DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation

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• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this some new money laundering thing? Are companies “buying in” to hobnob with other wealthy people? Is this just the latest Country Club or whatever?

  I seriously don’t understand why all these companies are throwing money at a project that is almost assuredly going to “mismanage” it.

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  • logos@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If I had to guess, this is the techbro/epstein crew trying to get a foothold in Linux. The writing is on the wall; Windows is dead, and they want to funnel the migration into their new Omarchy ecosystem. They’ll probably start advertising bigly once Kushner and MBS invest.

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    • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Windows isn’t dead, anyone that actually believes that is lying to themselves.

      They are too ingrained in business. Yes a couple countries will save a couple billion over the next several years getting off it but that is nothing to the 90 billion MS made in the past 3 months.

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    • Chulk@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t Omarchy built on top of Arch Linux? I wonder what sort of effect it will have on Arch to have companies injecting millions into this downstream project?

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  • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My bet is that the tech bros hang in the same bar, and they’re just doing that for fun, and they don’t really care about the plebes not getting it.

    Glad I left Digital Ocean like almost a decade ago, yet it still feels I’ve been with them for too long.

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  • rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When capitalism can’t find a new way to grow and is challenged by dominees, it funds fascism as an investment towards to guarantee their dominance

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is this some new money laundering thing? Are companies “buying in” to hobnob with other wealthy people?

    👨‍🚀🔫

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• surfrock66@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just don’t get it. Separating the art from the artist is not a black and white thing…Like a lot of people worked on the harry potter movies and many people fell in love with those before reading the books, and when Rowling went anti-trans, you could reasonably argue that the films were a collaborative work that you can still love. But this? A pre-configured Arch made by one guy who makes his headline presence maligning minorities? I don’t see how giving money to him is anything other than a company saying his views are explicitly endorsed by the donor.

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even if we do separate the art from artist, what’s the actual draw of this distro?

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    • terabyterex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      honestly, if it wasnt for lemmy i would have no idea the guy was racist. i just hear “ruby on rails creator has new distro thats easy to use”.

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    • outerspace@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think after initial hyprland success showing what’s possible, more similar window managers and desktop environments cropped up and that is the real benefit for all of us and that happened without omarchy. I’m currently on mango + DMS and I think it’s better than hyprland.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Really feels like it. Look at the paragraphs and the list here.

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• NGram@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For anyone who is struggling to figure out how to delete their DigitalOcean account (it’s not obvious):

  1. In Account Settings, delete all of your teams

     • This redirected me to a different setting page with an option to deactivate my account

  2. Click Deactivate Account

  3. Select the checkbox to purge your account data
  4. Confirm that you’d like to deactivate and purge your account
  5. (Optional but recommended) Fill out the exit survey and tell them that they’re supporting a neo-Nazi

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  • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    5 - Thanks for your input casually puts paper in bin, it was great having you…

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• statelesz@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But why? Why is everybody funding this piece of shit? Besides being shit politically it’s also shit technically. I don’t get it.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, you see, it’s somehow using AI and it’s run by a dick.

    What’s not to love about it?

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    • aquovie@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Temu Elon?

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  • BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not about the software. It’s about creating a far right pipeline. Like they did with gamers and anime. Billionaires pay for users.

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Guy who made a popular thing once announces revolution in efficiency, looks impressive on the surface but is just desktop riding for the uninitiated.

    I’m more flabbergasted how little you have to do to get 3 million

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    • helix@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Did you mean ricing?

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  • zebidiah@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have you seen GoPros stock price in the last 72hrs?

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    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m so lost. What does GoPro stock have to do with Omarchy and DO?

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  • awelo@tuiter.rocks ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    @statelesz @selfhosted @bretton.dev
    You just explain why......

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• CriticalMiss@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meanwhile the maintainers of the project it’s based on are unpaid.

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  • arudesalad@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t like dhh and I think someone like him shouldn’t control this much money going into foss but I think the point of omacom is to pay those maintainers

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    • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only the subset they like (it shouldn’t take you long to find what they said about why they made their own project, like who they wanted to exclude)

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  • abc@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not quite.

    omarchy.org/…/omacom-foundation-hires-outfoxxed/

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• serendepity@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a meeting with a DigitalOcean Account Manager scheduled for tomorrow because I wanted to move my business iver from Azure. Guess it’s time to cancel it and tell them why.

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  • rmrf@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is hilarious

    theguardian.com/…/israeli-military-gaza-war-micro…

    Yes, go with the MIC, actual fascist supporting megacorp to stick it DO

    Honest to God, I’m not a tin foil hat kinda guy, but I can’t wait to read the papers on the strategies around centralizing technically adept ‘activists’ (WH definition lol) onto cooperative platforms by hugely exaggerating tiny shit like this in 40 years. This is even more poorly sighted than the Mullvad stances from a few weeks ago.

    How many killings did digital ocean orchestrated with AI?

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    • serendepity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think your comment is needlessly antogonizing. I’m not unaware of MS’s complicity in the genocide, which is why I’m moving away in the first place.

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    • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Common weirdo ml take

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  • tquid@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a shame, I actually really liked their service when I used it. There documentation in particular was really excellent.

    Good luck finding a non-evil (or at least less evil) service, sincerely.

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• Sims@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn, are we watching live growth of digital Fascist cancer here ? We all get spammed with this worthless, non-special OS in every information outlet, YT, SN’s and other for-profit junk outlets. People are getting paid to keep posting about it everywhere.

  Pretty disgusting to see how rich Pschos think and act, and pretty disheartening to see our ‘non-enshittified’ world be enshittified in front of our eyes! Enshittification = Capitalization.

  Boycott Omarchy by all means necessary, and help not spreading this Capitalist/Fascist cancer project anywhere.

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• max_t@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seems like everything is being run over by fascists these days.

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  • kablez@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly that may be the entire point of this. The right wingers are trying to carve out their own corner in the world of FOSS. Understandable given the spirit of open source is literally the antithesis of what they believe in, however they also can’t ignore it now cause it’s vital infrastructure.

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  • verily@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Fascism in your technology is inevitable”

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• kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  thanks for the heads up

  Image

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  • ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Take that survey, express yourself

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    • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      oh, i did

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• zewm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sigh time to find a new vps host for my projects

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  • bretton.dev@coves.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anyone have any recommendations?

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use GreenCloudVPS for a bunch of things. They used to have VPSes starting at $15/year for 2GB RAM and 20GB disk, but their current budget deals are still good (starts at $25/year for 4GB RAM and 35GB disk). These are on older hardware (mostly AMD EPYC Rome Zen 2 systems, ~5 years old) which is why they haven’t been affected by increased RAM and storage prices yet.

      greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale

      They also have “premium” plans which are newer (AMD EPYC Milan Zen 3 or Genoa Zen 4, and PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage in RAID10): greencloudvps.com/billing/store/premium-kvm-sale

      I suspect they’ll eventually increase the pricing, but I’ve been using them for five years and haven’t seen them increase pricing for existing customers, just new customers.

      HostHatch is good too. Their regular pricing aims to compete with Hetzner, but in 13 locations worldwide. hosthatch.com/products. They do sometimes have sales on LowEndTalk with pricing similar to GreenCloud’s “premium” plans.

      If you want to stick to big names, OVHcloud and Hetzner both have pretty good VPS pricing. OVH runs theirs on very old hardware like Haswell (2014/2015 era) Xeon E5 CPUs which is the main reason why they have cheaper pricing that Hetzner.

      If you’re using AWS for anything, they have a service called Lightsail that’s essentially Amazon’s version of a VPS. Storage and data transfer are included in the monthly price (unlike EC2).

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    • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hetzner was good for me, but I went all-in on bare metal, with no looking back.

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    • sculptor0725@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      OVH has been reliable and boring afaik

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    • AHorseWithNoNeigh@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought RackNerd had a better deal for me than digital ocean

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    • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hetzner Cloud

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    • Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Check out Linode, it’s easy to use, reasonably priced, and as far as I know, hasn’t done anything disgusting.

      Only downside is that they were acquired a little while ago by a publicly traded company, so the likwlyhood of enshitification is higher.

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    • westingham@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m looking at Linode currently

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  • gooeyglob@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same same, sucks as they seemed neutral but boy do they not seem to care about appearances.

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  • marighost@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use Contabo, decent price for a solid VPS. Have only had 12hrs~ of downtime once in the 6 or 8 months I’ve been a subscriber.

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    • NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That sounds like terrible reliability. If my home lab had an outage like that I would shut it down as I clearly don’t know how to run a dependable system. 😅

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• deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am not an Omarchy or DHH hater but…why? It’s Arch with Hyperland, why are people fawning over it? Is it just because he keeps saying “agentic”?

  I’m agentic too, how about throwing me a million bucks?

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  • statelesz@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not about being a “hater” or not. DHH is basically a white supremacist and it should be basic human decency to oppose that

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    • deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Most of the people going on about him take a lot of umbrage with his racist ideology, but all he seems to do with it is blog. If there are more material concerns (like with Proton) then I’m not seeing them be raised.

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  • abc@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People who have raised money before are better at raising money.

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    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      networking plays a big roll in such things. the more connections you have, the more possibilities. in my job that is normal as well ( not for donations, but it’s important to get a job)

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• Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Overpriced VPS reseller joins the Fascist Linux Project.

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• AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damnit, I just spun up a droplet like three days ago.

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  • F04118F@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Depends how overtly racist you are apparently

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you ask AI to do all the work, including the smallest little things, I imagine you can burn through a lot of tokens very quickly.

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• potatopeeler@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There goes my weekend migrating off of DO. I should have left sooner but supporting this crap is lighting a fire under me.

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  • erayerdin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    im not very knowledgeable about the current situation. can you enlighten me? why the sudden surge on digitalocean hate?

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    • abc@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Left-of-center people hate DHH and almost everyone here is left-of-center.

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• kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  but why? its a shitty distro made by an amateur. there are real who needs support

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It makes gatekeeper types in the Linux ecosystem happy, because it preinstalls you neovim, hyperland, and a bunch of bloatware, so they can get to their tinkering much faster.

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    • LostWanderer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Omacom Foundation launches with $18.5 million

  It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future more broadly available and fundamentally change how people relate to their computers for the first time in what seems like forever.

  To do just that, I’m incorporating the Omacom Foundation to ensure that this mission is fully funded, durable, and ready to accelerate.

  This nonprofit foundation will hold the trademarks, fund the infrastructure, promote the work, and support the open-source projects and developers Omarchy depends on.

  These twelve Founding Patrons are each contributing $1 million to this mission:

  • Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify
  • Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe
  • Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
  • Jack Dorsey, Block Head and Chairman of Block
  • Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare
  • Brendan Iribe, Cofounder of Sesame and Oculus
  • Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals
  • Drew Houston, cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox
  • Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw
  • Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
  • Yunjie Dai, cofounder of TapTap
  • Yours truly

  These Founding Corporate Patrons are each contributing $1 million a year for three years or $1.5 million in tokens, with renewal by mutual agreement:

  • DigitalOcean
  • Meta Superintelligence Labs

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s like a condensed list of the shittiest of tech people, Sans Google

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yeah, google have two OSes they’re already holding people captive on.

      I can’t even get to a boot screen on a family member’s chromebook to see if I can replace it with a different OS to ChromeOS. Android is getting demolished as we speak too.

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My theory is the tech bros and fascists are trying to get “theirs” in on the Linux side before windows completely sinks everywhere but business.

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• 800XL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You guys! You guys! I heard of this computer program named Wayland and there’s this Linux dis-trib-u-tion of it with a sick vampire-looking intro screen. AI! AI YOU GUYS! The same AI that makes flyers for my youtube tech channel. Use it too so we can collectively change the world.

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• deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay I’m seeing further chicanery. Their GitHub repo gives the license as MIT but many of the components are not Omarchy originals but derivatives of other products under different licences. Quickshell is LGPL 3, for example, and of course the Linux kernel is GPL 2.

  But then there’s a guy working on the “Omarchy Kernel”, which I guess is a derivative like Ubuntu does…

  Personalities aside this is still weird, and I wish people would focus on that.

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• Auth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I dont like Omarcy and DHH but its pretty obvious why hes getting the funding and not other projects. The reason this gets funded and stuff like Gnome and KDE doesnt is because DHH has influence, he isnt a foss purist and he has no bureaucracy holding him back.

  No one cares when KDE makes a post trying to drive linux adoption. When DHH does it drives thousands of new linux users. DHH alone can market the distro to new people in a way most foss projects cant.

  When a company tries to partner with another project not only do they get very little exposure because the community is small and resistant to advertising but they also often get attacked and purity tested by the users and it generates bad press. When DHH partners with a company his users think its cool and try out the product. It doesnt matter how scummy the company is or if its closed source subscription only.

  Investors also see Omachy as something where changes can be made without needing 4 years of arguing with one guy rejecting every change. A fast moving tech focused platform with a good marketer could pull people out of the microsoft apple ecosystem to a place where products can freely compete without entrenched platforms stealing their idea and making their version the default

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• droopy4096@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From reading about Omarchy and community reactions it sounds like DHH is a successful grifter, milking money from corps with pictures of agentic promised land. HOWEVER grift will go bust at some point: does anyone remember SaaSpocalipse that did not materialize,along with numerous articles from people with degrees pointing out that there’s no data supporting claim that AI is actually making money for it’s peddlers or consumers. AI grifts will continue until “market” will finally acknowledge it for what it is (it’s just a new shiny tool, no more) and all the myths go bust and investors will want their money back. So - yes money got “stolen” from actual OSS projects that keep world’s lights on, yes vibecoding has not been proven to scale or endure multiple decades like Debian, Gentoo, Fedora etc. so it’ll collapse from technical standpoint, but it WILL collapse unless DHH will start applying those grants towards hiring engineers. Token money are not worth paper they are printed on so everybody just chill and let this trainwreck go off the cliff on it’s own. Shame DO got into it though… but for all the major cloud platforms who isn’t supporting fascism? What differs is the scale.

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• kaiyo@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah good, the last bit of motivation i needed to get my final VM off DO.

  Wonderful news.

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• sturlabragason@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lemmy is gonna love that the whole thing is vibe coded

  omarchy.org/…/omacom-foundation-secures-tokens-fr…

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• skrlet13@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  another one? again?

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• golinux@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This too shall pass.

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• soratoyuki@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Grunge question. I’m very much a surface-level Linux user. But is Omarchy more than just a hyprland rice?

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• dudeface@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Never used it but as far as I understand it’s a curated version of arch Linux with various stuff installed and configured right?

  Can’t say I hate the idea if it exposes people to Linux, but don’t see why a base configuration is worth investing in

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• Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think Omacom is just the small fish “player” wanna-be’s trying to do what the big guys are doing with AI. Playing 3 card monte with a few million dollars running the same few bucks around in circles so many times a quarter they all get to make numbers go big on balance sheet in the hopes of getting new real money from idiot “investors” before the FTC (or other regulatory body) wakes up and remembers they are supposed to regulate something occasionally and catches on.

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• nibbs@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sooo, are the tech bros just oozing over from the AI bubble (not enough empty promises available anymore?) or is that a symptom for their realization, that the current scam might get busted in the foreseeable future and they want to get in on the next Blockchain / AI / metaverse schmutz, to keep leeching in VC / tax money?

  I will get some popcorn…

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• skulkbane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m out of the loop, what’s going on?

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