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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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
    361·
    3 days ago

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

    popular?! According to whom?

    • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 days 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

    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days 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)

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    321·
    3 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
      41·
      3 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·
        1 day 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·
        3 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.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2551·
    4 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
      1572·
      4 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
        91·
        4 days ago

        to fix issues and errors

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

        • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
          201·
          4 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
            121·
            4 days ago

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

            • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
              61·
              4 days ago

              I agree, but I suggest you direct your replies directly to the source comment. I’m just the messenger here.

        • abc@suppo.fiEnglish
          11·
          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
      471·
      4 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
      22·
      4 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
      11·
      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
    1773·
    4 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
    1471·
    4 days ago

    “popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.”

    I’ve literally never heard of it.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      801·
      4 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·
      4 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.

    • TeaWithDani@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 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

    • 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.

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      4 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.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      38·
      4 days ago

      Oh well if you’ve never personally heard of it, it must not be popular, right?

  • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
    54·
    4 days ago

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

  • ryper@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    106·
    4 days ago

    Nonetheless, it seems the company has sacrificed a moral position for a “mission-driven” position. In the same message to staff, Faugno says “the scale and growth of [Omarchy’s] use among our customers is significant - Omarchy has grown to be the second most used Linux distribution among 1Password users."

    I didn’t know Omarchy existed until, like, yesterday, so this is surprising. Do 1Password users just tend not to use Linux, so second place isn’t many users?

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      4 days ago

      I feel like this has to be made up, downstream repack distros almost never show up on the top 10 usage stats. You will always see Ubuntu way ahead of Kubuntu.

      Not to mention 1Password is a pretty popular enterprise app and I have yet to see some insane sysadmin actually roll with arch as their distro of choice. Most are probably on RHEL or some other enterprise derivative.

        • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
          351·
          4 days ago

          That piece of information seems like key context. 1Password didn’t just give money simply because they like the product. More or less, it’s product placement in return for funding.

          I’m on the fence if that’s better or worse.

        • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
          341·
          4 days ago

          Ah didn’t realize it came preinstalled lol.

          spoiler

          Prepackaged “superior” arch distro and the best they could come up with was 1Password? seriously lol?

          • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
            461·
            4 days ago

            1Password is the best they could come up with when “best” is measured in dollars contributed.

        • ryper@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          19·
          4 days ago

          I said somewhere else that giving money to a distro won’t even have an ROI, but I didn’t know about this. If the distro is promoting their product that’s a whole other thing.

        • 418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          132·
          4 days ago

          Terrible security record?

          Of the items listed in your link, only the second one seems problematic, in that I wish they had discovered the (non-password but still privacy related) issues first. Even that section acknowledges all of the issues are fixed. The only section that makes it sound like there is still a problem is the last one, which states that version X still contains the vulnerabilities, but in reality that’s just how versions work. Patching a vulnerability creates a new version.

          Is there ANY record of passwords being leaked from 1password because of their own lack of security??

          • abc@suppo.fiEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            The pattern is this: First, they find out who to hate. Second, they find reasons to hate. Third, if they cannot find any reasons, they make them up.

        • tyler@programming.devEnglish
          54·
          4 days ago

          lol what. 1Password literally has one of the best security records out there. They’re the ones actually inventing new more secure ways of doing things. The fact that those are all of the issues over the years and they’re one of the most popular pw managers on the planet is pretty indicative of how strong their security actually is. And they’ve never had a password breach, unlike lastpass.

    • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
      26·
      4 days ago

      I haven’t checked but I would guess that 1password comes pre-installed in Oligarchy and they’re counting every user that loads the client as a “user.”

      • mcv@lemmy.zipEnglish
        81·
        4 days ago

        Isn’t that a commercial product for which great open source alternatives exist? What kind of distro does that?

        And don’t they also preinstall Basecamp, DHH’s own company’s product?

        Maybe it’s all just a vehicle for product placement.

        • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          4 days ago

          What kind of distro does that?

          One that does not care at all about having maintaining a sane and open ecosystem. Where there’s money to make, they will prey down quickly. Now that people are somewhat convinced that Linux based systems can work and actually attract the general public, a whole new market is ripe for reaping.

  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
    731·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • Marn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      151·
      4 days ago

      It’s popular to a lot of the non Foss tech job devs that want to try Linux after mostly using macOS for Dev work. It comes with keybinds they are familiar woth has a pretty UI by default and is arch base. They probably work for companies that are also right wing so it’s something they don’t care about as much as people in alignment with the Foss ideology.

      Compared to today’s mask off fascism in the states the guy behind Omarchy is pretty tame and probably less mask off evil than the people they work for

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    672·
    4 days ago

    So YT’s algorithm is pushing right wing racist distros?

    Huh. Wonder who is paying to make that algorithm work that way.

    • teolan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Why isn’t this in the article? That’s literally a journalist’s job to provide that kind of context.