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.
Archive: https://archive.is/osNh3
“popular distribution”? Omarchy is neither of those two words, is it?
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.
So YT’s algorithm is pushing right wing racist distros?
Huh. Wonder who is paying to make that algorithm work that way.
Lex Fridman, The Primeagen and friends are also to blame
And hoo boy, you should see the bearded influencer chuds pushing this slopfest.
Like NetworkChuck.
I’m so glad I switched to Bitwarden. Even without the whole extreme-right angle, the distro, that I’ve never heard of before today, seems like total slop.
“popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.”
I’ve literally never heard of it.
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.
I literally didn’t know this, but I’ve switched from 1Password to KeePassXC few days ago because its Android client stopped working. Wth?
shouldn’t you have switched to Bitwarden?
i am on bitwarden, and i want to switch to keepass, but i am dreading syncing the database between my phone and my PC.
Unfortunately Bitwarden might not be as super of a choice as it was https://howmation.com/en_US/blog/article/bitwarden-2026-what-really-changes they’re slipping into private equity.
At some point they’ll stop supporting Vaultwarden, at that point anyone with skin in the game should 100% get out.
Vaultwarden can probably keep going without BW. The main issue is maintaining the clients.
100%
And FOSS clients wouldn’t be a showstopper, but they are going to be absolute upkeep hogs.
I know about omarchy and seen that guy interviewed a couple of times. How the fuck am I just now aware he is a nazi? He seemed egotistical for sure, and his contribution to open source is … basically his personal dotfiles? I think that this shit was still completely devoid of extermination of minorities manifestos and hatespeech. But seriously how do you know if someone wants to kill refugees? why doesn’t he say so in the interviews or in the source code so we can know? This is fucked up. A faschist idea would be to keep a list. But omg, if you want to exterminate children that fled from war, please just say so in your dotfiles! Idk why this bothers me so… I really do care if my config was made by a hateful hand even if it doesn’t show
Completely agreed. Unfortunately he was also the “Ruby on Rails” guy, so for a long time he had serious developer cred. It is really sad to see.
It’s like one of the founders of Mullvad VPN (very very rich OG Swedish hacker from way back when) came out as supporting a serious right wing nationalist party in Sweden a couple months back, he paid them like $500K to make sure they stayed in politics and won.
They are the best VPN, but I’m not coming back once my subscription expires.
What is even happening? Are we seeing something like a return to lead poisoning, but there some chemical in our environment that’s rotting people’s brains the same way but we don’t know about it just like we didn’t know about lead at first?
I partially blame people with big audiences that keep hyping him up and platforming him. Primeagen interviewed him on YouTube and was worshipping him the entire video. Embarrassing display.
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.
It uses AI to fix issues and errors. And billionaires need people to use AI as much as possible.
