Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.
I am locking the thread only because the comment sections has turn out to be full of toxicity. I am reserving my opinions, but seldom bans will be issued for those who defend far-right, support lies, and lacks basic ethics and/ or human empathy. Feel free to reach out via the report button. Do not use it to defend yourself from “insults” when people disagree with you.
With all the options aroud, I really don’t see the point to even try it.
- FUTO
- Louis Rossmann
- Richard M. Stallman
- Jacob Appelbaum
- suckless
Fuuuuuck…
Louis Rossmann
Wait what?!
There’s three points next to his name:
- “Worked with” someone who has some links to right side politics to get funding for a right to repair non profit.
- Unless there’s more info somewhere, I don’t see this being overly bad since he’s all about trying to change laws for the better, and just by virtue of doing that you will need to at least interact with the slimy part of politics.
- Anti-trans:
which can be paraphrased as “I think transgender women are men but I’m willing to overlook it if we have common cause”- So identity denying. This looks more like he doesn’t have enough information than a case of far right conspiracy trans are pedos shit. Seeing how he’s changed his mind about things in the past when presented with new information, and knowing how deep he goes into rabbit holes (especially when it comes to rights) when he finds them, I see this as unfortunate, but potentially redeemable.
Louis has been a regular poster on the hate and harassment website Kiwi Farms, posting there from 2023 to the present under the username “larossmann”.- I don’t have enough information on this to have a proper opinion. This looks like something that warrants further investigation…
In my point of view this is a witch-hunt, i dont know many of the names. I checked some people on the list and the allegations, make your own research - i dont take this list of „clean foss and the it-scene from this people“ serious.
Thanks for being a voice of sanity. While I don’t care for defending celebrities on the internet, I also don’t care for purity testing, and since I have been a booster of his work and ideas on occasion, wanted to do a bit of due diligence and had largely come to the same “smoke but no actual fire” conclusion
On that last point, I was really curious so I suited up and checked it out: https://kiwifarms.st/search/39060321/?t=post&c[content]=post&c[users]=larossmann&o=date
He has only posted on exactly one thread, funnily enough about him (but not started by him) and all of the comments I read have been talking about various bits of content, but I did not see anything that I would consider out-of-character or promoting hate in my opinion.
Is this a good look? Not great for sure, since Kiwi Farms is definitely an edgelord paradise. But oddly enough, its at least consistent with his ethos, since he always talks about being bipartisan.
- “Worked with” someone who has some links to right side politics to get funding for a right to repair non profit.
Am I blind? I don’t see those people mentioned in the article anywhere
Also check out Fashware and Weird Little Guys Of FOSS, on which the extended list was based.
What are these names? I couldnt see them in the patron list
They were in the extended list
Reality is stranger than fiction.
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Amazing how much shit an unremarkable pseudo distro can stir up. Deservedly. Techbros like DHH are a cancer.
I don’t give a shit about DHH or Omarchy.
The sad part and why it sucks so much is because instead of feeding people we just gave $18m to a fascist to babysit some shitty post install scripts…
Reality is stranger than fiction.
Edit. FUCK every org associated with Omarchy. I’ll never give them a fucking dime.
Switch to windows
Reading The Omarchy Doctrine made me physically cringe. That alone is a good argument to boycott Omarchy.
It’s wild how much it just sounds like a heritage foundation list but with “nerds” slapped to the front
Wouldn’t surprise me if they’re behind this somehow.
Or some of their creatures at least
This is some deeply unserious nonsense. Omarchy will blow up the moment it gains any real traction. I can see the infighting coming from miles away, the money will make it worse. Stacking up on popcorn might be a good idea.
The Omarchy Doctrine is a public, fascist creed: heritage as duty, hold the line, the will to power. It matches Roger Griffin’s palingenetic populist ultranationalism and Robert Paxton’s first stage of fascism: a creed, a leader, followers…
this guy knows how to spot fascism
You’re joking, right?
About which part bud? Use your words. Which part of DHH’s blogs do you agree with and which do you think people are saying is racist and fascist but aren’t?
If you’re gonna defend Nazi beliefs, defend them.
He moderates and is the only poster of a Libertarian instance, definitely a little boot licking chud.
Im just constantly shocked how many people will come out of the wood work to defend people with Nazi beliefs when you just include one thing they did within society.
Like a post about DHH being a Nazi feels like it would get no traffic, but say “the creator of Omarchy, DHH, is a nazi” and ya I guess the libertarians poor out of the background noise to shout about how someone who made something can’t be bad? Like why pretend you’re a libertarian if you’re actually just a fascist conservative who wishes racist policies were better for the economy. It’s cosplaying an enlightened conservative while remaining true to the core identity which is make everything worse for everyone at every opportunity.
Not really.
As someone who was vaguely aware of omarchy and an arch user already, I had no interest in using it. I am happy to see more people talking about why it could be controversial. It helps counter the propaganda being pushed by the influencers right now. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
“Me: Oh a list of assholes to avoid, nice. Shopify, who tf is that? EZ. 1 keep sucks, lol. Dell…they make trash, easy. Meta, lol, already done. Coin base more like Rube Base am I right? Digital Ocean still relevant in the hosting world? I thought they’d have gone the way of Go Daddy, Ez boycott list.”
“Brain: You skipped one.”
“Me: reads again Fffffffffffuuuu”
I have no fucking clue how to effectively boycott CloudFlare, gang. That’s…kinda the point of how they positioned themselves.
Stupid fucks, they’re the only one who stands to make as much hand over fist whether open source enshitifies or not. Except if it enshitifies enough, their spigot stops spilling money.
Greedy cunts and the allure of control, what a dynamic duo.
The fuck to use to replace the quintillion different services CF sells?
Asking for…several friends, actually.
Shopify is the platform that the vast majority of online stores use. It’s basically as hard to avoid as CloudFlare.
As a user, yes, as a shop owner, luckily there are alternatives that don’t suck.
Depends. Everything can be replicated given enough time investment. Depends on the cost and if it is even worth.
One can’t really dodge everything. But giving the bare minimum to pass is, in my eyes, acceptable.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
I cut out Cloudflare with a combination of Quad9 and NetBird Reverse Proxy. It’s not going to be free forever but if I don’t start putting my wallet behind my principles I might find out I don’t have a job or my kid won’t have a planet.
CloudflareQuad9 DNSFor anything else, I guess it depends
I don’t use cloudflare for anything. I mean, other sites do, and I can’t control that when I visit them, and I’m probably not going to boycott them right away, but it will put them onto my “actively looking for an alternative” list. Meanwhile my own stuff is never going to be behind cloudflare, and yours doesn’t need to be either, and eventually with enough “you’s” and “me’s” we’ll have our own cloudflare-free internet and the rest of the corporate bullshit can all go choke to death on its own enshittification.
A good idea is to list which CloudFlare services you use and see what nerds have to say. There’s pretty much always a CloudFlare alternative, no matter the product
Yea I currently own all of my domains through cloudflare’s registrar and use them for authoritative DNS. Migrating to another registrar and DNS authority sounds pretty annoying.
It’s really easy. Just check the documentation for transfers on the source and destination registrars. I used to do this all the time at a previous job.
And this is just going to fuel on the fire that is DHH’s crusade. He’s already called the linux community “a bunch of clowns” so this is just going to generate more money for his dotfiles and more than likely grow the userbase.
Granted the Omarchy userbase are a bunch of morons. Also doesn’t help that youtube linux content creators are all pretty much praising the damn thing and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know why. Makes it easy to know which creators to unsub from but it literally leaves it with 4 left one of which doesn’t post anymore.
Who has been prai$ing it?
Neocities! Niiiice.
Kinda, but then it kinda screams “one unhappy nerd did this” instead of organized action.
Only to the kids. The olds grok it.
So it’s accurate in at least one way.
Why are you morons trying to make me try Omarchy? I wouldn’t really care about that distro without all the idiotic whining.
DHH is calling you clowns. Good job proving his point.
*David Attenborough voice* And here we see a contrarian in the wild, see how they mimic the patterns of a fascist, but hold no views of their own? Fascinating
It is as if they believe they can look more intellectual and interesting than they really are, a weak facade that everyone can see through.
They will not last the winter.
We just dont like Nazi’s. I know… weird take…
Calling them nazis proves his point. You are being clowns.
If calling a Nazi a Nazi makes me a clown, then hand me the fucking makeup
But. They are? By their own speech. I’m now guessing you are too?
It’s so weird when you find someone who gleefully repeats all the slogans, and claims to believe all the hateful rhetoric, yet gets their panties all in a bunch when you call them the word.
Why would you be ashamed? Just own it you little Nazi bitches.
Exactly, like, why are they mad I keep calling them nazi’s when they clearly keep doing and saying and believing nazi stuff?
Well then own it and make your grandfather sad and ashamed (As most likely he was actually anti-nazi and anti-fascist.)
Yeah that is sooooo goood!
If you’re reading dhh’s blog, then you already know what he’s about. Which makes you a complicit jackass. Shoo.
The sign of a fully formed adult human:
being “forced” to do a thing simply because people on a website don’t like the thing (also who actually cares why they don’t like it? Having values is for losers)
Go back to posting on your libertarian instance with no interaction from anyone else. The self quarantine was nice.
I honestly don’t see why any of this should stop someone from using the software.
It’s open source. If you don’t like DHH, his politics, or the people funding Omarchy, then don’t give them money. Don’t donate, don’t sponsor them, don’t contribute upstream.
But the code is out there under the MIT license. Anyone can use it, change it, remove whatever they don’t like, or fork the whole thing.
Using a piece of open-source software doesn’t mean you endorse the politics of whoever wrote it. If that were the standard, we’d probably have to audit the personal beliefs of thousands of developers before installing anything.
And if people really think Omarchy has become some political project, then fork it. Change the branding, change the maintainers, change whatever you want. That’s literally one of the reasons open source is useful.
Boycotting companies you don’t want to financially support is one thing. Treating open-source code itself as politically contaminated is another, and I don’t think that makes much sense.
Golly gee, there just aren’t enough Linux distros to choose from. I just have to go with the one by the worst people imaginable. What other choice do I have?
I use Fedora. I obviously don’t “have to” use Omarchy.
But the existence of alternatives has nothing to do with whether using a piece of software means endorsing its author. Otherwise software selection just becomes an ideological loyalty test.
Using it increases the adoption numbers which can lead to more adoption, and therefore funding. It’s indirect, but it still shows support for the author.
To me, DHH being a toolshed isn’t even the worst part of an LLM coded slop “distro” that recently had a significant RCE vulnerability that required the bare minimum to exploit. Every OS / distro also has vulnerabilities pop up, but that’s a known issue with slop code. DHH being a racist cunt is just the cherry on top.
It’s the same as hanging up a picture painted by Hitler.
You just don’t unless you are a Nazi.
That’s just guilt by association with a Hitler comparison thrown in.
Brendan Eich created JavaScript and donated to the campaign against same-sex marriage in California. Does using JavaScript mean you endorse that too?
Of course not. Using someone’s work isn’t an endorsement of their politics.
Found the bootlicking nazi everybody
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Wow great comeback! man I wish I was an unoriginal dipshit
Lol go suck a dick Chud.
Ps, I’ve banged more women, and hotter than you can ever get you miserable cuntHey everyone I hurt this snowflakes feelings, he messaged me to whine and cry. If zombies were real and ate brains, you’d have nothing to worry about shit stain. Ps I’ve sat all my time! Do you Nazis, think you’d be able to sit when everything is said and done and it’s time to pay the piper? I bet you’d be one of the first runnin to Mexico right about then. Ps ur MA’s a whore and best part of you ran down her leg
JavaScript is not a standalone product produced by a single company who’s leader is blogging about how “foreign vagrants should be sent back to where they came from”, my use of a web browser does not directly enrich Brendan Eich.
Your points are correct. If they were about an irreplaceable library where there were only one or two options then yeah that’d be fine.
But there aren’t. This is a Linux “distro” with a thousand other options. It’s literally just a Linux distro with a few dot files added. There’s zero reason to ever use this distro.
That still doesn’t really address my point.
Whether there are two alternatives or two thousand doesn’t change what using the software means. If someone prefers Omarchy’s defaults, setup or workflow, that’s enough of a reason to use it.
And if it’s really “just Linux with a few dotfiles added”, that makes the idea that using it is some meaningful political endorsement even harder to take seriously.
To frame it better:
Let’s say I cloned arch, changed the default wallpaper to a swastika, put up a blogpost saying “Heil hitler”, and then suddenly got over 50X donations than an actually useful and different OS.
Since last year, Linux mint got $280k donations. Omarchy in the last few months got 15 MILLION. Linux mint maintains 2 distros, and 1 desktop environment, and is basically the gold standard for newbie friendly distros. Omarchy is a few dotfiles and a pile of nazis.
Don’t forget Hyprland which is apparently even more problematic
hyprland is problematic?
From what I remember;
Someone in the hyprland discord kept getting misgendered so they put their pronouns in their profile. At some point a mod then changed them to who/cares.
When this came to Vaxry’s attention he said something to the affect of “I don’t care, sort it out yourselves”.
Someone from redhat then either complained or was a member of the freedesktop CoC and he got banned.
Now freedesktop is in an awkward position of one of the biggest wayland DE’s no longer being allowed to contribute to the Wayland spec.
Ah, that’s not good at all. I did read in the article or webpage or whatwver that hyprland was “banned for allowing transphobia” or something along those lines after writing the comment. Thanks for the extra context tho!
Let’s say I cloned arch, changed the default wallpaper to a swastika, put up a blogpost saying “Heil hitler”, and then suddenly got over 50X donations than an actually useful and different OS.
And this fascinating thought experiment relates to Omarchy how?
It relates because you didn’t read anything in the thread and are a bad actor.
Did you try reading the remainder of the comment?
Maybe try that before replying next time.
If someone prefers Omarchy’s defaults, setup or workflow, that’s enough of a reason to use it.
And if I find out they’re a Nazi, that’s enough reason not to. And in this case there’s so little friction and it’s so simple to not use it, that it’s a no brainer.
If I can avoid supporting a Nazi this easily, without altering a single noticeable thing about my life, it would be irresponsible not to.
Do you understand now?
There is a level of friction associated with changing anything like this for ideological reasons, and everyone has to have their own ways of deciding which ones are worth pushing against, according to them.
“Avoid the Nazi that puts out a slightly modified version of Arch,” is just a no brainer. It takes no effort or energy whatsoever to avoid having that in your life.
Do you think just ignoring a festering fascist presence that is getting tons of funding in a community that regularly has money problems will lead to it just going away?
No see they want us to like it and get on board with it because they’re trying to design society in their minds like they design a C++ object; everything must follow the correct interfaces, getters and setters must be privatized, and if any management mistakes are made then processes must be killed.
Im not on board though; no war but class war.
The bigger the userbase, the easier time DHH has getting new funding.
Found a fucking Nazi sympathizer aka Nazi.
Using it gives it legitimacy.
And if people really think Omarchy has become some political project, then fork it.
There’s literally nothing to fork. From what I understand, it in and of itself, isn’t even distinct enough from Arch to be considered a fork.
And how about we stop discouraging people from standing by their values?
It is a bit worrying and reminiscent of an old Microsoft strategy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish
To me it’s more that a tolerant society should not tolerate people or projects that have this kind of intolerance to others.
Because, if we do, we lose our democracy.
Voicing again my agreement, all of this energy going against DHH could be put into a fork and that would be way more powerful and effective of a move.
It’s got kind of a tai chi element - move in the direction of the vector don’t try to go against it. It’s popular for a reason, and you don’t have to throw the baby out with the bath water. There are many things today that you could hyperfocus on the evil aspect of that people still use in their daily lives because it brings them utility.
I used Omarchy and it inspired me to make a NixOS version of it that I called Omnixient :) Thanks to the open-source nature I now have my own awesome config that has brought me a lot of fulfillment and productivity I did not have before.
A fork of what? We already have countless forks of Arch. My understanding is that this one itself doesn’t even change enough to meet the definition of “fork”.
it’s an open source repo: https://github.com/omacom/omarchy I know it’s essentially just a bunch of config files, but is this not the thing everyone is wanting to fight against?
Publish it.
Again the software and its functionality are not the problem, I just don’t want to support a jackass and his shit takes about dehumanizing people and passing the buck on problems society created.
While he takes on million of dollars for a project that is not an innovator in the space.
but I’m honestly curious, what is this movement against him going to accomplish? I do not know this DHH character nor do I care to listen to anything he says. If he’s as bad as all of these accusations make him out to be then he’s someone who’s just going to write off all of this and/or it’ll fuel him.
I’m genuinely curious, what is the real value or impact of this crusade versus putting that energy toward something constructive? While everyone here is writing about fascism, him and capitalism will keep developing.
It’s just all sounds like terribly futile tactics…
I had originally linked it, but damn! to be honest i want to have nothing to do with whatever is going on here and I’m just going to keep building stuff toward open-source decentralized future using whatever tools I have at my disposal to close the distance. I’m no trained software developer (learned C++ and python from mech engineering & physics) that can reliably maintain a repo people might depend on and this just seems like people flinging shit around. Noooo thank you
More awareness could mean less money going directly to Nazis
I wish that were true but I don’t know that it’s the case. People need something that gives them utility. It seems like everyone is oversaturated these days trying to reconcile the evil that’s being illuminated around the world. I understand the intention, I just don’t think it’s ultimately effective.
but I’m honestly curious, what is this movement against him going to accomplish? I do not know this DHH character nor do I care to listen to anything he says. If he’s as bad as all of these accusations make him out to be then he’s someone who’s just going to write off all of this and/or it’ll fuel him. I’m genuinely curious, what is the real value or impact of this crusade versus putting that energy toward something constructive? While everyone here is writing about fascism, him and capitalism will keep developing. It’s just all sounds like terribly futile tactics…
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You got it!
So nobody who make things cannot have an opinion anymore? Grow up.
Are you suggesting that people shouldn’t have opinions about others, just because they make things? Grow up.
I can’t imagine someone hearing racist beliefs and then defending them as just opinions someone can have. Like that’s fuckin crazy. Corporate media has done such a number on people they can’t even recognize the swastika on their fuckin arm.
Corporate media has done such a number on people they can’t even recognize the swastika on their fuckin arm.
What? Do you even speak English?
I’ve Omarchy installed in one of my laptops & I’m going to keep using it. If you have a problem with politics, you shouldn’t be using iPhones for similar reasons. Steve jobs was worse & he drove people to delete themselves.
As long as you have nothing to say about Apple/boycott Apple, I’m disregarding your takes on Omarchy.
So your stance is that as long as there’s anyone in the world not speaking out against everything made by immoral people, you can use whatever you want?
Also just FYI, Omarchy has a big history of beginner-level exploitable bugs, so just from a security standpoint I wouldn’t use it.
Enjoy eating meals with Nazis and then breathlessly trying to explain to normal people that you’re not actually one yourself.
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