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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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[–] zen@lemmy.zip 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] SquareScarletCougar@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

He got a recent interview with one of the YouTubers I follow and I'm must say I'm a bit sad to not see people calling him out https://youtu.be/_CuibYl_Fh0?is=f6p3aQv4iPmdqiH1

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

It was probably a condition of the interview. :(

[–] Jiral@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"popular distribution"? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Whatever it is, it's a stupid name, it sounds kinda like an STD.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I never expected a mid hyprland preconfig to be tied to a person with Nazi views and cause this much issues.

[–] jenings@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

I cancelled my 1password sub after their absurd price hike late last year

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

popular? among who?

never heard of it.

[–] abc@suppo.fi -2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Sure. And I never understood why people keep capitalizing the word "windows". That's just, like, incorrect.

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)
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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 259 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] abc@suppo.fi 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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?

[–] crozilla@lemmy.world 156 points 2 days ago (11 children)

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

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[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 54 points 1 day ago

I already wasn't gonna use either, but now I'm not gonna use either even harder.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 148 points 1 day ago (10 children)

"popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy."

I've literally never heard of it.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago (4 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.

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[–] qupada@fedia.io 182 points 2 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.

[–] nil@piefed.ca 25 points 1 day ago (15 children)

I literally didn't know this, but I've switched from 1Password to KeePassXC few days ago because its Android client stopped working. Wth?

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[–] Moztako@lemmus.org -5 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Interesting case of how funding decisions can quickly become part of a much bigger conversation around tech, politics, and community trust. It will be interesting to see how this develops.

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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 76 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How the fuck is Omarchy "popular"? I've been on Linux going on a decade, give or take, and I first knew about it when someone here in Lemmy mentioned that Dell and some other shit companies were proton a few millions on it.

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