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Overpriced VPS reseller joins the Fascist Linux Project.

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

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.

thanks for the heads up

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?

Lemmy is gonna love that the whole thing is vibe coded

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/omacom-foundation-secures-tokens-from-leading-labs/

ew gross

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.

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

How many 3 initial techdudes are there?

I only know jwz and DHH

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.

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

WTF. Why not contribute to Arch, Cachy, KDE, Inkscape, Krita, Kdenlive etc. Omarchy is just a meme distro of half arsed dotfiles. How is hyprland better than Niri or Cosmic built on Smithay which are at least written in an over hyped safe modern language. Why are some d-list tech celebs dotfiles better than my quickshell config? And how about we sponsor something that would make a real difference to people like better accessibility in Gnome and KDE or is that too woke these days?

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

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

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.

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

I'm out of the loop, what's going on? Why is everyone saying this is a bad thing?

Gonna have to set up some time during the weekend to help a friend migrate some infra off DO. To where? Who knows.

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

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.