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david celis
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the tech industry fervor over Omarchy is so fucking confusing to me that i'm honestly starting to wonder if it's just money laundering. over TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS for a fascist's dotfiles and bash scripts is patently insane

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Ariadne, bunyote friend :therian:
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@davidcelis how in the heck? basically nobody gives alpine money and it is the backbone of the modern internet, but some vanity distro gets $12m?

do you have any idea what foundational distros like alpine could do with $12m? it would be game changing.

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SackOfBones (any/all)
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@ariadne
It's because fascists give money to fascists. Also I did not know that alpine is the backbone of the modern internet, but it completely makes sense. I've had only good experiences with it
@davidcelis

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fionescu(1)
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@sackofbones @ariadne @davidcelis Alpine is the gold standard of Docker base images

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@ariadne @davidcelis
But giving money to Alpine doesn't promote a political agenda. All it does is help lots of people you don't know personally. Obvious waste of money.

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Ariadne, bunyote friend :therian:
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@davidcelis @jannem is that not the marketed purpose of philanthropy though?

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Janne Moren
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@ariadne @davidcelis
Philanthropy is not what is happening here

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@ariadne @davidcelis @jannem Better when you can misuse the target and embezzle the donation back. (Or so I presume it goes.)
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fionescu(1)
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@jannem I have to inform you that Alpine is on the long list of distros that Lunduke-heads decry as being "woke"

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delta :akko_bean: :verified_gay:
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@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @davidcelis@xoxo.zone $12 million is a lot of money, that is so much money that even if it was split up evenly between 100 different OSS projects it still would've been a world changing amount of money for each of them, when most non-corpo FOSS projects operate on budgets measured in toothpicks and pennies even just a couple digits in a single donation is already huge, a full $12m is unimaginable

but no throw it all down the toilet into some fascist vanity distro where it'll make a difference to approximately nobody of value ig, great job society

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Thomas Depierre
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@ariadne @davidcelis i keep pointing out that a 1m per year team over a decade working on... Idk basic build system made fo hobbyist maintainers needs would massively impact the quality and security of everything.

And they give 12M to ... Fucknut and his fascists friends for a few dotfiles.