• alexdeathway@programming.dev
      22·
      59 minutes ago

      Duckduckgo doesn’t have addon, firefox is unoptimised on android, last update fix few of ui issue but core functionality are still too slow on it and its fork, Brave is probably the best among all on android.

  • Morphit @feddit.uk
    832·
    3 hours ago

    Doesn’t hold up today: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationType=individual&donationYear=2026

    2013: $5-$24 ? (assuming the comic image is 20 years after the foundation was started in 1993)
    2018: $1000-$4999
    2019: $1000-$4999
    2020: $250-$499
    2021: $1000-$4999
    2022: $1000-$4999
    2023: $100-$249
    2024: $500-$999
    2025: $200-$499
    2026: $1000-$4999

    I expected better, internet.

    Though even at $5k it’d be 38 parts per billion of their annual profit.

    Edit: As per replies this was from long ago (2013?) and is no longer on the FreeBSD site.
    Edit2: The most recent Wayback Machine capture was 2020 when Apple gave $0
    Edit3: Looks like other captures are there also and 2020 was an anomaly.
    Edit4: The amounts per year change in Wayback captures so the OP image may have been true at some point, but was not the final total for any one year. Maybe it’s some employee matching program that adds many small amounts over the course of a year.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      131·
      4 hours ago

      also as another commenter said, apple had a donation matching program so could possibly have been some employee donated $20 and apple matched it

      also also, osx is based on openbsd; not freebsd so id expect them to donate maybe to kernel development and the actual distro it’s based on rather than a random other one

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        3 hours ago

        The FreeBSD Foundation celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2020. I already checked the 2018–2026 donations and didn’t find the one shown in the OP. (Edit: I actually did. See comment below. It’s from 2021 and is real.)

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      It’s real. See my comment below explaining what happened, namely that it’s from early 2021. I suggest editing your comment, as you only checked the years this wouldn’t possibly apply to (the screenshot was made pre-2024).

        • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          This was not from 2013. This screenshot was provably from 2021, specifically anywhere from January 17th to March 27th. The FreeBSD Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2020 (press release from December 21st, 2020, here). The person who said it was from 2013 wrongly assumed that the logo (upper-left of the screenshot) was referencing the 20th anniversary of FreeBSD itself and not the FreeBSD Foundation.

          The reason it’s so low is that 1) this is kept track of throughout the year, and 2) it was a matched donation or donations. Thus, Apple matched donations throughout the year, eventually amounting to $1000–4999, but at the point this screenshot was taken (early in the year), they were only between $5–24.

          Please read my comment below explaining this. You’ve accidentally edited more misinformation into your comment in trying to be more thorough.

          • Morphit @feddit.uk
            2·
            3 hours ago

            Yeah, I was sceptical of the 1993 + 20. Do you have a capture that shows this? This one has the 20th anniversary banner but Apple doesn’t appear at all in that capture for 2020. I think these pages have changed over the course of the years. There may well be one as per the comic, but it’s not easy to find.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    2 hours ago

    Edit 3: This is not edited but rather a real screenshot from early 2021.

    • Alexander Tharapos only shows up in 2021. David Choi is also in the $5–24 bracket.
    • Donations accrue throughout the year. Here’s one snapshot from late March 2021 showing Apple far below where they were at year’s end.
    • The FreeBSD Foundation’s 20th anniversary was in 2020, hence the logo.
    • However, this was after mid-January, as we have an archive from then when Apple Inc. wasn’t on the donor list yet.
    • Apple was in the $1000–$4999 range by year’s end.

    This also comports with @RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip’s note about the donation matching program. A small automatic donation like this would make sense.

    What’s more likely?

    • Apple, Inc. noticed and went out of their way to donate – but an amount so inconsequential that it damages their brand image and probably, due to labor overhead, cost them more to donate than the amount actually donated.
    • You can donate under whatever name you want, and someone just made their name “Apple Inc.” as a joke.

    Edit: I checked the donors, and while I couldn’t go back farther than 2024 (even by changing the URL param), none of them were $5–24.

    Edit 2: I went back to 2018 via the Wayback Machine and still couldn’t find this. I guess it’s possible it happened before this, but given every single year seems to be in the hundreds to thousands range and given a $25 donation by a company like Apple would be pissing money into the void, this seems dubious.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      2·
      33 minutes ago

      It’s also possible an Apple employee did the donation.

      In most enterprise places I’ve worked at (as a software engineer), we’ve had a small discretionary budget we could allocate every year (or 3/6 months) to donate to OSS we’ve relied on. This would usually be a small budget, per team (last time it was £100 a year), and sometimes it had to be allocated based on how big a part it plays in my specific team’s work.

      So I see it as quite plausible that a team got a budget for such donations, and since BSD made up part of the work, they had part of that budget allocated and donated.

      Unfortunately with big corps it’s hard to properly align between teams when it comes to bureaucratic BS, so it’s even possible that Apple donated under dozens of names because yay, red tape if you want to do it the right way.

    • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      God I wish people would ask the “what’s more likely” question on important issues. This kind of critical thinking has fallen off so hard.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 hours ago

      It was likely a matched donation. See my comment below explaining how this screenshot came to be (the screenshot is real and was taken sometime between mid-January to late March 2021) and @RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip’s comment showing the donation policy.

      The comment by @Morphit@feddit.uk below is wrong and isn’t even examining the relevant years (although it does correctly explore the spirit of the original post, which is that this is chump change for Apple regardless).