Incredible, the last two months absolutely crushed on the first day of December and all it took was a single desktop notification. This is just the paypal donations as well. You can take a look at the data for yourself here.

  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
    151·
    17 days ago

    I think the way this should be done is that there should be a service that you pay a fixed amount to monthly, and it tracks how long you use each open source software that month, and splits your money between each of those (and their subprojects) accordingly. Donation credentials could be scraped off Github: tons of repos have a ‘buy me a coffee’ button iirc.

    Edit: actually I feel quite tempted to program this now. Just don’t know how to handle the legal liability of being paid money and trusted to redistribute it.

    • Ansis100@lemmy.world
      11·
      16 days ago

      There are some projects that are incredibly useful only for a short amount of time. That could throw it off a bit.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
      81·
      17 days ago

      Even just the tracking would be helpful. Track what you use and then a notification each month where you put in how much you want to donate, it tells you how much should go to each thing, and then gives you links to their donate page. I’d love to see my split, even if just to adjust my monthly donations or to see if I’m missing any.

      However, a significant number of the services I use are self-hosted websites. Tracking that may be a bit tricky.

        • Dave@lemmy.nz
          82·
          17 days ago

          This is not a suggestion to have KDE track users, it’s a proposal to build software you could optionally use to help you assign donations to services you use. I would expect the data to be local, and if you don’t want to be tracked then you wouldn’t install it.

          • Trail@lemmy.world
            7·
            16 days ago

            Well yeah, I get the sentiment, but it would be one vulnerability away from sharing my tracked information to malicious actors. Would also probably need elevated permissions to be able to do its job.

            Not worth the risk in my opinion. Same as I don’t want kernel level anticheats and yada yada.

          • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.deOP
            21·
            16 days ago

            I recently looked into that because I was searching for a time tracking software that logs the active window title. Unfortunately it seems like this is currently not easily implementable when using Wayland. I found a protocol that looked promising but sadly it isn’t implemented by kwin.