Merge branch 'main' into develop — keep AI catalog fix from develop

Resolves the conflict on AppImage/config/verified_ai_models.json in favour
of develop's curated version with _exclude — main had the bot's first
naive refresh which surfaced allam-2-7b as the Groq recommended model.
develop also absorbs the bot-maintained files main had accumulated since
1.2.5 (helpers_cache, app_tracking_hints, project-growth, FUNDING).

.github/FUNDING.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# These are supported funding model platforms
+
+github: MacRimi # Replace with up to 4 GitHub Sponsors-enabled usernames e.g., [user1, user2]
+patreon: # Replace with a single Patreon username
+open_collective: # Replace with a single Open Collective username
+ko_fi: macrimi # Replace with a single Ko-fi username
+tidelift: # Replace with a single Tidelift platform-name/package-name e.g., npm/babel
+community_bridge: # Replace with a single Community Bridge project-name e.g., cloud-foundry
+liberapay: # Replace with a single Liberapay username
+issuehunt: # Replace with a single IssueHunt username
+lfx_crowdfunding: # Replace with a single LFX Crowdfunding project-name e.g., cloud-foundry
+polar: # Replace with a single Polar username
+buy_me_a_coffee: # Replace with a single Buy Me a Coffee username
+thanks_dev: # Replace with a single thanks.dev username
+custom: # Replace with up to 4 custom sponsorship URLs e.g., ['link1', 'link2']

.github/workflows/repo-growth.yml

@@ -22,5 +22,6 @@ jobs:
           title: ProxMenux growth
           output: images/project-growth.svg
           history: .github/repo-growth/history.json
-          metrics: stars,forks
+          metrics: stars,forks,clones
+          traffic-token: ${{ secrets.REPO_GROWTH_TRAFFIC_TOKEN }}
           layout: dashboard