• DahGangalang@infosec.pub
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    2 months ago

    Tried to go down the rabbithole one why everyone us making noise about this guy / his distro.

    Spolier: the hole is not deep at all. Ol’ boy took ArchLinux, pre-configured a bunch of things to be ready to roll out the box in a nice (?) looking format.

    Guy behind it (DHH) did some car racing and runs a tech company as well as having made some neat (if not exactly widely well regarded - Ruby on Rails) tools.

    All the above is pretty low severity on the reasons to not like the guy, imo. Real reason for the hate appears to be that he was actively supportive of a far-right British politician and helped with the anti-immigrant protests in 2025.

    I’m not familiar the with politician he supported (Tommy Robinson) nor with that batch of protests, so maybe my nonchalance is understating the issue. To me the headline should read “Elon Musk wannabe tried to say he’s like Elon Musk. Internet left in turmoil”.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
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      2 months ago

      big things that are relevant:

      • tommy robinson is not a politician, he’s a ufc fighter and far-right activist who led a march against immigrants in 2025. there were fights involved.
      • dhh recently got a shitload of money ($10M+) from the likes of dell, framework, mozilla etc to keep developing his config files.
      • literally everything in omarchy is ai generated to some degree.
      • Lena@gregtech.euOP
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        2 months ago

        even Mozilla??? fuck my life, can’t trust any organization these days

        Edit: can’t find any source that says Mozilla funded Omarchy.