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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers (stopomarchy.neocities.org)
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Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.

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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (10 children)

What are they getting for their money? Fork it if it's so good.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Forking would mean the main developers does not work on it. They would need to work on their own. Do giving money will ensure the project stays up (in theory). Forking does not solve the issues you have with the mainline project automatically.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    The only issue anyone seems to be taking with the main line project is the dev. Half of his design choices are completely uncontroversial on the other half would never generate this much fucking heat.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Eh no, there are two big issues with Omarchy: a) political issues with the dev, b) many big, dumb and very dangerous security issues.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    It is really funny that I have no idea what security issues there are with the software, because everybody seems to be concerned with anything but.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    That's unfortunate that you are not informed. The best part is, that even DHH himself agrees that Omarchy has lot of bad security issues. His argument is that these get reported and fixed, so it will be secure someday (so his argument, but ignoring that vibe coding is never secure). Here is a part of the interview with Brodie in YouTube (about 10 minutes): https://youtu.be/M8gVXNlZFFg

    And the list goes on and on. These are not just security issues... these are dumb issues that should not have been there. Its incompetence and negligence. Every software has issues and bugs and security issues. But why don't the other distributions have this many dumb issues like these? And it won't get better, because its heavily vibe coded.

    So I hope you are informed now.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Actual useful info, very cool. How interesting it might have been if this were the subject of the post, but sadly it seems like this is secondary to arguments about personality.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    I agree with you. But its important that there are two different of topics of issues, one of them is focused in this article. And I don't think it is unreasonable, because it is focusing on a topic with many information. Although I'm not a fan of some parts of it and the overall presentation and tone.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    My complaint is that the argument from OP is bad.

    The argument, without ambiguity, is essentially that because the developer is morally tainted you should not use the software. That just doesn't follow, and the argument itself distracts from taints any real concerns about the product itself.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Agreed a bit, not fully, but if someone is against it, then there is already a bias. For someone who is not involved and not against it, just want to compare them, I argue that person might not know and understand it completely. So a bias is natural. So taking that as an argument to discount the credibility, I am not entirely on board. However if someone is so much biased, that it looses all judgement of positive and negatives, and only provides one side of the story, then I am 100% on your side of opinion.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    What are they getting for their money?

    It's a marketing campaign to devalue Linux in the public eye.

    If they can state that AI came up with a "good enough" distro you know what non-savvy people will think about it: that making a distro is "easy", and "anybody can do it", and that anybody involved with making distros "manually" is redundant and giving themselves airs etc.

    It has already happened to many other fields.

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