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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 132 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Did WinRar ever try to break a union

[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 82 points 3 days ago

Only into a mutlipart rar file.

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 28 points 3 days ago

... like WikiMedia Foundation has. (to be clear)

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[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 56 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I did both in the past.
And promptly lost the RAR license.

And not feeling so great about wikimedias recent organizational actions.

The world is complicated

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's so crazy to me that a non profit is anti union. Like, I know we live in a capitalist dystopia but I guess I didn't think it was that bad.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago

WinRAR got what they needed. You did good.

Wikimedia... Hindsight is a bitch, you either live life not helping places that need it or take chances on helping people you don't know are assholes.

TBF, organizational actions aside, they made a thing, it's pretty damned useful, you can download the thing and keep it forever. I've donated to causes that have done less for me.

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[–] username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 82 points 3 days ago (44 children)

People who buy WinRar should consult with psychiatrist about their medication. WinRar is obsolete. We have better open-source alternatives for a decade or even longer.

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[–] bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I donated regularly to Wikipedia and will again when they pull their heads out of their asses.

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[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Donated to wiki. They proceeded to spam my inbox every other day begging for more.

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Don't. They had 180 million usd income, with operating cost of 3 million usd, and they currently have over quarter BILLION is net assets. They (Wiki foundation) are at the point where they become cancerous to the Wikipedia - e. g. they are currently union busting.

[–] Vreyan31@reddthat.com 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is true of any non-profit you give to ever though

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I donated to wikipedia once and they went after me every year like I had fed an hungry dog.

No, I doesn't got more cookies boy!

[–] dimmuborgnine@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

I donate to them regularly, or at least I did until I found out they were going to spend my donation on union busting.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is why I stopped donating to them

I donated to them for a few years, $20 a year, so not much. And then one year they sent me an email that was very clearly meant to guilt trip me into thinking I wasn't donating enough to the platform. So I cancelled the contribution instead.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago
[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 15 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Just a heads up, Wikipedia has been operating with huge margins, they're completely safe and do not need donations right now.

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[–] Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My good sir, I donated five dollars to Wikipedia

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Enshittification comes for us all. But we really need to be proactive about saving wikipedia, or at least it's data.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 25 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wikimedia Foundation has enough assets to keep hosting Wikipedia for the next 60 years, according to their financial reports:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/3f/Wikimedia_Foundation_FY_24-25_Audit_Report.pdf

Wikipedia will really be fine. It is all the other expenses that raise eyebrows in a major way. This, of course, includes the pay of the executives and high-ranking officials that earn anywhere between $150k to $500k a year, and their salaries keep growing exponentially. At the same time, they spend donated money hiring union-busting firms - presumably, to crush on the latest unionization attempts and keep growing their pay.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries

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