1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
Archive: https://archive.is/osNh3
I’m so glad I switched to Bitwarden. Even without the whole extreme-right angle, the distro, that I’ve never heard of before today, seems like total slop.
So YT’s algorithm is pushing right wing racist distros?
Huh. Wonder who is paying to make that algorithm work that way.
Lex Fridman, The Primeagen and friends are also to blame
And hoo boy, you should see the bearded influencer chuds pushing this slopfest.
Like NetworkChuck.
“popular distribution”? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?
Why does this shit distro deserve all this funding and support? There’s many better options doing a lot more for the ecosystem yet this gets the attention. It’s don’t understand.
It uses AI to fix issues and errors. And billionaires need people to use AI as much as possible.
But seriously what is the actual reason for the donation
Bundling of their stuff into the base installation, I suppose. With simple math, if 1password gets like 33k subscription payments, that’s about $100 000 already.
Omarchy got perhaps a 100K installations just last month.
They’re buying customers and visibility with a sum that’s probably pocket change for them.
“popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.”
I’ve literally never heard of it.
I’ve seen a handful of videos about it recently that have been pushed into my algorithm. There’s definitely a campaign to get it out to influencers. Never heard of it prior to this week.
It’s just a fork of Arch, with tiling, that’s been slop coded with AI. Something anyone could recreate without AI in a couple hours if they’re familiar with Arch.
Something anyone could recreate without AI in a couple hours if they’re familiar with Arch.
That’s ludicrous.
I don’t understand all the hype for Omarchy. It’s not really that groundbreaking or awesome.
AFAIK it’s just Arch with Hyprland and some configs. Don’t get the hype at all…
Configuring a tiling wm is beyond the skills of most people, and of the people who would be capable of configuring it, only a small minority would bother. So there’s some value in bundling all of that into a coherent package.
Things don’t have to be groundbreaking for someone to do it the first time.
When/how/why did DHH fall off so bad? There was a time when he was (at least vocally) shitting on Jeff Bezos, Chamath, and a few other “friends”
Probably around the time he started writing blog posts about how there’s too many brown people in London, or comparing Romani to invasive predator species?
Being against a few horrible people doesn’t automatically make you a good guy…
