The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.

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.

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    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      20 hours ago

      Cachyos will forever be the ideal Arch distro for nerds who want the benefits of Arch without the hassle of Arch (until they support some giant racist or soemthing)

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
    33·
    2 days ago

    of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.

    popular?! According to whom?

    • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      From Omarchy’s site:

      malleable OS for the age of agents. Where you can vibe your way through every alteration, tweak, and desire. Be the Omarch and command your agent!

      Wtf

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    As bad as the “Nazi bar” problem seems to be in FOSS at the moment, it is definitely heartening to consistently see how immediate and overwhelming the pushback has been. I think it says a lot about the community, and it’s a good thing.

    • abc@suppo.fiEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

      • 12 mo: #21
      • 6 mo: #19
      • 3 mo: #16
      • 1 mo: #12

      Obviously growing in popularity. That’s what aggressive marketing usually gets you.

      If you don’t like that, perhaps consider stop talking about it, and him. Instead, every second week somebody writes an article about “DHH is fascist”. What the fuck do they think the effect of those articles is?

      Are people actually so dumb that they think accusing him of fascism will make him disappear? That’s like high-octane clickbait fuel.

      Same with Trump et alia. It’s garmonbozia.

      • 0x0@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring interest in Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day, nothing more.

      • Jiral@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I don’t write any articles on him or his dot file collection. The reach of Lemmy comments is close to zero and even more so among the red pilled who know the truth.

  • xelar@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Keep in mind that internal fights among community discourage users from shifting and benefit Microsoft. I would not be surprised if the smear campaign is a big tech initative.

  • HostilePasta@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Well damn, guess I’ll be cancelling and switching when my subscription renews. Suggestions for replacement?

      • HostilePasta@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Is that a FOSS thing? Never done that before. Are there decent guides for getting it set up?

        • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          It’s FOSS and easy to set up. KeePass simply stores everything in a file and you use Syncthing to sync this file between devices. Syncing is optional, if you just need you password on desktop you don’t need it.

          KeePass has pretty bad UX when compared with Bitwarden though. Bitwarden/Vaulwarden is the best solution IMHO but it’s really difficult to set up.

          • BlindPenguin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Syncthing is great, but can be a bit of a pain in the ass to set up. I wish they’d make that process easier, and maybe also support sharing the ignore file between the hosts…

      • AustralianSimon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Unique passwords and MFA in the one package. Cross platform so I can use on phone and PC. Costs like $10/year. Also locks the credential and passkey to set URLs so phishing attacks are harder.

      • t3rminus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        So that every service I use can have a randomly generated, unique password. Therefore if one of them gets hacked and my password leaked, brute-forced, or decrypted, it won’t affect any other service.

        Plus it stores passkeys and handles 2fa code generation, keeping them synced on all my devices, and ensures I never have to remember specific passwords because they’re all safely stored in heavily encrypted vaults guarded by the only single password I do have to remember. Also it notifies me if any of my information is in any breaches, or if I could do better to secure my account.

        Trust me when I say, it’s safer, simpler, and smoother way to manage things.

      • stoicmaverick@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        It’s so that you can have unique, randomized, rotating passwords for every service you have. Also, they auto fill fields for you, and can save you from spoofed URLs if you’re not paying attention. Highly recommend getting one. Bitwarden is good.

  • zen@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    I’ve emailed their customer service explaining why I’ll be dropping them as soon as my subscription renews.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    231·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • crozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
      140·
      3 days ago

      It uses AI to fix issues and errors. And billionaires need people to use AI as much as possible.

      • Not a newt@piefed.caEnglish
        80·
        3 days ago

        to fix issues and errors

        and create more issues and errors, like executing USB device names as root.

        • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
          21·
          3 days ago

          Per @GreenBeard@lemmy.ca’s comment

          I think we all know why. Whether having money causes racism, or it just so happens that racists are the ones with the money and they’re good at keeping it “In The Family” so to speak is kind of tangential and academic. It’s the hateful bigots that have the cash to fund big things, so if you want funding, it pays to be trashy.

          • Brimstone@lemmy.mlEnglish
            13·
            3 days ago

            They aren’t just racist, They also hate the poors and basically anyone that isn’t them.

        • abc@suppo.fiEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          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.

    • 🇨🇦GreenBeard🇨🇦@lemmy.caEnglish
      42·
      3 days ago

      I think we all know why. Whether having money causes racism, or it just so happens that racists are the ones with the money and they’re good at keeping it “In The Family” so to speak is kind of tangential and academic. It’s the hateful bigots that have the cash to fund big things, so if you want funding, it pays to be trashy.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      Very seldom is something funded that “deserves” it. The answer is that its’ creator (DHH) is very wealthy and connected.

    • abc@suppo.fiEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      That’s the thing about real world. People don’t ask for permission to do things.

      If you think you can do better, who’s stopping you?

  • qupada@fedia.io
    164·
    3 days ago

    1Password does not endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, including those shared publicly by DHH.

    Except… ya just did. Big 'ol cashy money endorsement.

    Or did you forget about that already? Because we didn’t.

    Art / artist.

  • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
    138·
    3 days ago

    “popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.”

    I’ve literally never heard of it.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      77·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • Aeder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      3 days ago

      It’s yet another distro being shilled by god knows who on YouTube and other social media.

      The fact that it’s being pushed so hard without anything of note about it is already suspicious to me.

    • moopet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’ve heard the name but have not spent the time to find out what it is. I thought it was some immutable distro. I think the same about bazzite and catchy (sp?) which are other distros I see mentioned from time to time and believe are immutable and flatpak-y and that’s all I know. I realise I’m just one data point but I never see a lot about these sorts of distros in my general browsing.

    • TeaWithDani@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I only know of it because I was on Distro Watch this week looking for top mention distros I never heard of. The mentions position is likely because of this donation. lol

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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        2 days ago

        It’s virtually unknown in the Linux world too. It’s literally something they made up overnight and are trying to astroturf.

        I’d say “what a time to be alive” to see the day someone considers it worth astroturfing a Linux distro, except there’s probably some nefarious shit behind it.

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I’m not OP but yeah, basically. People who are passionate about a specific topic will know what’s up in that area.

        I can name half a dozen of the most popular Arch-based distros off the top of my head because… they’re actually well-known. Meaning they’ve been around for years, I’ve used several personally and can argue their pros and cons, and they feature prominently in objective lineups like the Steam Hardware Survey. Omarchy is none of these things.

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      yeah this is like a bunch of other internet things where I kinda hate it even seeing it. for me its not a thing of interest.

  • Avicenna@programming.devEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    I wouldn’t have heard of Omarchy if not for the controversies of its creator. So yeah that is one way to become popular.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Controversy? Never.

      Sick thing is, you can say the most outrageous shit, and since you have a direct pipeline to billions of people online, you’ll always find some fumb ducks to pay you.

      Welcome to the post-MLM economy! You don’t even influence people, you just say what they want to hear, and they’ll influence others for you! Jesus christ.