Want to know how you can support me and my hard work for @osnews@mstdn.social? Here you go.
https://www.osnews.com/story/141012/the-osnews-2024-fundraiser-support-osnews-to-keep-it-alive/
OSNews has always been a passion project for everyone involved, and I’d like to continue that. By making sure we’re independent, free from the forces that are destroying websites left, right, and centre, OSNews can keep doing what it’s always done: report on things nobody else covers, without the pressure to post 45 items about every new iPhone, stupid SEO blogspam nonsense about how to plug in a USB cable or whatever, or “AI”-generated drudgery.
The people making that possible are all of our Patreons, Ko-Fi donors, and merch customers. You have no idea how thankful I am for each and every one of you.
Two pieces of personal news: first, after 14 years, I've effectively quite my job as a translator. The industry is in the process of collapsing - you know why - and I've been feeling the squeeze for a while now, and I like going out on my own terms. I've known this day would come, and I'm not sad about it. My motto: it is what it is.
Second: I have decided to focus all my work attention on @osnews@mstdn.social from here on out. This is risky, scary, and I'm absolutely terrified of what this will mean. Right now, my OSNews income does not even come close to what I earned as a translator, so I've got work ahead of me to increase readership, give y'all more reasons to sign up for our Patreon, and hopefully find sponsors for the site to generate more income. End goal: rely entirely on reader and sponsor support, to remove ads altogether.
If all this fails, I'll have to find another line of work, which would mean the end of OSNews. Not trying to scare you - just being honest.
Anyway, this is a big deal for me - I've only ever been a translator (aside for the one 8-year teenage job I had), and I do not like taking risks.
Anyway, want to become a Patreon? Or a sponsor? Pretty please? 😰
We offer sponsorships at @osnews@mstdn.social!
https://www.osnews.com/advertise/
A weekly sponsorship puts your display ad on our site for a week. We will make an introductory post at the start of the week, and a thank you post at the end of the week. OSNews gets about 450,000 visits per month with more than 32,000 registered users, spread out over North America and Europe.
In addition, for any sponsorship you buy, you can opt to give a free weekly sponsorship to any open source and/or small project of your choosing. Does your company make use of an open source project you'd wish to help out? Let us know, and we'll see if they're interested in that free weekly sponsorship.
Contact and more information:
https://www.osnews.com/advertise/
Time for a new #introduction (I moved instances about a month ago - we transferred a few straggler followers today, and I think we're done now)!
I'm Thom Holwerda, the guy who runs OSNews (@osnews@mstdn.social). This is my personal account, which may contain 🚨
opinions🚨 and the occasional shitpost. You can support my work at OSNews through Patreon, Ko-Fi, Liberapay, and our merch store.
BREAKING: GNOME and KDE agree to remove letter X from desktop Linu
My man devoted two years of his life, and dropped out of university, to make a five-hour video about where transphobia comes from, and the stupidly flimsy "science" behind it. I don't think I have ever seen something as detailed and heartfelt as this.
I'm not even two hours in and my jaw keeps dropping on the floor because of the utter bullshit this man is uncovering. If you think you've seen bad science... Oh boy, you ain't seen shit.
https://youtu.be/JiOc0r31-Os
Jesus Christ we already hit 20% of our €5000 @osnews@mstdn.social fundraiser.
😱
https://ko-fi.com/thomholwerda/goal?g=0
Imagine dying, arriving at the pearly gates, and finding out it's the Mormons who were right.
I sometimes wonder about what must be an incredibly complex decision tree @catsalad@infosec.exchange goes through every time they want to toot to determine which of their 408 accounts to use.
panic
https://mstdn.social/@osnews/115017019785466884
lol
https://www.osnews.com/story/143046/kwin-gets-liquid-glass-effects-only-apple-can-make/
The fuck happened on Fedi, why is everyone talking about the meta again
Figure skater Princess Peach lives rent-free in my head.
NO. NO. Don't tempt me. Don't clab my retro. I don't have room for this.
Don't tempt me, retrodemon!
Thom, Itanium™
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