• hello_hello [hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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    It’s part of the larger fascist organization of free software that was dominated by disaffected white libertarians who now feel threatened by woke (code of conduct saying you can’t be racist)

    Any project that accepts this money is a project run by Hitlerites.

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      by woke (code of conduct saying you can’t be racist)

      on hexbear?!

  • Honestly feels like it. It’s incredible how actual good free software projects are always struggling for money, then one nazi comes in and vibe codes a bunch of dotfiles bundled with an Arch installation and suddenly he’s showered with money non-stop and becomes news everywhere in the FLOSS world.

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      It’s an archlinux remix that focuses on a “hacker aesthetics”. That’s a bit cringe but wouldn’t be a big deal in itself. It was made by a rich fascist.

      Open source has gotten more visibly queer and the reactionaries love to pretend that this some sort of invasion when it’s often people who have worked on these projects for decades. Omarchy is now at the center of an effort to make open source white, male and straight “again”.

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          There is also thousands of people who customize their own desktops to similar effect. Like r/unixporn. Not really my cup of tea, I prefer a good out of the box experience, but I respect the craft.

          This feels like for office workers who want to pretend to be neo or something.

          He definitely struck at a particularly vulnerable moment in time with the large influx through steamos and win11 but also foss being in crisis mode due to LLMs.

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      Vibe coded os, which is in effect arch + hyprland + dotfiles. It’s also maintained by the hyprland DHH ruby-on-rails guy who is a nazi.

      Edit: correction as below

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      Whoops, I should’ve added a source.

      Details from the linked post

      DigitalOcean is pledging $3 million to Omarchy, joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron.

      The deal will provide $1 million per year for three years, bringing Omacom Foundation’s total reported funding to around $18.5 million.

      But the announcement has drawn attention for another reason. Just last month, DigitalOcean reportedly ended its sponsorship of GNOME and Flathub infrastructure, which was worth around $50 per month.

      That means roughly $600 a year in canceled sponsorship compared with $1 million a year now going toward Omarchy.

      There’s no evidence that money was directly shifted from GNOME or Flathub to Omarchy, but the contrast has sparked discussion across the Linux community.

      Omarchy is still a relatively new, niche Linux distribution, yet it has attracted millions in funding in a remarkably short time. Meanwhile, long-established open-source projects often struggle to fund developers and infrastructure.

      The growing Omarchy funding will support full-time developers, infrastructure, artists, grants, and other open-source projects that the distribution depends on.