Post by @davidcelis@xoxo.zone

the fact that this shit now has an entire foundation, conference, corporate sponsorships, and merch proves that the tech industry is just a never-ending series of grifts in a trench coat

@davidcelis Agreed, it’s depressing to witness. Just very very wealthy people throwing their money around congratulating each other over essentially nothing.

Startup LARPinv with a side of PAC, or the other way around?

@otherdog @davidcelis

@davidcelis it does feel as if some people with bad politics (but a taste for free stuff) found issue with the reality that desktop Linux was a social warrior project, and are taking panicked corrective steps to "fix" it.

@MaddieM4 @davidcelis
I wonder what Linus himself would think about the attribution "social warrior project"...

@davidcelis it’s insane and never saw it coming.
I feel at the beginning everyone was making fun of how useless it was and suddenly I’m swamped with “coder influencers” saying it’s the second coming of christ

@oscb @davidcelis it’s so obviously astroturfed too, suddenly every dev influencer uses it and thinks it’s “reinventing personal computers” or some shit like this

@davidcelis a lot of people were waiting for an excuse to funnel money into fascism in open source, and DHH created an institution for this purpose

@davidcelis Dude I just install Debian and proceed to actually use the computer.

i got the boilerplate response from 1Password. here's my follow-up

and yes, i know i said "simply" thrice. please do not @ me or my family during these trying times.

even the mainstream tech media has started to pick this up https://www.theverge.com/tech/988536/1password-dhh-linux-controversy

Based on the responses from 1Password's CEO and cofounder, they're not likely to change course, so I've cancelled my account.

If you still have time left on your billing cycle to find an alternative and export your data, there's no reason to wait to cancel; speak with your dollars.

@davidcelis FFS - I just moved from the the OTHER oppressive, insecure overlord. BitWarden? Proton?

@cprey @davidcelis I’m finding Proton very stable and usable.

@davidcelis this has been the *very first* mention I have seen of DHH's descent into full blown extremism from the main stream media. Finally!

@davidcelis the blatant bullshit excuse “we want to support opensource communities” needs to be called out.

Why not donate to any other projects? Why now, after so many years of just dunking on them?

@davidcelis dhh is the jia tan of fundraising https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/

@glyph @davidcelis hey now; Jia Tan is a fucking legend and that exploit took some real skill to get in there.  Let’s not insult a real one, here…

@davidcelis @glyph can you really put a price on trivial eval() injection vulnerabilities

@SnoopJ @davidcelis @glyph this is probably how they got the money

@SnoopJ @davidcelis @glyph brb renaming all my wifi SSIDs "give Rob monies"

@davidcelis @glyph I think it’s ultimately about alignment of the wider liberal FLOSS world to fascist tech bros’ ideology.

https://chaos.social/@frumble/117176445350575164

#Omacron #Omarchy

@frumble @davidcelis @glyph are they even planning on contributing upstream? looks like they aren’t

@mariusz Have you seen Brodie’s video? See my quoted thread.

@davidcelis gee it almost seems like it's some kind of money laundering thing.

@kevingranade you mean… like i said in the post…?

@davidcelis attempting to agree and phrasing it in the worst way possible, sorry.

@davidcelis meanwhile I'm lost, where the heck this thing suddenly came from and why it's talked about so much. I have been truly living under a rock, because I see 10 months ago there was controverse about Framework sponsoring them.

https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/

@davidcelis … so how much can I get for my dotfiles? How ‘bout my dotfiles and helpers in ~/bin ?

@davidcelis

WTF is Omarchy?

...

Hang on... I can google...

Oh...

What the...

Why?

Fuck these guys.

What a bunch of fuck'n tossers.

Does anybody even try anymore?

@401matthall @davidcelis You made me google Omarchy and now I want to shoot up an arsenic and cyanide cocktail.

@davidcelis those donors are billionaires, they don't need to launder a bunch of millions. This is just part of the culture war.

@dukeboitans @davidcelis !!

@davidcelis youtube has been flooded lately with omarchy videos and it makes it so easy to play whackamole with the block button.

@zbray Which blocker do you use/recommend?

@davidculley i just use the “don’t recommend” button on youtube (unfortunaately there is no true blocking feature) and then try to find them here/bluesky and block manually.

@davidcelis it's a small price to pay for a honeypot to catch all the fasc-curious Linux fanbois. My money is on them turning this into a nerd "active club"

@davidcelis it's twelve now?

@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.

@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

@sackofbones @ariadne @davidcelis Alpine is the gold standard of Docker base images

@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.

@davidcelis @jannem is that not the marketed purpose of philanthropy though?

@ariadne @davidcelis
Philanthropy is not what is happening here

@jannem I have to inform you that Alpine is on the long list of distros that Lunduke-heads decry as being "woke"

@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

@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.

@davidcelis lmao wait what who’s the fascist… i too am willing to sell my dotfiles and am 100x fascism for the low low price of just €1M

@davidcelis All the videos accompanying #Omarchy with titles like "They finally fixed Linux" … 🤮