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Oh boy, where do I start.

First of all, I do donate to multiple projects monthly.

Secondly, why should I (a tech enthusiast) foot the bill for software that benefits all of society?

Thirdly, an organization like NLNet is much more equipped to determine value to the European Union of funding an open source project, than a random European tech enthusiast is.

Lastly, it's pretty amazing what NLNet does with its VERY limited funding. NGI Zero Core, for example, is $11 million euro over 3 years. With that they fund a huge number of open source projects.

https://doi.org/10.3030/101092990

OSTIF scope is really narrow. It's mainly for patching security related bugs/vulnerabilities in existing large projects. And AFAIK it has a significantly smaller source of funding, relying on corporate donations.

It's not comparable to the projects that NLNet funds.

A few weeks ago a wrote in to my Senator on the complete lack of government funding for independent engineers/small projects building FOSS (USA).

NLNet in the EU is awesome. We really should have something like the NLNet in the USA.

Meh. I live in Wisconsin. It's fine.

Our modeling finds that even if Focus incentivizes 800,000 heat pumps with electric resistance backup (10 times the number of heat pumps as it did furnaces in the past four years), the state will still be able to meet its electricity demand with currently operating power plants, even on the coldest days. Depending on the efficiency of the heat pump, in-state winter generation capacity would still exceed peak demand by 1,400–4,300 MW on the coldest day.

https://rmi.org/three-questions-wisconsinites-are-asking-abo...

Cloudflare registrar is poor recommendation because you are forced to use Cloudflare dns.

I learned this the hard way when I had to use route 53 dns and had to wait 60 days to transfer.

I don’t know how this is allowed, registrars should be required to let you set custom dns.

eh. To a certain extent you should compare based on distance traveled, maybe. But total miles driven in the USA are quite high compared to other countries. Lots of driving simply doesn't need to happen, but occurs because we induce it by the way we design the places where we build.

I don't really care how safe driving is per mile, I care if I'm going to be dead at the end of the year.

Every time I've used webp, I've been disappointed. And when I'm disappointed, I try jxl for giggles and find much better photo quality (especially fine gradients), at a much better file size.

Let's cut our losses, ditch webp and move to jxl.

This is the best way to circumvent the politics and corruption.

Maybe in terms of personal responsibility, but definitely not from a societal point of view... It would distort the market by having more expensive baby food tested more often (the people buying more expensive baby food would have the money and the time to do more testing)