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1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project (www.theverge.com)
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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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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] dreamy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago

It's not even a fork or an actual distribution or anything. It's just Arch Linux with a bunch of dotfiles made using AI and some pre-installed packages.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But could you recreate it with $30mil and AI‽

/s

[–] Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 day ago

Don't forget that's "macOS inspired".

Meanwhile actually good distros are drowning at the bottom of the ocean.