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cm0002@toast.ooo to Linux@programming.dev · 1 month ago

SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute

www.theverge.com

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SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute

www.theverge.com

cm0002@toast.ooo to Linux@programming.dev · 1 month ago
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The marriage of Grok and Omarchy aligns two controversial tech leaders.
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    If I were running a tech project, and elon musk offered to help I’d quickly begin questioning all of my life choices.

    • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Well DHH is a Nazi fascist so he won’t be questioning anything.

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        https://felipec.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/the-ruby-community-doesnt-have-a-dhh-problem/

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          This person assumes the best case for DHHs statements and excuses things by mentioning lack of information, but does not do the same for the person they are arguing against

          This can of course be explained by them not realizing that, but that would mean that both the original post and this one are not thought out enough

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    Omarchy is so funny. There’s nothing interesting there (it’s just Arch with some questionable configs). It doesn’t solve any existing problem that wasn’t solved before, because it’s still Arch.

    And yet the technofascists can’t stop supporting it. It must be virtue-signaling.

    Wowie, you’ve credited another Arch fork derivative with a shitload of usage credit for your fourth-grade AI model. Surely this will have an impact on technology.

    Then again, it’s a match made in heaven. Nobody cares about Omarchy, and about the same number of people would care about Grok if they couldn’t get pornography out of it.

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      There’s nothing interesting there

      Yet people can’t stop talking about it, positive or negative. Something is interesting.

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        well there’s the fash angle

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        Removed by mod

        • refalo@programming.dev
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          If you can’t argue your position without attacking a person’s character, you already lost the argument.

          • Corbin@programming.dev
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            Easy for somebody not in the Linux community to say.

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    Thanks for the warning, I guess.

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    Of course they did. Omarchy is one of the only openly fascist-run Arch customizations.

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    The funny thing is that DHH isnt even doing anything with that much money to make Omarchy better, seems like all money is going into his pocket

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      It’s being funneled to aligned projects like hyprland and so on

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    “controversial”

    • Avicenna@programming.dev
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      mildly politically aligned

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    And watch while they claim $1.5MM in revenue and $1.5MM in “marketing” to juice their books just a bit more.

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    I guess that settles the entire debate, in case anyone had any doubts.

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    Of course it does. There is no reason to do this except to say “yay” to DHH being racist.

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    https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/

    https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/fashware

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    I feel like I am living in a simulation where the creators are just messing with us now. The headlines have just gotten too oniony over time.

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    Is there a list of these asshole backers anywhere, so we all know who to boycott?

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      https://stopomarchy.org/

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    elon backs nazi; shocking headline…

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    This reminds me; I gotta get rid of 1password.

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    Nazi pseudodistros aside, I wonder if they could sell those tokens for real money. If not, it might as well be 1.5M in magic beans.

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