I just like Shyamalans methods and style. I get why people don’t like it but it would be weird to stop having fun with something because of that.

There’s often at least one thing that I think is well done in a bad movie. It’s fun finding that thing.

It’s sad but the actual people spreading the good don’t see a penny. I’ve elaborated in another comment: https://europe.pub/post/1056976/1290065

Unfortunately, you’d still be donating to rich people. I’ve elaborated in another comment: https://europe.pub/post/1056976/1290065

I remember seeing about it in a show from the German public broadcast which presents their journalistic work in a satirical way.

In short: People who do the actual work on wikipedia (writing articles, admins, moderators) do not get paid. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), an NGO from America, gets the donation money. Managers in that NGO are rich and earn a lot of money every year. They don’t need the donation money to run the website. With the money available to them right now, they could host Wikipedia (with its high traffic) for many more years.

I didn’t find the episode of the show, unfortunately, but many articles covering it.

Here’s one I think sums it up well: https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-next-time-wikipedia-asks-for-a-donation-ignore-it/

Here’s a thread on Hacker News with more links and comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34106982

I recommend doing some research yourself. There are many articles on various websites. Search for “wikipedia donation scam” or something similar.

I’ve heard some of the money goes to questionable people

Der Artikel ist Propaganda von Reichen

Praise the fly, friend

Hop over the dream fences, little boy

Where is this from?

Is it possible to play old windows LAN classics like Warcraft 3 and Counter-Strike 1.6?

Rattle forward, little friend

Woof with the sun, compadre